Nvidia’s CoreWeave position alone would be one of the most profitable US companies
It was a little curious when Nvidia took an anchor position in CoreWeave’s IPO. The move had a bit of an ouroboros feel to it — the dominant industry player supporting an upstart whose business model has been dependent on access to the chip designer’s powerful products.
And well, if Jensen Huang ever gets bored of running a $3 trillion company, there just might be a place for him in the hedge fund world.
Over the course of this quarter (which is only about two-thirds complete), the value of Nvidia’s CoreWeave position has increased by about $3.1 billion, assuming it hasn’t sold any.
That’s about $900 million in value at the end of Q1 (24,182,460 shares at a price of $37.08) turning into nearly $4 billion as of this afternoon.
For perspective, that gain is more in net income than 473 companies in the S&P 500 generated last quarter, ahead of Pfizer and right behind Disney on the leaderboard.
I guess forgoing $8 billion in H20 sales to China this quarter stings a little less now that nearly 40% of that has been offset (so to speak) by CoreWeave’s rally, in which the recently IPO’d company has been a retail darling thanks to its huge backlog and exposure to the AI boom.