Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ raised its holdings in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD – Free Report) by 8.0% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 63,837 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,730 shares during the period. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $31,297,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Several other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the business. Asset Planning Inc acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the 3rd quarter valued at about $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at about $26,000. Howard Hughes Medical Institute acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the second quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. bought a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter worth about $27,000. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.
Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike
In other news, Director Denis Oleary sold 7,750 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $515.44, for a total value of $3,994,660.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 10,816 shares in the company, valued at $5,574,999.04. This trade represents a 41.74% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 11,461 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $479.78, for a total value of $5,498,758.58. Following the sale, the president owned 342,655 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $164,399,015.90. This trade represents a 3.24% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last three months, insiders have sold 100,247 shares of company stock worth $45,722,274. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Analyst Ratings Changes
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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
CrowdStrike Stock Performance
Shares of CRWD stock opened at $414.29 on Wednesday. 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 firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $456.76 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $472.99. CrowdStrike has a 12 month low of $298.00 and a 12 month high of $566.90. The firm has a market capitalization of $104.44 billion, a PE ratio of -328.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 24.59 and a beta of 1.03.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.22 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.88% and a negative return on equity of 2.12%. The business’s revenue was up 21.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.93 earnings per share. Analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal 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.
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