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ARK Buys CoreWeave After 11% Post‑Earnings Drop

The move signals a bet that CoreWeave’s AI data‑center demand outweighs its near‑term guidance risk.

Overview

  • ARK Invest purchased 113,076 CoreWeave shares on Friday for about $12.9 million following the stock’s 11% slide after earnings.
  • Days earlier, ARK sold 198,572 CoreWeave shares for roughly $25 million, showing an opportunistic swing around the results-driven move.
  • CoreWeave beat first‑quarter revenue expectations at $2.08 billion but guided second‑quarter sales to $2.45 billion to $2.6 billion, which trailed Wall Street forecasts and widened worries about near‑term execution.
  • The company kept its 2026 revenue outlook of $12 billion to $13 billion, reported a backlog near $100 billion after about $40 billion in new commitments, and said it has surpassed 3.5 gigawatts of contracted power as it scales GPU cloud capacity.
  • Bank of America reaffirmed a buy rating with a $140 target, saying the softer guidance reflects data‑center timing rather than demand, while ARK also trimmed AMD and Rocket Lab and has faced about $1.32 billion in 12‑month outflows from its flagship ETF.