CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 3.740-3.760 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 3.630. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.9 billion-$3.9 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.9 billion. CrowdStrike also updated its Q4 guidance to $0.84-0.86 EPS.

CrowdStrike Stock Up 0.2 %

NASDAQ CRWD traded up $0.62 on Tuesday, reaching $364.30. The stock had a trading volume of 6,674,648 shares, compared to its average volume of 4,991,665. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $309.95 and a 200 day moving average price of $312.22. The company has a current ratio of 1.90, a quick ratio of 1.90 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26. CrowdStrike has a 1 year low of $200.81 and a 1 year high of $398.33. The company has a market capitalization of $89.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 528.07, a P/E/G ratio of 26.95 and a beta of 1.10.

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August 28th. The company reported $1.04 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.97 by $0.07. The company had revenue of $963.87 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $958.27 million. CrowdStrike had a return on equity of 8.44% and a net margin of 4.84%. The firm’s revenue was up 31.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.06 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that CrowdStrike will post 0.49 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts recently commented on CRWD shares. Stifel Nicolaus increased their price target on CrowdStrike from $300.00 to $375.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, November 20th. Raymond James lowered their price objective on shares of CrowdStrike from $380.00 to $275.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, August 29th. Hsbc Global Res upgraded CrowdStrike from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, August 30th. The Goldman Sachs Group decreased their price target on shares of CrowdStrike from $400.00 to $295.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Thursday, August 15th. Finally, Rosenblatt Securities raised their target price on shares of CrowdStrike from $325.00 to $385.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating, thirty have given a buy rating and four have assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $339.08.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other CrowdStrike news, President Michael Sentonas sold 10,776 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 23rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $297.28, for a total transaction of $3,203,489.28. Following the completion of the sale, the president now owns 400,390 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $119,027,939.20. This represents a 2.62 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CAO Anurag Saha sold 1,683 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $297.28, for a total transaction of $500,322.24. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 38,962 shares in the company, valued at $11,582,623.36. This trade represents a 4.14 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 108,248 shares of company stock worth $32,465,110 in the last 90 days. Insiders own 4.34% of the company’s stock.

CrowdStrike Company 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.