Insider Selling: CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) COO Sells $582,427.32 in Stock

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) COO Sachin Jain sold 6,339 shares of CoreWeave stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $91.88, for a total transaction of $582,427.32. Following the transaction, the chief operating officer owned 157,091 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $14,433,521.08. The trade was a 3.88% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards.

Sachin Jain also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, August 12th, Sachin Jain sold 1 shares of CoreWeave stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.00, for a total transaction of $110.00.
• On Monday, August 10th, Sachin Jain sold 13,608 shares of CoreWeave stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $92.09, for a total value of $1,253,160.72.
• On Tuesday, June 30th, Sachin Jain sold 3 shares of CoreWeave stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $95.69, for a total value of $287.07.
• On Monday, June 1st, Sachin Jain sold 3,798 shares of CoreWeave stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $120.00, for a total value of $455,760.00.
• On Thursday, May 28th, Sachin Jain sold 898 shares of CoreWeave stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $110.00, for a total value of $98,780.00.

CoreWeave Stock Performance

CoreWeave stock traded down $1.91 during trading on Friday, hitting $87.85. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 22,074,299 shares, compared to its average volume of 33,432,112. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $89.99 and its 200 day moving average is $94.74. CoreWeave Inc. has a 1-year low of $60.55 and a 1-year high of $153.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.53, a quick ratio of 0.46 and a current ratio of 0.46.

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, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($1.52) by $0.38. The firm had revenue of $2.58 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave had a negative return on equity of 47.95% and a negative net margin of 25.41%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 112.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted ($0.27) earnings per share. On average, equities analysts forecast that CoreWeave Inc. will post -5.17 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On CoreWeave

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Cornerstone Planning Group LLC increased 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 valued at $25,000 after purchasing an additional 251 shares during the period. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. raised its stake in shares of CoreWeave by 45.8% in the 4th quarter. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. now owns 385 shares of the company’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 121 shares in the last quarter. Greenline Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CoreWeave in the fourth quarter valued at $28,000. Essential Partners LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CoreWeave in the second quarter valued at $30,000. Finally, Peterson Wealth Services boosted its stake in CoreWeave by 153.1% during the first quarter. Peterson Wealth Services now owns 405 shares of the company’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 245 shares in the last quarter.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

CRWV has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $155.00 to $160.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 12th. BNP Paribas Exane assumed coverage on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Tuesday, June 2nd. They set an “outperform” rating and a $192.00 price objective on the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reissued a “buy” rating and set a $150.00 price objective on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Friday, August 7th. UBS Group restated an “underperform” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Wednesday, August 12th. Finally, Wolfe Research reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Monday, July 6th. Twenty-one investment 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 MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $141.57.

Key CoreWeave News

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave announced a multiyear agreement with Hudson River Trading (HRT) to provide AI infrastructure for trading research and model development. The deal reportedly could be worth billions and will use NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 platform and Spectrum-X networking, expanding CoreWeave’s exposure to financial-services customers and supporting demand visibility. Hudson River Trading agreement
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts continue to point to CoreWeave’s powerful growth: recent quarterly revenue rose 112.5% year over year to $2.58 billion, while its backlog reached more than $104 billion. A bullish research view cited improving margins, operating leverage and strong AI demand, although it acknowledged capital-intensity risks. CoreWeave growth and valuation analysis
• Neutral Sentiment: Short seller Martin Shkreli reportedly covered his CoreWeave position after holding it for roughly a week. The move removes one source of short-selling pressure but is not necessarily a bullish signal, particularly as the stock continued to face broader volatility. Martin Shkreli covers CoreWeave short
• Negative Sentiment: CEO Michael Intrator sold 307,692 shares for approximately $29.5 million at an average price of $95.72. The sales were made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, and he still owns a significant stake, but the size of the transaction weighed on sentiment and raised concerns about insider selling. CoreWeave CEO share sale
• Negative Sentiment: Bearish commentary argues that CoreWeave’s highly leveraged business model could struggle if AI infrastructure spending slows, capacity becomes excessive or interest rates remain elevated. With a debt-to-equity ratio above 5 and negative earnings, investors remain sensitive to funding costs, dilution risk and the company’s path to profitability. CoreWeave leverage and market risks
• Negative Sentiment: Northland Securities’ estimates show continued losses through 2027, including projected fiscal 2026 EPS of negative $5.50 and fiscal 2027 EPS of negative $3.18, although the firm expects a return to quarterly profitability in the fourth quarter of 2027. CoreWeave analyst estimates

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.