Insider Selling: CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) CAO Sells $734,063.40 in Stock

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,530 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $479.78, for a total value of $734,063.40. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 44,562 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $21,379,956.36. This represents a 3.32% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink.

Anurag Saha also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Wednesday, September 24th, Anurag Saha sold 1,762 shares of CrowdStrike stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $482.41, for a total value of $850,006.42.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 0.5%

Shares of NASDAQ CRWD opened at $476.35 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.81, a current ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. CrowdStrike has a 12 month low of $298.00 and a 12 month high of $566.90. The company has a market cap of $120.09 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -378.06, a P/E/G ratio of 114.76 and a beta of 1.09. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $514.35 and a 200-day simple moving average of $482.52.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.22 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 2.12% and a negative net margin of 6.88%.CrowdStrike’s revenue was up 21.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.93 EPS. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.700-3.720 EPS and its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.090-1.110 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts recently commented on the stock. BMO Capital Markets upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $555.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Piper Sandler lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $450.00 to $520.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Rosenblatt Securities reissued a “buy” rating and set a $630.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Citizens Jmp restated a “market outperform” rating and issued a $500.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Finally, Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Tuesday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have assigned a Buy rating, seventeen have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $555.10.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On CrowdStrike

A number of hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Asset Planning Inc purchased a new position in CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at about $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter worth about $25,000. Anchor Investment Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter valued at about $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Finally, Logan Capital Management Inc. acquired a new position in CrowdStrike in the third quarter worth approximately $26,000. 71.16% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

CrowdStrike Company Profile

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: CRWD) is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The firm was co-founded by George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch and became a publicly traded company following its initial public offering in 2019. CrowdStrike positions itself as a provider of cloud-native security solutions designed to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities and data against sophisticated cyber threats.

The company’s core offering is the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, a modular, cloud-delivered security architecture that combines endpoint protection (EPP), endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and device control through lightweight agents and centralized telemetry.