Insider Selling: CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Insider Sells $9,408,574.44 in Stock

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) insider Brian Venturo sold 76,924 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, April 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $122.31, for a total transaction of $9,408,574.44. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

CoreWeave Price Performance

CoreWeave stock opened at $110.14 on Monday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $90.60 and a 200-day simple moving average of $93.31. The firm has a market capitalization of $48.79 billion and a P/E ratio of -34.42. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.46, a quick ratio of 0.46 and a current ratio of 0.46. CoreWeave Inc. has a one year low of $39.50 and a one year high of $187.00.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported ($0.89) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.61) by ($0.28). The firm had revenue of $1.57 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave had a negative return on equity of 33.82% and a negative net margin of 22.75%.CoreWeave’s revenue for the quarter was up 110.4% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, equities analysts expect that CoreWeave Inc. will post -4.16 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Trading of CoreWeave

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of CRWV. Sivia Capital Partners LLC purchased a new stake in CoreWeave during the second quarter valued at about $39,824,000. Quantbot Technologies LP purchased a new stake in CoreWeave during the second quarter valued at about $311,000. Invesco Ltd. purchased a new stake in CoreWeave during the second quarter valued at about $882,000. First Trust Advisors LP acquired a new position in CoreWeave in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $20,260,000. Finally, Baird Financial Group Inc. purchased a new position in CoreWeave during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $455,000.

Key CoreWeave News

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Very strong revenue momentum: CoreWeave reported ~110% year‑over‑year revenue growth last quarter, which underpins investor enthusiasm for its GPU/AI-cloud demand and supports the long‑term growth thesis. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Public bullishness and analyst support: Jim Cramer has discussed CRWV positively on Mad Money (calling it an “aggressive buy”), and several sell‑side firms have buy/outperform ratings and high targets — a catalyst for continued retail/institutional interest. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Market volatility backdrop is calm today (VIX < 19), which generally favors risk assets and can help momentum names like CRWV — but reduced fear can also limit near‑term spikes. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Capital/financing moves are ambiguous: the market has treated recent debt and equity raises as growth capital for expansion, but additional leverage increases execution risk and can add volatility. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Significant insider and major‑holder selling this week — Magnetar materially reduced its position and multiple insiders (including large Rule 10b5‑1 sales) sold tens or hundreds of thousands of shares; the scale of supply is a clear near‑term negative for the stock. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Earnings and margin risks remain: recent quarter showed a sizeable EPS miss and negative margins/ROE; analysts flag cash‑burn, high leverage and execution risk ahead of upcoming results, which can sap short‑term upside. Read More.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the stock. Mizuho upped their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $95.00 to $105.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 14th. Citigroup cut their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $135.00 to $126.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. Bank of America raised shares of CoreWeave from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $100.00 price target for the company in a report on Tuesday, March 24th. Jefferies Financial Group cut their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $155.00 to $120.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Monday, January 5th. Finally, Evercore reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $150.00 price target on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Wednesday, April 15th. Twenty equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eleven have assigned a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $125.16.

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.