Insider Selling: CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) President Sells 19,367 Shares of Stock

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) President Michael Sentonas sold 19,367 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $411.06, for a total value of $7,960,999.02. Following the completion of the transaction, the president owned 406,944 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $167,278,400.64. The trade was a 4.54% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink.

CrowdStrike Stock Performance

CRWD stock opened at $392.99 on Wednesday. The company has a current ratio of 1.77, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17. The firm has a market cap of $99.67 billion, a P/E ratio of -531.06, a P/E/G ratio of 18.13 and a beta of 1.06. CrowdStrike has a 12-month low of $298.00 and a 12-month high of $566.90. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $422.08 and its 200 day simple moving average is $469.93.

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

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Asset Planning Inc bought a new stake in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Pilgrim Partners Asia Pte Ltd acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter worth approximately $25,000. Anchor Investment Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the third quarter worth approximately $25,000. Hanson & Doremus Investment Management grew its holdings in CrowdStrike by 170.0% in the 4th quarter. Hanson & Doremus Investment Management now owns 54 shares of the company’s stock worth $25,000 after buying an additional 34 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Basepoint Wealth LLC bought a new position in CrowdStrike in the 4th quarter worth approximately $25,000. Institutional investors 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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on CRWD shares. Stifel Nicolaus lowered their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $480.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, February 23rd. Argus cut their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $520.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, March 5th. Evercore decreased their target price on CrowdStrike from $460.00 to $375.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, February 25th. Stephens upped their target price on CrowdStrike from $465.00 to $490.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $555.00 price target on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-two have issued a Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $506.26.

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.