Cerebras doubled its revenue. The stock fell anyway.

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Cerebras nearly doubled its revenue and guided 2026 sales above Wall Street’s estimates. Its stock still fell about 10%. The reason was a margin squeeze, caused not by a shortage of chips but by a shortage of buildings.

Cerebras just learned the price of going public into a mania. On Tuesday the AI chipmaker posted its first results since a blockbuster May listing. Revenue almost doubled. The full-year forecast came in ahead of analysts. And the shares dropped roughly 10% anyway.

The numbers were good. First-quarter revenue hit $193.4m, up 92% on a year earlier, CNBC reported. The net loss narrowed to $14m from $23.9m. Both lines beat what Wall Street had penciled in. Cerebras even guided full-year revenue to between $855m and $865m, comfortably above the $824.8m analysts expected.

So why the sell-off? Because the story investors cared about was not demand. It was margins. And the cause...

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