Stifel Assumes CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD), Upgrades to Buy

(Updated – November 13, 2023 3:53 AM EST)

Stifel analyst Adam Borg assumes coverage on CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) with a Buy (from Hold) rating and a price target of $225.00.

The analyst comments “We are transferring coverage of CrowdStrike to Adam Borg, upgrading shares to Buy from Hold, and raising our target price to $225. CrowdStrike is a leading provider of Endpoint Security software and services to help prevent, detect, and respond to cyberattacks. While Endpoint Security is highly competitive, CrowdStrike’s differentiation is its high-efficacy cloud-based endpoint technology, lightweight single-agent architecture, and massive scale analyzing over 1 trillion events daily. Beyond this, through internal development and targeted M&A, CrowdStrike is building out a broader cybersecurity platform across adjacent cybersecurity (Cloud Security, Identity Security, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, etc.) and IT (IT Operations, etc.) use cases, which we think makes CrowdStrike one of a handful of vendors well-positioned to capitalize on cybersecurity platform consolidation in coming years. Net/net, we believe CrowdStrike has a number of secular and company-specific drivers to sustain at least low-to-mid 20% growth and operating margin/FCF expansion in coming years.”

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Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings closed at $196.31 yesterday.