CoreWeave shares fell more than 3% in premarket trading on Tuesday as concerns grew over the AI cloud provider's rising borrowing costs and heavy debt. Citi's Tyler Radke says bond markets show financing costs are rising, particularly for unsecured debt, but the bankruptcy risk is not as dire as some headlines suggest, since CoreWeave's customers are highly profitable, investment-grade firms such as Microsoft, Meta and Google. He believes scale will determine winners, as higher capital costs would hurt smaller neocloud players and benefit large operators such as CoreWeave and Oracle. In software, he sees a clear divide: Snowflake, Palantir and Microsoft are accelerating growth, while application companies like Adobe face pressure as IT budgets shift toward AI, and consolidation is rising, including Salesforce's acquisition of Braze.
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| Close on 10/19/2026 | 533.52 |
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