The stock rose about 3 percent today, continuing a run that has it up 11 percent this week and near its recent highs. We think this is mostly about a string of new customer deals and expansion plans ahead of its earnings report next Tuesday.
Our view
The $99 billion backlog of signed contracts is a massive safety net that most fast-growing tech firms don't have. If you've been thinking about buying, the current price is a fair entry for a business with this much secured future revenue.
Trading firm IMC expands its use of CoreWeave's AI cloud
IMC, a global trading firm, is significantly increasing its reliance on CoreWeave to power its research and trading strategies. The firm has been using CoreWeave's specialized clusters of computers since 2025 and is now expanding that setup to handle larger amounts of data and more complicated AI models.
This expansion is a good sign for CoreWeave because it shows that existing customers in the high-stakes finance world are finding the platform reliable. While many people focus on tech giants building AI, trading firms like IMC represent a different group of customers who need high-performance computing to stay competitive. Winning more business from a current partner is often a more efficient way to grow than finding entirely new ones.
Strategic deal with Solidigm secures storage for AI cloud
CoreWeave has signed a multi-year agreement with Solidigm to secure priority access to enterprise solid-state drives. These drives are the high-speed storage hardware needed to feed data into the powerful chips that train and run artificial intelligence models.
While most attention in the AI race goes to the chips themselves, the storage systems that hold the data are just as critical for performance. By locking in this supply, CoreWeave is making sure its data center expansion won't be slowed down by a shortage of specialized storage parts. This move helps protect the company's ability to deliver on its large backlog of signed contracts.
CoreWeave will report its latest quarterly results on Tuesday, August 11. Analysts are looking for revenue of about 2.55 billion dollars and a loss of about 1.22 dollars per share.
The company has only beaten analyst expectations once in the last five quarters. Because it is spending heavily to build out data centers, the focus will likely be on how quickly it can turn its large backlog of signed contracts into actual revenue.
Expansion into Indonesia with three new data centers
The company is expanding into Indonesia, its first move into the Asia-Pacific region. It plans to build three new facilities that will provide 360 megawatts of power for AI computing.
These sites are expected to be ready in 2028. This move helps the company grow its global reach beyond its current footprint and taps into new demand from labs and startups in Asia.
Piper Sandler set a price target of 151 dollars for the stock. This is about 68 percent higher than where the stock is trading today. It is also higher than the average analyst target of 133 dollars, suggesting the firm sees more growth ahead than many of its peers.
Analysts have recently raised their price targets following the company's expansion into Indonesia and a new partnership with Solidigm. Most analysts are bullish, with 17 of 28 rating the stock a buy and an average target suggesting 51% upside.
Average target$133.47+51%vs $88.10 today
TodayAvg price
Low $67High $192
Buy28 analysts
1Bearish
10Neutral
17Bullish
FirmRatingPrice TargetDate
Deutsche Bank
Buy
$135→$150
8/7/2026
Piper Sandler
Overweight
$151
8/3/2026
Truist Financial
Buy
$126
7/21/2026
Robert W. Baird
Outperform
$100
7/21/2026
Jefferies
Buy
$160→$150
7/21/2026
BNP Paribas
Outperform
$192
6/2/2026
D.A. Davidson
Neutral
$100
5/18/2026
Barclays
Equal Weight
$106→$120
5/11/2026
Deutsche Bank
Buy
$125→$135
5/8/2026
Truist Financial
Buy
$85→$131
5/8/2026
Wells Fargo
Overweight
$135→$155
5/8/2026
Roth Capital
—
$135→$150
5/8/2026
CoreWeave earnings
The company has a short history of missing expectations as it spends heavily to build data centers. This makes the stock sensitive to how fast it can turn that spending into revenue.
Earnings history
EstimateBeatMiss
CoreWeave past earnings results
Expected
Actual
Surprise
EPS
$-0.92
$-1.11
-20.7%
Revenue
$1.97B
$2.08B
+5.5%
Key highlights
Massive revenue backlog: The company's revenue backlog, which includes future money expected from signed contracts, reached $99.4 billion as of March 31, 2026. This level of committed demand is a major signal of long term stability, even as it slightly missed the internal $100 billion target.
Major customer expansion: CoreWeave signed a new $21 billion commitment with Meta in March, cementing its role as a key infrastructure provider for the largest AI labs. Securing such a large deal from a single giant helps justify the massive spending needed to build out specialized data centers.
Scaling power capacity: Active power capacity surpassed 1 gigawatt this quarter, and the company added over 400 megawatts of newly contracted power to reach a total of 3.5 gigawatts. Power capacity is the most important constraint on growth, as it limits how many AI chips the company can actually plug in and run for customers.
Platform efficiency dipping: Adjusted EBITDA margin, which measures profit from operations before accounting for taxes and interest, fell to 56% from 62% a year ago. While this still meets the company's long term 55% goal, the drop shows that rapidly scaling up new data centers is currently getting more expensive.
NVIDIA investment boost: The company closed a $2 billion investment from NVIDIA, which is both a major supplier and now a key shareholder. This relationship is critical because it ensures CoreWeave stays at the front of the line for the most advanced AI chips, like the GB200 systems.
Ambitious growth outlook: Management expects to reach more than 8 gigawatts of active power by 2030, a huge jump from the current 1 gigawatt level. To fund this, they secured an $8.5 billion loan facility to keep building the specialized AI factories their customers are demanding.
Our take: A strong quarter that proves the massive demand for AI infrastructure is not slowing down. While the company is still losing money on a reported basis, the $21 billion Meta deal and the $99.4 billion backlog show that CoreWeave is successfully locking in the world's biggest spenders for years to come.
CoreWeave’s next earnings date
Q2 2026
AUG
11
Expectation
EPS
$-1.22
Revenue
$2.55B
Metrics we are tracking
Metric
Expectations
Status
Revenue Backlog
Staying above $100 billion while converting 20% to revenue annually
$99.4B as of Q1 2026
Active Power Capacity
Reaching 3.5 gigawatts of contracted power by late 2027
1 GW as of May 2026
Adjusted EBITDA Margin
Maintaining levels above 55% as the platform scales
56% in Q1 2026
Non-Recourse Debt Coverage
Cash flow from active clusters covering interest expense by 2.0x