If you’re a growth stock investor, the recent market pullback has to have you wondering when it’s time to pounce on the discounts. Shares of CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV), Oklo (NYSE: OKLO), and DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH), for example, are trading 63%, 76%, and 49% below their 52-week highs.
Did you notice? Cathie Wood noticed. The co-founder and CEO of Ark Invest added to all three existing positions across her ETFs. With CoreWeave and Oklo moving 8% to 10% lower, she probably got in at a good price. Let’s take a closer look at these latest moves.
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CoreWeave stock has been publicly traded for only 12 months, but it’s been everywhere. It hit the market at $40 53 weeks ago and quickly traded as high as $187, only to give back the lion’s share of those gains.
There’s no denying that the hyperscaler is living up to the hype as it scales. Revenue more than doubled in each of the past year’s quarters. Analysts see revenue doubling again this year, modeling 143% in top-line growth. A 63% pullback seems extreme if not unfair, but CoreWeave probably shouldn’t have more than quadrupled out of the gate.
CoreWeave is in the right place at the right time. Demand for AI is booming, and CoreWeave offers the high-performance, low-latency GPU computing infrastructure to make AI models breeze through the process.
The company didn’t initially start this way. CoreWeave began as a side gig for hedge fund traders, collecting GPUs to mine crypto. After a crash in digital currencies sent most of its peers packing, CoreWeave decided to take advantage of fire-sale pricing on hardware and pivot to a new specialty. The AI revolution came at the perfect time to make CoreWeave’s gamble pay off.
That doesn’t mean CoreWeave is conventionally cheap. It’s still at least a couple of years away from profitability. It has a debt-heavy balance sheet, because building up its empire hasn’t come cheap. CoreWeave trades at an enterprise value that is 13 times its trailing revenue. The ceiling remains high here, but the floor can can be a trap door if the AI boom goes bust.
Oklo and CoreWeave have entirely different businesses, but they have a similar growth trajectory over the past year. Last summer, as CoreWeave more than doubled from its springtime IPO, Oklo had more than quadrupled over the past year. Oklo is an energy company, but its fast fission tech and nuclear recycling strengths made it a winner in the AI boom.
