CrowdStrike $CRWD Shares Purchased by Valeo Financial Advisors LLC

Key Points

• Valeo Financial Advisors LLC increased its stake in CrowdStrike by 6.3%, acquiring 618 additional shares, bringing their total holdings to 10,476 shares valued at approximately $5.34 million.
• Insiders, including CAO Anurag Saha and Director Sameer K. Gandhi, have sold significant amounts of stock recently, revealing a 5.42% and 0.81% decrease in their positions, respectively.
• Evercore ISI and Zacks Research have recently made positive updates to their price targets on CrowdStrike, with Evercore raising its target from $405 to $430 and Zacks upgrading the stock from "hold" to "strong-buy".

Valeo Financial Advisors LLC boosted its stake in CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD - Free Report) by 6.3% during the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 10,476 shares of the company's stock after acquiring an additional 618 shares during the quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC's holdings in CrowdStrike were worth $5,336,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in CRWD. Cloud Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $25,000. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in CrowdStrike by 114.3% in the 1st quarter. Atlantic Edge Private Wealth Management LLC now owns 75 shares of the company's stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 40 shares during the period. Vision Financial Markets LLC acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $26,000. E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. grew its stake in CrowdStrike by 305.3% in the 1st quarter. E Fund Management Hong Kong Co. Ltd. now owns 77 shares of the company's stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 58 shares during the period. Finally, Neo Ivy Capital Management acquired a new stake in CrowdStrike in the 1st quarter valued at $30,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 71.16% of the company's stock.

Insider Buying and Selling at CrowdStrike

In other news, CAO Anurag Saha sold 2,234 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Monday, September 22nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $495.68, for a total transaction of $1,107,349.12. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer owned 39,017 shares in the company, valued at $19,339,946.56. The trade was a 5.42% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Sameer K. Gandhi sold 6,250 shares of CrowdStrike stock in a transaction on Thursday, September 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $410.32, for a total value of $2,564,500.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 768,511 shares in the company, valued at approximately $315,335,433.52. This represents a 0.81% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 132,816 shares of company stock worth $62,606,356. Corporate insiders own 3.32% of the company's stock.

CrowdStrike Stock Up 1.2%

NASDAQ CRWD opened at $495.95 on Tuesday. CrowdStrike has a 52 week low of $285.79 and a 52 week high of $517.98. The company has a quick ratio of 1.88, a current ratio of 1.88 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.20. The business's fifty day simple moving average is $446.69 and its 200-day simple moving average is $441.44. The firm has a market cap of $124.46 billion, a PE ratio of -416.76, a P/E/G ratio of 115.12 and a beta of 1.19.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results 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 return on equity of 1.53% and a negative net margin of 6.84%.The business had revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.15 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.04 EPS. The company'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. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that CrowdStrike will post 0.55 earnings per share for the current year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on CRWD shares. Evercore ISI lifted their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $405.00 to $430.00 in a research note on Thursday, September 18th. Zacks Research upgraded CrowdStrike from a "hold" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a report on Friday, August 29th. KeyCorp raised their price objective on CrowdStrike from $495.00 to $510.00 and gave the company an "overweight" rating in a report on Thursday, September 18th. Westpark Capital restated a "hold" rating on shares of CrowdStrike in a report on Thursday, August 28th. Finally, Truist Financial raised their price objective on CrowdStrike from $500.00 to $550.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, September 18th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-eight have assigned a Buy rating, eighteen have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $487.11.

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.

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