CrowdStrike $CRWD Shares Purchased by Quantitative Investment Management LLC

Quantitative Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 401.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 12,089 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 9,679 shares during the quarter. CrowdStrike comprises about 0.8% of Quantitative Investment Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 28th largest holding. Quantitative Investment Management LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $5,928,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Asset Planning Inc acquired a new position in CrowdStrike during the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter worth $25,000. Howard Hughes Medical Institute acquired a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the second quarter worth $27,000. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter valued at $27,000. Finally, Financial Gravity Companies Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the second quarter valued at $33,000. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

CrowdStrike News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting CrowdStrike this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Morgan Stanley has doubled down on CrowdStrike, reiterating a bullish stance that funds the buy-side momentum and supports further upside from continued cybersecurity demand. CRWD Stock Alert: Why Morgan Stanley Is Doubling Down on CrowdStrike Here
• Positive Sentiment: CrowdStrike announced a strategic partnership to integrate Falcon Cyber Shield into Perplexity’s Comet (AI) browser — this expands Falcon’s addressable market for AI-native threat protection and highlights product monetization in the AI era. CrowdStrike and Perplexity Partner to Deliver Enhanced Security for Comet Enterprise
• Positive Sentiment: Strong quarterly results: CrowdStrike reported its first profitable quarter, record ARR growth, a $3.1B shelf filing and completed a modest buyback — all materially supportive of long-term growth and capital flexibility. Why CrowdStrike (CRWD) Is Up 11.5% After First Profit, Record ARR, AI Deals And Shelf Filing
• Positive Sentiment: DZ Bank upgraded CRWD to buy with a $490 target, adding a second analyst catalyst that can lift sentiment if other brokers follow. DZ Bank upgrade report
• Neutral Sentiment: Short-interest reports in mid‑March show anomalous ‘0 shares / NaN’ data — appears to be a reporting glitch, so don’t read too much into the published days-to-cover figures yet.
• Neutral Sentiment: Macro/security backdrop: multiple pieces highlight surging cyberattacks and AI-driven risk expansion — a positive demand tailwind but already priced into growth names. With Cyberattacks Surging, Does CrowdStrike or Palo Alto Networks Stand Out?
• Negative Sentiment: Despite the blowout quarter, several articles note the stock’s muted rally — valuation and stretched multiples remain key risks that can cap near-term upside until growth visibility or margin expansion is clearer. CrowdStrike Delivered a Blowout Quarter—and the Stock Yawned

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages recently issued reports on CRWD. Canaccord Genuity Group reduced their target price on CrowdStrike from $515.00 to $400.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, March 4th. Susquehanna boosted their price target on CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $600.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. BNP Paribas Exane cut their price objective on CrowdStrike from $450.00 to $400.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. Truist Financial reduced their price objective on CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $550.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, February 17th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised CrowdStrike from an “equal weight” rating to an “overweight” rating and lifted their target price for the stock from $487.00 to $510.00 in a report on Tuesday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have assigned a Buy rating, fifteen have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $506.26.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other CrowdStrike news, CEO George Kurtz sold 28,853 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $413.01, for a total value of $11,916,577.53. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 2,054,902 shares in the company, valued at approximately $848,695,075.02. This represents a 1.38% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,530 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, December 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $479.78, for a total transaction of $734,063.40. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer directly owned 44,562 shares in the company, valued at $21,379,956.36. The trade was a 3.32% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders sold a total of 90,024 shares of company stock valued at $40,424,241 in the last three months. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

CrowdStrike Stock Performance

NASDAQ CRWD opened at $441.54 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $111.31 billion, a P/E ratio of -596.67, a PEG ratio of 22.42 and a beta of 1.06. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $428.86 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $469.15. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a current ratio of 1.77. CrowdStrike has a fifty-two week low of $298.00 and a fifty-two week high of $566.90.

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

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.