Bienville Capital Management LLC Increases Stock Position in CoreWeave Inc. $CRWV

Bienville Capital Management LLC raised its position in CoreWeave Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV) by 72.6% in the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 145,183 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 61,083 shares during the period. CoreWeave accounts for about 1.9% of Bienville Capital Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 15th largest position. Bienville Capital Management LLC’s holdings in CoreWeave were worth $14,452,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors have also modified their holdings of the company. California State Teachers Retirement System grew its position in shares of CoreWeave by 12,886.8% during the 2nd quarter. California State Teachers Retirement System now owns 41,559,344 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,136,817,000 after acquiring an additional 41,239,333 shares during the period. Proficio Capital Partners LLC raised its holdings in CoreWeave by 446,194.0% in the 3rd quarter. Proficio Capital Partners LLC now owns 17,851,760 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,443,013,000 after purchasing an additional 17,847,760 shares during the period. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. boosted its position in CoreWeave by 55.7% during the second quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 10,891,267 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,084,117,000 after purchasing an additional 3,897,741 shares in the last quarter. Deutsche Bank AG boosted its position in CoreWeave by 22,624.0% during the fourth quarter. Deutsche Bank AG now owns 3,812,856 shares of the company’s stock worth $273,039,000 after purchasing an additional 3,796,077 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Altimeter Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in CoreWeave in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $230,099,000.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of analysts have recently commented on CRWV shares. UBS Group restated an “underperform” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a research report on Wednesday, August 12th. Truist Financial lifted their price target on shares of CoreWeave from $155.00 to $165.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, August 24th. Wolfe Research reissued an “outperform” rating on shares of CoreWeave in a report on Monday, July 6th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $121.00 to $139.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, August 21st. Finally, Citigroup increased their price objective on shares of CoreWeave from $142.00 to $159.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 14th. Twenty-one equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have given a Hold rating and three have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $141.90.

CoreWeave Price Performance

Shares of CoreWeave stock opened at $94.94 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $43.57 billion, a P/E ratio of -26.01 and a beta of 7.45. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $85.39 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $94.39. CoreWeave Inc. has a 12 month low of $60.55 and a 12 month high of $153.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 5.53, a current ratio of 0.46 and a quick ratio of 0.46.

CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August 11th. The company reported ($1.14) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of ($1.52) by $0.38. CoreWeave had a negative return on equity of 47.95% and a negative net margin of 25.41%.The firm had revenue of $2.58 billion for the quarter. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.27) earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 112.5% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, analysts predict that CoreWeave Inc. will post -5.19 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other CoreWeave news, CEO Michael N. Intrator sold 278,560 shares of CoreWeave stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $97.43, for a total transaction of $27,140,100.80. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 3,138,612 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $305,794,967.16. The trade was a 8.15% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, major shareholder Magnetar Financial Llc sold 307,131 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, August 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $108.75, for a total transaction of $33,400,496.25. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 220,810 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $24,013,087.50. The trade was a 58.18% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 6,911,652 shares of company stock worth $636,351,368 in the last 90 days. 24.20% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Trending Headlines about CoreWeave

Here are the key news stories impacting CoreWeave this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said the company is struggling to keep up with demand for NVIDIA chips, while also arguing that AI pricing is rising faster than input costs. The comments support the company’s growth outlook and suggest favorable deal economics. CoreWeave struggling to keep up with demand for Nvidia chips
• Positive Sentiment: Parallel Works and CoreWeave announced a managed AI-cloud environment to support DARPA biological research, adding a government-backed use case for CoreWeave’s infrastructure. Parallel Works and CoreWeave DARPA research partnership
• Positive Sentiment: OpenAI reportedly plans to spend approximately $750 billion on compute through 2030 and remains short of capacity. That supports long-term demand for specialized cloud providers, including CoreWeave, which has a reported $22.4 billion OpenAI contract. OpenAI compute spending plans
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysts maintained a consensus “Moderate Buy” view, while elevated call-option activity and recent bullish commentary may indicate continued speculative interest. CoreWeave consensus recommendation
• Negative Sentiment: Investors remain concerned that CoreWeave’s reported cash flow relies heavily on customer prepayments, while the company must fund an expensive, debt-financed infrastructure buildout. Heavy short interest reinforces skepticism about margins, liquidity, and execution. CoreWeave cash flow concerns
• Negative Sentiment: Intrator acknowledged growing public resistance to data centers and said the AI industry needs to communicate its benefits more effectively. Local opposition could delay projects, raise costs, or restrict future capacity expansion. CoreWeave CEO on public AI pushback

CoreWeave Profile

CoreWeave, Inc is a specialized cloud computing provider focused on infrastructure for artificial intelligence, machine learning, high-performance computing and other data-intensive workloads. The company provides access to accelerated computing resources, particularly graphics processing units (GPUs), through a cloud platform designed for large-scale training, inference, rendering and scientific computing.

Its offerings include on-demand and reserved GPU instances, cloud storage, high-speed networking, Kubernetes-based container orchestration and managed services for deploying and scaling workloads.