Wedbush Has Negative Forecast for CrowdStrike Q1 Earnings

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) – Equities researchers at Wedbush reduced their Q1 2026 earnings per share estimates for shares of CrowdStrike in a note issued to investors on Wednesday, March 5th. Wedbush analyst D. Ives now expects that the company will post earnings per share of ($0.26) for the quarter, down from their previous forecast of $0.16. Wedbush has a “Outperform” rating and a $395.00 price target on the stock. The consensus estimate for CrowdStrike’s current full-year earnings is $0.55 per share. Wedbush also issued estimates for CrowdStrike’s Q2 2026 earnings at ($0.14) EPS, Q3 2026 earnings at ($0.07) EPS, Q4 2026 earnings at $0.01 EPS and FY2026 earnings at ($0.46) EPS.

Several other equities research analysts have also recently weighed in on the stock. Westpark Capital reissued a “hold” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, March 5th. Barclays dropped their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $506.00 to $475.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, March 5th. Baird R W downgraded CrowdStrike from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, February 3rd. Piper Sandler set a $347.00 price objective on CrowdStrike in a report on Wednesday, March 5th. Finally, Bank of America boosted their target price on CrowdStrike from $400.00 to $420.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 26th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have given a hold rating, thirty have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $398.78.

CrowdStrike Stock Up 6.8 %

Shares of CrowdStrike stock opened at $329.75 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a quick ratio of 1.86 and a current ratio of 1.86. CrowdStrike has a 52-week low of $200.81 and a 52-week high of $455.59. The company’s 50 day moving average price is $386.01 and its 200-day moving average price is $340.21. The stock has a market capitalization of $81.22 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 646.58, a P/E/G ratio of 17.86 and a beta of 1.19.

Insider Transactions at CrowdStrike

In other news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $345.65, for a total transaction of $2,160,312.50. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 811,842 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $280,613,187.30. The trade was a 0.76 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, insider Shawn Henry sold 4,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $450.67, for a total value of $1,802,680.00. Following the transaction, the insider now owns 94,214 shares in the company, valued at $42,459,423.38. This trade represents a 4.07 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 100,315 shares of company stock worth $38,387,254 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 4.34% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in CrowdStrike by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 21,926,011 shares of the company’s stock worth $7,502,204,000 after acquiring an additional 342,294 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 2.9% in the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 9,630,776 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,701,144,000 after purchasing an additional 275,717 shares during the period. Jennison Associates LLC increased its stake in shares of CrowdStrike by 6.9% in the fourth quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 5,420,980 shares of the company’s stock worth $1,854,843,000 after purchasing an additional 352,180 shares in the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 2.6% during the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 5,018,441 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,712,063,000 after purchasing an additional 124,984 shares during the period. Finally, Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the 4th quarter valued at $1,111,542,000. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

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.