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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

$CRWD·$191B·Software - Infrastructure·Technology
$204.69+0.5%YTD-57.0%1Y+73.3%
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CRCRWD
$CRWDCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $CRWD, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Comeback attemptWinding up for a moveAI verdict · as of 2026-07-17

Trading in a tight range and building pressure — a move looks likely soon, but the direction isn't clear yet.

The cybersecurity leader is basing after a massive drawdown — the AI-monetization pivot is the specific reset.

CrowdStrike is the endpoint-security platform whose share and pricing collapsed on a summer disruption event, and whose recovery this year has re-anchored around AI-driven security monetization. The stock is basing at the bottom of its 52-week range while retail rebuilds conviction.

Where the setup reads asymmetric:

  • Fundamentals held up under the drawdown: 75% gross margin and 6% return on invested capital — modest by SaaS standards but real cash flow — mean the platform never actually broke, even as the equity did.
  • The pricing-model pivot is category-defining: sector evolution from per-seat SaaS to per-petabyte-analyzed and per-API monetization is exactly the shift that reprices security as an AI-native workload — CRWD and PANW reportedly printing best-ever quarters confirms it.
  • The tape has completely reset: down 57% YTD and sitting at 4.5% of the 52-week range — the drawdown was violent enough that even partial mean-reversion is a meaningful move.
  • The insider signal is small and split: CEO George Kurtz sold $2M in the last week, more risk-management than conviction — executives aren't buying at these levels either, so the bounce still needs an operational catalyst.

What restarts the leg is Sept 1 earnings printing above the ARR recovery bar plus AI-monetization tailwind commentary. What breaks it is another quarter of soft net-new ARR, which validates the drawdown as a longer structural reset.

Agrees with X sentimentX is bullish on the sector re-rating and the AI-monetization pivot, and the setup is real — CRWD and PANW printing best-ever quarters is the specific evidence. The gap is that executives aren't yet buying the bottom themselves, so the bounce needs the operational quarter — the current setup is early conviction, not confirmed reversal.

What to watch: The Sept 1 print — net-new ARR versus prior quarter, per-petabyte pricing traction, and any commentary on legacy per-seat mix rotation. A specific AI-pricing revenue disclosure restarts the leg; another quarter of soft ARR confirms the reset.

On the calendar: 2026-09-01 — Q2 earnings

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X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment43 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-15

CrowdStrike chatter is bullish as cybersecurity re-rates from perceived AI casualty back into an AI beneficiary. Bulls note CRWD and PANW reportedly closed their best quarter ever, with the sector evolving from per-seat SaaS pricing toward per-petabyte-analyzed, per-API and per-agent monetization models. Big options desk flow includes a $1.3M put + $1.2M call bullish risk reversal on Dec26 240/180 strikes, and a July watchlist has CRWD at $198 with a $400 target. Traders describe a higher-low daily structure with the 21DMA reclaim and reversal-pivot confirmed. Modest cautionary voices flag CRWD as still-lagging within the group with pullbacks on thin volume; nothing seriously bearish.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Provides cloud-native endpoint, identity, and workload protection via the AI-driven Falcon platform, sold on subscription.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Infrastructure sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $CRWD.

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

No material change from last week — Enterprise software infrastructure is in a multiple compression phase (-16.

What this means for $CRWD

Direct beneficiary — Provides cloud-native endpoint, identity, and workload protection via the AI-driven Falcon platform, sold on subscription; core operations sit in the path of the cloud-native adoption and AI security spend despite multiple compression.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-12.0%YTD
-14.7%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-26901.4How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
6.0%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-3.9%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
0.9%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
33.5Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-0.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
75.0%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
0.2Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Jun 3, 2026$0.28$0.27+3.7%
Q4 2025Mar 3, 2026$0.28$0.27+2.8%
Q3 2025Dec 2, 2025$0.24$0.23+2.2%
Q2 2025Aug 27, 2025$0.23$0.21+11.7%
Next earningsTue, Sep 1·consensus EPS $0.29

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY27$1.4B+25.6%75.3%-2.2%$0.11$493.3M
Q4 FY26$1.3B+23.3%76.1%1.1%$0.15$376.4M
Q3 FY26$1.2B+22.2%75.1%-5.6%$-0.14$297.4M
Q2 FY26$1.2B+21.3%73.5%-9.7%$-0.31$285.0M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 38 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY27$5.9B$5.9B – $6.0B$1.23$1.20 – $1.2638
FY28$7.2B$7.1B – $7.4B$1.56$1.46 – $1.9638
FY29$8.8B$8.8B – $8.9B$2.01$1.03 – $2.8420
FY30$10.2B$10.0B – $10.5B$2.29$2.23 – $2.3711
FY31$12.0B$11.7B – $12.3B$2.61$2.54 – $2.6910

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.5%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-61.4%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-57.4%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatMega float · 1.0B shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.8% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

SellJul 14George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$2.1MSellJul 13Denis OlearyDirector14.5K sh$2.7MSellJul 13George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$1.9MSellJul 10George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$1.9MSellJul 9George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$2.0MSellJul 8George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$1.9MSellJul 7George KurtzCEO6.6K sh$1.3MSellJul 6George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$2.0MSellJul 2George KurtzCEO10.0K sh$2.0MSellJul 1George KurtzCEO742 sh$571K
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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KCharter amendmentJun 228-K — Item 5.03: Charter amendment · Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

CrowdStrike Holdings held its 2026 Annual Meeting on June 17, 2026, at which stockholders approved an amendment to the company's Certificate of Incorporation to limit officer liability to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware General Corporation Law. The amended certificate was filed with Delaware's Secretary of State on June 22, 2026 and became immediately effective. This charter change reduces litigation exposure for officers. The annual meeting also covered other routine proposals including director elections; the governance amendment is the materially notable outcome.

8-KOfficer or director changeApr 218-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change · Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

CRWD disclosed a personnel change (8-K Item 5.02, dated 2026-04-21). An executive departure and a new appointment are both reported. Michael Sentonas, the Company’s President. Personnel changes are generally administrative; materiality depends on seniority and circumstances.

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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Frost & Sullivan: CrowdStrike Named Company of the Year for Identity Threat Detection and Responseprnewswire.com·1d agoCrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits Expand Strategic Partnership to Deliver Sovereign Cybersecurity Across Europebusinesswire.com·1d agoCrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) Stock Drops Despite Market Gains: Important Facts to Notezacks.com·2d agoTop Cybersecurity Stocks to Buy Now as AI Changes Tech Defensezacks.com·2d agoCrowdStrike To Rally Over 12%? Here Are 10 Top Analyst Forecasts For Wednesdaybenzinga.com·2d ago

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