Cathie Wood Is Doubling Down on This AI Stock During the Sell-Off
Ark Investʻs Cathie Wood has been loading up on shares of CoreWeave stock. The AI stock has been tanking in recent weeks.
Ark Investʻs Cathie Wood has been loading up on shares of CoreWeave stock. The AI stock has been tanking in recent weeks.
Meta plans to sell its excess AI compute as it expands its infrastructure. That move could generate near-term headwinds for neocloud companies.
CoreWeave's $3.1 billion HPC-backed financing attracted approximately $19 billion of demand, reinforcing institutional confidence in AI infrastructure financing. First-quarter operating cash flow reached $3.0 billion despite $6.8 billion of CapEx, supported by 71.7% gross margins and a $99.4 billion backlog. Meta Compute triggered a 14% selloff, but CoreWeave's $21 billion take-or-pay agreement protects contracted revenue through 2032.
CoreWeave is the leading neocloud operator, trading at a discounted 11.9x forward EV/EBITDA versus the sector median of 15x. CRWV's $99.4B backlog is 98% under five-year take-or-pay contracts with major hyperscalers, supporting robust forward revenue visibility. Backlog risk is real; however, thanks to heavy CapEx, CRWV provides quality and dominance for their clients. Realization of contracts is key.
The disposition involved 369,489 shares with a total transaction value of ~$30.8 million, based on weighted average prices. The sale reduced the insider's total equity holdings by 11%, including the liquidation of 100% of Class A shares previously held indirectly.
Meta (NASDAQ: META | META Price Prediction) and CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) just delivered Q1 2026 results that expose a brewing conflict.
Shares of Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META | META Price Prediction) are up 6% in Friday morning trading, changing hands at $670 after Thursday's close of $631.48.
The AI infrastructure trade has minted winners across the neocloud sector, but one name has been conspicuously left out.
CRWV is expanding AI cloud capacity with over 3.5 GW of contracted power as rising enterprise demand and record backlog support its 2027 growth plans.
LIVINGSTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), The Essential Cloud for AI™, today announced that Gartner named it a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Infrastructure. From training the largest foundation models to inference, the gap between infrastructure built for AI and infrastructure retrofitted for AI has become the defining constraint for the teams pushing the frontier. The demands of the industry expose every layer of the stack – training runs.
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) and Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) just gave investors two very different reads on the AI trade.
Meta Platforms is considering different plans to sell access to its cloud infrastructure. The news sent Meta's stock price higher, but shares of cloud computing company CoreWeave dropped 14%.
Ark Invest added to three existing positions that declined as much as 10% on Tuesday.
CoreWeave remains the leading neocloud with a $100 billion revenue backlog, yet trades at a depressed valuation due to debt and competitive fears. Meta Platform's AI cloud ambitions are misunderstood; META's long-term capacity needs likely reinforce, not threaten, CRWV's revenue pipeline. CRWV trades at only 2x 2028 EV/S target, with EBITDA forecasted at 70% of revenues and significant cash generation underway.
Shares of Cloudflare (NYSE:NET | NET Price Prediction) are up 9% in midday trading to about $269 after Scotiabank upgraded the stock and raised its price target.
Nebius is rated Buy, driven by its superior AI infrastructure platform and robust inference software solutions. NBIS boasts a diversified customer base, a healthy funding model, and a strong cash position, supporting aggressive capacity expansion with minimal net debt. NBIS differentiates itself with end-to-end AI offerings, including Token Factory and recent acquisitions, enabling cost-effective, scalable AI for a broad client base.
CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) has been one of the most punished AI infrastructure names of the summer, and I think that has created an opportunity.
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META | META Price Prediction) and CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) just closed the books on their Q1 2026 reports with sharply divergent financial profiles.
Insiders are selling three key names involved in very different parts of the artificial intelligence (AI) value chain. This includes one of the world's largest AI model developers, the newest AI chip developer to go public, and the market's largest neocloud.
CoreWeave generated $2.1 billion of quarterly revenue, up 112% year over year, while backlog expanded to a record $99.4 billion. Management secured over $20 billion of financing this year, with no material debt maturities before 2029 despite elevated leverage. Ten customers have committed at least $1 billion each, while the financial services backlog alone has approached $10 billion.