CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Price Target Lowered to $490.00 at Mizuho

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) had its price target trimmed by Mizuho from $540.00 to $490.00 in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday morning, MarketBeat.com reports. They currently have a neutral rating on the stock.

A number of other research analysts also recently weighed in on the company. Piper Sandler raised their price target on CrowdStrike from $450.00 to $520.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. HSBC increased their price objective on CrowdStrike from $417.00 to $446.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, December 4th. Royal Bank Of Canada set a $550.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Wednesday, February 11th. Jefferies Financial Group upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, November 19th. Finally, Susquehanna lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Thirty equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have given a Hold rating and three have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, CrowdStrike has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $550.09.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 3.6%

NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $414.29 on Tuesday. The firm has a market capitalization of $104.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -328.80, a PEG ratio of 24.59 and a beta of 1.03. CrowdStrike has a 1-year low of $298.00 and a 1-year high of $566.90. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $456.76 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $472.99. The company has a current ratio of 1.81, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.94 by $0.02. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.88% and a negative return on equity of 2.12%. The company had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.22 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.93 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.8% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at CrowdStrike

In other news, CEO George Kurtz sold 28,853 shares of the firm’s 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 directly owned 2,054,902 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $848,695,075.02. This trade represents a 1.38% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 11,461 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $479.78, for a total value of $5,498,758.58. Following the completion of the sale, the president owned 342,655 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $164,399,015.90. This trade represents a 3.24% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 100,247 shares of company stock valued at $45,722,274. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CRWD. Asset Planning Inc bought a new position in CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at about $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Anchor Investment Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC bought a new position in CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Finally, Logan Capital Management Inc. acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $26,000. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting CrowdStrike

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

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.