CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Trading Down 3.6% Following Analyst Downgrade

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) shares were down 3.6% on Tuesday after Truist Financial lowered their price target on the stock from $600.00 to $550.00. Truist Financial currently has a buy rating on the stock. CrowdStrike traded as low as $400.02 and last traded at $414.29. Approximately 4,391,726 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 40% from the average daily volume of 3,142,753 shares. The stock had previously closed at $429.64.

Several other equities analysts also recently weighed in on the company. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $537.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 18th. Wedbush reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $600.00 price objective on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Monday, December 1st. BNP Paribas Exane upped their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $350.00 to $450.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Susquehanna raised their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Finally, Barclays boosted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $610.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 14th. Thirty equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $550.09.

Insider Activity

In other CrowdStrike news, CEO George Kurtz sold 28,853 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $413.01, for a total transaction of $11,916,577.53. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 2,054,902 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $848,695,075.02. This trade represents a 1.38% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, Director Johanna Flower sold 3,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $461.94, for a total transaction of $1,385,820.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 76,082 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $35,145,319.08. This represents a 3.79% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 100,247 shares of company stock valued at $45,722,274 in the last ninety days. 3.32% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Key CrowdStrike News

Here are the key news stories impacting CrowdStrike this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NordVPN partnership expands CrowdStrike’s reach into consumer security, bringing enterprise-grade threat intelligence to NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro product — this is a concrete revenue/awareness win and supports platform adoption. NordVPN Partners With CrowdStrike
• Positive Sentiment: Broader sector tailwinds: multiple pieces note AI-driven demand is boosting cybersecurity budgets and pipeline growth, which supports CrowdStrike’s ARR expansion and multi-module adoption. This underpins longer-term revenue visibility. Cybersecurity stocks are pulling away from the software sell-off
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest reports in the feed show anomalous/zero values and NaN increases — current published short-interest figures appear unreliable, so short squeeze/cover dynamics don’t explain today’s move. (No authoritative change in borrow-demand is evident.)
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst pressure: several brokers lowered price targets (Truist trimmed its PT to $550 while keeping a Buy; Mizuho cut to $490 and moved to Neutral) and at least two shops cut targets this morning — these downgrades and target trims hurt sentiment and triggered selling. Benzinga: CrowdStrike Stock Is Falling The Fly: Mizuho price target cut
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation and technicals are weighing on the stock: MarketBeat and others highlight that CRWD’s premium valuation, a recent “death cross” (50-day below 200-day) and the need for a strong March earnings print make the shares vulnerable to short-term selling despite ARR growth. MarketBeat: CRWD valuation and earnings setup

Hedge Funds Weigh In On CrowdStrike

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec increased its position in CrowdStrike by 194.8% during the 4th quarter. Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec now owns 46,684 shares of the company’s stock worth $21,884,000 after purchasing an additional 30,847 shares in the last quarter. Appalachian Capital Management Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the fourth quarter worth $306,000. Integrated Advisors Network LLC raised its stake in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.1% in the 4th quarter. Integrated Advisors Network LLC now owns 31,622 shares of the company’s stock valued at $14,823,000 after acquiring an additional 333 shares during the period. DV Equities LLC purchased a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the 4th quarter valued at $164,000. Finally, AQR Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 15.4% during the 4th quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 386,909 shares of the company’s stock valued at $181,368,000 after acquiring an additional 51,601 shares in the last quarter. 71.16% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 3.6%

The stock has a market capitalization of $104.44 billion, a PE ratio of -328.80, a PEG ratio of 24.59 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a current ratio of 1.81, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. The business’s 50-day moving average is $456.76 and its two-hundred day moving average is $472.99.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 2.12% and a negative net margin of 6.88%.The company had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.22 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.93 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 21.8% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts predict that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

About CrowdStrike

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.