CoreWeavevs.Microsoft
CRWV vs MSFT · both in Cloud platforms, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Rents out the compute, the 'power grid' of the AI era.
Microsoft is about 64× larger than CoreWeave by market cap; year to date, CoreWeave leads (+20.4% vs +0.8%).
Supply-chain link: CoreWeave supplies Microsoft.
Side by side
| CRWV | MSFT | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $57.6B | $3.7T |
| Price | $88.04 | $491.71 |
| Today | +2.1% | +0.9% |
| Return YTD | +20.4% | +0.8% |
| Return 1Y | −8.2% | −3.9% |
| P/E | — | 27.7 |
| P/S | 9.2 | 11.1 |
| P/B | 12.1 | 8.4 |
Data as of 2026-08-26 · updates daily after U.S. close
The two companies
CoreWeaveCRWV
Rents out GPU capacity and nothing else. CoreWeave listed in 2025 with Nvidia as both investor and supplier.
Full CRWV profile →MicrosoftMSFT
No software company is bigger, and few have as many places to put AI: Azure rents the infrastructure, Copilot sells the assistant inside Microsoft 365 and GitHub, Maia is a chip of Microsoft's own, and the OpenAI partnership sits underneath much of it.
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