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Bank of America downgrades CoreWeave after earnings on “near term overhang”

Bank of America analyst Brad Sills cut his price target on shares of CoreWeave to $168 from $185 after the supplier of surge capacity for AI compute reported second-quarter results after the close on Tuesday.

CoreWeave stock is down 14% in Wednesday morning trading.

Sills cited two near-term challenges for the company that prompted him to lower his expected multiple:

1) Not only has CoreWeave’s deal to acquire Core Scientific faced some pushback from the latter’s major shareholders, but he suspects there may be concerns about whether regulators will approve of this vertical integration.

2) CoreWeave’s post-IPO lockup period expires this week.

“We learned little about the status of the Core Scientific deal, and speculation on regulatory scrutiny is likely to remain an overhang,” he wrote. “Finally, the lockup expires on Friday, which is likely to place pressure on the shares.”

Sills maintained a “neutral” rating on the shares.

During the earnings call, CoreWeave management unveiled Q3 adjusted operating income guidance of between $160 million and $190 million, the midpoint of which was below analysts’ consensus estimate. Q3 sales guidance for $1.26 billion to $1.3 billion was marginally ahead of what the sell side had penciled in.

Others on the Street, however, raised their price target in the wake of this report, but to levels well below Bank of America’s forecast. Deutsche Bank hiked its price target to $125 from $50, while Melius Research upped its price target to $128 from $110.

Sills still has the third-highest price target among analysts surveyed by Bloomberg following this cut, and remains fairly optimistic on the firm’s prospects.

“While the magnitudes of the Q2 topline beat and Q3 raise were slightly below the Q1 print, results were solid, validating that Coreweave remains well positioned as a leading AI infrastructure vendor,” he wrote. “We believe Coreweave remains well positioned to benefit from a ramping AI infrastructure industry.”

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Matt Phillips

Intel jumps on report of customer talks with AMD for foundry division

Intel shares popped in afternoon trading Wednesday after Semafor reported that it’s in preliminary talks for AMD to come aboard as a customer for Intel’s troubled contract chip manufacturing division, known as a foundry.

Shares were recently up 5.7%.

Semafor stressed that sources said, “It’s unclear how much of their manufacturing would shift to Intel if the two companies reach a deal, or whether it would come with a direct investment by AMD, similar to the deals cut by other companies. It is possible that no agreement will be reached, the people said.”

The addition of AMD — which competes with Intel in the CPU space — as a customer would be another big win for the US chipmaker following its partnership with Nvidia announced in mid-September.

TSMC, the primary manufacturer of AMD chips, was only briefly rattled by the news, and remains well in the green on the day.

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Semafor stressed that sources said, “It’s unclear how much of their manufacturing would shift to Intel if the two companies reach a deal, or whether it would come with a direct investment by AMD, similar to the deals cut by other companies. It is possible that no agreement will be reached, the people said.”

The addition of AMD — which competes with Intel in the CPU space — as a customer would be another big win for the US chipmaker following its partnership with Nvidia announced in mid-September.

TSMC, the primary manufacturer of AMD chips, was only briefly rattled by the news, and remains well in the green on the day.

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Jon Keegan

ChargePoint jumps as EV sales soar

Riding along with some other EV stocks, shares of ChargePoint jumped 4.1% in recent trading. The last rush to take advantage of Biden-era federal EV incentives has put a bunch of new electric vehicles on the road, sending ChargePoint up along with Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid.

Ford said earlier Wednesday that its EV sales hit a quarterly record, and it and other EV makers have been exploring unorthodox ways to replicate the EV tax credits for consumers through year-end.

Still, ChargePoint is down over 47% for the year and narrowly escaped NYSE delisting with a 20-for-1 reverse stock split back in July. And it’s not hard to see why: the company has never had a profitable quarter.

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Trump admin reportedly backs off on pharma tariffs

The Trump administration will not be imposing tariffs on pharmaceutical companies by the deadline it had initially given them, a White House official told STAT.

Last week, President Trump announced on Truth Social that starting on October 1, there would be a 100% tariff on patented, branded pharmaceuticals “unless a Company IS BUILDING their Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in America.” As of October 1, those tariffs have not gone into effect and it’s unclear when they will, according to STAT.

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Matt Phillips

GE Vernova declines after analyst downgrade of top AI energy trade

Power turbine maker GE Vernova is down midday after RBC analysts cut their rating on the stock from “outperform” (essentially a “buy”) to “sector perform” (essentially a “hold”), suggesting that long-term earnings expectations for the company might have gotten too optimistic.

RBC’s Christopher Dendrinos wrote:

“Our longer-term expectations are more conservative than consensus expectations which we think could be over appreciating the cadence of revenue growth in the power segment in 2029-2030. We believe investors are already fully valuing the company on the longer-term 2030 outlook and there could be more limited opportunity for positive rate of change in current expectations.”

Dendrinos argues that the Street’s expectations for when the river of payments will materialize from the service contracts GE sells to maintain the newly installed turbines is too soon. He wrote that it will take a much longer cycle:

“Mgmt sees an opportunity to double the installed base of baseload power over the next 10 years which should support significant rev growth and stronger margins (we estimate gas service margins over 30%).

However, the first major service cycle typically occurs ~3-4 years after installation so the benefit of service price increases and new LTSAs are unlikely to begin to benefit the income statement until later in the decade and will be a gradual increase.”

Earlier in the year, GE Vernova was a top performer as the AI data center trade boomed. It was up roughly 100% for the year in late July, making it the third-best gainer in the S&P 500 for the year.

It has stalled since then, though it remains up more than 80% in 2025.

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