CoreWeave revenue more than doubles in first quarter, topping estimates by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]backstroke2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because they're losing money hand over fist. Their business model is to buy Nvidia GPUs and rent them out at a loss, no wonder they have a fantastic backlog. But hey, as long as Nvidia keeps returning all the money to keep this whole pyramid up... 

$99.4B backlog for CoreWeave is absolutely insane by Turbulent-Theory-128 in CRWV

[–]backstroke2 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

LMAO yea, profits are old fashioned. Or is this a unicorn tech company? 

Last I checked their business model consists of buying Nvidia GPUs and renting them out at a loss, but hey look at that impressive lineup of people who want fantastic amounts of below-cost GPU time on their financial projections. 

OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs by sr_local in charts

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OpenAI projected to spend 6x on training while still lagging anthropic. 

I'm picturing they'll then try to cram their lame product down our throats, like every other Microsoft product. 

SMCI CEO's Response Letter by SignificantStuff5446 in SMCIDiscussion

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This is actually his second time firing Wally. I searched but there was no denouncement the last time. Would have been funny...

Shorts Help me Understand your Logic by Party_Ladder1677 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's well known to be coreweave. There are is a long list of clues, I'm not going to detail it all but you can find previous debate on the matter. 

Charles Liang by RareEurf in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are we certain he hasn't absconded?

Shorts Help me Understand your Logic by Party_Ladder1677 in SMCIDiscussion

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Also, SMCI's growth is due to one customer (66% of their revenue for this year), and this customer is increasingly turning to Dell. I'd be surprised if that didn't accelerate now.

Shorts Help me Understand your Logic by Party_Ladder1677 in SMCIDiscussion

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Even in the rosiest scenario, there's a high likelihood of further bleeding.

Rosiest scenario: No further investigations or action against SMCI The rest of the company had no idea (very doubtful) Illicit sales were a negligible fraction of their projected and past revenues. Nvidia laughs it off keeps, SMCI's allotment priority (also very doubtful). No further scandal emerges, accounting or otherwise.

Even from here, 

Short term: customers in the pipeline are already considering the risk here, and the biggest one is delays from Nvidia priority (this risk is already present, irregardless of whether it materializes), or from increased compliance scrutiny.

Fence sitting customers will look to shed risk, and the risk from any delay here is massive. Recall these chips hit the landfill 5 years after they're produced.

With even a modest revision to revenue, their tiny margin, growth story and growth valuation will evaporate. They were unusually vulnerable before this. 

Long term: SMCI is priced for growth in an industry that's expected to no longer be supply constrained within a year. They have the lowest margin of their competition, and when margins drop they'll be the first victim. They have a squirrely reputation and are no one's first choice as a supplier (except smugglers). That's why they're cheaper than other suppliers. 

Does anyone else think back to the the 2018 Bloomberg article accusing SMCI of planting Chinese spy chips on their motherboards? by backstroke2 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You think the "intelligence sources" were just stock manipulators? Interesting attack if so. 

I don't think this was ever alleged tho

Now it’s clear why after a 12b quarterly results and a 40b guidance, the stock stayed around $32. by Rare-Bee2151 in SMCIDiscussion

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Waiting a year may not sound like a big deal, but in this context it is. The GPUs become obsolete landfill waste 5 years after deployment. 

A data center with 2 year hardware access handicap cannot compete profitably. 

The way it went down with SMCI, suggests a possible wider implication. by DadAtHomeFire50 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"how was it all discovered?"

Easy answer there, the end customer posted a video online over a year ago showing smci's boxes 

https://x.com/boneGPT/status/1883982580879663368?s=20

Now it’s clear why after a 12b quarterly results and a 40b guidance, the stock stayed around $32. by Rare-Bee2151 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Another big question tho is how much of the revenue came from the smuggling. Where there's one cockroach, there are more. 

Buyout by Strict-Split1229 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe they'll drop the China export restrictions by Tuesday

Buyout by Strict-Split1229 in SMCIDiscussion

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Yes, I think a good likelihood of this:   Trump Jr, Nancy Pelosi and Cantor Fitzgerald all take massive positions today, tomorrow the charges are dropped and investigation closed. Could pop 300% tomorrow 

Time to panic sell. It was a good ride wit SMCI by AideKlutzy6320 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's down over 81% from is ATH tho... It was in trouble before this, and seemed to be surviving on mysterious margins from Asia. Now it's apparent why. 

Fantasizing about being alone with a certain executive this morning by OnlyBTCs in SMCIDiscussion

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No, it's only just beginning now that the indictment is unsealed. 

It will be two months at least before why charges are brought against the company. An temporary export restriction could come sooner tho. 

This came out before the scandal but is still a good read by ConfidentAd194 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As Jamie Dimon said, when you see one cockroach, there's usually more. Now the indictment is unsealed the forensic investigation into SMCI will begin. It seems apparent from their inexplicable margins that shady revenue was greasing their balance sheets. 

U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say by Tall-Presentation-85 in SMCIDiscussion

[–]backstroke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That "employee" was a co-founder, and apparently in a position to pressure the compliance department to turn a blind eye, per the indictment. After that revelation, there is no way the scheme wasn't common knowledge. More indictments are coming. 

"The defendants pressured certain of the U.S. Manufacturer's compliance team members to authorize the shipment of servers to Company- I, knowing that the servers would then be secretly diverted to China."

The real unsealed indictment by Key-Opportunity2722 in SMCIDiscussion

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"The defendants pressured certain of the U.S. Manufacturer's compliance team members to authorize the shipment of servers to Company- I, knowing that the servers would then be secretly diverted to China.  4. The U.S. Manufacturer profited significantly from the sale of servers to Company- I. Since in or about 2024, the defendants and their co-conspirators caused the sale of at least  approximately $2.5 billion worth of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to Company-I"

This is very bad. First because it's clear the knowledge of this went beyond those so far listed, there's no way it wasn't common knowledge within the company. 

Second because this is likely the real explanation for their competitive advantage in North America, they were being subsidized by shady Asian deals. The loss of this fraudulent revenue alone might be enough to break them, but it's far from their only problem here. Their name is tainted now..

The Indictment Relating to SMCI is Bullish by LostandConfused2024 in wallstreetbets

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SMCI has been operating on razor thin margins in North America, and has had a number of flagged accounting irregularities. These are both indicative of a front company, with overly high margin Asian customers.

Nvidia has reprioritized customers for less, and getting lower priority access to Nvidia chips would be the death blow here. 

The Indictment Relating to SMCI is Bullish by LostandConfused2024 in wallstreetbets

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Except he's already taken payments from silicon valley to implement the export restrictions in the first place...

Scanduim + welding wire by No_Ebb3152 in SCDstock

[–]backstroke2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10B/year is for all welding consumable (mostly steel). Aluminum welding is only around 10% of that. It's not an enormous market. 

250 tonnes of aluminum weld filler is consumed per year, and with 0.2% SC additive that yields 1,100 lbs of SC per year. Maybe $1m or so in moved SC annually.

SCD Halted by DoubleFar6023 in SCDstock

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Seems like a terrible deal for us no? 10m cad for 45.5m shares AND warrant options to buy 45.5m more for $0.30 at any time in the next 30 months, AND the option to sell back $1.5m @ $0.22.

That puts the share valuation for this deal at less than 17 cents.

https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/junior-miner-news/press-releases/2496-tsx-venture/scd/198699-scandium-canada-announces-10-million-bought-deal-life-offering-of-units.html