Sameer Gandhi Sells 5,000 Shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Stock

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Director Sameer Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, October 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $528.77, for a total value of $2,643,850.00. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 770,456 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $407,394,019.12. The trade was a 0.64% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.

CrowdStrike Stock Down 0.3%

Shares of NASDAQ CRWD opened at $545.50 on Thursday. CrowdStrike has a 12 month low of $294.68 and a 12 month high of $553.64. The company has a current ratio of 1.88, a quick ratio of 1.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20. The firm has a market capitalization of $136.90 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -458.40, a PEG ratio of 128.53 and a beta of 1.19. The business has a 50-day moving average of $470.51 and a 200-day moving average of $459.23.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.83 by $0.10. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.The company had revenue of $1.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.04 earnings per share. CrowdStrike’s revenue was up 21.4% on a year-over-year basis. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.600-3.72 EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at 0.930-0.95 EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of CRWD. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 54,635.9% in the second quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 4,293,484 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,186,714,000 after purchasing an additional 4,285,640 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new stake in CrowdStrike in the second quarter valued at approximately $1,638,365,000. Nuveen LLC bought a new stake in CrowdStrike in the first quarter valued at approximately $595,766,000. Jennison Associates LLC lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 21.1% in the first quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 6,565,275 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,314,785,000 after purchasing an additional 1,144,295 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Vestor Capital LLC lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 269,840.3% in the second quarter. Vestor Capital LLC now owns 977,184 shares of the company’s stock valued at $497,690,000 after purchasing an additional 976,822 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

CRWD has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. KeyCorp boosted their price objective on CrowdStrike from $495.00 to $510.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Arete Research set a $706.00 target price on CrowdStrike in a research report on Tuesday. Needham & Company LLC boosted their target price on CrowdStrike from $475.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d)” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus boosted their target price on CrowdStrike from $495.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have issued a Buy rating, eighteen have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $505.78.

CrowdStrike Company Profile

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.