Ameritas Investment Partners Inc. Buys 509 Shares of CrowdStrike $CRWD

Ameritas Investment Partners Inc. raised its stake in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 5.1% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 10,506 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 509 shares during the quarter. Ameritas Investment Partners Inc.’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $5,351,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Global Retirement Partners LLC acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $6,083,000. Intellus Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 5.8% during the 2nd quarter. Intellus Advisors LLC now owns 1,970 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,003,000 after buying an additional 108 shares in the last quarter. Waterloo Capital L.P. lifted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 17.1% during the 2nd quarter. Waterloo Capital L.P. now owns 2,124 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,082,000 after buying an additional 310 shares during the last quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. grew its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 10.7% during the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 139,878 shares of the company’s stock valued at $71,241,000 after purchasing an additional 13,477 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Left Brain Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 4.5% during the 2nd quarter. Left Brain Wealth Management LLC now owns 18,964 shares of the company’s stock valued at $9,659,000 after acquiring an additional 816 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In other CrowdStrike news, President Michael Sentonas sold 10,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, October 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $515.00, for a total transaction of $5,150,000.00. Following the sale, the president owned 354,116 shares in the company, valued at $182,369,740. This represents a 2.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 1,957 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $550.41, for a total value of $1,077,152.37. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 218,467 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $120,246,421.47. This represents a 0.89% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 116,622 shares of company stock worth $58,561,456. Company insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

CRWD has been the subject of several recent research reports. Jefferies Financial Group upped their price objective on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 19th. Piper Sandler dropped their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $505.00 to $450.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, August 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their target price on CrowdStrike from $492.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, September 19th. Westpark Capital reissued a “hold” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday, October 15th. Finally, TD Cowen upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $580.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, October 3rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have given a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $537.93.

CrowdStrike Stock Down 2.1%

CRWD opened at $490.67 on Monday. CrowdStrike has a twelve month low of $298.00 and a twelve month high of $566.90. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $507.95 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $474.68. The stock has a market cap of $123.14 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -412.32, a PEG ratio of 115.30 and a beta of 1.16. 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 (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.10. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.84% and a negative return on equity of 1.53%. The company had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.04 EPS. 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. As a group, equities analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

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.