CrowdStrike $CRWD Shares Bought by Verdence Capital Advisors LLC

Verdence Capital Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 2.2% in the second quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 2,063 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 44 shares during the quarter. Verdence Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $1,051,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Patron Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 2.1% during the second quarter. Patron Partners LLC now owns 1,076 shares of the company’s stock valued at $548,000 after acquiring an additional 22 shares during the last quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 0.9% during the first quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC now owns 2,732 shares of the company’s stock valued at $963,000 after acquiring an additional 24 shares during the last quarter. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 20.8% during the first quarter. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC now owns 145 shares of the company’s stock valued at $51,000 after acquiring an additional 25 shares during the last quarter. Close Asset Management Ltd raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 23.8% during the first quarter. Close Asset Management Ltd now owns 130 shares of the company’s stock valued at $46,000 after acquiring an additional 25 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Ramirez Asset Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 5.9% during the first quarter. Ramirez Asset Management Inc. now owns 450 shares of the company’s stock valued at $159,000 after acquiring an additional 25 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,762 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Wednesday, September 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $482.41, for a total value of $850,006.42. Following the completion of the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 37,255 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $17,972,184.55. The trade was a 4.52% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, October 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $515.00, for a total value of $5,150,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the president owned 354,116 shares in the company, valued at $182,369,740. This represents a 2.75% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 155,743 shares of company stock valued at $74,348,319. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $488.94 on Wednesday. CrowdStrike has a 52 week low of $294.68 and a 52 week high of $517.98. 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 company has a market capitalization of $122.70 billion, a P/E ratio of -410.87, a P/E/G ratio of 119.52 and a beta of 1.19. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $452.06 and its two-hundred day moving average is $446.31.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its 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. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.The company had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.15 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.04 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter 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.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

CRWD has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Roth Capital reissued a “buy” rating and set a $510.00 target price (up previously from $410.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d)” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Wedbush restated a “buy” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Thursday, August 28th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price target on CrowdStrike from $510.00 to $540.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, JMP Securities upped their price target on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, September 23rd. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, seventeen have given a Hold rating and two have assigned 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 target price of $494.02.

About CrowdStrike

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.