{"id":966916,"date":"2026-11-11T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/966916\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:06:24","slug":"coreweave-stock-soars-as-ceo-reaffirms-ai-compute-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/966916\/","title":{"rendered":"CoreWeave stock soars as CEO reaffirms AI compute demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/108549002-17944083411794408337-49573445833-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator: The demand for computing infrastructure remains overwhelming\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/CRWV\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CoreWeave<\/a> shares jumped 26% Wednesday after the neocloud posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/11\/10\/coreweave-crwv-q3-earnings-report-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quarterly earnings<\/a> that beat estimates and raised its guidance for the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demand for the infrastructure is and remains overwhelming.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/11\/11\/coreweave-ceo-election-data-center-buildout.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO Michael Intrator<\/a> told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk on the Street&#8221; Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I said that we are 10x oversubscribed to the existing capacity that we have left in 2027, and we are multiples &#8230; oversubscribed on the capacity we have out in 2028,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Neoclouds such as CoreWeave, <a href=\"http:\/\/10007449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nebius<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/106994216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IREN<\/a> have come under scrutiny this month as investors assessed the sustainability of the AI trade. CoreWeave, in particular, sparked alarm when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/15\/coreweave-credit-default-swaps-hit-distress-levels-as-investors-sour-on-ai-debt.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spreads on its CDS widened past 11%<\/a>, generally viewed as a distress level, as investors have to pay up for protection against default. <br \/>With the price of its high-yield debt climbing, CoreWeave highlighted additional routes to finance its data center build-out with less alarming yields, quelling investor concerns for the time being. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our asset level debt has basically been rock solid through this entire thing,&#8221; Intrator told CNBC. &#8220;There is an enormous demand for that product. We&#8217;re about to launch another asset-level debt in the next week or two that has already been rated high investment grade.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Intrator added that he expects it &#8220;will be underwritten in the market at 7% to 7.5% interest,&#8221; which will bring down the average weighted cost of capital for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CoreWeave shares this year.<\/p>\n<p>The three months to Sept. 30 marked a &#8220;breakout quarter&#8221; for CoreWeave, Intrator said on the conference call, adding that growth was supported by multiple sources of funding, including financing backed by customer contracts and around $9 billion in customer prepayments and deposits.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue jumped 168% to $3.7 billion in the third quarter, the company said in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.coreweave.com\/news\/news-details\/2026\/CoreWeave-Reports-Strong-Third-Quarter-2026-Results\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Other neclouds also rose on CoreWeave&#8217;s strong results, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NBIS\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nebius<\/a> up 19%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/APLD\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Digital<\/a> up 9% and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/IREN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iren<\/a> up 8% in midday trading. <\/p>\n<p>Despite fears that a &#8220;blue wave&#8221; in last week&#8217;s midterm elections could restrict data center capacity, Intrator reiterated that data center growth looks poised to continue as expected for CoreWeave. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t see any impact on our ability to deliver the data centers within the U.S. that are required for us to deliver on our backlog,&#8221; Intrator told CNBC on Wednesday. &#8220;In Texas, Governor-elect [Gina Hinojosa], said that facilities that are permitted and under construction will continue, and we&#8217;ve been really, really thoughtful about the broad distribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CoreWeave expects $1.275 billion to $1.375 billion in adjusted operating income on $13 billion to $13.3 billion in revenue. Analysts surveyed by Visible Alpha were looking for $1.07 billion in adjusted operating income, and analysts polled by LSEG had expected $12.86 billion in 2026 revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The neocloud has done well to allay concerns about financing by moving away from unsecured bond financing, Zacks Chief Equity Strategist John Blank told CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It might be the bottom for CoreWeave,&#8221; Blank said Wednesday. &#8220;But the shares are so beaten up, you have to believe at this point there&#8217;s more value on the upside than the down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CoreWeave shares jumped 26% Wednesday after the neocloud posted quarterly earnings that beat estimates and raised its guidance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":966917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,99825,276,277,1386,2158,161,49,48,41559,16326,190910,101632,100,107341,71795,61],"class_list":["post-966916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-applied-blockchain-inc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-markets","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coreweave","tag-earnings","tag-intl-premarket-movers","tag-iren-ltd","tag-markets","tag-michael-intrator","tag-nebius-group-nv","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}