90,082 Shares in CrowdStrike $CRWD Acquired by Rakuten Investment Management Inc.

Rakuten Investment Management Inc. acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 90,082 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $44,174,000.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Asset Planning Inc purchased a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter valued at $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC purchased a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter worth about $26,000. Howard Hughes Medical Institute bought a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter valued at about $27,000. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. bought a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 3rd quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Financial Gravity Companies Inc. purchased a new stake in CrowdStrike during the second quarter valued at about $33,000. 71.16% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $442.73 on Wednesday. CrowdStrike has a 52-week low of $298.00 and a 52-week high of $566.90. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $490.37 and a 200 day moving average of $479.20. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a current ratio of 1.81. The firm has a market capitalization of $111.61 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -351.37, a P/E/G ratio of 110.19 and a beta of 1.03.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.22 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 2.12% and a negative net margin of 6.88%.The company’s quarterly revenue was up 21.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.93 EPS. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.700-3.720 EPS and its Q4 2026 guidance at 1.090-1.110 EPS. On average, research analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other CrowdStrike news, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,516 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $483.33, for a total value of $5,082,698.28. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer owned 179,114 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $86,571,169.62. The trade was a 5.55% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CEO George Kurtz sold 17,550 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $481.38, for a total transaction of $8,448,219.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,090,532 shares in the company, valued at $1,006,340,294.16. The trade was a 0.83% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders sold a total of 74,048 shares of company stock valued at $37,153,707 over the last three months. Corporate insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms have recently weighed in on CRWD. Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $630.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Canaccord Genuity Group raised their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Capital One Financial reduced their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $590.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, January 14th. Barclays increased their target price on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 14th. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane raised their price target on CrowdStrike from $350.00 to $450.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Thirty-two research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eighteen have issued a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, CrowdStrike presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $555.21.

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.