CrowdStrike $CRWD Shares Sold by Kercheville Advisors LLC

Kercheville Advisors LLC lessened its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 67.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,050 shares of the company’s stock after selling 2,140 shares during the period. Kercheville Advisors LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $515,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Brighton Jones LLC boosted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 44.9% in the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 7,803 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,670,000 after acquiring an additional 2,417 shares in the last quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC raised its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 34.5% in the 1st quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 168,686 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,757,000 after purchasing an additional 43,237 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its stake in CrowdStrike by 107.4% in the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 42,950 shares of the company’s stock worth $15,143,000 after purchasing an additional 22,241 shares in the last quarter. UniSuper Management Pty Ltd grew its position in CrowdStrike by 10.5% during the 1st quarter. UniSuper Management Pty Ltd now owns 49,302 shares of the company’s stock worth $17,383,000 after purchasing an additional 4,700 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Resources Management Corp CT ADV increased its stake in CrowdStrike by 0.7% during the 1st quarter. Resources Management Corp CT ADV now owns 13,621 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,803,000 after purchasing an additional 89 shares in the last quarter. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other CrowdStrike news, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $550.20, for a total transaction of $2,751,000.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 765,456 shares in the company, valued at approximately $421,153,891.20. This represents a 0.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,516 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $483.33, for a total value 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 SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last 90 days, insiders have sold 98,395 shares of company stock valued at $49,645,217. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have recently commented on CRWD. Daiwa Capital Markets lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $560.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 9th. JMP Securities lifted their price target on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $550.00 and gave the stock a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, September 23rd. Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $537.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, December 18th. Capital One Financial lifted their target price on CrowdStrike from $599.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group increased their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Thirty-two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eighteen have given a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $555.10.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 3.2%

Shares of NASDAQ:CRWD opened at $453.58 on Monday. The company has a current ratio of 1.81, a quick ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. CrowdStrike has a 12-month low of $298.00 and a 12-month high of $566.90. The business has a 50 day moving average of $509.99 and a two-hundred day moving average of $482.24. The company has a market capitalization of $114.35 billion, a PE ratio of -359.98, a PEG ratio of 109.10 and a beta of 1.03.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 firm had revenue of $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.22 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.93 EPS. The business’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, analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

CrowdStrike Profile

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.