Benchmark Financial Wealth Advisors LLC Has $384,000 Stock Position in CrowdStrike $CRWD

Benchmark Financial Wealth Advisors LLC reduced its holdings in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 22.2% during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 753 shares of the company’s stock after selling 215 shares during the period. Benchmark Financial Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $384,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors also recently modified their holdings of the business. AlphaQuest LLC bought a new position in CrowdStrike during the second quarter worth $26,000. Financial Management Professionals Inc. boosted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 91.9% in the 2nd quarter. Financial Management Professionals Inc. now owns 71 shares of the company’s stock valued at $36,000 after purchasing an additional 34 shares during the period. Wealth Watch Advisors INC acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 2nd quarter worth $37,000. Cloud Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter worth $25,000. Finally, Vision Financial Markets LLC bought a new position in shares of CrowdStrike during the 1st quarter worth about $26,000. 71.16% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Activity

In other CrowdStrike news, CEO George Kurtz sold 42,267 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $450.47, for a total value of $19,040,015.49. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,132,887 shares in the company, valued at $960,801,606.89. The trade was a 1.94% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 11,883 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $455.47, for a total transaction of $5,412,350.01. Following the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 231,130 shares in the company, valued at $105,272,781.10. This represents a 4.89% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 156,840 shares of company stock valued at $75,350,186. Company insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on CRWD shares. Mizuho increased their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $430.00 to $450.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 17th. Sanford C. Bernstein cut their price target on CrowdStrike from $371.00 to $343.00 and set a “market perform” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Scotiabank raised CrowdStrike from a “sector perform” rating to a “sector outperform” rating and lifted their price objective for the stock from $440.00 to $600.00 in a report on Thursday, September 25th. Zacks Research lowered CrowdStrike from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, October 27th. Finally, DA Davidson raised their target price on CrowdStrike from $490.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, September 18th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-nine have issued a Buy rating, eighteen have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, CrowdStrike presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $505.78.

CrowdStrike Price Performance

Shares of CRWD stock opened at $543.01 on Monday. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $475.45 and its 200 day simple moving average is $461.98. CrowdStrike has a one year low of $294.68 and a one year high of $553.64. The firm has a market cap of $136.27 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -456.31, a P/E/G ratio of 127.60 and a beta of 1.16. 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 (NASDAQ:CRWD) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August 27th. The company reported $0.93 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.83 by $0.10. CrowdStrike had a negative return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.The company had revenue of $1.17 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.15 billion. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.04 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 21.4% on a year-over-year basis. 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 expect that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share 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.