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The CoreWeave story

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure and software for AI, with the central question whether its large customer commitments can become profitable revenue fast enough to support the infrastructure needed to deliver them.

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  • $61.39share price, last close
  • $33.9Bmarket value
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The story in brief

  • Contracts anchor demand. CoreWeave's expanded Meta agreement covers approximately $21 billion of AI cloud capacity through December 2032, tying growth to large, long-term deployments.
  • Power enables delivery. In the quarter to June 2026, active power reached 1.5 GW and total contracted power reached approximately 3.7 GW, making infrastructure deployment central to fulfilling customer commitments.
  • Growth needs financing. Revenue grew 115.3% over the last twelve months, but free cash flow of -$13.7 billion left expansion dependent on outside funding.

What drives the business

  • CoreWeave combines AI computing infrastructure with software such as CoreWeave Mission Control and Weights & Biases, generally serving customers through multiyear capacity commitments that require payment whether or not the capacity is used and financing infrastructure with debt supported by those contracts.
  • The April 2026 expanded agreement with Meta provides approximately $21 billion of cloud capacity through December 2032, supporting inference workloads across multiple locations and including planned NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments.
  • Jane Street committed approximately $6 billion to CoreWeave's AI cloud in April 2026 and made a $1 billion equity investment, expanding a relationship centered on large-scale machine learning.
  • Revenue in the quarter to June 2026 reached $2,575 million, compared with $1,212 million in the prior year period, as enterprise adoption broadened.
  • Revenue backlog reached approximately $104 billion as of June 30, 2026, excluding more than $25 billion of net new customer commitments added early in the quarter to September 2026.

What the price assumes

At $91.72 per share, the reverse DCF cannot measure an implied growth rate because free cash flow and operating earnings are both negative, leaving the price dependent on future profits.

The 6.7x sales multiple compares with TenQ's sales check requiring under 2.5x, despite revenue growth of 115.3% over the last twelve months.

CoreWeave's -27.0% free cash flow yield also falls short of TenQ's above 3% check, distinguishing rapid revenue growth from cash available after investment.

What could change the story

  • Free cash flow of -$13.7 billion over the last twelve months contrasts with $5.5 billion of cash and short-term investments, while TenQ's liquidity, interest coverage and self-funding checks fail.
  • The $2.6 billion loan facility closed in August 2026 has an approximate five-year maturity against underlying customer contracts averaging approximately three years, introducing renewal risk before the debt matures.
  • Backlog includes estimated future revenue beyond remaining performance obligations and depends on satisfying delivery and service availability requirements, so customer commitments alone do not establish when revenue will arrive.
  • Reliance on a limited number of technology suppliers exposes CoreWeave to component shortages, higher prices and shifts toward alternatives to NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Power constraints, disruptions at third-party facilities and changing data center rules could slow deployments, while restrictions on AI computing consumption could reduce customer demand.

What to watch next

  • The June 2026 earnings release deferred forward-looking guidance to the earnings call rather than setting numerical expectations in the release.
  • The next releases can show whether active power expands beyond 1.5 GW and how the approximately $104 billion backlog translates into recognized revenue.
  • Operating margin and free cash flow will show whether greater scale narrows the gap between customer revenue and infrastructure costs, against a -3.0% operating margin over the last twelve months.
  • Financing disclosures can clarify the funding mix following the September 2026 pricing of $3.7 billion of convertible senior notes, whose conversions may be settled in cash, shares or both.

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