CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) Given Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

Shares of CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the thirty-four research firms that are presently covering the firm, Marketbeat reports. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have given a hold rating and twenty have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price target among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $131.5152.

Several brokerages have issued reports on CRWV. Oppenheimer boosted their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Citigroup boosted their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $155.00 to $158.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 14th. Wolfe Research began coverage on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Thursday, April 16th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $150.00 target price on the stock. Evercore reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $150.00 target price on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Wednesday, April 15th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group boosted their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $120.00 to $160.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, May 4th.

More CoreWeave News

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Jim Cramer said CoreWeave’s contracted backlog may be larger than Wall Street currently expects, which supports the bullish view that demand for the company’s AI cloud capacity is still accelerating. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave’s new MLPerf Training v6.0 records, including a very fast DeepSeek-V3 training result, reinforce its reputation as a top-tier AI compute platform and may help attract more customers. Article link
• Positive Sentiment: Coverage around CoreWeave’s added AI backlog and its pending Nasdaq-100 inclusion is fueling momentum, since index-related buying can create extra demand for the shares. Article link
• Neutral Sentiment: Several insiders, including the CFO, CEO, and EVP, disclosed large stock sales, but the trades were made under pre-arranged 10b5-1 plans, so investors may view them as less concerning than discretionary selling. SEC filing link
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts continue to highlight CoreWeave’s heavy 2026 capex plans and leveraged balance sheet as execution risks, even though those investments are tied to rapid AI demand growth. Article link
• Negative Sentiment: Broader caution about an AI capex bubble and valuation risk could weigh on sentiment if investors become more risk-averse toward high-growth infrastructure names like CRWV. Article link

Insider Activity at CoreWeave

In other CoreWeave news, CFO Nitin Agrawal sold 58,429 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $116.70, for a total transaction of $6,818,664.30. Following the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 193,771 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $22,613,075.70. The trade was a 23.17% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Chen Goldberg sold 5,541 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, June 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $107.29, for a total transaction of $594,493.89. Following the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 59,368 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,369,592.72. This trade represents a 8.54% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 28,071,739 shares of company stock worth $3,177,590,944.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On CoreWeave

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 275.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 27,920,979 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,999,421,000 after acquiring an additional 20,487,478 shares in the last quarter. Proficio Capital Partners LLC grew its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 446,194.0% during the 3rd quarter. Proficio Capital Partners LLC now owns 17,851,760 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,443,013,000 after acquiring an additional 17,847,760 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE grew its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 13.1% during the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 5,652,129 shares of the company’s stock valued at $437,870,000 after acquiring an additional 653,398 shares in the last quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. grew its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 57.2% during the 4th quarter. Clear Street Group Inc. now owns 4,653,815 shares of the company’s stock valued at $333,260,000 after acquiring an additional 1,692,916 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Alyeska Investment Group L.P. grew its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 300.0% during the 4th quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 4,000,000 shares of the company’s stock valued at $286,440,000 after acquiring an additional 3,000,000 shares in the last quarter.

CoreWeave Price Performance

NASDAQ CRWV opened at $117.95 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $52.79 billion, a P/E ratio of -37.93 and a beta of 7.14. CoreWeave has a 1 year low of $63.80 and a 1 year high of $187.00. The business’s fifty day moving average is $110.95 and its two-hundred day moving average is $93.87. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.68, a quick ratio of 0.31 and a current ratio of 0.31.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported ($1.40) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($1.17) by ($0.23). The company had revenue of $2.08 billion during the quarter. CoreWeave had a negative net margin of 25.57% and a negative return on equity of 43.07%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 111.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned ($0.60) earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that CoreWeave will post -4.57 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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.