CoreWeave dropped 15.5% on Wednesday, CDS soared past 1000 basis points, and the market is pricing in a 63% five-year default probability, with the timeline all shouting that the AI infrastructure leverage has collapsed.
But contract revenue backlog is 129 billion, with Meta and OpenAI accounting for the majority. Bank of America has a buy target price of 140, while the bond market thinks it's close to death and analysts believe it can double, all looking at the same financial report...
Its model is to borrow money to stockpile GPUs, package them into computing power services, sign long-term contracts, and lease them out. The higher the leverage, the greater the certainty it can provide, but also the more fragile it becomes. Now that capital costs are soaring, it's essentially a stress test for this model. There's a detail many haven't noticed: Nvidia has a backstop agreement to take over any computing power it can't sell before 2032, which might be the most critical safety net in the whole story.
The panic narrative is too crude. If the contract backlog can be realized on schedule, interest coverage is just a matter of timing. The keyword is "if"—let's watch first.
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