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CoreWeave, Inc.CRWVCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Information Technology›Packaged Software

Specialized 'neocloud' that rents large fleets of Nvidia GPUs to AI labs and enterprises for training and inference.

≈ A pure-play, GPU-only AWSMomentum laggard 3
Mkt cap
$25.6B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
76%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$4.05B
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-10.6 pp
WACC 10.2%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Official | Implied
B / B
agencies · bond market
Next earnings
4 days
10 Nov 2026
Close · USD$46.40
1D+6.3%
1W-15.4%
1M-43.1%
3M-47.4%
6M-59.4%
YTD-35.2%
1Y-59.5%
ATR %12.5%
Beta3.35
52w lowhigh66.4% off high

What CoreWeave does

Specialized 'neocloud' that rents large fleets of Nvidia GPUs to AI labs and enterprises for training and inference.

Customers commit to multi-year capacity contracts, paying for reserved GPU clusters, and the company borrows against those contracts to buy chips and build data centres, so revenue grows as capacity comes online. It began as an Ethereum mining operation before turning to AI computing, and bought Weights & Biases, an AI-development software firm, in 2025.

In one line: A pure-play, GPU-only AWS.

Products and services

  • GPU cloud compute (training & inference)
  • AI cloud software/orchestration

Customers

  • OpenAI
  • Microsoft
  • Meta
  • AI startups and enterprises

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • AI infrastructure
  • GPU cloud computing
  • Nvidia GPU clusters rented as AI…

What could go right

  • AI training/inference compute demand
  • Large multi-year hyperscaler/AI-lab contracts

What could go wrong

  • Heavy debt-funded capex
  • Customer concentration among a few large AI labs

Moat: narrow (scale, first-mover). Priority Nvidia GPU allocation and fast deployment give it an edge, but hyperscalers and rivals are catching up.

Headquarters: Livingston, New Jersey, US · Founded: 2017 · Employees: 2,189

Named competitors

CoreWeave at a glance

Size CoreWeave (CRWV) is a United States Information Technology company (Packaged Software) with a market value of $25.6B, the 417th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $46.40 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 59.4%, against +8.9% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — lowest of 19 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 115.3% over the last twelve months (peer median +23.8%); the operating margin is -3.0% (peer median 7.6%).

Valuation It trades at 9.3× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 8.0× (8th most expensive of 21).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 10.6 points below its cost of capital (10.2% WACC).

Backlog Backlog (remaining performance obligations) was $104B at 30 Jun 2026, up 245% on a year earlier — 13.7 years of trailing revenue. Backlog detail →

Credit CoreWeave has 6 bonds outstanding ($14.8B), rated B by the agencies and trading like B at a weighted spread of 1,216 bp.

Short interest Short interest is 15.2% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 10 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

5010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 114CRWV 40
Six months, rebased to 100: CoreWeave against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

CoreWeave financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$7.59B$5.13B$1.92B$229M$15.8M
Revenue growth—+168%+737%+1,346%—
Gross profit$1.85B$1.22B$559M$57.0M$3.71M
EBITDA$3.76B$2.44B$1.19B$88.8M-$11.2M
Net income-$1.93B-$1.17B-$863M-$594M-$31.1M
Free cash flow-$13.7B-$7.25B-$5.95B-$1.11B-$71.5M
Capital expenditure$20.6B$10.3B$8.70B$2.94B$72.4M
Total debt$51.6B$29.8B$10.6B$2.00Bn/a

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

CoreWeave 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.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%-25%0%+25%MDBZM2513IOTAMS300033UOKTAPTCTWLOZSTOSTNBISSSNCGENFFIVCRCLTEAMCRWV6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. CoreWeave is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+50%+100%10×20×MDBZM2513IOTAMSBSP300033UOKTAPTCTWLOZSTOSTCBRSNBISCRWVRevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. CoreWeave is the large dot.

