CoreWeave shares sink as weak outlook offsets big AI deals

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Alex Daniel

Tue, November 11, 2025 astatine 7:28 AM CST 2 min read

CoreWeave shares plunged connected Tuesday aft it posted lower-than-expected full-year guidance, overshadowing beardown third-quarter results and a drawstring of caller artificial quality partnerships.

The New Jersey-based AI infrastructure steadfast reported gross of $1.36 cardinal for the quarter, beating expert forecasts of astir $1.29 billion. Revenue surged 134% from a twelvemonth earlier, portion the company’s nett nonaccomplishment narrowed to $110 cardinal from astir $360 million.

CoreWeave’s quarterly maturation was driven by caller contracts with large tech firms. The institution announced a $6.5 cardinal enlargement of its concern with OpenAI, a six-year woody with Meta worthy up to $14.2 billion, and a $6.3 cardinal statement with Nvidia for cloud computing capacity.

Despite the gains, CoreWeave forecast 2025 gross betwixt $5.05 cardinal and $5.15 billion, abbreviated of analysts’ $5.29 cardinal mean estimate. Shares were down 9% successful premarket trading Tuesday.

Chief enforcement Mike Intrator told investors that operation delays astatine 1 information halfway were weighing connected its near-term outlook. “There was a occupation astatine 1 information halfway that’s impacting us, but determination are 41 information centers successful our portfolio,” helium said.

He said the institution remains constrained by the availability of “powered-shell” information centers, which are facilities that are partially built and necessitate CoreWeave to instal its ain equipment. “There’s plentifulness of powerfulness close now, and we judge that determination volition beryllium ample powerfulness for the adjacent mates of years. But truly wherever the situation is, is the powered shell,” Intrator said.

He added that the institution is gathering its ain information halfway infrastructure successful Pennsylvania and expects astir of the hold to beryllium resolved aboriginal adjacent year. “The overwhelming bulk of the hold that you’re seeing should beryllium taken attraction of wrong Q1 of adjacent year.”

In October, shareholders of information halfway relation Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave’s projected $9 cardinal acquisition. The company’s concern chief, Nitin Agrawal, said 2026 superior spending volition beryllium “well successful excess of double” this year’s estimated $12 cardinal to $14 billion.