441 Shares in CrowdStrike $CRWD Bought by Advisory Alpha LLC

Advisory Alpha LLC acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 441 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $225,000.

Several other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Patron Partners LLC lifted its stake in CrowdStrike by 2.1% during the second quarter. Patron Partners LLC now owns 1,076 shares of the company’s stock worth $548,000 after purchasing an additional 22 shares during the last quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC increased its position in CrowdStrike by 0.9% in the first quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC now owns 2,732 shares of the company’s stock worth $963,000 after buying an additional 24 shares during the period. Close Asset Management Ltd increased its position in CrowdStrike by 23.8% in the first quarter. Close Asset Management Ltd now owns 130 shares of the company’s stock worth $46,000 after buying an additional 25 shares during the period. Ramirez Asset Management Inc. increased its position in CrowdStrike by 5.9% in the first quarter. Ramirez Asset Management Inc. now owns 450 shares of the company’s stock worth $159,000 after buying an additional 25 shares during the period. Finally, Cladis Investment Advisory LLC increased its position in CrowdStrike by 1.5% in the first quarter. Cladis Investment Advisory LLC now owns 1,683 shares of the company’s stock worth $593,000 after buying an additional 25 shares during the period. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several brokerages have weighed in on CRWD. Arete raised CrowdStrike from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $706.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Tuesday. DA Davidson increased their target price on CrowdStrike from $490.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. Sanford C. Bernstein dropped their target price on CrowdStrike from $371.00 to $343.00 and set a “market perform” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. UBS Group dropped their target price on CrowdStrike from $545.00 to $500.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. Finally, Robert W. Baird increased their target price on CrowdStrike from $460.00 to $490.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, September 19th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have assigned a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $505.78.

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In related news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction dated Friday, October 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $528.77, for a total transaction of $2,643,850.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 770,456 shares in the company, valued at $407,394,019.12. The trade was a 0.64% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 10,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction dated Friday, October 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $515.00, for a total value of $5,150,000.00. Following the transaction, the president directly owned 354,116 shares in the company, valued at approximately $182,369,740. The trade was a 2.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 156,840 shares of company stock valued at $75,350,186. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ CRWD opened at $538.68 on Friday. CrowdStrike has a fifty-two week low of $294.68 and a fifty-two week high of $553.64. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $473.00 and its 200 day simple moving average is $459.79. The company has a quick ratio of 1.88, a current ratio of 1.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20. The stock has a market cap of $135.19 billion, a P/E ratio of -452.67, a P/E/G ratio of 128.19 and a beta of 1.19.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share for the quarter, beating 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 business had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.04 earnings per share. The company’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. Equities analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

CrowdStrike 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.