CoreWeave 2025 Q4 — The cash challenge after passing $5B in annual revenue

01 Revenue and business structure

Active power exceeded 850 MW and contracted power reached about 3.1 GW. Infrastructure supporting sales expanded, but annual revenue of $5.131B and quarterly revenue of $1.572B represent different periods.

02 Operating cash flow and capital investment

Quarterly OCF of $1.559B less cash CapEx of $4.060B produces analytical FCF of $-2.501B. This is not total equipment additions or the company’s accrual-based CapEx.

Customer prepayments can precede revenue recognition, while rising receivables can delay cash receipts. Positive OCF alone does not establish that capacity investment is self-funded.

03 Liquidity and financing costs

Quarter-end cash and cash equivalents were $3.127B and total liabilities $45.967B. Liabilities include deferred revenue, leases and payables and are not all interest-bearing borrowings. Quarterly net interest expense was $0.388B.

04 Backlog and conversion to revenue

Company revenue backlog was $66.8B versus SEC RPO of $60.7B. Backlog additionally includes estimates of future revenue under committed contracts. Do not add the measures or splice them into one growth series.

Revenue recognition depends on delivery and service-availability requirements. Backlog signals demand; conversion of contracted power to active capacity and customer revenue schedules signal execution.

05 Management commentary and outlook

The CFO highlighted $66.8B of backlog as visibility for growth. Quarterly adjusted operating profit of $0.088B differs from the $0.089B GAAP operating loss because of stock compensation, acquisition-related costs and other adjustments. Adjusted profitability is not cash profitability for shareholders.

This summarizes management’s explanation at the release date. Later contracts or capacity outcomes are not retroactively presented as earlier guidance, and unreviewed conference-call remarks are not quoted.

06 Investment assessment and next checks

Demand expansion is evident, but the ability to fund investment and financing costs conditions the investment case. Track active-power monetization, receivable collection, borrowing rates and maturities in subsequent quarters. This report does not estimate a price target or buying probability.

Quarterly results · CY-aligned view

CY denotes the calendar quarter with the greatest overlap with the fiscal period. If the first period has no start date, 89 days before its end is used only for calendar mapping. Financial values are not recalculated into calendar quarters. Incomplete years show totals of included quarters; cash, liabilities, borrowings and net cash use the last period-end balance. QoQ and YoY show absolute changes; margin changes are percentage points. Dashes indicate missing evidence or incomparable periods or definitions. Total liabilities never substitute for borrowings.

Definitions and evidence coverage

A dash means unavailable or undisclosed, not zero. Company-defined FCF may differ from total operating cash flow less common-basis CapEx. Total liabilities are accounting liabilities, not interest-bearing debt.

Uses the release-date materials and later SEC comparative disclosures. Small differences can result from changes in rounding precision.