CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Receives Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” from Brokerages

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) has earned an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the forty-nine brokerages that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell recommendation, seventeen have assigned a hold recommendation, twenty-nine have issued a buy recommendation and one has given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average twelve-month price target among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $528.00.

CRWD has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Scotiabank raised shares of CrowdStrike from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $440.00 to $600.00 in a report on Thursday, September 25th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d)” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. JMP Securities lifted their price objective on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 23rd. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on CrowdStrike from $475.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 13th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC increased their target price on CrowdStrike from $475.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, September 18th.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,706 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $495.67, for a total value of $5,306,643.02. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 220,424 shares in the company, valued at approximately $109,257,564.08. The trade was a 4.63% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 20,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $500.00, for a total transaction of $10,000,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the president directly owned 379,116 shares in the company, valued at approximately $189,558,000. The trade was a 5.01% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 116,622 shares of company stock valued at $58,561,456 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the company. Advyzon Investment Management LLC raised its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 142.9% during the second quarter. Advyzon Investment Management LLC now owns 906 shares of the company’s stock worth $461,000 after purchasing an additional 533 shares during the period. Draper Asset Management LLC grew its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 59.1% in the 2nd quarter. Draper Asset Management LLC now owns 4,358 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,176,000 after purchasing an additional 1,619 shares during the period. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. increased its stake in CrowdStrike by 33.2% during the 1st quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 24,059 shares of the company’s stock worth $8,483,000 after purchasing an additional 5,998 shares in the last quarter. Drucker Wealth 3.0 LLC acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $397,000. Finally, Pegasus Asset Management Inc. lifted its stake in CrowdStrike by 3.4% in the second quarter. Pegasus Asset Management Inc. now owns 2,431 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,238,000 after buying an additional 79 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 1.4%

CrowdStrike stock opened at $529.78 on Tuesday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $501.78 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $472.73. The company has a quick ratio of 1.88, a current ratio of 1.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20. CrowdStrike has a 12 month low of $298.00 and a 12 month high of $566.90. The stock has a market cap of $132.95 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -445.19, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 126.32 and a beta of 1.16.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.10. The business had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.CrowdStrike’s quarterly revenue was up 21.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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. As a group, equities analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

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.