CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock
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Range $74 – $192
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About the company
CoreWeave, Inc. operates a specialized cloud computing platform designed to empower generative AI (GenAI) applications. It constructs the fundamental infrastructure necessary to manage intensive compute workloads for large enterprises.
- CEO
- Michael N. Intrator
- IPO
- 2025
- Employees
- 2,189
- HQ
- Livingston, NJ, US
AI snapshot
Six angles, distilled from the data.
The stock is still in a post-IPO corrective regime, trading below its 200-day average and well under the 52-week high. The longer-term setup remains volatile, with the shares having already retraced sharply from the peak while still holding above the 52-week low.
Street sentiment is constructive but not euphoric: the consensus sits at Buy with a $138.06 target, above the current share price. Recent action has been mostly target raises, including several large lifts, while ratings themselves have largely been reiterated rather than upgraded.
The earnings pattern is mixed, with 2 beats in the last 7 quarters and several misses around that. Analysts still expect losses next year, with EPS forecast at -$4.2377, so shareholders should watch whether revenue growth can outrun heavy spending and narrow the gap to profitability.
Recent insider activity leans to net selling, but the main signal is a cluster of conversion-related transactions alongside discretionary sales. The only named officer activity from Brannin McBee shows multiple S-code sales and C-code conversions on the same date, which reads more like monetization and equity cleanup than fresh conviction buying.
Gross margin is strong at 67.4%, but profitability remains weak with a -1.9% operating margin and -25.4% net margin. Revenue growth is robust at 112.5% year over year, yet the balance sheet carries $29.82 billion of debt against $3.98 billion of cash, leaving a sizable net debt load.
CoreWeave stands out for AI infrastructure exposure and rapid top-line expansion, but it is still earlier in the profitability curve than mature software peers. The valuation remains rich versus the sector, with the market pricing in a long runway of growth and margin improvement.
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- Market Cap
- $48.89B
- P/E
- -24.55
- Fwd P/E
- 31.45
- PEG
- 0.46
- P/S
- 6.44
- P/B
- 9.83
- EV/EBITDA
- 36.92
- Div Yield
- 0.00%
- Gross Margin
- 67.42%
- Op Margin
- -3.04%
- Net Margin
- -25.40%
- ROE
- -45.37%
- ROIC
- -0.36%
Latest fiscal year · YoY change
- Revenue
- $5.13B+167.9%
- Gross Profit
- $3.68B+158.6%
- Op Income
- $-46,000,000
- Net Income
- $-1,167,000,000-35.2%
- EPS
- $-2.75-18.0%
- OCF Growth
- +11.2%
- FCF Growth
- -21.8%
- 52W High
- $153.20
- 52W Low
- $60.55
- 50D MA
- $90.24
- 200D MA
- $92.37
- Beta
- 7.41
- RSI (14)
- 49
- Avg Volume
- 30.15M
Earnings call summaries
Pick a quarter — each call distilled into takeaways, results, and a bull vs bear read.
CoreWeave delivered a standout Q2 with revenue, backlog, margins, and power capacity all accelerating, and it raised full-year guidance on continued strong AI demand.· August 11, 2026
- Q2 revenue was $2.6 billion, up 112% year over year, with adjusted EBITDA of $1.5 billion and adjusted operating income of $128 million.
- Backlog reached $104.2 billion, and management said that excludes more than $25 billion of net new commitments added early in Q3.
- Active power rose to 1.5 gigawatts after adding nearly 500 megawatts in the quarter; contracted power increased to 4.2 gigawatts after quarter end.
- Managed inference is scaling quickly: booked ARR rose from $1 million to more than $100 million, with a goal of at least $250 million exiting 2026.
- Management raised 2026 guidance for revenue, adjusted operating income, CapEx, active power, and end-of-year annualized run-rate revenue.
Q2 revenue was $2.6 billion, up 112% year over year and 24% sequentially. Adjusted EBITDA was $1.5 billion versus $753 million in Q2 2025, with a 59% margin. Adjusted operating income was $128 million versus $200 million in Q2 2025 and up from $21 million last quarter; adjusted operating margin was 5%. Net loss was $626 million versus a net loss of $290 million in Q2 2025, and adjusted net loss was $567 million versus a net loss of $130 million in Q2 2025. Revenue backlog ended at $104.2 billion, up 246% year over year. CapEx was $9.4 billion, and cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and marketable securities were more than $6.9 billion at June 30. For guidance, CoreWeave now expects 2026 revenue of $12.4 billion to $13.2 billion, adjusted operating income of $960 million to $1.15 billion, CapEx of $35 billion to $39 billion, and year-end active power of more than 1.85 gigawatts. Q3 revenue is guided to $3.45 billion to $3.6 billion, with Q3 adjusted operating income of $200 million to $260 million and Q3 interest expense of $860 million to $940 million. Management also raised expected end-of-year annualized run-rate revenue to $18.5 billion to $19.5 billion.
