Capital One Financial Predicts CrowdStrike Q1 Earnings

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) – Investment analysts at Capital One Financial issued their Q1 2027 earnings estimates for CrowdStrike in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, September 17th. Capital One Financial analyst C. Murphy expects that the company will post earnings per share of ($0.01) for the quarter. The consensus estimate for CrowdStrike’s current full-year earnings is $0.55 per share. Capital One Financial also issued estimates for CrowdStrike’s Q3 2027 earnings at $0.19 EPS, Q4 2027 earnings at $0.32 EPS and FY2027 earnings at $0.60 EPS.

Several other brokerages also recently commented on CRWD. UBS Group reduced their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $545.00 to $500.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. Sanford C. Bernstein reduced their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $371.00 to $343.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. Mizuho upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, September 17th. JMP Securities restated a “market outperform” rating and issued a $500.00 price target on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, June 4th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $475.00 to $500.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-four have issued a Buy rating and nineteen have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $473.85.

CrowdStrike Stock Down 0.0%

Shares of NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $502.55 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20, a quick ratio of 1.88 and a current ratio of 1.88. The company has a market cap of $126.12 billion, a PE ratio of -422.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 120.33 and a beta of 1.12. CrowdStrike has a 52 week low of $272.67 and a 52 week high of $517.98. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $442.94 and a 200 day simple moving average of $430.74.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.10. The firm had revenue of $1.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.84% and a negative return on equity of 1.53%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.04 earnings per share. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.600-3.72 EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at 0.930-0.95 EPS.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $410.32, for a total transaction of $2,564,500.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 768,511 shares in the company, valued at approximately $315,335,433.52. This trade represents a 0.81% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 11,883 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $455.47, for a total transaction of $5,412,350.01. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 231,130 shares in the company, valued at $105,272,781.10. This represents a 4.89% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 101,741 shares of company stock worth $47,456,437. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Cloud Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $25,000. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in CrowdStrike by 114.3% in the 1st quarter. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 75 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,000 after buying an additional 40 shares during the last quarter. Vision Financial Markets LLC acquired a new position in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $26,000. AlphaQuest LLC acquired a new position in CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at $26,000. Finally, E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. grew its stake in CrowdStrike by 305.3% in the 1st quarter. E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. now owns 77 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 58 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

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.