Capital One Financial Forecasts CrowdStrike Q1 Earnings

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) – Stock analysts at Capital One Financial cut their Q1 2027 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for CrowdStrike in a report released on Tuesday, June 17th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy now expects that the company will post earnings of ($0.13) per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of ($0.12). The consensus estimate for CrowdStrike’s current full-year earnings is $0.55 per share. Capital One Financial also issued estimates for CrowdStrike’s Q2 2027 earnings at ($0.06) EPS, Q3 2027 earnings at $0.04 EPS, Q4 2027 earnings at $0.16 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $0.01 EPS.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, June 3rd. The company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.66 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.11 billion. CrowdStrike had a positive return on equity of 0.43% and a negative net margin of 4.17%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 19.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.93 earnings per share.

A number of other research firms also recently issued reports on CRWD. Sanford C. Bernstein downgraded CrowdStrike from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and set a $371.00 price target for the company. in a research report on Friday, June 6th. Evercore ISI reaffirmed an “in-line” rating and issued a $440.00 target price (down previously from $450.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, June 4th. UBS Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Tuesday, June 3rd. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $430.00 to $550.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday, June 2nd. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $418.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, February 28th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, fifteen have issued a hold rating and twenty-eight have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $453.17.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $485.16 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $120.93 billion, a P/E ratio of -703.13 and a beta of 1.16. The company has a quick ratio of 1.85, a current ratio of 1.85 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21. CrowdStrike has a 52 week low of $200.81 and a 52 week high of $493.20. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $438.65 and a 200-day simple moving average of $395.73.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its position in CrowdStrike by 44.9% in the 4th quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 7,803 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,670,000 after buying an additional 2,417 shares during the last quarter. Allworth Financial LP lifted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 33.1% during the fourth quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 4,910 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,856,000 after acquiring an additional 1,222 shares in the last quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.0% in the 4th quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 272,080 shares of the company’s stock valued at $93,095,000 after purchasing an additional 2,603 shares during the period. Empower Advisory Group LLC increased its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 5.3% in the fourth quarter. Empower Advisory Group LLC now owns 4,174 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,428,000 after acquiring an additional 210 shares during the last quarter. Finally, D.A. Davidson & CO. increased its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 2.9% in the fourth quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. now owns 37,910 shares of the company’s stock valued at $12,971,000 after acquiring an additional 1,052 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, insider Shawn Henry sold 2,547 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, March 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $365.96, for a total transaction of $932,100.12. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 82,071 shares in the company, valued at approximately $30,034,703.16. This represents a 3.01% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, April 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $324.16, for a total value of $2,026,000.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 768,092 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $248,984,702.72. The trade was a 0.81% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 201,748 shares of company stock worth $89,478,971 in the last three months. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc provides cybersecurity solutions in the United States and internationally. Its unified platform offers cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data. The company offers corporate endpoint and cloud workload security, managed security, security and vulnerability management, IT operations management, identity protection, SIEM and log management, threat intelligence, data protection, security orchestration, automation and response and AI powered workflow automation, and securing generative AI workload services.