American National Bank & Trust Purchases 79 Shares of CrowdStrike $CRWD

American National Bank & Trust boosted its position in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 7,900.0% during the second quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 80 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 79 shares during the period. American National Bank & Trust’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $41,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Cloud Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in CrowdStrike during the first quarter valued at about $25,000. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC boosted its position in CrowdStrike by 114.3% during the first quarter. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 75 shares of the company’s stock valued at $26,000 after buying an additional 40 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC purchased a new stake in CrowdStrike during the first quarter valued at about $26,000. E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. boosted its position in CrowdStrike by 305.3% during the first quarter. E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. now owns 77 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 58 shares during the period. Finally, Neo Ivy Capital Management purchased a new stake in CrowdStrike during the first quarter valued at about $30,000. Institutional investors own 71.16% of the company’s stock.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other CrowdStrike news, CEO George Kurtz sold 17,830 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $494.53, for a total value of $8,817,469.90. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,115,057 shares in the company, valued at $1,045,959,138.21. This trade represents a 0.84% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. Also, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $410.32, for a total transaction of $2,564,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director owned 768,511 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $315,335,433.52. This trade represents a 0.81% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 129,066 shares of company stock valued at $60,934,078 over the last ninety days. 3.32% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have issued reports on CRWD shares. BMO Capital Markets upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $450.00 to $500.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. The Goldman Sachs Group upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $492.00 to $535.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, September 19th. Zacks Research upgraded shares of CrowdStrike from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, August 29th. Susquehanna upped their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $425.00 to $530.00 and gave the company a “positive” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 4th. Finally, Bank of America restated a “neutral” rating and set a $470.00 price target (up from $420.00) on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Wednesday, June 4th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-seven have given a Buy rating, seventeen have issued a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, CrowdStrike has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $483.79.

CrowdStrike Stock Performance

Shares of CRWD opened at $481.42 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20, a current ratio of 1.88 and a quick ratio of 1.88. CrowdStrike has a one year low of $272.67 and a one year high of $517.98. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $443.79 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $435.31. The firm has a market capitalization of $120.81 billion, a PE ratio of -404.55, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 113.13 and a beta of 1.12.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.83 by $0.10. CrowdStrike had a negative net margin of 6.84% and a negative return on equity of 1.53%. The business had revenue of $1.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.04 earnings per share. CrowdStrike’s quarterly revenue was up 21.4% compared to the same quarter last year. CrowdStrike has set its FY 2026 guidance at 3.600-3.72 EPS. Q3 2026 guidance at 0.930-0.95 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 EPS for the current fiscal year.

CrowdStrike 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.