CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Stock Price Down 4.6% After Insider Selling

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) traded down 4.6% during mid-day trading on Monday after an insider sold shares in the company. The company traded as low as $88.52 and last traded at $88.94. 19,234,464 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 35% from the average session volume of 29,396,541 shares. The stock had previously closed at $93.19.

Specifically, insider Jeff Baker sold 5,143 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, January 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $103.78, for a total transaction of $533,740.54. Following the completion of the sale, the insider directly owned 39,304 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $4,078,969.12. The trade was a 11.57% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 50,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, January 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $106.08, for a total transaction of $5,304,000.00. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In other news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 32,456 shares of CoreWeave stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, January 28th. The shares were sold at an average price of $106.08, for a total transaction of $3,442,932.48. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 5,796,323 shares in the company, valued at $614,873,943.84. The trade was a 0.56% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities analysts recently weighed in on CRWV shares. Bank of America cut their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $168.00 to $140.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, November 11th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $120.00 target price on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Tuesday, November 11th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on CoreWeave from $91.00 to $99.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, November 11th. Compass Point began coverage on CoreWeave in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. They set a “buy” rating and a $150.00 price objective for the company. Finally, Citigroup reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $135.00 target price (down previously from $192.00) on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Friday, December 19th. Eighteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twelve have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $127.27.

Key Headlines Impacting CoreWeave

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Large strategic investor support — Nvidia made a meaningful equity commitment that market write-ups say should help CoreWeave accelerate backlog conversion and capacity buildout, a core driver of future revenue growth. Invezz Article
• Positive Sentiment: Revenue momentum and AI demand — coverage notes CoreWeave recently topped $1B in quarterly revenue and analysts point to strong AI cloud demand, underpinning the company’s growth narrative. This supports longer-term upside despite near-term volatility. Fool Article
• Positive Sentiment: Institutional/analyst backing provides partial support — coverage highlights solid institutional ownership and some analyst optimism/price-target upside, which can limit downside if fundamentals continue to print above expectations. MarketBeat/InsiderTrades Article
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest data shows essentially no reported short position (0 shares / 0.0 days) — the published figure appears to be a reporting anomaly rather than a market signal, so it’s unlikely to explain large moves by itself.
• Negative Sentiment: Wave of securities class-action notices and lead-plaintiff solicitations — multiple law firms (Robbins LLP, Hagens Berman, Rosen, Bronstein Gewirtz, Portnoy, Robbins Geller, BFA, Schall, DJS, Bernstein Liebhard, etc.) have announced investigations or actions alleging misstatements about CoreWeave’s scaling/infrastructure and revenue guidance; looming lead-plaintiff deadlines (March 13, 2026) increase headline risk and can trigger selling or increased volatility. Robbins LLP Hagens Berman
• Negative Sentiment: Insider selling and recent officer-level transactions — recent reports show insiders (including named executives and a disclosed sale by Jeff Baker) trimming positions; insider selling can sap confidence and add near-term supply pressure. InsiderTrades / MarketBeat Jeff Baker Sale

CoreWeave Price Performance

The company has a 50 day moving average of $83.63 and a 200 day moving average of $103.11. The company has a current ratio of 0.49, a quick ratio of 0.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.66. The firm has a market cap of $34.37 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of -61.34.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 10th. The company reported ($0.22) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of ($0.36) by $0.14. The business had revenue of $1.36 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.28 billion. The firm’s revenue was up 133.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($1.82) earnings per share.

Institutional Trading of CoreWeave

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of CRWV. Renaissance Capital LLC grew its position in shares of CoreWeave by 49.9% in the 3rd quarter. Renaissance Capital LLC now owns 47,162 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,454,000 after acquiring an additional 15,697 shares during the period. Munro Partners raised its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 5,272.4% in the 3rd quarter. Munro Partners now owns 616,485 shares of the company’s stock valued at $84,366,000 after purchasing an additional 605,010 shares during the period. Chung Wu Investment Group LLC acquired a new stake in CoreWeave in the 2nd quarter valued at about $755,000. AE Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in CoreWeave during the third quarter worth about $4,241,000. Finally, HWG Holdings LP bought a new position in CoreWeave during the third quarter worth about $1,863,000.

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.