--- title: "Where Will CoreWeave Stock Be in 5 Years?" description: "CoreWeave's IPO in 2025 was significant, marking the largest tech stock debut since 2021. The company's future depends on AI infrastructure demand, its ability to scale, and competition. Optimisticall" type: "news" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/260745425.md" published_at: "2025-10-11T14:27:14.000Z" --- # Where Will CoreWeave Stock Be in 5 Years? > CoreWeave's IPO in 2025 was significant, marking the largest tech stock debut since 2021. The company's future depends on AI infrastructure demand, its ability to scale, and competition. Optimistically, it could reach a market cap of $1.6 trillion by 2030 if AI demand surges. A moderate growth scenario suggests a $480 billion cap, while weak demand could halve its stock value. A conservative estimate sees CoreWeave valued at $200 billion by 2030, reflecting a potential 3x increase in five years. What's the most exciting initial public offering (IPO) of 2025? My vote would go to **CoreWeave** (CRWV -3.32%). Its IPO was the biggest for a tech stock since 2021. Sure, CoreWeave had to lower its planned IPO share price. However, that was due more to broader market headwinds than anything related to the company itself. At any rate, CoreWeave stock has nonetheless performed exceptionally well. It ranks among the biggest large-cap winners of the year. But that's all water under the bridge now. Where will CoreWeave stock be in five years? Image source: Getty Images. ## CoreWeave's future largely hinges on three key factors To make an educated guess about CoreWeave's prospects, we have to first understand its business. The company is one of a handful of artificial intelligence (AI) hyperscalers. Its sole focus is providing infrastructure designed to support the workloads of AI systems, especially generative AI applications. The most important factor affecting where CoreWeave stock will be in 2030 is almost certainly how strong the demand for AI infrastructure will be through the rest of the decade. As of right now, the prognosis looks great. Exhibit A is that CoreWeave's revenue more than tripled year over year in its latest quarter. Next on the list, in my view, is how well CoreWeave can keep up with the demand. CEO and co-founder Michael Intrator said in the company's Q2 update, "We are scaling rapidly as we look to meet the unprecedented demand for AI." Such a massive buildout is expensive. That's the main reason CoreWeave remains unprofitable. Electricity supply could also be a constraint. Consulting giant Deloitte estimates that power demand from U.S. AI data centers could skyrocket more than 30x by 2035 to 123 gigawatts. CoreWeave's future hinges on a third factor, too: competition. The hyperscaler's rivals include some of the biggest companies on the planet with exceptionally deep pockets. If AI infrastructure demand slows, the competitive threats could become more pronounced. ## Potential scenarios With those factors in mind, let's explore a few potential scenarios for CoreWeave. I'll start with the most optimistic one. ### An explosion in AI infrastructure demand fueled by AI advances The AI demand we've seen thus far could be only the tip of the iceberg. Agentic AI remains in its early stages of adoption. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) aren't the stuff of science fiction anymore. Major companies are investing heavily in developing these game-changing AI breakthroughs. In this scenario, CoreWeave's growth would be impressive. The company could probably generate revenue of over $200 billion in 2030. At the current average price-to-sales ratio of 8 for the internet services and infrastructure industry, that would translate to a market cap for CoreWeave of at least $1.6 trillion -- a gain of roughly 23x in five years. One wrinkle in this scenario, though, is that the biggest hyperscalers could view CoreWeave as an attractive acquisition target to boost their own capacity. The purchase price would depend on the timing of such a potential buyout: The earlier in the AI infrastructure explosion, the less expensive acquiring CoreWeave would be. ### Solid AI infrastructure demand growth In this scenario, AI infrastructure demand continues to grow at a robust (although not explosive) pace. We probably wouldn't see AGI or ASI emerge over the next five years. However, agentic AI could gain more widespread adoption. I think CoreWeave could realistically rake in revenue in the ballpark of $60 billion in this scenario. That number reflects an increase of around 12x from Wall Street's consensus revenue estimate for 2025. Using the average industry P/S multiple of 8, that would put CoreWeave's market cap at $480 billion or so. Its share price would need to grow nearly 7x to hit that mark. ### Weak AI infrastructure demand growth Now, let's suppose AI infrastructure demand tapers off dramatically. This scenario would likely be devastating for CoreWeave. Its stock already has significant growth baked into the share price with a P/S ratio of 19. If CoreWeave fell to the current industry average P/S multiple, its stock could plunge by at least 50%. However, I suspect that the average would itself decline quite a bit if AI infrastructure demand slowed to a crawl. A decline of 70% or more for CoreWeave's share price probably wouldn't be out of the question in this scenario. ## A prediction for CoreWeave in 2030 The easiest prediction for CoreWeave in 2030 is to go with something along the lines of the middle-of-the-road scenario mentioned above. Even if that scenario is still overly optimistic, I could easily see CoreWeave being worth at least $200 billion by the end of the decade. 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