Insider Selling: CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Insider Sells $729,201.20 in Stock

CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) insider Jeff Baker sold 6,760 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, April 29th. The stock was sold at an average price of $107.87, for a total value of $729,201.20. Following the sale, the insider owned 42,529 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $4,587,603.23. The trade was a 13.72% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link.

Jeff Baker also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, March 31st, Jeff Baker sold 16 shares of CoreWeave stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $74.05, for a total value of $1,184.80.
• On Friday, February 20th, Jeff Baker sold 2,374 shares of CoreWeave stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $90.83, for a total value of $215,630.42.

CoreWeave Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ CRWV opened at $119.01 on Monday. CoreWeave Inc. has a one year low of $45.80 and a one year high of $187.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $52.72 billion, a PE ratio of -37.19 and a beta of 7.84. The company has a current ratio of 0.46, a quick ratio of 0.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.46. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $91.88 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $92.51.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported ($0.89) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.61) by ($0.28). CoreWeave had a negative return on equity of 33.82% and a negative net margin of 22.75%.The business had revenue of $1.57 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave’s revenue for the quarter was up 110.4% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, analysts predict that CoreWeave Inc. will post -4.15 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On CoreWeave

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Azzad Asset Management Inc. ADV lifted its holdings in CoreWeave by 2.1% in the 1st quarter. Azzad Asset Management Inc. ADV now owns 5,020 shares of the company’s stock worth $389,000 after purchasing an additional 104 shares during the last quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. lifted its holdings in CoreWeave by 34.7% in the 4th quarter. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. now owns 462 shares of the company’s stock worth $33,000 after purchasing an additional 119 shares during the last quarter. Chilton Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in CoreWeave by 50.2% in the 3rd quarter. Chilton Capital Management LLC now owns 362 shares of the company’s stock worth $50,000 after purchasing an additional 121 shares during the last quarter. Cullen Frost Bankers Inc. lifted its holdings in 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 purchasing an additional 121 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Parkside Financial Bank & Trust lifted its holdings in CoreWeave by 26.3% in the 4th quarter. Parkside Financial Bank & Trust now owns 600 shares of the company’s stock worth $43,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares during the last quarter.

CoreWeave News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Wells Fargo raised its price target and reiterated an Overweight stance, signaling institutional support and implied upside versus recent levels. Wells Fargo Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for CoreWeave
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and notes about increased client diversification sparked momentum buying; coverage frames CoreWeave as a beneficiary of growing AI infrastructure demand. CoreWeave Stock Rallies 8% Following Analyst Upgrades
• Positive Sentiment: Product update: CoreWeave expanded SUNK capabilities to speed AI cluster setup across multi?cloud and on?prem environments — a practical top?line growth driver if adoption accelerates. CoreWeave SUNK Expands Capabilities
• Neutral Sentiment: Earnings preview: Zacks warns Q1 EPS is expected to decline and CoreWeave lacks the usual setup for an earnings beat, increasing near?term volatility risk around the May 7 report. Earnings Preview: Q1 Expected to Decline
• Neutral Sentiment: Retail/flows noise: stories about high?profile funds (e.g., ARK/Cathie Wood mentions) raise attention but are unconfirmed and may not translate into sustained buying. Coverage on Cathie Wood and AI Stocks
• Negative Sentiment: Large insider selling: several insiders (Brian Venturo, Brannin McBee, CEO Michael Intrator, EVP Chen Goldberg) sold blocks under Rule 10b5?1 plans the week of Apr 27, creating headline risk and short?term selling pressure. Brian Venturo Sells 375,000 Shares
• Negative Sentiment: Industry/customer risk: coverage notes ripples from OpenAI’s spending warning and suggests major customers’ cadence could pressure demand for GPU cloud capacity. CoreWeave Tries to Shrug Off Ripple Effect from OpenAI’s Warning
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst caution: some research (Zacks, others) highlights CoreWeave’s capital intensity and higher risk profile versus steadier cloud peers, which could cap multiple expansion if investors rotate to lower?risk names. CoreWeave vs Snowflake Comparison

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on CRWV shares. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Friday, February 27th. Mizuho lifted their price target on CoreWeave from $95.00 to $105.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 14th. Bank of America upgraded 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. HC Wainwright reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $180.00 price target on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Monday, March 2nd. Finally, Oppenheimer lifted their price target on CoreWeave from $140.00 to $150.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday. Twenty investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eleven have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CoreWeave has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $126.69.

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.