CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) Shares Down 5.5% – Should You Sell?

Shares of CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) dropped 5.5% during trading on Tuesday . The stock traded as low as $70.37 and last traded at $73.78. Approximately 24,422,330 shares were traded during trading, a decline of 12% from the average daily volume of 27,803,930 shares. The stock had previously closed at $78.05.

CoreWeave News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Multi?year Perplexity contract strengthens CoreWeave’s position in high?value AI inference workloads and validates its GPU?first, low?latency cloud strategy — a revenue driver over time. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Some analysts still see upside/longer?term value: Citigroup kept a Buy rating (cutting its PT), Barclays and HC Wainwright have supportive stances — meaning mixed analyst views could limit panic selling but leave near?term volatility. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: CoreWeave reported a much larger Q4 net loss (reported $452M), missed EPS expectations and issued soft near?term guidance — these results and guidance drove immediate investor concern about profitability and capital needs. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple plaintiffs’ firms have filed suits or issued lead?plaintiff deadline alerts (March 13), escalating legal risk and adding headline risk and potential liability that weigh on the stock. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Independent coverage flagged a “capex shock” — management’s very large planned capital spending for 2026 (billions) to meet backlog raises execution and leverage risk; investors are worried about near?term cash burn and margin pressure. Read More.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have recently commented on CRWV. Loop Capital dropped their target price on CoreWeave from $165.00 to $120.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, November 12th. Mizuho cut their price objective on CoreWeave from $100.00 to $95.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 27th. Macquarie Infrastructure reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a $115.00 target price on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Tuesday, January 27th. DA Davidson lifted their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $110.00 to $125.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Evercore reduced their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $175.00 to $160.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, November 11th. Seventeen analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twelve have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $121.77.

CoreWeave Stock Down 5.8%

The company has a current ratio of 0.46, a quick ratio of 0.49 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.46. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $88.63 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $99.01. The company has a market cap of $31.39 billion and a PE ratio of -23.41.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported ($0.89) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate 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 during the quarter. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 110.4% compared to the same quarter last year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 32,456 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $99.95, for a total value of $3,243,977.20. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 5,731,412 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $572,854,629.40. This trade represents a 0.56% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, EVP Chen Goldberg sold 18,950 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, February 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $90.84, for a total value of $1,721,418.00. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 58,689 shares in the company, valued at $5,331,308.76. This trade represents a 24.41% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 4,336,165 shares of company stock valued at $372,860,338.

Institutional Trading of CoreWeave

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in CRWV. Family Legacy Financial Solutions LLC grew its position in CoreWeave by 166.7% in the third quarter. Family Legacy Financial Solutions LLC now owns 200 shares of the company’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 125 shares during the period. HighMark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of CoreWeave in the 3rd quarter valued at $27,000. OLD Second National Bank of Aurora acquired a new stake in shares of CoreWeave during the 3rd quarter worth about $27,000. KERR FINANCIAL PLANNING Corp purchased a new stake in CoreWeave in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Aspect Partners LLC purchased a new stake in CoreWeave in the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000.

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.