** Shares of cloud infrastructure firm CoreWeave CRWV.O up 4% at $82.49 premarket
** Brokerage DA Davidson raises PT on CRWV to $68 from $36; upgrades shares to "neutral" from "underperform"
** While a successful $100 bln fundraise by OpenAI is not a forgone conclusion, it now serves as a potential positive catalyst for CRWV if completed - DA Davidson
** CoreWeave had signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI in March 2025, to provide cloud computing services
** Seventeen of 32 brokerages covering the stock recommend a rating of "buy" or higher, 13 recommend "hold", and 2 recommend sell; stock has a median PT of $125.38 - LSEG-compiled data
** Up to last close, CRWV had gained ~11% YTD
(Reporting by Arnav Mishra in Bengaluru)
((Arnav.Mishra@thomsonreuters.com;))

