CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Trading Down 6.8% – Should You Sell?

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) traded down 6.8% during trading on Monday . The stock traded as low as $82.08 and last traded at $82.98. Approximately 26,376,251 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 6% from the average session volume of 28,158,199 shares. The stock had previously closed at $88.99.

CoreWeave News Roundup

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave remains exposed to strong long-term demand for AI computing, and the company’s recent revenue growth indicates that its infrastructure business is expanding rapidly. Supporters argue that a slower pace of frontier-model development could ultimately benefit established providers by reducing competitive pressure. Michael Burry Is Pushing Back on AI-Slowdown Calls
• Neutral Sentiment: The selloff reflects a broader debate over whether AI demand can sustain current infrastructure investment levels. Analysts and market commentators are weighing continued revenue growth against the possibility that customers may moderate spending on advanced-model training. How companies like CoreWeave can persevere through AI fears
• Negative Sentiment: Bernstein warned that AI training activity could slow, directly challenging the demand assumptions supporting CoreWeave’s high-growth valuation. That warning appears to be the primary company-specific catalyst behind the weakness. CoreWeave Shares Sink After Bernstein Warns of Slower AI Training
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned about CoreWeave’s leverage and financing needs. Its debt-heavy balance sheet, including a debt-to-equity ratio of about 5.5, makes the stock particularly sensitive to interest rates, credit conditions and any slowdown in customer growth. CoreWeave Stock Drops as Macro Selloff and Debt Concerns Hit AI Infrastructure
• Negative Sentiment: CoreWeave is also falling alongside Oracle, Nebius and other AI infrastructure names amid broader market weakness, elevated oil prices and uncertainty about the economic outlook. The sector-wide selling is amplifying pressure on CRWV beyond the company-specific concerns. CoreWeave Stock Sells Off After Anthropic CEO AI Warning

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have weighed in on the stock. DA Davidson restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $100.00 target price (down from $175.00) on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Raymond James Financial lowered CoreWeave from a “moderate buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Citigroup raised their price objective on CoreWeave from $142.00 to $159.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, August 14th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “buy” rating and set a $150.00 target price on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Friday, August 7th. Finally, Mizuho upped their target price on CoreWeave from $100.00 to $115.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 12th. Twenty-one equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have given a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $141.90.

CoreWeave Stock Performance

The company has a market cap of $38.08 billion, a PE ratio of -22.73 and a beta of 7.45. The company has a current ratio of 0.46, a quick ratio of 0.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.53. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $85.69 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $94.37.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 11th. The company reported ($1.14) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($1.52) by $0.38. The business had revenue of $2.58 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave had a negative net margin of 25.41% and a negative return on equity of 47.95%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 112.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.27) EPS. As a group, research analysts anticipate that CoreWeave Inc. will post -5.19 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling at CoreWeave

In related news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 278,560 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $97.43, for a total value of $27,140,100.80. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 3,138,612 shares in the company, valued at $305,794,967.16. This trade represents a 8.15% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, major shareholder Magnetar Financial Llc sold 307,131 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, August 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $108.75, for a total value of $33,400,496.25. Following the sale, the insider owned 220,810 shares in the company, valued at approximately $24,013,087.50. The trade was a 58.18% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last three months, insiders sold 7,083,727 shares of company stock worth $651,035,525. 24.20% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On CoreWeave

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. California State Teachers Retirement System increased its stake in shares of CoreWeave by 12,886.8% in the second quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 41,559,344 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,136,817,000 after acquiring an additional 41,239,333 shares during the period. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. lifted its position in CoreWeave by 55.7% during the second quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 10,891,267 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,084,117,000 after purchasing an additional 3,897,741 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in CoreWeave by 13.1% during the first quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 5,652,129 shares of the company’s stock valued at $437,870,000 after purchasing an additional 653,398 shares during the period. Clear Street Group Inc. boosted its holdings in CoreWeave by 57.2% in the fourth quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. now owns 4,653,815 shares of the company’s stock valued at $333,260,000 after purchasing an additional 1,692,916 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG boosted its holdings in CoreWeave by 22,624.0% in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 3,812,856 shares of the company’s stock valued at $273,039,000 after purchasing an additional 3,796,077 shares during the last quarter.

CoreWeave Company Profile

CoreWeave, Inc is a specialized cloud computing provider focused on infrastructure for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing and other data-intensive workloads. The company provides access to accelerated computing resources, particularly graphics processing units (GPUs), through a cloud platform designed for large-scale training, inference, rendering and scientific computing.

Its offerings include on-demand and reserved GPU instances, cloud storage, high-speed networking, Kubernetes-based container orchestration and managed services for deploying and scaling workloads.