CHICAGO TRUST Co NA Acquires 293 Shares of CrowdStrike $CRWD

CHICAGO TRUST Co NA grew its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 24.1% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,511 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 293 shares during the quarter. CHICAGO TRUST Co NA’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $770,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the business. Gries Financial LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 47.2% during the 2nd quarter. Gries Financial LLC now owns 976 shares of the company’s stock valued at $497,000 after acquiring an additional 313 shares during the last quarter. Golden State Equity Partners boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 39.4% during the 2nd quarter. Golden State Equity Partners now owns 2,338 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,191,000 after acquiring an additional 661 shares during the last quarter. CRA Financial Services LLC boosted its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 3.7% during the 2nd quarter. CRA Financial Services LLC now owns 2,934 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,494,000 after acquiring an additional 106 shares during the last quarter. IronOak Wealth LLC. bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the 2nd quarter valued at about $1,142,000. Finally, Foster Group Inc. bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the 2nd quarter valued at about $210,000. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

Shares of CRWD stock opened at $484.10 on Wednesday. The firm has a market cap of $121.49 billion, a P/E ratio of -406.80, a P/E/G ratio of 115.88 and a beta of 1.12. CrowdStrike has a fifty-two week low of $272.67 and a fifty-two week high of $517.98. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $443.50 and its 200-day moving average price is $432.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20, a quick ratio of 1.88 and a current ratio of 1.88.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share for the quarter, topping 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 firm had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $1.04 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 21.4% compared to the same quarter last year. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.600-3.72 EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at 0.930-0.95 EPS. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at CrowdStrike

In related news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $410.32, for a total transaction of $2,564,500.00. Following the sale, the director directly owned 768,511 shares in the company, valued at $315,335,433.52. The trade was a 0.81% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 11,883 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $455.47, for a total value of $5,412,350.01. Following the sale, the chief financial officer owned 231,130 shares in the company, valued at $105,272,781.10. This represents a 4.89% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 84,973 shares of company stock valued at $39,121,937 over the last ninety days. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on the company. JMP Securities lifted 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. Macquarie raised their price objective on CrowdStrike from $465.00 to $485.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, September 19th. Scotiabank decreased their price objective on CrowdStrike from $480.00 to $440.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Cfra reissued a “hold” rating and set a $555.00 price objective (up from $517.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, July 10th. Finally, Robert W. Baird raised their price objective on CrowdStrike from $460.00 to $490.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have issued a Buy rating and twenty have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, CrowdStrike has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $477.21.

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.