Crowdstrike today
As of 10/17/2025 at 04:00 PM ET
- 52 week range
- $294.68
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$517.98
- Price target
- $494.95
Earnings season has just begun, but investors in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. Nasdaq:CRWD It will have to wait until late November for the company to report.
However, some signs suggest that the stock’s 7.7% rise in the last 30 days is just a warm-up for what’s to come through the end of 2025 and into 2026.
Specifically, CrowdStrike is attracting strong interest from institutional investors, and analysts have become bullish on CRWD stock. For these reasons, long-term investors should look beyond the company’s lofty valuation and focus on the strong demand for its AI-based platform.
CrowdStrike continues to exceed expectations
A recent Wedbush survey indicates that enterprise customers’ cybersecurity spending exceeded quarterly targets, reaching 109% of target. This comes at a time when other budgets are stabilizing or shrinking.
He confirms that the demand for cybersecurity solutions continues to grow. This is the primary reason to invest in CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity stocks. If AI infrastructure companies are top-tier technology stocks, cybersecurity should be a close second.
CrowdStrike (CRWD) price chart for Saturday, October 18, 2025
Like many high-flying AI stocks, CrowdStrike faces questions about valuation. The company trades at a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of about 27 times, which is a slight increase from its historical average.
That’s why it’s important to understand another piece of information from the Wedbush survey: that CrowdStrike, along with Zscaler Inc. Nasdaq:ZS Data Dog Company Nasdaq: dogreceived the strongest positive feedback from enterprise customers. Specifically, CrowdStrike outperformed expectations by 5% to 9%.
This outperformance demonstrates how CrowdStrike’s Falcon Flex platform helps expand its contracts with public and private sector clients.
Institutional buying outperforms insider selling
CrowdStrike skeptics will point to 11 separate sales of CRWD stock since August. These sales were from high-ranking company insiders and members of Congress. However, understanding the reason behind insider selling is essential.
In many cases, company insiders made the sales as part of a 10b5-1 plan. This is important because it means that the sales were planned months in advance and will occur regardless of the stock price. As far as congressional trades go, they may be distasteful, but with CrowdStrike winning business from the federal government, this will likely be a case of investors taking profits.
What investors should be optimistic about is demand from institutional investors. In the past 12 months, institutional buyers outpaced sellers in terms of transactions by approximately 2:1. In dollar terms, this ratio is approximately 3:1 with $18 billion in institutional inflows compared to $7 billion in outflows.
The latest quarterly data also shows an acceleration in institutional accretion, with inflows exceeding outflows nearly every quarter since early 2023. This trend suggests that large investors still see upside in CrowdStrike’s expanding cybersecurity platform and recurring revenue business model even after the stock’s sharp rise since September.
Today, institutional buyers own over 70% of CrowdStrike’s outstanding shares. This is important because institutions take long positions only after conducting in-depth research, and often use their own buy-side analysts.
Analyst sentiment turned sharply bullish
CrowdStrike stock forecast today
$494.95
2.13% upModerate purchase
Based on 48 analyst ratings
| Current price | $484.65 |
|---|---|
| High expectations | $600.00 |
| Average expectations | $494.95 |
| Low expectations | $295.00 |
CrowdStrike stock forecast details
Analyst sentiment is another way to measure the strength of a stock’s recent rise.
In the last 90 days, CrowdStrike has gone from one of the most downgraded stocks to one of the most upgraded stocks. Analysts point to accelerating revenue growth, expanding margins, and increasing demand for endpoint protection as key drivers behind this transformation.
Many companies have raised their price targets and earnings estimates in anticipation of continued market share gains. Wells Fargo and Scotiabank have the most bullish price targets at $600, calling for a 21% upside from CRWD’s October 16 closing price.
In total, 48 analysts currently cover CrowdStrike, reflecting broad institutional interest in the name. The stock carries a Moderate Buy consensus rating, with an average price target of just under $495, implying a potential upside of 2.5% from current levels.
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