Goldman Sachs raises CoreWeave to buy, sets $106 price target
The upgrade comes days after CoreWeave's credit default swaps hit a record and its bonds sank, as the stock closed out a 25% weekly decline
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Goldman Sachs raised CoreWeave to buy from neutral and set a price target of $106.
The call lands after a rough week for the stock. CoreWeave shares fell 12% on Friday, extending a weekly decline to 25% on concerns about the company's leverage, tied to roughly $40 billion in debt. Earlier in the week, shares had fallen 8.3% to $60.36, their lowest level since May 2025, before rebounding 2.1% after Nvidia's Jensen Huang defended CoreWeave's finances. Huang has ruled out any backstop for the company.
Credit markets have told a different story than Goldman's upgrade. CoreWeave's five-year credit default swaps surged to a record 1,194.5 basis points, and its 2031 bonds fell to 82.75 cents on the dollar, even as Huang tried to calm sentiment. A $106 price target from an equity desk sits well above where credit investors are pricing default risk.
The week's slide has also pushed shares further from the $97.85 conversion price set on CoreWeave's September convertible notes, leaving the capped call structure built around that offering with no real protection at current levels. Goldman's upgrade tests whether equity investors can look past the financing stress that has driven repeated short-lived rebounds in the stock rather than a durable recovery.