CoreWeave (CRWV)
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Rating:55Neutral
Price Target:
$122.00
▲(2.04% Upside)
Action:ReiteratedDate:04/16/26
The score is held back primarily by financial risk—heavy leverage, sizable ongoing losses, and deeply negative free cash flow despite strong operating cash flow. Offsetting factors include strong technical momentum and a positive growth/backlog narrative from guidance and recent customer/financing events, but valuation support is limited due to losses and no dividend.
Positive Factors
Massive contracted backlog
A $66.8B contracted backlog provides multi-period revenue visibility and underpins management’s aggressive buildout. Durable contract coverage reduces demand volatility risk, supports near-term revenue realization as capacity is commissioned, and de-risks a material portion of future cash flows.
Negative Factors
Very high leverage
Debt of ~$15.2B and a ~4.5x debt/equity profile materially constrain financial flexibility. High leverage elevates refinancing, covenant and interest risk, making capital access and margin recovery more fragile if growth or backlog monetization slips versus plan over the next several quarters.
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Positive Factors
Negative Factors
Massive contracted backlog
A $66.8B contracted backlog provides multi-period revenue visibility and underpins management’s aggressive buildout. Durable contract coverage reduces demand volatility risk, supports near-term revenue realization as capacity is commissioned, and de-risks a material portion of future cash flows.
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CoreWeave (CRWV) vs. SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Market Cap
$62.39B
Dividend YieldN/A
Average Volume (3M)27.17M
Price to Earnings (P/E)―
Beta (1Y)1.15
Revenue Growth235.40%
EPS Growth19.90%
CountryUS
Employees881
SectorTechnology
Sector Strength88
IndustrySoftware - Infrastructure
Share Statistics
EPS (TTM)-0.56
Shares Outstanding419,028,080
10 Day Avg. Volume36,847,521
30 Day Avg. Volume27,170,213
Financial Highlights & Ratios
PEG Ratio-1.48
Price to Book (P/B)9.34
Price to Sales (P/S)6.07
P/FCF Ratio-4.30
Enterprise Value/Market Cap1.16
Enterprise Value/Revenue14.16
Enterprise Value/Gross Profit19.75
Enterprise Value/Ebitda29.43
Forecast
1Y Price Target
$124.09Price Target Upside3.79% Upside
Rating ConsensusModerate Buy
Number of Analyst Covering24
EPS Forecast (FY)-2.72
Revenue Forecast (FY)$12.47B
CoreWeave Business Overview & Revenue Model
Company Description
CoreWeave, Inc. operates a cloud platform that provides scaling, support, and acceleration for GenAI. The company builds the infrastructure that supports compute workloads for enterprises. Its products include GPU compute, CPU compute, storage ser...
How the Company Makes Money
CoreWeave primarily makes money by selling access to GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure as a service. Its core revenue stream is usage-based and/or contracted pricing for renting GPU compute (e.g., for model training and inference), along with a...
CoreWeave Earnings Call Summary
Earnings Call Date:Feb 26, 2026
(Q4-2025)
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Next Earnings Date:May 20, 2026
Earnings Call Sentiment Positive
The call presented a strongly positive growth narrative: exceptional top-line growth (FY revenue +168% YoY), an enormous contracted backlog ($66.8B), rapid capacity additions, high adjusted EBITDA, meaningful customer diversification, and deepening partnerships (notably with NVIDIA). These positives are balanced by expected near-term financial headwinds—large and accelerating CapEx, rising interest expense, widening GAAP losses, and margin pressure due to depreciation and timing of revenue recognition as new capacity is brought online. Management framed the negatives as deliberate, contract-backed investments to monetize a long-duration backlog. Given the scale of demand, backlog visibility, and progress on monetization and financing, the highlights materially outweigh the lowlights, though execution and financing risks remain in the near term.Positive Updates
Record Revenue Growth
Full-year 2025 revenue of $5.1 billion, up 168% year-over-year; Q4 2025 revenue of $1.6 billion, up 110% year-over-year.
Negative Updates
GAAP Losses and Elevated Interest Expense
Q4 net loss of $452 million vs $51 million net loss in Q4 2024; Q4 interest expense rose to $388 million from $149 million in Q4 2024, reflecting increased debt to finance buildout.
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Q4-2025 Updates
Positive
Negative
Record Revenue Growth
Full-year 2025 revenue of $5.1 billion, up 168% year-over-year; Q4 2025 revenue of $1.6 billion, up 110% year-over-year.
