Analysis describes CoreWeave as having 'a sentiment problem' while its landlord Applied Digital has $11 billion riding on the outcome. Wait, that was the source text repeated. Here is the translation: 분석에 따르면 CoreWeave는 'a sentiment problem'을 안고 있는 반면, 임대인인 Applied Digital은 그 결과에 110억 달러를 걸고 있는 상황이다.

CoreWeave reports third-quarter results after the bell today, with its unsecured debt yielding about 16%.

CoreWeave's 400 MW lease at Polaris Forge 1 is worth about $11.0 billion to Applied Digital, or 30.4% of its $36.2 billion of contracted revenue. The lease is take-or-pay, and most of Applied Digital's other contracted rent comes from investment-grade hyperscalers, so the tenant risk looks smaller than the stock's slide suggests. The bigger test is Applied Digital's own financing, which cost 2.6 times its base rent last quarter while the company still has about 800 MW left to fund.

CoreWeave (CRWV) reports third-quarter results after the bell today. Bloomberg says it has "a sentiment problem even strong earnings can't fix."

Most of that problem is CoreWeave's debt. As MoffettNathanson managing director Nick Del Deo put it on CNBC's *Closing Bell Overtime* yesterday:

"Their unsecured parent company debt is yielding approximately 16%. It's pretty uncommon to see a company with debt yielding at that level in the market, but also have a 30 billion or so market cap. One of those two things is wrong."

If the bond market turns out to be right, CoreWeave's shareholders won't be the only ones who feel it. Applied Digital (APLD) leases all 400 MW of its Polaris Forge 1 campus in North Dakota to CoreWeave, and its stock hit a 52-week low last week.

**A third of the rent comes from CoreWeave**

The Polaris Forge 1 lease runs 15 years on take-or-pay terms and is worth about $11.0 billion over its base term. That is 30.4% of Applied Digital's $36.2 billion of contracted revenue as of May 31. Only a tier-one hyperscaler, at 55.8%, accounts for more. CoreWeave also pays the most per megawatt: about $1.83 million a year, roughly 10% more than the $1.65 million to $1.67 million that the hyperscalers pay. That makes sense for the riskier tenant.

These leases are why analysts expect Applied Digital's revenue to more than triple from fiscal 2026 to fiscal 2028. Nothing in CoreWeave's bond prices changes the rent schedule behind those estimates, as long as CoreWeave keeps paying.

**CoreWeave's debt load keeps climbing**

CoreWeave's total debt more than tripled in a year, to $51.6 billion at June 30.

Del Deo added that CoreWeave is largely shut out of the unsecured bond market right now, just as it needs tens of billions of dollars over the coming quarters. That gap is what bond investors are worried about.

The backstop many investors have counted on also looks shakier this week. Last month, Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang defended CoreWeave after worries about its debt hit the stock. Now Nvidia is investigating Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy. Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, explained what that means on *Squawk on the Street* yesterday: "if somebody owns CoreWeave with the belief that, oh, Nvidia is just a backstop, that becomes more challenging without Jensen Huang."

**Applied Digital wrote this lease for a week like this**

The Polaris Forge 1 lease can't be cancelled, and Applied Digital says a tenant that walks away for convenience owes the full remaining contract value. In March 2026, CoreWeave also moved parts of two Polaris Forge 1 leases into an A3-rated subsidiary with a parent guarantee, so some of that rent now comes from a stronger credit than CoreWeave's own. The other 69.6% of contracted rent, $25.2 billion, comes from investment-grade hyperscalers. Applied Digital's signed campuses are in North Dakota, Louisiana and Alabama, outside the pause on new data centers that Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has called for.

**Applied Digital's own financing is the bigger test**

Applied Digital's interest expense jumped to $78.9 million in the quarter ended Aug. 31, from $9.6 million a year earlier.

Counting the interest it capitalized into construction and the preferred dividends Macquarie took in kind, financing cost 2.6 times the $65.8 million of base rent Applied Digital collected that quarter. Most of the rent is still to come as buildings go live, but so is most of the spending. CEO Wes Cummins said on CNBC on Nov. 2 that the company still needs funding for roughly 800 MW over the next 12 months. Meanwhile, shares outstanding rose from 287.88 million on May 31 to 302.39 million on Oct. 6.

Frankly, I think CoreWeave's rent check is about as safe as a tenant's can be with its bonds yielding 16%. I'm more worried that Applied Digital's stock keeps trading like CoreWeave's while the company still has to raise money, since every share it sells at these prices costs existing shareholders more.

Of course, if CoreWeave's results tonight show it can't raise the money it needs, I'd take the tenant risk a lot more seriously. Applied Digital's next report, due in January, will be its first full quarter with 250 MW live at Polaris Forge 1.