First Trust Advisors LP Boosts Holdings in CoreWeave Inc. $CRWV

First Trust Advisors LP boosted its stake in shares of CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) by 1,464.9% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 1,944,348 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 1,820,101 shares during the quarter. First Trust Advisors LP’s holdings in CoreWeave were worth $266,084,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the stock. Family Legacy Financial Solutions LLC lifted its holdings in shares of CoreWeave by 166.7% in the 3rd quarter. Family Legacy Financial Solutions LLC now owns 200 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the period. HighMark Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in CoreWeave during the third quarter worth about $27,000. OLD Second National Bank of Aurora purchased a new position in CoreWeave during the third quarter valued at approximately $27,000. Aspect Partners LLC purchased a new position in CoreWeave during the third quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Finally, Princeton Global Asset Management LLC acquired a new position in CoreWeave in the third quarter valued at approximately $28,000.

Key Headlines Impacting CoreWeave

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Won a multi?year agreement to power Perplexity’s AI inference workloads, validating CoreWeave’s performance positioning in the high?margin inference market and supporting long?term revenue growth. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Backlog surged to $66.8B (up >4x YoY), giving strong contract visibility that supports management’s aggressive expansion plan and future revenue conversion. Read More.
• Positive Sentiment: Oppenheimer initiated coverage with an “Outperform” and a $140 price target, signaling conviction in CRWV’s multi?year growth runway despite current headwinds. Read More.
• Neutral Sentiment: Company presented at the Morgan Stanley TMT conference (analyst/transcript coverage) — useful for model/visibility but not an immediate catalyst. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple class?action filings and numerous law?firm deadline notices following Q4 results — litigation risk, potential legal costs and management distraction that typically pressure share prices. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Large Q4 loss (~$452M), soft guidance and reports of a $30–$35B 2026 capex plan have sparked “capex shock” concerns — raises near?term cash?flow and profitability risk despite backlog. Read More. Read More.
• Negative Sentiment: Negative analyst moves (Sanford C. Bernstein “underperform/strong sell” coverage) and recent CFO share sales amplify downside sentiment and signal caution to some investors. Read More. Read More.

Insider Buying and Selling at CoreWeave

In other news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 111,427 shares of CoreWeave stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $72.39, for a total value of $8,066,200.53. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 5,922,620 shares in the company, valued at $428,738,461.80. This trade represents a 1.85% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Also, insider Brian M. Venturo sold 281,250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $87.75, for a total transaction of $24,679,687.50. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 4,621,335 shares of company stock valued at $395,458,845 over the last ninety days.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts have commented on the company. DA Davidson upped their price objective on CoreWeave from $110.00 to $125.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, February 27th. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of CoreWeave from $91.00 to $99.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, November 11th. Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an “overweight” rating and issued a $131.00 target price on shares of CoreWeave in a research note on Friday, February 27th. Truist Financial increased their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $84.00 to $85.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Macquarie Infrastructure restated a “neutral” rating and set a $115.00 price target on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Tuesday, January 27th. Eighteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $122.35.

CoreWeave Stock Down 2.4%

CoreWeave stock opened at $72.99 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.46, a current ratio of 0.46 and a quick ratio of 0.49. The stock has a market capitalization of $30.58 billion and a PE ratio of -22.81. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $88.48 and a 200-day simple moving average of $98.72. CoreWeave Inc. has a 12 month low of $33.51 and a 12 month high of $187.00.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 26th. The company reported ($0.89) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.61) by ($0.28). The business had revenue of $1.57 billion for the quarter. CoreWeave had a negative net margin of 22.75% and a negative return on equity of 33.82%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 110.4% on a year-over-year basis.

CoreWeave Company Profile

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.