CoreWeave competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (CRWV vs NBIS vs AMZN vs MSFT)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
CoreWeave CRWV$25.6B-59%+115%-3%9.3×n/a
NBIS NBIS$35.2B-8%+461%-49%27.5×n/a
Amazon AMZN$2.80T-5%+15%13%3.7×n/a
Microsoft MSFT$3.94T+28%+18%47%11.6×17.2%
Oracle ORCL$351B-41%+22%34%6.8×n/a

How CoreWeave 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.

CoreWeave against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureCRWVPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-43.1%-4.4%2nd lowest of 21
6-month return-59.4%+8.9%lowest of 19
Distance from 52-week high-66.4%-31.3%3rd lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+115.3%+23.8%3rd highest of 21
Operating margin-3.0%7.6%6th lowest of 21
EV / Sales9.3×8.0×8th most expensive of 21
ROIC minus cost of capital-10.6 pp-4.5 pp7th lowest of 19
EV / EBITDA18.8×24.3×7th cheapest of 13
Net debt / EBITDA12.0×-1.3×2nd most indebted of 18
Bond spread1,216 bp103 bpwidest of 6

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
CoreWeave CRWVUnited States$25.6B-59%+115%-3%9.3×n/an/a
MongoDB MDBUnited States$25.2B+4%+25%-1%8.2×27.9%+33.1%
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
Samsara IOTUnited States$24.0B+38%+30%1%12.6×n/an/a
Amadeus IT AMS.MCSpain$27.4B+18%+4%27%4.1×4.3%+24.6%
Bending Spoons BSPUnited States$27.9Bn/a+95%21%24.5×45.5%+94.7%
Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network 300033.SZChina$22.9B-14%+48%56%18.4×37.1%+16.3%
Unity Software UUnited States$22.7B+83%+14%-14%11.3×33.5%+19.1%
Okta OKTAUnited States$29.5B+101%+11%8%8.9×39.2%+28.4%
PTC PTCUnited States$21.2B+33%+20%40%7.7×10.3%+8.6%
Twilio TWLOUnited States$31.3B0%+19%8%5.0×38.2%+23.5%
Zscaler ZSUnited States$32.2B+30%+25%-4%9.1×20.7%+37.9%
Toast TOSTUnited States$20.1B+38%+22%7%2.5×28.6%+49.5%
Cerebras Systems CBRSUnited States$20.1Bn/a+91%-81%19.0×n/an/a
NBIS NBISUnited States$35.2B-8%+461%-49%27.5×n/an/a
SS&C Technologies SSNCUnited States$18.2B+13%+9%24%3.8×6.9%+6.1%
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%
Circle Internet CRCLUnited States$17.3B-40%+26%13%5.2×23.2%+52.7%
Atlassian TEAMUnited States$38.7B+5%+26%4%5.9×44.7%+25.8%

CoreWeave bonds and credit

CoreWeave has 6 bonds outstanding with $14.8B face value. The agencies rate it B; its bonds trade like B. Weighted yield 16.33%, a spread of 1,216 bp over government bonds.

Every bond, yield and spread in the cockpit →

CoreWeave backlog

CoreWeave reported $104B of remaining performance obligations at 30 Jun 2026, up 245% from a year earlier and up 5% from the previous quarter. That is 13.7 years of trailing revenue already under contract. Book-to-bill last quarter: 2.90.

Questions

Who are CoreWeave's main competitors?
Named competitors: Nebius (NBIS), Lambda Labs (private or unlisted), Amazon (AWS) (AMZN), Microsoft Azure (MSFT), Oracle Cloud (ORCL). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes MongoDB (MDB), Zoom Communications (ZM), Z.AI Co., Ltd. -H- Reg S (2513.HK), Samsara (IOT), Amadeus IT (AMS.MC), Bending Spoons (BSP).
Is CoreWeave expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 9.3× against a peer median of 8.0×, 8th most expensive of 21 in its peer set.
How has CoreWeave stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -59.4% against +8.9% for the median peer; over one year -59.5%.
What is CoreWeave's backlog?
CoreWeave's remaining performance obligations (contracted revenue not yet recognised) were $104B at 30 Jun 2026, +245% on a year earlier.

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.