Group One Trading LLC Buys 484,436 Shares of Core Scientific, Inc. $CORZ

Group One Trading LLC lifted its stake in Core Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:CORZ) by 379.7% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 612,009 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 484,436 shares during the quarter. Group One Trading LLC’s holdings in Core Scientific were worth $10,979,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. AQR Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in Core Scientific by 106.1% during the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 283,432 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,052,000 after purchasing an additional 145,905 shares during the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC lifted its stake in shares of Core Scientific by 180.9% in the first quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 1,109,387 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,032,000 after buying an additional 714,388 shares during the last quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Core Scientific by 192.3% during the 2nd quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC now owns 4,662 shares of the company’s stock worth $80,000 after buying an additional 3,067 shares during the period. Teacher Retirement System of Texas boosted its holdings in shares of Core Scientific by 31.4% during the 2nd quarter. Teacher Retirement System of Texas now owns 42,543 shares of the company’s stock worth $726,000 after buying an additional 10,161 shares during the period. Finally, Amalgamated Bank grew its stake in Core Scientific by 52.2% in the 2nd quarter. Amalgamated Bank now owns 9,423 shares of the company’s stock valued at $161,000 after buying an additional 3,231 shares during the last quarter.

More Core Scientific News

Here are the key news stories impacting Core Scientific this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Unusually large options activity — traders bought ~188,642 call options (≈51% above normal call volume), signalling aggressive bullish positioning from some market participants.
• Positive Sentiment: Colocation revenue surge — management reported colocation revenue grew dramatically (reported +268% year-over-year), supporting the company’s transition from BTC mining toward AI/colocation demand. Core Scientific Colocation Revenue Surges 268% Amid Mixed Q4 Results
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades and high targets — Needham upgraded CORZ to Buy with a $23 target (~+50% implied upside), HC Wainwright reaffirmed Buy with $25, and Cantor Fitzgerald kept an Overweight with a $25 target; these actions reinforce a bullish analyst tone despite some target trims. Needham Upgrade
• Neutral Sentiment: Mixed quarter — CORZ reported $0.42 EPS (beat consensus) but revenue of $79.8M missed estimates (~$118M), so profitability signals improved while top-line momentum is weak; management emphasized progress on a 1.5 GW leasable pipeline. Business Wire: Q4 Results
• Neutral Sentiment: Full disclosure and detail sources — earnings slide deck and call transcript are available for investors who want to dig into guidance, margin dynamics, and contract backlog. Earnings Presentation
• Negative Sentiment: Revenue miss and reported loss — some outlets highlight the Q4 revenue miss and a quarterly loss (Zacks coverage), raising near-term concern about top-line pacing while the company reinvests for AI/colocation growth. Zacks: Q4 Loss, Revenue Miss
• Negative Sentiment: Immediate market reaction — coverage notes CORZ shares slid after the report and as the company pushes a sizable infrastructure expansion (1.5 GW), highlighting investor worry about near-term cash burn and execution risk. Blockonomi: Stock Slides
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest data appears unreliable in recent feeds (showing zeros/NaN); no clear short-squeeze signal from public short-interest figures at this time.

Core Scientific Stock Performance

NASDAQ CORZ opened at $15.30 on Wednesday. Core Scientific, Inc. has a twelve month low of $6.20 and a twelve month high of $23.63. The stock has a market cap of $4.74 billion, a PE ratio of 13.08 and a beta of 6.87. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $17.27 and a 200 day simple moving average of $16.96.

Core Scientific (NASDAQ:CORZ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, March 2nd. The company reported $0.42 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of ($0.27) by $0.69. The firm had revenue of $79.76 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $118.45 million. During the same period last year, the company earned ($0.69) EPS. The company’s revenue was down 16.0% on a year-over-year basis. Research analysts forecast that Core Scientific, Inc. will post 0.52 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have weighed in on CORZ. Needham & Company LLC raised shares of Core Scientific from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $23.00 target price for the company in a research report on Tuesday. Citigroup upgraded Core Scientific from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, December 18th. Zacks Research upgraded Core Scientific from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 13th. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d-)” rating on shares of Core Scientific in a report on Wednesday, January 21st. Finally, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods upped their price target on Core Scientific from $19.00 to $25.00 and gave the stock a “moderate buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 27th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $24.66.

About Core Scientific

Core Scientific, Inc (NASDAQ: CORZ) is a leading provider of large-scale blockchain infrastructure and digital asset mining services. The company develops, owns and operates high-performance data centers optimized for the mining of Bitcoin and other proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. In addition to its core mining operations, Core Scientific offers colocation, hosting and managed services designed to support institutional clients and enterprise users in deploying and scaling blockchain nodes and computing hardware.

Core Scientific’s service portfolio includes hardware procurement, deployment and maintenance, real-time monitoring, power management and network connectivity.