CoreWeave (CRWV) stock rose 1.25% on Wednesday following a 12% surge the previous day, after the AI cloud computing company announced that it has secured an $8.5 billion loan to expand AI infrastructure. The company highlighted that it marked the first investment-grade rated financing secured by high-performance computing infrastructure and an associated customer contract. Several analysts, including Citizens’ Gregory Miller, reacted positively to the announcement of the financing deal.
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New trading tool for CRWV bullsIn fact, Miller reiterated a Buy rating with a price target of $180, saying the deal was CoreWeave’s “best debt financing facility to date, which we believe is illustrative of the continued flood of capital into the space.”
Citizens Analyst Reacts Positively to CoreWeave’s Financing Deal
Miller believes that this is CoreWeave’s best deal ever and reflects the interest in the AI infrastructure space. He noted that the difference between this deal and those in the early 2000s is the surge in usage.
Specifically, the analyst highlighted that during the early 2000s “fiber frenzy,” network utilization never exceeded 5%, with ASPs (average selling prices) falling by 80%+ annually. While Miller expects GPUaaS (GPU as a Service) pricing to decline over time in line with the annual 23% drop in CDN (content delivery network) prices, as of now, prices of some of the oldest GPUs (such as H100) are rising after years of declines.
Overall, Miller believes that pricing strength coupled with CoreWeave’s first investment-grade rating for a debt instrument reflects “unambiguously positive data points for the entire industry.”
Interestingly, Stifel analyst Ruben Roy reiterated a Hold rating with a price target of $110 on CRWV stock following the news of the financing deal. While Roy believes that the debt facility reinforces the strength of CoreWeave’s $66.8 billion revenue backlog and the creditworthiness of its “take-or-pay” contracts, leverage risk remains. Roy highlighted that CoreWeave has a total debt of $29.8 billion, while free cash flow is “deeply negative” and FY26 capital expenditure accelerates to more than $30 billion. “We are optimistic on CRWV’s potential, but the core thesis remains an execution race in the near term,” cautioned Roy.
Is CoreWeave Stock a Strong Buy?
Currently, Wall Street has a Moderate Buy consensus rating on CoreWeave stock based on 13 Buys, nine Holds, and one Sell recommendation. The average CRWV stock price target of $114.20 indicates 45.6% upside potential.
