CoreWeave gains 19%, Nebius surges 34% in post-earnings neocloud rally

Cnbc · Aug 12, 2026 · 618 words · By Sawdah Bhaimiya; Kai Nicol-Schwarz

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Artificial intelligence neocloud CoreWeave saw shares pop 19% on Wednesday after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers for AI compute capacity.

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What happened

Artificial intelligence neocloud CoreWeave saw shares pop 19% on Wednesday after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled, driven by surging demand from hyperscalers for AI compute capacity.

Why it matters

The company, which rents out high-powered computing capacity needed to run and build AI, reported after the bell Tuesday that its second-quarter revenue came in at $2.6 billion, up 112% from $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2025.

Common ground

It's guiding for third-quarter revenue of between $3.4 billion and $3.6 billion.

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Claim 1: “The stock has risen more than 150% in the past 12 months.”

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Claim 2: “CoreWeave was last seen up 19.9% in premarket trading.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chai AI (also known as Chai Research) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that operates a chatbot platform where users can create, share, and interact with character-based chatbots pow…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michael Intrator (born 1969) is an American business executive. The CEO, co-founder, and chairman of CoreWeave, he was previously a commodities trader at Natsource Asset Management and co-founder and …
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Claim 3: “That left CoreWeave with an operating loss of $49 million, compared with operating income of $19 million a year earlier.”

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Claim 4: “which doesn't include $25 billion in new customer commitments for the third quarter.”

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Two independent sources confirm that the $104 billion backlog excludes approximately $25 billion in new customer commitments.

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web search NEUTRAL — As of June 30, backlog stood at $104.2 billion, up a whopping 246% from a year earlier. The growth was supported by continued diversification across enterprise and AI-native customers. And that number…
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/wedbush-ana…

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web search NEUTRAL — Key Points. CoreWeave's revenue backlog reached about $104 billion at the end of June, up from $30.1 billion a year earlier. Second-quarter revenue rose 112% year over year to $2.6 billion, while the …
https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/12/coreweave-has-104-…

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web search NEUTRAL — That number excludes around $25 billion in new commitments secured during the current quarter. With respect to guidance, CoreWeave said it's looking for third-quarter revenue of between $3.4 billion a…
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/core-weave-beats-q2-earning…

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Claim 5: “Supermicro... saw its shares surge 19% on Wednesday after it reported more than $60 billion in new orders over the past year in its fourth-quarter earnings.”

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Claim 6: “Its revenue backlog for the quarter stands at $104 billion as of June 30”

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Multiple sources (CoreWeave Q2 Earnings Beat, Wedbush Analysts, and The Motley Fool) confirm the revenue backlog was approximately $104 billion as of June 30.

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Claim 7: “Revenue grew 514% to $575 million”

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Claim 8: “Meta said it would spend an additional $21 billion with CoreWeave during the quarter.”

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Claim 9: “Operating expenses for the quarter also more than doubled year-on-year”

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web search NEUTRAL — In May 2026, CoreWeave reported first-quarter revenue of $2.08 billion, exceeding analyst expectations of $1.97 billion and more than doubling year-over-year.
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web search NEUTRAL — CoreWeave incurred an operating loss in Q2. For the second quarter, which ended June 30, CoreWeave's revenue totaled $2.6 billion, which was more than double the $1.2 billion it recorded in the prior-…
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/coreweaves…

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web search NEUTRAL — CoreWeave is plowing ahead anyway. Management raised its full-year revenue forecast to $5.15–$5.35 billion — a modest bump but still a sign that clients are locking in more capacity — and expects thir…
https://qz.com/coreweave-q2-earnings-results-ai-demand-nvidi…

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Claim 10: “Amsterdam-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed Nebius ripped 34% higher on Wednesday”

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Claim 11: “Artificial intelligence neocloud CoreWeave saw shares pop 19% on Wednesday”

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Two different web sources report different percentages for the share pop on Wednesday: one reports 19% and another reports 17%.

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Claim 12: “its second-quarter revenue came in at $2.6 billion, up 112% from $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2025”

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Multiple independent sources (The Motley Fool and another news report) confirm Q2 revenue was approximately $2.6 billion (one specifies $2.58 billion) and represents 112% growth.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongsid…
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Claim 13: “For the full year, the company forecasts revenue of $12.4 billion to $13.2 billion and adjusted operating income of $960 million to $1.15 billion.”

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Claim 16: “the total value of contracts won quadrupled”

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Claim 17: “winning customers such as Bentley Systems, Grammarly, Isomorphic Labs, and Sunday Robotics.”

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Claim 18: “Operating expenses rose to $2.6 billion from $1.2 billion a year earlier.”

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Claim 19: “one of the cleaner quarters for CoreWeave since it went public last year.”

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Claim 20: “At Tuesday's close, it was up 26% since the start of the year.”

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Claim 21: “U.K.-based Nscale... raising billions of dollars in equity, debt and project financing in 2026.”

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Claim 22: “It's guiding for third-quarter revenue of between $3.4 billion and $3.6 billion.”

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The revenue guidance of $3.4 billion to $3.6 billion for the third quarter is confirmed by both a cross-reference (CNBC) and a web search result.

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web search NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
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web search NEUTRAL — From leading AI labs like OpenAI and Mistral AI to global giants like IBM, the world’s most ambitious AI innovators build on CoreWeave. Explore how they’re all pushing boundaries and bringing the futu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest CoreWeave, Inc. (CRWV) stock quote, history, news and other vital information to help you with your stock trading and investing.
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