CoreWeave Beats Across the Board in Q3: Revenue $3.66 Billion, Backlog Jumps to $132.5 Billion as Full-Year Guidance Rises

• Dispatched: Nov 10, 2026 · 16:38 ET (21:38 UTC)

One-sentence summary: CoreWeave's third-quarter 2026 revenue reached $3.66 billion, up about 167% year on year and above both company guidance and consensus, with a loss of $1.27 per share narrower than the expected $1.46; adjusted EBITDA of about $2.3 billion at a 62% margin also beat expectations, while the company raised full-year revenue guidance to $13.0–13.3 billion and its revenue backlog grew to about $132.5 billion.

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Core Facts & Consensus Delta:

The company reported third-quarter 2026 results on 2026-11-10 at 16:13 ET / 21:13 UTC, after the U.S. market close, with the earnings call scheduled for the same day at 17:00 ET / 22:00 UTC. Key figures against expectations:

• Revenue of $3.66 billion, versus $1.37 billion a year earlier, up about 167% year on year and about 42% sequentially from $2.575 billion in the second quarter. Company guidance was $3.45–3.60 billion and consensus was about $3.54–3.6 billion, so actual revenue topped both the top of guidance and consensus.
• Loss of $1.27 per share, narrower than the expected loss of $1.46; net loss of about $710 million, better than the roughly $850 million expected.
• Operating income of about $207 million, more than three times the roughly $64 million forecast; adjusted operating income of about $380 million, above the roughly $246 million expected.
• Adjusted EBITDA of about $2.3 billion, above the roughly $2.05 billion expected; adjusted EBITDA margin of 62%, above the roughly 58% expected, a beat of about 4 percentage points.
• Full-year 2026 revenue guidance raised to $13.0–13.3 billion (from $12.4–13.2 billion); year-end annualized run-rate revenue guidance raised to $20–21 billion (from $18.5–19.5 billion).
• Revenue backlog of about $132.5 billion, up about 27% from roughly $104.2 billion at the end of June; the company expects about $9 billion of customer prepayments over the next three months.
• The initial release did not disclose actual third-quarter interest expense or capital expenditure (third-quarter interest expense guidance was $860–940 million); details are pending the earnings call and the quarterly filing.
• Market reaction: shares closed at $48.73 and traded at $49.83 in after-hours trading at 16:35 ET / 21:35 UTC, up about 2.26% from the close.

Supply-Chain & Market Read-Through: The quarter was a key test of the neocloud financing model and the sustainability of its debt-funded buildout. A margin beat of about 4 percentage points shows revenue growing faster than delivery costs, with operating leverage improving — a direct answer to concerns over CoreWeave's debt load, which stood at about $35.1 billion at the end of June, after the stock fell about 41% over the past month.

Backlog growth from about $104.2 billion to about $132.5 billion in a single quarter locks in upstream demand: CoreWeave's rented compute runs on Nvidia graphics processors, so signed orders feed through to Nvidia chip shipments, demand for high-bandwidth memory and enterprise solid-state drives, and data-center power and liquid-cooling supply chains. About $9 billion in customer prepayments directly eases the financing pressure of delivering that backlog.

The result contrasts with the recent split in the compute-leasing market: Microsoft is winding down its rental of Oracle AI compute, and Oracle cancelled a roughly $7 billion chip-leasing agreement with Tencent, while leading neoclouds with contracted end demand keep growing their order books — a sign the market is distinguishing capacity expansion backed by end demand from subleasing and cross-border leasing.

Next Catalysts & Watchpoints:

• Earnings call: 2026-11-10 at 17:00 ET / 22:00 UTC — watch interest expense, capital expenditure and financing plans, plus customer and delivery details behind the new orders.
• Nebius earnings: before the open on 2026-11-12, a parallel test of neocloud financing and demand.
• Cisco and Applied Materials earnings: after the close on 2026-11-12, for enterprise networking and semiconductor equipment demand signals.
• CoreWeave quarterly filing (10-Q): updates on total debt, maturity structure and capital expenditure.

Sources:

• CoreWeave Raises 2026 Revenue Forecast as Backlog Reaches $132.5 Billion (Published: 2026-11-10 16:25 ET / 21:25 UTC)
• CoreWeave Q3 beats on seven key metrics, lifts full-year revenue and run-rate guidance (Published: 2026-11-10 16:13 ET / 21:13 UTC)
• CoreWeave Q3 2026 Earnings: Updates of $CRWV Earnings Call (Published: 2026-11-10 16:11 ET / 21:11 UTC)

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