World Investment Advisors Has $3.18 Million Stock Holdings in CrowdStrike $CRWD

World Investment Advisors grew its stake in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 54.5% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 6,240 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 2,200 shares during the period. World Investment Advisors’ holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $3,178,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Patron Partners LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 2.1% during the 2nd quarter. Patron Partners LLC now owns 1,076 shares of the company’s stock valued at $548,000 after purchasing an additional 22 shares in the last quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 0.9% during the 1st quarter. Real Talk Capital LLC now owns 2,732 shares of the company’s stock valued at $963,000 after purchasing an additional 24 shares in the last quarter. Close Asset Management Ltd boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 23.8% during the 1st quarter. Close Asset Management Ltd now owns 130 shares of the company’s stock valued at $46,000 after purchasing an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. Ramirez Asset Management Inc. boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 5.9% during the 1st quarter. Ramirez Asset Management Inc. now owns 450 shares of the company’s stock valued at $159,000 after purchasing an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Cladis Investment Advisory LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 1.5% during the 1st quarter. Cladis Investment Advisory LLC now owns 1,683 shares of the company’s stock valued at $593,000 after purchasing an additional 25 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

CRWD has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Evercore ISI upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $405.00 to $430.00 in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. Westpark Capital restated a “hold” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, October 15th. DZ Bank lowered CrowdStrike from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $440.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Wednesday, September 24th. Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $490.00 price target on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Finally, Oppenheimer increased their price target on CrowdStrike from $520.00 to $560.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, October 17th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have given a Buy rating, eighteen have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $505.78.

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In related news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Friday, October 24th. The stock was sold at an average price of $528.77, for a total transaction of $2,643,850.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 770,456 shares in the company, valued at approximately $407,394,019.12. This trade represents a 0.64% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 10,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Friday, October 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $515.00, for a total value of $5,150,000.00. Following the sale, the president owned 354,116 shares in the company, valued at $182,369,740. This trade represents a 2.75% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold a total of 156,840 shares of company stock valued at $75,350,186 in the last ninety days. 3.32% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

CrowdStrike Stock Down 1.3%

CRWD stock opened at $538.68 on Friday. CrowdStrike has a twelve month low of $294.68 and a twelve month high of $553.64. 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 stock’s 50 day moving average is $473.00 and its 200-day moving average is $459.79. The firm has a market capitalization of $135.19 billion, a PE ratio of -452.67, a P/E/G ratio of 128.19 and a beta of 1.19.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its earnings results on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share 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 analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company 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. Sell-side analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.