Formidable Asset Management LLC Acquires 2,171 Shares of CrowdStrike $CRWD

Formidable Asset Management LLC increased its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) by 65.8% during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 5,468 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 2,171 shares during the period. Formidable Asset Management LLC’s holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $2,681,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Brighton Jones LLC lifted its holdings in shares of CrowdStrike by 44.9% during the fourth quarter. Brighton Jones LLC now owns 7,803 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,670,000 after purchasing an additional 2,417 shares during the period. Empowered Funds LLC increased its holdings in CrowdStrike by 3.6% in the first quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 4,812 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,697,000 after purchasing an additional 169 shares during the period. Edgestream Partners L.P. increased its holdings in CrowdStrike by 126.6% in the second quarter. Edgestream Partners L.P. now owns 5,131 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,613,000 after purchasing an additional 2,867 shares during the period. CW Advisors LLC raised its position in CrowdStrike by 23.2% during the 2nd quarter. CW Advisors LLC now owns 13,436 shares of the company’s stock worth $6,844,000 after purchasing an additional 2,532 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Alpha Family Trust lifted its holdings in CrowdStrike by 32.3% during the 2nd quarter. Alpha Family Trust now owns 1,720 shares of the company’s stock worth $876,000 after buying an additional 420 shares during the period. 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: Benchmark initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $500 price target, citing a clear path to much larger ARR and calling CrowdStrike a top cybersecurity pick — a catalyst for demand from institutional buyers. Benchmark Initiates Coverage
• Positive Sentiment: CrowdStrike and HCLTech expanded their partnership with new Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) services, broadening go-to-market reach and product-led enterprise adoption opportunities. CRWD, HCLTech Launch CTEM
• Positive Sentiment: CrowdStrike expanded its GovCloud cybersecurity platform, strengthening addressable market exposure to government and regulated customers — a stickier revenue channel. GovCloud Expansion
• Neutral Sentiment: Q4 results slightly beat estimates (small EPS/revenue beats) and ARR trends remain solid, but the post-earnings selloff and some trimmed price targets have left sentiment mixed. Read the earnings context and analyst commentary. Why CRWD Is Down Since Earnings
• Neutral Sentiment: Next‑gen SIEM adoption is accelerating (significant Y/Y ARR growth), which supports longer‑term revenue mix improvements but may take quarters to materially re-rate valuation. Next-Gen SIEM Growth
• Negative Sentiment: Market fears that Anthropic’s Claude Code / Mythos AI could displace parts of the cybersecurity stack have pressured the stock; that narrative is driving near‑term volatility despite CrowdStrike arguing its platform handles runtime, adaptive threats that standalone AI scans cannot. AI Fears and Selloff

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In other CrowdStrike news, CEO George Kurtz sold 28,853 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $413.01, for a total value of $11,916,577.53. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 2,054,902 shares in the company, valued at approximately $848,695,075.02. This trade represents a 1.38% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Burt W. Podbere sold 7,871 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Wednesday, February 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $415.78, for a total transaction of $3,272,604.38. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 169,613 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $70,521,693.14. This trade represents a 4.43% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders sold 68,636 shares of company stock valued at $28,690,657 over the last 90 days. Insiders own 3.32% of the company’s stock.

CrowdStrike Trading Up 1.5%

Shares of CRWD stock opened at $399.12 on Friday. CrowdStrike has a fifty-two week low of $298.00 and a fifty-two week high of $566.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17, a quick ratio of 1.77 and a current ratio of 1.77. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $412.99 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $467.33. The company has a market cap of $101.22 billion, a P/E ratio of -539.34, a PEG ratio of 17.25 and a beta of 1.07.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 3rd. The company reported $1.12 earnings per share (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 analysts’ expectations 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 for the quarter was up 23.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.03 EPS. Research analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price target on CrowdStrike from $600.00 to $480.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, February 23rd. TD Cowen reduced their target price on CrowdStrike from $580.00 to $480.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Tuesday, February 24th. BMO Capital Markets decreased their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $555.00 to $500.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, March 4th. Weiss Ratings restated a “sell (d+)” rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a research report on Monday, December 29th. Finally, DZ Bank raised shares of CrowdStrike from a “sell” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $490.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, March 11th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-four have assigned a Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, CrowdStrike has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $504.98.

About CrowdStrike

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.