Mike Intrator framed the quarter as evidence that CoreWeave’s AI-native strategy is working, saying the company outperformed plan across the board and is seeing operating leverage from scale. He emphasized broadening demand across industries, the shift from AI experimentation to production, and growing adoption of newer products like managed inference and CoreWeave Omni. His tone was highly confident and expansive, with repeated assertions that demand exceeds supply and that CoreWeave is positioned to gain share for years.
Nitin Agrawal highlighted that margins inflected in Q2, with adjusted EBITDA of $1.5 billion and adjusted operating income of $128 million, and said the company expects sequential margin expansion to continue into Q3 and Q4. He pointed to over $400 million of ARR from storage, CPU, networking and software, plus a July pricing increase of about 25% across SKUs, as support for improved economics. He also discussed capital structure progress, including approximately $18 billion raised in Q2 and over $32 billion of debt and equity secured to date, while noting weighted average debt cost is down almost 300 basis points, or about $1.1 billion of annualized interest savings based on end-of-Q2 debt load.
Analysts focused on renewal economics, managed inference, pricing, supply chain, and whether CoreWeave can keep expanding power and margins amid regulatory pushback. Management said only a very limited part of the fleet is coming up for renewal, older-generation ASPs remain at or above levels seen about a year ago, and managed inference should reach about $250 million of ARR by year-end. On supply and regulation, management said it is aggressively managing a complex supply chain, sees moratoriums as affecting where infrastructure gets built rather than demand, and believes current plans for more than 8 gigawatts by 2030 remain on track. Questions also probed shorter-duration contracts and DDTL 5.5; management said that financing expands the set of enterprise contracts they can support and helps unlock additional margin opportunities.
The bull case from this call is that demand appears to be broadening faster than supply, with record backlog, strong customer adds, and pricing/margin improvement across both new and older GPU generations. CoreWeave is also showing traction in higher-margin adjacent offerings like managed inference and software/services, while management says the platform’s AI-native architecture and power pipeline support years of growth.
The main risks discussed were heavy CapEx, high interest expense, and the operational complexity of scaling power, supply chain, and data center capacity quickly. Management also acknowledged regulatory and local opposition to data centers, even as it said those issues should mainly affect siting rather than overall demand, and the business remains highly dependent on keeping scarce capacity deployed on favorable terms.
AI summary of the company's earnings call · Paraphrased · Not investment advice
- Free Float
- 62.2%
- Shares Outstanding
- 545.57M
- Float Shares
- 339.54M
of shares held by institutions
888 13F filers
Congressional trading
Senate and House stock disclosures for CRWV, newest first.
Source: public STOCK Act disclosures. Filed weeks after the trade — a lagging signal, not a real-time one.
Top institutional holders
Largest 13F positions, with quarter-over-quarter change.
| Holder | Shares | Δ Quarter |
|---|---|---|
| Magnetar Financial LLC | 52.06M | ▼ 16.50M |
| Nvidia Corp | 47.21M | 0 |
| Vanguard Group Inc | 27.92M | ▲ 20.49M |
| Blackrock, Inc. | 24.11M | ▲ 14.73M |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 18.10M | ▲ 226.30K |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 15.79M | ▲ 3.35M |
| Jane Street Group, LLC | 13.89M | ▲ 5.03M |
| Invesco Ltd. | 12.41M | ▲ 11.42M |
| Alyeska Investment Group, L.P. | 10.89M | ▲ 3.90M |
| Value Aligned Research Advisors, LLC | 10.89M | ▲ 2.61M |
| Bank Of America Corp | 8.27M | ▲ 2.62M |
| Peak6 LLC | 8.06M | ▲ 1.24M |
Held by 1,004 ETFs
Biggest fund positions in CRWV by dollar value.
Recent insider transactions
Who's buying, who's selling, and how much.
| Date | Insider | Type | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 9 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 14 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 114 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 22 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 79 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 161 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 62 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 37 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | sell | 2 |
| Aug 17, 26 | McBee Brannin | other | 40,000 |
A “Sell” may be a pre-scheduled 10b5-1 plan sale rather than a discretionary decision — read insider selling with that in mind.
Our CRWV coverage
Recent articles, reports, and earnings notes.

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