CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common StockInterest expense more than doubled, net loss widened, and stock fell 52% from high.
CoreWeave shares closed Thursday at $72.91, down 52% from their 52-week high of $153.20, as the AI cloud provider's heavy debt load continues to weigh on the stock. First-quarter revenue rose 112% year over year to $2.1 billion, but interest expense more than doubled to $536 million from $264 million a year earlier, and the net loss widened to $740 million from $315 million. The stock fell about 10% after the May earnings report, and this week brought additional pressure with a 3.5% drop on Wednesday amid a broader sell-off in AI infrastructure stocks. CEO Michael Intrator sold roughly 677,000 shares in early July under a prearranged trading plan, while a Bloomberg report that Meta Platforms plans to sell surplus AI computing capacity through a new cloud business added a competitive overhang, even though Meta is also one of CoreWeave's largest customers with a $21 billion agreement through 2032. CoreWeave's revenue backlog reached $99.4 billion as of March 31, and management sees a path to more than 8 gigawatts of active power by 2030, but investors remain focused on whether interest costs can slow and the backlog can convert to revenue at healthy margins.
CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common StockInterest expense more than doubled, net loss widened, and stock fell 52% from high.
Meta Platforms Inc.Meta plans to sell surplus AI computing capacity, adding competitive overhang, but Meta is also a large customer of CoreWeave.