Anurag Saha Sells 1,138 Shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Stock

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,138 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $411.06, for a total transaction of $467,786.28. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 42,588 shares in the company, valued at approximately $17,506,223.28. The trade was a 2.60% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website.

CrowdStrike Trading Down 4.9%

CRWD opened at $392.99 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $99.67 billion, a PE ratio of -531.06, a P/E/G ratio of 18.13 and a beta of 1.06. CrowdStrike has a one year low of $298.00 and a one year high of $566.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a current ratio of 1.77. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $422.08 and its 200 day moving average price is $469.93.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, March 3rd. The company reported $1.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.10 by $0.02. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 0.14% and a negative net margin of 3.81%.The company had revenue of $1.31 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.30 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.03 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 23.8% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research firms have commented on CRWD. Citigroup decreased their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $610.00 to $525.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. Truist Financial dropped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $550.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. Robert W. Baird reduced their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $550.00 to $450.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, March 2nd. Cantor Fitzgerald restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $520.00 price objective on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. Finally, Susquehanna increased their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “positive” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have assigned a Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $506.26.

Institutional Trading of CrowdStrike

Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in CRWD. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its stake in shares of CrowdStrike by 54,635.9% in the second quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 4,293,484 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,186,714,000 after purchasing an additional 4,285,640 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $1,699,545,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its stake in CrowdStrike by 310.0% during the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 872,491 shares of the company’s stock worth $408,989,000 after buying an additional 659,705 shares during the period. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. increased its stake in CrowdStrike by 232.5% during the 4th quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 714,165 shares of the company’s stock worth $334,772,000 after buying an additional 499,353 shares during the period. Finally, Employees Provident Fund Board acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike during the 4th quarter worth approximately $216,342,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Trending Headlines about CrowdStrike

Here are the key news stories impacting CrowdStrike this week:

• Positive Sentiment: CrowdStrike launched multiple AI-centric product suites (Agentic MDR, Falcon Data Security, adversary-informed cloud risk prioritization) that reinforce its positioning as an AI-native security platform; these are clear long-term revenue and upsell catalysts. Adversary-Informed Cloud Risk Prioritization
• Positive Sentiment: CrowdStrike introduced Agentic MDR and Flex for Services to monetize managed services and flexible consumption — a move that can expand ARR and attach high-margin services to the Falcon platform. Flex for Services
• Positive Sentiment: Integration wins and partnerships — notably Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM support for Microsoft Defender — help crowdstrike broaden TAM and ease enterprise adoption friction. Microsoft Defender integration
• Neutral Sentiment: Short‑interest data reports for March appear inconsistent (zeros/NaN across feeds), so published “big increase” headlines may be noisy — treat short‑interest signals cautiously.
• Negative Sentiment: Today’s sell‑off looks driven more by sector rotation: risk‑off sentiment in high‑multiple software and fears that AI tools (and large cloud players) could pressure pricing and growth expectations for premium security vendors. QuiverQuant analysis
• Negative Sentiment: News and chatter about third‑party AI automation (e.g., Amazon) raising questions about the SaaS model and enterprise AI spend has added to near‑term pressure. Benzinga coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst price‑target trims on expensive software multiples and visible insider selling/portfolio reshuffling among large institutions have incrementally weighed on sentiment, making CRWD more sensitive to market pullbacks. Insider & analyst notes

About CrowdStrike

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.