Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD – Get Free Report) rose 0.2% during trading on Wednesday after Jefferies Financial Group raised their price target on the stock from $315.00 to $345.00. Jefferies Financial Group currently has a buy rating on the stock. CrowdStrike traded as high as $291.73 and last traded at $288.99. Approximately 769,685 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 86% from the average daily volume of 5,344,431 shares. The stock had previously closed at $288.54.
A number of other research firms also recently weighed in on CRWD. UBS Group lowered their price target on CrowdStrike from $330.00 to $310.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. TD Cowen cut their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $400.00 to $380.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, August 29th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft cut their target price on CrowdStrike from $350.00 to $275.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, August 26th. KeyCorp boosted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $300.00 to $345.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Monday. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reiterated an “overweight” rating and set a $350.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, September 19th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have given a hold rating, thirty-three have issued a buy rating and two have assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $326.50.
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Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike
Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike
A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of CRWD. Pathstone Holdings LLC purchased a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the fourth quarter valued at about $450,418,000. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 7.0% during the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 15,746,120 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,020,299,000 after acquiring an additional 1,028,405 shares during the last quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its stake in CrowdStrike by 47.5% in the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 1,753,252 shares of the company’s stock valued at $671,828,000 after acquiring an additional 564,662 shares in the last quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC increased its position in shares of CrowdStrike by 619.0% during the first quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 554,876 shares of the company’s stock worth $177,865,000 after purchasing an additional 477,706 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Frontier Capital Management Co. LLC purchased a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the 4th quarter valued at $100,459,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.
CrowdStrike Price Performance
The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $262.61 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $311.78. The company has a current ratio of 1.90, a quick ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. The stock has a market cap of $70.79 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 545.27, a PEG ratio of 19.60 and a beta of 1.09.
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 28th. The company reported $1.04 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.07. The firm had revenue of $963.87 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $958.27 million. CrowdStrike had a net margin of 4.84% and a return on equity of 8.44%. CrowdStrike’s revenue was up 31.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.06 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. will post 0.53 EPS for the current year.
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.
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