CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Trading Down 3.2% – Time to Sell?

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD)’s stock price traded down 3.2% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $449.46 and last traded at $453.58. 3,276,325 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 68% from the average session volume of 1,949,801 shares. The stock had previously closed at $468.76.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have weighed in on CRWD shares. Barclays upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, November 14th. DA Davidson reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $580.00 price objective on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Argus increased their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $540.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 5th. Stephens restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $590.00 price target on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, December 18th. Finally, KeyCorp upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $510.00 to $570.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday, December 1st. Thirty-two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $555.10.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 3.2%

The company has a 50 day moving average of $511.47 and a two-hundred day moving average of $482.51. The stock has a market capitalization of $114.35 billion, a PE ratio of -359.98, a P/E/G ratio of 112.75 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a current ratio of 1.81.

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 the consensus estimate 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 business had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.22 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.93 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 21.8% on a year-over-year basis. 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.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,516 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $483.33, for a total transaction of $5,082,698.28. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 179,114 shares in the company, valued at approximately $86,571,169.62. The trade was a 5.55% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $550.20, for a total value of $2,751,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 765,456 shares in the company, valued at approximately $421,153,891.20. The trade was a 0.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 98,395 shares of company stock valued at $49,645,217. Corporate insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

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

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.