
Cerebras CEO: investors misread margin plan as stock slides after earnings
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman said investors misunderstood the company’s 2026 adjusted gross margin guidance of 38-41% (versus 47% in Q1), arguing the plan laid out at the IPO is being beat and that margins won’t be a straight line as the company scales. The upbeat framing comes after the stock fell more than 17% following the earnings report. Feldman pointed to positives like OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 running on Cerebras chips and AWS data-center deployments, while noting logistics such as renting back equipment from a major client will influence near-term margins and growth.

