CrowdStrike $CRWD Shares Purchased by Jasper Ridge Partners L.P.

Jasper Ridge Partners L.P. grew its position in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 366.8% in the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 3,501 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 2,751 shares during the period. Jasper Ridge Partners L.P.’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $1,783,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 54,635.9% during the 2nd quarter. Laurel Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 4,293,484 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,186,714,000 after purchasing an additional 4,285,640 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new position in CrowdStrike during the second quarter valued at approximately $1,638,365,000. Vestor Capital LLC lifted its position in CrowdStrike by 269,840.3% during the second quarter. Vestor Capital LLC now owns 977,184 shares of the company’s stock valued at $497,690,000 after buying an additional 976,822 shares in the last quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC boosted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 52.6% in the 1st quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 2,771,424 shares of the company’s stock worth $977,149,000 after acquiring an additional 955,529 shares during the period. Finally, Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 2.6% in the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 23,430,572 shares of the company’s stock worth $11,933,425,000 after acquiring an additional 596,007 shares during the period. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other CrowdStrike news, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 10,706 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, September 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $495.67, for a total transaction of $5,306,643.02. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 220,424 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $109,257,564.08. This trade represents a 4.63% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 5,000 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Monday, November 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $550.20, for a total value 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 trade represents a 0.65% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 118,672 shares of company stock valued at $60,280,613. 3.32% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. BMO Capital Markets lifted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $555.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 3rd. Oppenheimer raised their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $560.00 to $580.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, November 21st. Needham & Company LLC boosted their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $535.00 to $575.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, December 3rd. Stephens upped their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $525.00 to $590.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 9th. Finally, Daiwa Capital Markets lifted their target price on CrowdStrike from $530.00 to $560.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have assigned a Buy rating, seventeen have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $554.74.

CrowdStrike Stock Up 0.3%

Shares of CrowdStrike stock opened at $519.54 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 1.81 and a quick ratio of 1.81. CrowdStrike has a 1-year low of $298.00 and a 1-year high of $566.90. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $516.49 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $481.27. The company has a market capitalization of $130.38 billion, a P/E ratio of -412.33, a PEG ratio of 125.38 and a beta of 1.09.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.96 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.94 by $0.02. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 2.12% and a negative net margin of 6.88%.The company had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.22 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $0.93 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 21.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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, research analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 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.