CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday. The company reported $0.73 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.07, RTT News reports. CrowdStrike had a net margin of 3.39% and a return on equity of 7.11%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 19.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.93 earnings per share. CrowdStrike updated its FY 2026 guidance to 3.440-3.560 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance to 0.820-0.840 EPS.

CrowdStrike Stock Performance

Shares of CRWD stock traded up $9.59 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $488.76. The stock had a trading volume of 7,284,271 shares, compared to its average volume of 5,123,936. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $406.34 and its 200 day simple moving average is $385.17. The company has a quick ratio of 1.86, a current ratio of 1.86 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24. The firm has a market cap of $121.15 billion, a PE ratio of 958.37, a P/E/G ratio of 17.86 and a beta of 1.22. CrowdStrike has a one year low of $200.81 and a one year high of $492.84.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on the company. Stifel Nicolaus set a $480.00 price objective on CrowdStrike and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 22nd. Scotiabank reissued a “sector perform” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, February 5th. Barclays set a $500.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Tuesday. Cantor Fitzgerald lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $440.00 to $475.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday. Finally, Morgan Stanley boosted their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $415.00 to $455.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 15th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have assigned a hold rating, twenty-nine have given a buy rating and three have issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $415.62.

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In other news, CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,496 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $358.62, for a total value of $536,495.52. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 36,165 shares in the company, valued at $12,969,492.30. This represents a 3.97% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 13,543 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, March 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $358.62, for a total transaction of $4,856,790.66. Following the completion of the sale, the president now directly owns 405,308 shares in the company, valued at approximately $145,351,554.96. This represents a 3.23% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 195,431 shares of company stock worth $79,162,548 over the last three months. Company insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

An institutional investor recently raised its position in CrowdStrike stock. Empowered Funds LLC grew its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 3.6% during the first quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 4,812 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 169 shares during the period. Empowered Funds LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $1,697,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

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.