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Cerebras Systems, Inc. Class ACBRSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Packaged Software

US AI chip company building wafer-scale processors designed to train and run large AI models faster than GPU clusters.

Mkt cap
$20.1B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
88%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$1.31B
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-40.3 pp
WACC 18.9%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
6 days
12 Nov 2026
Close · USD$89.68
1D+9.8%
1W-17.9%
1M-46.6%
3M-61.0%
6Mn/a
YTDn/a
1Yn/a
ATR %12.2%
52w lowhigh76.8% off high

What Cerebras Systems does

US AI chip company building wafer-scale processors designed to train and run large AI models faster than GPU clusters.

Sells whole AI computing systems built around its giant chip and also rents out that computing as a cloud service paid by usage, so revenue depends on a handful of very large orders. Its early filings showed Abu Dhabi's G42 as by far the largest customer.

Products and services

  • Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chips
  • CS system servers
  • Inference cloud service

Customers

  • AI research labs
  • Enterprises/government (AI compute)
  • Cloud/inference customers

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Semiconductors/AI hardware
  • Wafer-scale AI accelerator chips
  • AI labs, enterprises, cloud/inference…

What could go right

  • AI training/inference compute demand growth
  • New large customer/cloud deals

What could go wrong

  • Nvidia's dominant CUDA ecosystem/scale
  • Customer concentration risk in early contracts

Moat: narrow (IP / patents, process know-how). Proprietary wafer-scale chip design is a unique, patent-protected approach that Nvidia's GPU architecture doesn't match.

Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California, US · Founded: 2015 · Employees: 708

Named competitors

Cerebras Systems at a glance

Size Cerebras Systems (CBRS) is a United States Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $20.1B, the 496th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $89.68 on 6 Nov 2026.

Growth Revenue grew 90.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +18.2%); the operating margin is -81.2% (peer median 22.3%).

Valuation It trades at 19.0× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 7.1× (3rd most expensive of 21).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 40.3 points below its cost of capital (18.9% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $25.4B at 30 Jun 2026. Backlog detail →

Short interest Short interest is 17.7% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 12 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Cerebras Systems financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$681M$510M$290M$78.7M$24.6M
Revenue growth—+76%+269%+220%—
Gross profit$265M$177M$114M$19.8M$2.05M
EBITDAn/a-$111M-$89.9M-$121M-$156M
Net income-$512M$87.9M-$482M-$127M-$178M
Free cash flown/a-$393M$429M-$85.6M-$175M
Capital expendituren/a$383M$23.4M$6.59M$10.5M
Total debt$1.49B$262M$40.7M$560,000$1.30M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Cerebras Systems competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%10×20×TOSTPTCSSNCUGEN300033CRCLIOT688111MDBEVOCRWVZM2513MANHBSPCBRSRevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Cerebras Systems is the large dot.

Cerebras Systems competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CBRS vs NVDA vs AMD vs INTC)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
Cerebras Systems CBRS$20.1Bn/a+91%-81%19.0×n/a
Nvidia NVDA$4.50T-13%+83%65%14.7×26.3%
Advanced Micro Devices AMD$733B-1%+42%18%16.0×60.9%
Intel INTC$299B-55%+12%11%5.2×46.1%
Qualcomm QCOM$177B-24%+2%24%4.2×15.9%
CoreWeave CRWV$25.6B-59%+115%-3%9.3×n/a
NBIS NBIS$35.2B-8%+461%-49%27.5×n/a

How Cerebras Systems compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Cerebras Systems against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCBRSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-46.6%+5.4%lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-76.8%-13.6%2nd lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+90.8%+18.2%4th highest of 21
Operating margin-81.2%22.3%2nd lowest of 21
EV / Sales19.0×7.1×3rd most expensive of 21
ROIC minus cost of capital-40.3 pp+7.9 pp2nd lowest of 18

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Cerebras Systems CBRSUnited States$20.1Bn/a+91%-81%19.0×n/an/a
Toast TOSTUnited States$20.1B+38%+22%7%2.5×28.6%+49.5%
PTC PTCUnited States$21.2B+33%+20%40%7.7×10.3%+8.6%
SS&C Technologies SSNCUnited States$18.2B+13%+9%24%3.8×6.9%+6.1%
Unity Software UUnited States$22.7B+83%+14%-14%11.3×33.5%+19.1%
Gen Digital GENUnited States$17.7B+32%+17%43%4.8×1.8%+14.4%
F5, Inc. FFIVUnited States$17.7B-12%+11%24%4.8×9.7%+5.6%
Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network 300033.SZChina$22.9B-14%+48%56%18.4×37.1%+16.3%
Circle Internet CRCLUnited States$17.3B-40%+26%13%5.2×23.2%+52.7%
Samsara IOTUnited States$24.0B+38%+30%1%12.6×n/an/a
Beijing Kingsoft Office Software 688111.SSChina$16.1B-8%+20%22%15.5×32.7%+21.3%
MongoDB MDBUnited States$25.2B+4%+25%-1%8.2×27.9%+33.1%
Evolution EVO.STSweden$15.8B+33%-3%57%6.6×-0.3%+31.2%
CoreWeave CRWVUnited States$25.6B-59%+115%-3%9.3×n/an/a
Zoom Communications ZMUnited States$26.2B-18%+5%24%3.8×5.8%+12.9%
Z.AI Co., Ltd. -H- Reg S 2513.HKHong Kong$26.5B-56%+132%-272%123.0×n/an/a
Amadeus IT AMS.MCSpain$27.4B+18%+4%27%4.1×4.3%+24.6%
Manhattan Associates MANHUnited States$14.7B+77%+8%25%12.6×29.4%+13.0%
DocuSign DOCUUnited States$14.5B+62%+9%12%4.1×12.9%+17.2%
Bending Spoons BSPUnited States$27.9Bn/a+95%21%24.5×45.5%+94.7%
Sage SGE.LUnited Kingdom$14.1B+33%+9%23%4.5×3.1%+5.7%

Cerebras Systems backlog

Cerebras Systems reported $25.4B of remaining performance obligations at 30 Jun 2026 and up 2% from the previous quarter. Book-to-bill last quarter: 3.22.

Questions

Who are Cerebras Systems's main competitors?
Named competitors: Nvidia (NVDA), AMD (AMD), Groq (private or unlisted), SambaNova Systems (private or unlisted), Intel (INTC), Qualcomm (QCOM). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Toast (TOST), PTC (PTC), SS&C Technologies (SSNC), Unity Software (U), Gen Digital (GEN), F5, Inc. (FFIV).
Is Cerebras Systems expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 19.0× against a peer median of 7.1×, 3rd most expensive of 21 in its peer set.
What is Cerebras Systems's backlog?
Cerebras Systems's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $25.4B at 30 Jun 2026.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.