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Company Guidance
CoreWeave guided to aggressive 2026 investment and growth: CapEx of $30–35 billion (more than 2x 2025’s $14.9B) funded against a $66.8 billion contracted revenue backlog and >3.1 GW of contracted capacity, with every new contract expected to start generating revenue by year‑end 2026 and active power targeted to double from 850 MW to >1.7 GW by year‑end; full‑year 2026 revenue of $12–13 billion (≈140% YoY at the midpoint) with adjusted operating income of $900M–$1.1B, margins bottoming in Q1 (low single digits) and reaching low double digits by Q4, and a long‑term margin target of 25–30% (mature contribution margins mid‑20s); Q1 2026 guidance: revenue $1.9–2.0B, adjusted operating income $0–40M, CapEx $6–7B, and interest expense $510–590M; management also expects to exit 2026 with a $17–19B annualized run rate and to exceed $30B annualized run rate exiting 2027.CoreWeave Financial Statement Overview
Summary
Income Statement
48
Neutral
Balance Sheet
33
Negative
Cash Flow
42
Neutral
| Breakdown | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 | Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
Income Statement | |||
| Total Revenue | 5.13B | 1.92B | 228.94M |
| Gross Profit | 3.68B | 1.42B | 160.16M |
| EBITDA | 2.47B | 480.04M | -426.43M |
| Net Income | -1.17B | -863.45M | -593.75M |
Balance Sheet | |||
| Total Assets | 49.30B | 17.83B | 4.98B |
| Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments | 3.98B | 1.36B | 219.51M |
| Total Debt | 15.16B | 10.62B | 2.00B |
| Total Liabilities | 45.97B | 18.25B | 5.57B |
| Stockholders Equity | 3.33B | -413.60M | -596.59M |
Cash Flow | |||
| Free Cash Flow | -7.25B | -5.95B | -1.11B |
| Operating Cash Flow | 3.06B | 2.75B | 1.83B |
| Investing Cash Flow | -10.27B | -8.66B | -3.15B |
| Financing Cash Flow | 9.31B | 7.46B | 1.79B |
CoreWeave Risk Analysis
CoreWeave disclosed 67 risk factors in its most recent earnings report. CoreWeave reported the most risks in the "Finance & Corporate" category.
Finance & Corporate - Financial and accounting risks. Risks related to the execution of corporate activity and strategy
Latest Risks Added 0 New Risks
CoreWeave Peers Comparison
UnderperformOutperform
Sector (61)
Name | Overall Rating | Market Cap | P/E Ratio | ROE | Dividend Yield | Revenue Growth | EPS Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
74 Outperform | $3.05T | 23.36 | 33.61% | 0.71% | 16.67% | 28.60% | |
65 Neutral | $7.96B | 42.89 | -214.15% | ― | 14.20% | 204.86% | |
61 Neutral | $37.18B | 12.37 | -10.20% | 1.83% | 8.50% | -7.62% | |
57 Neutral | $488.38B | 27.89 | 57.35% | 1.00% | 11.08% | 29.56% | |
56 Neutral | $49.95B | -48.84 | -60.27% | ― | 28.48% | -19.12% | |
55 Neutral | $62.39B | -26.69 | -33.10% | ― | 235.40% | 19.90% | |
54 Neutral | $41.98B | 208.29 | 2.48% | ― | -87.55% | 336.73% |
* Technology Sector Average
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CoreWeave Corporate Events
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
CoreWeave Deepens Jane Street AI Cloud Partnership, Investment
Positive
Apr 15, 2026
On April 15, 2026, CoreWeave announced a major expansion of its relationship with Jane Street, under which the global trading firm committed approximately $6 billion to consume CoreWeave’s AI cloud over time. The agreement will give Jane Str...
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
CoreWeave Expands Capital Structure With Major Debt Offerings
Positive
Apr 14, 2026
On April 14, 2026, CoreWeave completed a private offering of $1.75 billion in 9.750% Senior Notes due 2031, guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by certain wholly owned subsidiaries and subject to restrictive covenants on additional debt, divide...
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
CoreWeave Announces Major Senior and Convertible Notes Offerings
Positive
Apr 9, 2026
On April 9, 2026, CoreWeave announced plans to privately offer $1.25 billion of senior unsecured notes due 2031, guaranteed by certain subsidiaries and marketed to qualified institutional buyers and non‑U.S. investors, with proceeds earmarke...
Business Operations and Strategy
CoreWeave Expands Long-Term AI Cloud Deal With Meta
Positive
Apr 9, 2026
On March 31, 2026, CoreWeave and Meta Platforms, Inc. signed a new order under their existing master services agreement, expanding Meta’s access to CoreWeave’s AI cloud capacity through December 2032 for approximately $21 billion, incl...
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
CoreWeave Secures Investment-Grade AI Infrastructure Loan Facility
Positive
Mar 31, 2026
On March 30, 2026, CoreWeave’s subsidiary CoreWeave Compute Acquisition Co. VIII, LLC entered into an $8.5 billion delayed draw term loan facility arranged by MUFG, Morgan Stanley, and others, primarily to fund GPU servers and infrastructure...
Business Operations and StrategyPrivate Placements and Financing
CoreWeave Expands NVIDIA Partnership With Major Equity Investment
Positive
Jan 26, 2026
On January 23, 2026, CoreWeave entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with NVIDIA and completed a private placement of 22,935,780 shares of its Class A common stock at $87.20 per share, raising $2 billion in cash from NVIDIA. Announced joint...
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