CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Issues Q2 2026 Earnings Guidance

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) issued an update on its second quarter 2026 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 0.820-0.840 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 0.810. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.1 billion-$1.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.2 billion. CrowdStrike also updated its FY 2026 guidance to 3.440-3.560 EPS.

CrowdStrike Stock Down 5.8%

NASDAQ CRWD opened at $460.56 on Thursday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $410.85 and a 200 day simple moving average of $386.40. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a quick ratio of 1.86 and a current ratio of 1.86. The stock has a market cap of $114.16 billion, a PE ratio of 903.08, a PEG ratio of 17.86 and a beta of 1.22. CrowdStrike has a twelve month low of $200.81 and a twelve month high of $491.20.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, June 3rd. The company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.11 billion. CrowdStrike had a return on equity of 7.11% and a net margin of 3.39%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 19.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.93 EPS. On average, research analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms have weighed in on CRWD. Raymond James reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $485.00 price target (up previously from $390.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday. Piper Sandler raised their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $400.00 to $505.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday. KeyCorp dropped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $480.00 to $450.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 5th. DZ Bank lowered shares of CrowdStrike from a “strong-buy” rating to a “strong sell” rating and set a $370.00 price target for the company. in a research report on Thursday, May 22nd. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald increased their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $440.00 to $475.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, May 30th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, fourteen have assigned a hold rating, twenty-nine have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $449.38.

Insider Activity at CrowdStrike

In related news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $484.59, for a total transaction of $3,028,687.50. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 755,592 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $366,152,327.28. The trade was a 0.82% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, insider Shawn Henry sold 4,500 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $353.00, for a total transaction of $1,588,500.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 89,714 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $31,669,042. This trade represents a 4.78% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 211,681 shares of company stock worth $87,081,236 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A hedge fund recently raised its stake in CrowdStrike stock. Empowered Funds LLC raised its stake in CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 3.6% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 4,812 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 169 shares during the quarter. Empowered Funds LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $1,697,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

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.