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LivestreamMenuCsquare went public in the U.S. last month, offering an under-the-radar play on the booming data center market that could result in outsized returns to investors, according to several analysts. Texas-based Cquare listed on the New York Stock Exchange on July 16 after selling 50 million shares at $21 each, below an expected range of $23 to $27 before the IPO. Morgan Stanley and TD Securities were the lead book-running managers, with Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BMO Capital and Scotiabank also helping run the deal. By Friday, Csquare had risen a little more than 2% from its IPO, with optimists arguing the company is showing signs of positioning itself as a prime beneficiary of the artificial intelligence-led data center boom. Csquare runs 80 enterprise-grade colocation data centers offering scalable power and connectivity for high-density workloads in North America and the United Kingdom. CSQR mountain 2026-07-16 Csquare went public last month at $21 On August 6, Csquare said second-quarter earnings rose to 47 cents a share, up from 13 cents a year ago. Revenue totaled $280.4 million, 15% higher than the year-earlier period. Bookings totaled $64.7 million in bookings, the 13th straight quarter of record bookings, partly due to heightened demand for AI-enabled workload support. Against that backdrop, Csquare appears underpriced and cheap, according to Bank of America. “Csquare stock misprices growth potential and the ability to address an increasingly supply constrained market,” analyst Michael Funk said Monday in a note to clients. “Our investment thesis centers on 3 key points: 1) Data center supply can’t keep pace with demand. 2) Csquare can address the AI and enterprise data center bottleneck with faster time to market and lower development cost; and 3) multiple will likely re-rate higher as growth inflects.” The company, backed by investment firm Brookfield, is also poised to gain ground from plans to expand and upgrade capacity in existing facilities, Bank of America said. The bank initiated coverage of Csquare with a buy rating and attached a $46 price target on the stock, implying roughly 114% upside from Friday’s close. Here’s what other analysts are saying about the data center operator. Wells Fargo: overweight, $25 Analyst Eric Luebchow’s price target is 16% above the price where Csquare last closed. “We expect CSQR can outpace peer growth on EBITDA … with longer term upside from the brownfield re-development opportunity, more than offsetting risks from higher leverage + Brookfield ownership … CSQR enters the public market during a period of retail demand acceleration, including demand (record bookings past +3 years) outstripping supply in its Tier 1 markets. Improving market rents give CSQR opportunity to renew its back-book at mid-teens rates and internally grow revenues +4-6% per year.” Bernstein: outperform, $27 Analyst Madison Rezaei’s target suggests 25% upside from Friday’s close. “Yes, the assets are ‘seasoned,’ with an average age of 22 years. Yes, they’ve been in and out of PE ownership for the better part of a decade. And yes, some of them went through bankruptcy. But they’re also in some of the best markets in the world, where prices keep going up, building is extremely challenging, and because the facilities are undermodernized, they’ve got some pretty attractive capacity unlocks. In other words: great bones and potential if you can look past the current 1970s wallpaper.” Morgan Stanley: overweight, $26 Analyst Cameron McVeigh’s price target is about 21% above Friday’s close. “CSQR comes to market with a unique proposition: retail colocation exposure with a capacity runway of 670 MWs while trading at an 8 turn discount to its closest peer with double the leverage. We see an attractive ~3x bull/bear skew, and ~20% upside to our base case price target. Ultimately, we are constructive on Csquare’s ability to expand capacity across its grid connected footprint while deleveraging by about a turn a year.” TD Cowen: buy, $28 Analyst Michael Elias sees roughly 30% upside for Csquare. “We are initiating coverage of CSQR with a Buy rating and a $28 PT. Our recent checks point to accelerating enterprise data center demand amid limited supply, which CSQR is positioned to capture via cost-advantaged expansion ($4-8MM/MW). With rising renewal spreads supporting de-levering and a notable growth-adjusted discount vs. public and private peers, we view valuation as attractive.” RBC Capital Markets: outperform, $24 Csquare could see its shares rise nearly 12%, according to analyst Jonathan Atkin. “We think Csquare fills a gap in the public datacenter universe as the only [small-to-mid] cap option. Despite potential investor concern… progress has been made around operating efficiency, owned vs. leased asset mix, and portfolio quality. Meanwhile, CSQR’s > 8x leverage is favorably offset by an attractive post-IPO multiple vs. peers, and EBITDA expansion from pricing optimization and new leasing alongside capital-efficient in-footprint capacity growth, making for an attractive de-levering story.”Read More
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