CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Hits New 1-Year Low Following Insider Selling

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)’s share price hit a new 52-week low during trading on Wednesday following insider selling activity. The company traded as low as $63.09 and last traded at $63.4030, with a volume of 8637667 shares changing hands. The stock had previously closed at $67.30.

Specifically, insider Brannin Mcbee sold 50,500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $75.13, for a total transaction of $3,794,065.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 467,263 shares in the company, valued at $35,105,469.19. This trade represents a 9.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Brannin Mcbee sold 55,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $75.13, for a total transaction of $4,169,715.00. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In other news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 107,692 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, July 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $78.23, for a total value of $8,424,745.16. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 2,664,984 shares in the company, valued at approximately $208,481,698.32. This trade represents a 3.88% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Weiss Ratings raised shares of CoreWeave from a “sell (e+)” rating to a “sell (d-)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, June 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $90.00 to $105.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $135.00 to $155.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, May 8th. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Wednesday, July 22nd. They set an “overweight” rating on the stock. Finally, Oppenheimer lifted 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. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-one have issued a Buy rating, fourteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, CoreWeave has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $136.25.

Trending Headlines about CoreWeave

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: New AI-cloud customers support demand. Flow Traders selected CoreWeave to run AI training for quantitative trading, while Anam is using CoreWeave’s low-latency GPU infrastructure to deliver photorealistic AI avatars across the United States and Europe. These agreements provide evidence of continued demand for CoreWeave’s specialized computing capacity. CoreWeave Lands Flow Traders To Run AI Training for Quant Trading CoreWeave Powers Anam’s AI Avatars
• Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter results are approaching. CoreWeave will report its second-quarter 2026 financial results on August 11 after the market close, giving investors a near-term catalyst to assess revenue growth, GPU utilization, cash flow and financing needs. CoreWeave Announces Second-Quarter 2026 Results Date
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation expectations remain divided. One report highlighted a Wall Street consensus target substantially above the stock’s recent trading level, but other commentary argues that the apparent discount may not compensate investors for CoreWeave’s leverage, losses and execution risks. CoreWeave Analyst Price Target CoreWeave Looks Cheap but I’m Staying Away
• Negative Sentiment: AI infrastructure financing risk is increasing. NVIDIA’s proposed $250 billion credit backstop for OpenAI’s Ohio data-center project, alongside potential additional silicon financing, has focused investors on vendor-financed AI demand and counterparty risk. The concern is that specialized cloud providers could face weaker utilization or stranded GPU assets if customers build more infrastructure themselves.
• Negative Sentiment: Competition from major customers is a key overhang. Meta, which has a reported multibillion-dollar CoreWeave infrastructure commitment, is also developing Meta Compute, a cloud service that could turn a major customer into a competitor. That raises concerns about pricing power and the durability of CoreWeave’s growth model. Meta’s CoreWeave Deal and Cloud Competition
• Negative Sentiment: Losses, leverage and insider sales are weighing on sentiment. CoreWeave recently reported a larger-than-expected quarterly loss despite sharply higher revenue, while its weak liquidity, heavy debt burden and negative cash flow remain major risks. CEO Michael Intrator and director Brannin Mcbee sold shares worth roughly $38.9 million combined under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. Although scheduled sales do not necessarily indicate deteriorating confidence, the transactions add pressure after a steep valuation contraction.

CoreWeave Stock Down 6.7%

The stock has a market cap of $28.11 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -20.19 and a beta of 7.17. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $95.73 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $95.32. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.68, a current ratio of 0.31 and a quick ratio of 0.31.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported ($1.40) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($1.17) by ($0.23). CoreWeave had a negative net margin of 25.57% and a negative return on equity of 43.07%. The firm had revenue of $2.08 billion during the quarter. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned ($0.60) earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 111.6% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that CoreWeave Inc. will post -4.57 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in CoreWeave by 275.6% in 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 raised its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 446,194.0% in the third quarter. Proficio Capital Partners LLC now owns 17,851,760 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,443,013,000 after purchasing an additional 17,847,760 shares during the last quarter. Deutsche Bank AG lifted its position in shares of CoreWeave by 22,624.0% in the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 3,812,856 shares of the company’s stock worth $273,039,000 after purchasing an additional 3,796,077 shares in the last quarter. Altimeter Capital Management LP acquired a new position in CoreWeave during the fourth quarter worth $230,099,000. Finally, Alyeska Investment Group L.P. increased its stake in CoreWeave by 300.0% in 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 buying an additional 3,000,000 shares during the last quarter.

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.