CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Stock Price Down 1.1% – Should You Sell?

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD)’s stock price fell 1.1% during mid-day trading on Monday . The stock traded as low as $474.63 and last traded at $475.91. 1,232,986 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 63% from the average session volume of 3,343,606 shares. The stock had previously closed at $481.19.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on CRWD. Roth Capital restated a “buy” rating and set a $510.00 price objective (up previously from $410.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Barclays upped their price objective on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 14th. Bank of America upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $470.00 to $535.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Monday, October 20th. Truist Financial lifted their price target on CrowdStrike from $550.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 18th. Finally, Arete Research set a $706.00 price objective on CrowdStrike in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. Thirty-two analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eighteen have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $555.10.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

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 business’s 50-day simple moving average is $514.28 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $482.78. The firm has a market cap of $119.98 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -377.71, a P/E/G ratio of 115.74 and a beta of 1.09.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.88% and a negative return on equity of 2.12%. The company had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.22 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.93 EPS. 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. As a group, research analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at CrowdStrike

In related news, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,516 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was 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 owned 179,114 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $86,571,169.62. This trade represents a 5.55% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, Director Denis Oleary sold 7,750 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, December 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $515.44, for a total value of $3,994,660.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 10,816 shares in the company, valued at approximately $5,574,999.04. This trade represents a 41.74% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 117,559 shares of company stock worth $59,246,587. Corporate insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Disciplined Equity Management Inc. boosted its stake in CrowdStrike by 0.8% during the third quarter. Disciplined Equity Management Inc. now owns 2,405 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,179,000 after acquiring an additional 20 shares in the last quarter. TD Private Client Wealth LLC raised its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 6.4% during the third quarter. TD Private Client Wealth LLC now owns 334 shares of the company’s stock valued at $164,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares during the period. Financially Speaking Inc boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 26.7% during the 3rd quarter. Financially Speaking Inc now owns 95 shares of the company’s stock worth $47,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares in the last quarter. Catalyst Financial Partners LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.6% during the 3rd quarter. Catalyst Financial Partners LLC now owns 1,246 shares of the company’s stock worth $611,000 after purchasing an additional 20 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Fire Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.7% in the 3rd quarter. Fire Capital Management LLC now owns 1,239 shares of the company’s stock valued at $608,000 after buying an additional 21 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

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.