Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ Has $31.30 Million Stock Holdings in CrowdStrike $CRWD

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ increased its stake in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 8.0% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 63,837 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 4,730 shares during the period. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $31,297,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Asset Planning Inc acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd bought a new position in CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter worth $25,000. AlphaQuest LLC acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the second quarter worth $26,000. Howard Hughes Medical Institute bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike in the second quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike in the third quarter valued at about $27,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting CrowdStrike

Here are the key news stories impacting CrowdStrike this week:

• Positive Sentiment: NordVPN partnership expands CrowdStrike’s reach into consumer security, bringing enterprise-grade threat intelligence to NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro product — this is a concrete revenue/awareness win and supports platform adoption. NordVPN Partners With CrowdStrike
• Positive Sentiment: Broader sector tailwinds: multiple pieces note AI-driven demand is boosting cybersecurity budgets and pipeline growth, which supports CrowdStrike’s ARR expansion and multi-module adoption. This underpins longer-term revenue visibility. Cybersecurity stocks are pulling away from the software sell-off
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest reports in the feed show anomalous/zero values and NaN increases — current published short-interest figures appear unreliable, so short squeeze/cover dynamics don’t explain today’s move. (No authoritative change in borrow-demand is evident.)
• Negative Sentiment: Analyst pressure: several brokers lowered price targets (Truist trimmed its PT to $550 while keeping a Buy; Mizuho cut to $490 and moved to Neutral) and at least two shops cut targets this morning — these downgrades and target trims hurt sentiment and triggered selling. Benzinga: CrowdStrike Stock Is Falling The Fly: Mizuho price target cut
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation and technicals are weighing on the stock: MarketBeat and others highlight that CRWD’s premium valuation, a recent “death cross” (50-day below 200-day) and the need for a strong March earnings print make the shares vulnerable to short-term selling despite ARR growth. MarketBeat: CRWD valuation and earnings setup

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Johanna Flower sold 3,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $461.94, for a total transaction of $1,385,820.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 76,082 shares in the company, valued at approximately $35,145,319.08. This represents a 3.79% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Also, President Michael Sentonas sold 11,461 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, December 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $479.78, for a total value of $5,498,758.58. Following the completion of the transaction, the president owned 342,655 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $164,399,015.90. The trade was a 3.24% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. Insiders have sold 100,247 shares of company stock worth $45,722,274 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

Shares of CRWD stock opened at $414.29 on Wednesday. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $456.76 and a 200 day simple moving average of $472.99. The company has a market cap of $104.44 billion, a P/E ratio of -328.80, a P/E/G ratio of 24.59 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a quick ratio of 1.81, a current ratio of 1.81 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. CrowdStrike has a twelve month low of $298.00 and a twelve month high of $566.90.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, December 3rd. The company reported $0.96 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.22 billion. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 2.12% and a negative net margin of 6.88%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 21.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.93 earnings per share. On average, sell-side analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have weighed in on CRWD. Argus lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $540.00 to $600.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, December 5th. Stephens reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $590.00 target price on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, December 18th. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $580.00 to $590.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Wedbush reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $600.00 price target on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Monday, December 1st. Finally, Barclays raised their price objective on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $610.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, November 14th. Thirty analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Hold rating and three have given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $550.09.

CrowdStrike Company 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.