CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock (CRWV) — Quality & forensics

As of 2026-09-16 — refreshed nightly. Closelook readings from an investment research diary, not ratings or advice.

The Closelook module scores

34 /100 composite · 7 modules · software-infra weight set

Valuation 16
Quality 19
Growth 75
Balance sheet 8
Cash quality 35
Capital allocation 10
Momentum 19

Scores are computed nightly across the coverage universe and read relative to it — the methodology lives in the company-scoring explainer.

Financial forensics — the academic screens

0.45 Altman Z-Score

Sits in the distress zone (below 1.81). The Z-Score estimates financial-distress risk from five balance-sheet and earnings ratios.

5/9 Piotroski F-Score

Nine binary fundamental-strength checks across profitability, leverage and operating efficiency.

0.07 Beneish M-Score

Screens reported earnings for statistical manipulation patterns — above the −1.78 threshold the literature flags for earnings-manipulation risk. A screen, not an accusation.

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FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-16

Quick answers

What is CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock's Closelook quality reading?

The composite reads 34/100 across 7 modules, as of 2026-09-16: valuation 16, quality 19, growth 75, balance sheet 8, cash quality 35, capital allocation 10, momentum 19. Closelook scores are research diary readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock's Altman Z-Score?

0.45, which sits in the distress zone (below 1.81) as of 2026-09-16. The Altman Z-Score estimates financial distress risk from five balance-sheet and earnings ratios.

What is CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock's Piotroski F-Score?

5 of 9, as of 2026-09-16. The F-Score counts nine binary fundamental-strength signals across profitability, leverage and operating efficiency.

What does CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock's Beneish M-Score indicate?

0.07 — above the −1.78 threshold the literature flags for earnings-manipulation risk, as of 2026-09-16. The M-Score screens reported earnings for statistical manipulation patterns; it is a screen, not an accusation.

Mentioned on Closelook

Where CRWV appears in the diary — 19 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

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Long reads

Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration LayerDossier · $39 · 24 Feb 2026Together AI · Fireworks · Anyscale (Ray Serve) · Replicate · Modal · CoreWeave · Nebius (NBIS) Data Platforms & Vector Storage Layer 2 — The Memory Layer This is the persistence bottleneck — the single most critical infrastructure gap for…
Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelook Heresy IIIHeresy · 16 May 2026Live cohort as of May 2026: COHR · CRWV · GLW · INTC · IREN · LITE · MRVL · NBIS · NOK · SNPS.
Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority InvestmentReport · 12 May 2026The 16-Event Timeline (2023-07-12 → 2026-05-12) 2024 2025 2026 RXRX 23-07 ARM 23-09 APLD 24-09 NBIS 24-12 MRVL 25-03 CRWV 25-03 INTC 25-09 NOK 25-10 SNPS 25-12 LITE COHR 26-03 IREN 26-05 GLW 26-05 exit RXRX exit APLD exit ARM Tier 1 …
Nvidia’s Equity Stakes — Follow the Wise Men, Pattern 03 PreviewWeekly Signal · 10 May 2026CoreWeave printed a −11% drop on Friday after softer Q1 revenue guidance and now sits at $114.15 — up roughly 31% from NVIDIA's $87.20 entry, but well off its $187 summer 2025 peak.

101 and glossary

Alt-Hyperscalers: Why CoreWeave, Nebius, and Lambda Labs Matter101A new class of cloud providers — CoreWeave, Nebius (ex-Yandex), Lambda Labs, Together AI, and others — is challenging the AWS/Azure/GCP oligopoly by offering what the hyperscalers cannot or will not: bare-metal GPU access without…

Dailies

AI trade — the pacing call splits tech: chips −5%, software +4.5%, security +12–15%, 10-year hits 5%Midday 10 · 14 Sept 2026The components priced on a race are being sold: Astera Labs −9.9%, Arm −8.9%, SK Hynix’s US line −7.3%, Lam Research −7.2%, Marvell −6.3%, SanDisk −6.3%, Micron −5.6%, Super Micro −5.5%, CoreWeave −5.2%, Intel −5.0%, AMD −4.8% to $491…
Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7%Morning 10 · 11 Sept 2026Agentic Ecosystem −0.6%: Zhipu AI −10.3% in Hong Kong on Thursday, CoreWeave −6.1%, Nebius −5.1%; MongoDB +4.3%, OVHcloud +4.3%, Security +0.4% and Operations +0.7% the two groups up.
Stocks snap a four-day losing streak as oil slips under $100 and chips bounce 2% — despite core inflation hotter than hoped and Fed hike odds at 82%; Oracle gives back its entire after-hours jumpMidday 10 · 11 Sept 2026The large names and the average stock both participate: Apple +2.4% at $334 a day before iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders, Meta +1.3%, Broadcom +1.3%, CoreWeave +1.9%, equal-weight S&P +0.8% — Cloudflare −1.2% the software exception
Brent closes above $100 for the first time since July and the 10-year hits 4.86%: Wall Street falls a third day while Cloudflare +10%, Datadog +7% and Meta +7% catch the money the chip leaders gave backMorning 10 · 10 Sept 2026The software ETF itself still fell 0.8%: Shopify −5.5%, ServiceNow −2.3%, Salesforce −2.0%, CoreWeave −4.9%, IonQ −5.8%.
Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000Morning 10 · 9 Sept 2026The one exception inside agentic software was the compute layer: CoreWeave +11.7%, Nebius +7.7%, IREN +5.0%, DigitalOcean +12.6%, lifting our Compute Operators sub-index 3.3% and 11.0% on the week.
The Treasury buys duration with bills, hard assets read it first — Bitcoin toward 70,000, gold through 4,400, as the minutes turn hawkish and Korea answers its crash with a buybackMorning 10 · 20 Aug 2026SOXX −2.21%, XSD −2.79%, SMH −1.55% Wednesday even as the DRAM ETF held flat +0.07% to 55.14; singles AMAT −3.53% (496.17), LITE −5.23%, COHR −6.19%, FN −5.81% (454.55), NBIS −9.87%, CRWV −2.47%.
Quiet index, violent sorting — memory rips, Cisco pays for its beat, and the bonds reclaim the floorMidday 10 · 13 Aug 2026CoreWeave & Nebius — day-two retention passes
The Build-Out's Bellwether Pair — CoreWeave Paid Overnight, Nebius Prints Into the CPI HourDaily Pulse · 12 Aug 2026CoreWeave and Nebius borrow, buy accelerators, and sell the capacity forward under contract; their income statements are a bet that AI compute demand outruns the cost of the money funding it.