CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Trading Up 1% – Should You Buy?

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)’s share price traded up 1% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as $83.15 and last traded at $81.47. 27,689,842 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 5% from the average session volume of 26,421,490 shares. The stock had previously closed at $80.66.

More CoreWeave News

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave announced general availability of NVIDIA HGX B300 (Blackwell Ultra) instances at NVIDIA GTC — this upgrades CoreWeave’s AI-native cloud with next‑gen GPUs (faster, more efficient), supporting higher-margin, production AI workloads and strengthening its competitive moat. CoreWeave Expands AI Cloud With NVIDIA HGX B300
• Positive Sentiment: Integration with Cline to power autonomous coding systems — positions CoreWeave as a back‑end provider for next‑gen AI agents and inference workloads, expanding addressable market beyond raw GPU rental to higher-value software+inference services. CoreWeave Integrates With Cline
• Positive Sentiment: Bullish research narratives highlight a huge backlog and massive forward revenue visibility — analysts and bullish pieces (e.g., Seeking Alpha) call CRWV undervalued vs. peers, supporting longer‑term upside expectations. CoreWeave: Deeply Undervalued
• Neutral Sentiment: CoreWeave is a notable holding in thematic ETFs (e.g., ARKK) — ETF flows could amplify moves in either direction but aren’t an immediate company-specific catalyst. Is the ARK Innovation ETF Finding a Floor?
• Neutral Sentiment: Reported short‑interest data looks anomalous/zeroed out — current readings provide no clear short‑pressure signal and appear unreliable. (Internal data entries)
• Negative Sentiment: Significant insider selling this week — CFO Nitin Agrawal sold ~38.5k shares (~$3.2M) and other executives (Brannin Mcbee) executed large sales; sizable insider dispositions can weigh on near‑term sentiment and signal liquidity needs or personal diversification. Insider Selling: CoreWeave CFO Sells Shares
• Negative Sentiment: Recent quarterly results missed EPS and show negative margins and return on equity despite strong top-line growth — investors remain sensitive to when scale converts to profitability. (MarketBeat earnings summary)

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

CRWV has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Jefferies Financial Group decreased their target price on CoreWeave from $155.00 to $120.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, January 5th. Roth Mkm reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Monday, February 23rd. DA Davidson lifted their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $110.00 to $125.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Mizuho cut their target price on CoreWeave from $100.00 to $95.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Barclays reduced their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $120.00 to $90.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Eighteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CoreWeave has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $122.35.

CoreWeave Trading Up 1.0%

The firm has a market cap of $34.14 billion and a PE ratio of -25.46. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.46, a current ratio of 0.46 and a quick ratio of 0.46. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $89.34 and its 200-day simple moving average is $97.76.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported ($0.89) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.61) by ($0.28). CoreWeave had a negative return on equity of 33.82% and a negative net margin of 22.75%.The business had revenue of $1.57 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave’s quarterly revenue was up 110.4% compared to the same quarter last year.

Insider Transactions at CoreWeave

In related news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 111,427 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 31st. The stock was sold at an average price of $72.39, for a total value of $8,066,200.53. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 5,922,620 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $428,738,461.80. This trade represents a 1.85% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, insider Brannin Mcbee sold 300,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, March 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $72.61, for a total value of $21,783,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 248,664 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $18,055,493.04. This trade represents a 54.68% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 4,672,234 shares of company stock worth $396,473,281 in the last ninety days.

Institutional Trading of CoreWeave

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Hsbc Holdings PLC grew its stake in shares of CoreWeave by 6,497.0% in the fourth quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 425,970 shares of the company’s stock valued at $30,574,000 after buying an additional 419,513 shares in the last quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. raised its holdings in CoreWeave by 95.6% in the fourth quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. now owns 66,623 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,771,000 after acquiring an additional 32,569 shares in the last quarter. Osbon Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CoreWeave in the 4th quarter valued at $114,000. World Investment Advisors lifted its holdings in CoreWeave by 238.1% during the 4th quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 8,026 shares of the company’s stock worth $575,000 after buying an additional 5,652 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Nalls Sherbakoff Group LLC purchased a new stake in CoreWeave during the fourth quarter worth approximately $36,000.

CoreWeave Company Profile

CoreWeave is a U.S.-based provider of GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure designed to support compute-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, visual effects rendering and other high-performance computing applications. The company supplies access to large fleets of modern GPUs and complementary infrastructure that enable customers to train and deploy large models, run inference at scale, and process graphics-heavy workloads with low latency and high throughput.

CoreWeave’s product offering includes on-demand and dedicated GPU instances, bare-metal servers, private clusters and managed services tailored for enterprise and developer use.