CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Director Sameer Gandhi Sells 5,000 Shares

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Director Sameer Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 sale, the director owned 765,456 shares in the company, valued at approximately $421,153,891.20. This represents a 0.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

CrowdStrike Stock Performance

Shares of CRWD traded down $18.00 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $533.92. 2,436,138 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,361,102. The firm has a market capitalization of $133.99 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -448.67, a P/E/G ratio of 129.70 and a beta of 1.16. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20, a current ratio of 1.88 and a quick ratio of 1.88. CrowdStrike has a twelve month low of $298.00 and a twelve month high of $555.81. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $480.44 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $464.34.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.10. The company had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 21.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.04 earnings per share. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.600-3.72 EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at 0.930-0.95 EPS. Analysts predict that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms recently commented on CRWD. Truist Financial raised their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, September 18th. New Street Research set a $460.00 price target on CrowdStrike in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. TD Cowen lifted their target price on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $580.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, October 3rd. Oppenheimer lifted their target price on CrowdStrike from $520.00 to $560.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, October 17th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $550.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 1st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have given a Buy rating, eighteen have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $510.80.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On CrowdStrike

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Asset Planning Inc purchased a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter valued at $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd purchased a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter valued at $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at about $26,000. Howard Hughes Medical Institute acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

CrowdStrike Company 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.