Goldman Sachs upgrades CoreWeave to Buy with 73% upside after a 43% slide

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Goldman is calling the bottom on CoreWeave after a 43% drawdown, even while trimming its target to $106, which still implies 73% upside from here.

🔼CoreWeave $CRWV upgraded to Buy at Goldman Sachs after 24% dip in last five days Goldman Sachs upgraded CoreWeave to Buy from Neutral with a price target of $106, down from $139. The firm, which notes 73% upside to its revised price target, notes that the stock is down 43% https://t.co/zJ71i70jpQ

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Goldman Sachs upgraded CoreWeave from Neutral to Buy on October 19, seeing 73% upside after a 43% slide from earlier highs. The call reads as a selloff that overshot, not a better business outlook.

Goldman trimmed its price target to $106 even while raising the rating, so keep an eye on the stock.

The stock had fallen 24% in the five days before the upgrade landed.

A $106 target from a major firm now sets the reference point for the next move.

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DeItaone @deitaone

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Ortex pegs one day of CoreWeave bearish bets at $806 million in paper gains, a sign of how heavily shorts are positioned against AI-infrastructure debt risk.

$CRWV - COREWEAVE SHORT SELLERS MADE AROUND $806 MLN IN PAPER PROFIT ON WEDNESDAY, WHEN STOCK FELL 15.5% - ORTEX

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CoreWeave Founders Shield Fortunes With $3.3 Billion Stock Sales

u/Perspective-Parking 540 upvotes 113 comments

There are a lot of companies like this right now, hell look at reddit management sales this year alone

u/BagHoldersOfAmerica 161

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CRWV CoreWeave

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Oct 15, 4:00pm ET

$69.22

+12.06% open $61.77

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Nvidia's stake in CoreWeave is now a question analysts expect Jensen Huang to answer on the record, and the answer sets the tone for how much of the data center buildout is circular financing.

Should Jensen Huang should address Nvidia’s exposure to $CRWV? Tal Liani weighs in, saying Huang will eventually offer “comforting comments” defending demand, just like everyone else with a stake in the data center buildout. “It’s just a question of time," Liani says. https://t.co/CX6fTyMZjP

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Statement Michael N Intrator CEO and President, CoreWeave, Inc.

Oct 15, 9:41am ET

When we have built our business, we really built our business around the idea that you go, you make an investment, you have a long term offtake with a counterparty, and you go out and you borrow money to support that deal in and of itself.

14 days earlier Traded CRWV4

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Statement Michael N Intrator CEO and President, CoreWeave, Inc.

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When we have built our business, we really built our business around the idea that you go, you make an investment, you have a long term offtake with a counterparty, and you go out and you borrow money to support that deal in and of itself.

29 days earlier Traded CRWV4

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