Sanctuary Advisors LLC boosted its stake in CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV – Free Report) by 36.8% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 26,204 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 7,055 shares during the period. Sanctuary Advisors LLC’s holdings in CoreWeave were worth $2,608,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
A number of other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. Pin Oak Investment Advisors Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of CoreWeave in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Essential Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of CoreWeave in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $30,000. Burnham & Co LLC purchased a new position in shares of CoreWeave during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $32,000. Cornerstone Planning Group LLC boosted its position in shares of CoreWeave by 272.8% during the 4th quarter. Cornerstone Planning Group LLC now owns 343 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after purchasing an additional 251 shares during the period. Finally, Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. boosted its position in shares of CoreWeave by 45.8% during the 4th quarter. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. now owns 385 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 121 shares during the period.
Insiders Place Their Bets
In related news, insider Brian M. Venturo sold 5,899 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $91.88, for a total transaction of $542,000.12. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 241,371 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $22,177,167.48. The trade was a 2.39% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, insider Kristen J. Mcveety sold 3,980 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $91.88, for a total value of $365,682.40. Following the sale, the insider owned 125,413 shares in the company, valued at approximately $11,522,946.44. This trade represents a 3.08% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 8,050,523 shares of company stock valued at $783,406,748. 24.20% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Key Stories Impacting CoreWeave
- Positive Sentiment: Expanded Rescale partnership: Rescale will expand its cloud ecosystem to CoreWeave Cloud, giving customers in aerospace, automotive, energy, life sciences and manufacturing access to CoreWeave’s GPU capacity for AI and simulation workloads. The agreement could broaden CoreWeave’s customer base and improve utilization of its data-center infrastructure. Rescale Expands Cloud Ecosystem with CoreWeave for Engineering and AI Workloads
- Positive Sentiment: Additional enterprise demand: CoreWeave reportedly secured a multiyear AI-cloud infrastructure agreement with quantitative trading firm Hudson River Trading. The deal expands the company’s presence in financial-services workloads and supports the broader investment case that demand for GPU compute remains strong. CoreWeave Lands AI Cloud Deal As Data Center Rules Tighten
- Positive Sentiment: Optimistic analyst view: Truist said CoreWeave shares could nearly double, even as chip costs rise, reinforcing bullish sentiment following the company’s strong revenue growth and upbeat AI-demand outlook. CoreWeave shares are set to nearly double even as chip costs rise, Truist says
- Neutral Sentiment: A reported change in short interest shows zero shares both before and after the measurement period, producing an invalid “NaN” change. The data appears unreliable and offers no meaningful signal about investor positioning.
- Negative Sentiment: Leverage remains a major overhang: CoreWeave’s roughly $35 billion debt load and high interest expense could absorb much of its operating income. Analysts also warn that Nvidia-backed financing platforms could make GPU access cheaper and more competitive, weakening CoreWeave’s economics. CoreWeave’s AI Data Center Capacity Is Exploding
- Negative Sentiment: Rising global bond yields have pressured technology stocks, while tighter state-level rules on data-center energy use and transparency could increase CoreWeave’s expansion costs and slow new capacity deployments.
CoreWeave Price Performance
Shares of CRWV opened at $88.04 on Wednesday. CoreWeave Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $60.55 and a fifty-two week high of $153.20. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $89.01 and its 200 day moving average price is $94.80. The company has a market cap of $40.40 billion, a P/E ratio of -24.12 and a beta of 7.44. The company has a quick ratio of 0.46, a current ratio of 0.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.53.
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, August 11th. The company reported ($1.14) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($1.52) by $0.38. The company 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%. CoreWeave’s quarterly revenue was up 112.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.27) earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that CoreWeave Inc. will post -5.17 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of analysts have issued reports on CRWV shares. Mizuho boosted 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. Rosenblatt Securities restated a “buy” rating and set a $250.00 price target on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Wednesday, August 12th. Wolfe Research reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Monday, July 6th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on CoreWeave from $155.00 to $160.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 12th. Finally, TD Cowen upgraded CoreWeave to a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Twenty-one research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have assigned a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $141.90.
View Our Latest Analysis on CoreWeave
About CoreWeave
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.
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