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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-10-17The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cloud-delivered protection across endpoints and cloud workloads, identity, and data. It offers corporate workload security, security and vulnerability management, managed security services, IT operations management, threat intelligence services, identity protection, and log management. The company primarily sells subscriptions to its Falcon platform and cloud modules through its di…
Management team
- Mr. Michael Sentonas · PresidentFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. George R. Kurtz · Co-Founder, President, CEO & DirectorFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Maria Riley · Vice President of Investor RelationsFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Dmitri Alperovitch · Co-FounderFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it, not a rating or a recommendation.
−0.5 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled. The rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Cautious ( -0.5 of a possible +2; was -0.5 before debate) with high confidence. Across the recent quarters shown, gross profit rose from $ 926,439,000 in the quarter ended 31 October 2025 to $ 1,043,352,000 in the quarter ended 30 April 2026 and $ 1,096,895,000 in the quarter ended 31 July 2026, while R&D expense increased from $ 347,564,000 to $ 408,326,000 and then $ 444,200,000 over the same dates.
Operating results moved from an operating loss of $ 69,497,000 in the quarter ended 31 October 2025 to losses of $ 30,600,000 (quarter ended 30 April 2026) and $ 33,232,000 (quarter ended 31 July 2026). Reported net income per XBRL was -$ 33,997,000, +$ 27,774,000, and +$ 5,306,000 for those three quarters, with diluted EPS of -$ 0.14, $ 0.11, and $ 0.01 respectively. Cash and cash equivalents showed point-in-time balances around $ 5.0 billion across the referenced dates, and balance-sheet cash of $ 5,013,847,000 exceeds long-term debt of $ 746,216,000 as of 2026-07-31.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else (no outside knowledge, no browsing), so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC (revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter) and reports which way the trend is running.
Gross profit increased across the recent quarters shown: $926,439,000 in the quarter ended 31 October 2025; $1,043,352,000 in the quarter ended 30 April 2026; and $1,096,895,000 in the quarter ended 31 July 2026.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001535527-25-000033Research and development expense rose over the same sequence of quarters: $347,564,000 in the quarter ended 31 October 2025; $408,326,000 in the quarter ended 30 April 2026; and $444,200,000 in the quarter ended 31 July 2026.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001535527-26-000031Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full: its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet; its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
The 10-Q filed 27 August 2026 states the company reported net losses of $162.5 million for fiscal 2026 and $15.2 million for fiscal 2025, and an accumulated deficit of $1.3 billion as of January 31, 2026.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-27The 10-Q filed 27 August 2026 adds disclosure that the July 19, 2024 Falcon sensor content configuration update (the "July 19 Incident") has harmed, and is expected to continue to harm, the company's business, sales, customer and partner relations, and reputation and that the company has incurred, and expects to continue to incur, significant costs and expenses related to the incident.
Management's discussion · filed 2026-08-27Reads the signal panel above (momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta) and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Three-month momentum is +14.6% as of 2026-10-16, and six-month momentum is +114.5%, placing six-month momentum in the 98th percentile of a 882-stock research universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-16weakened in debateThe 12_1 momentum measure is +120.9%, which ranks in the 95th percentile of the 882-stock universe on 2026-10-16.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-16weakened in debateReads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
13F-reported institutional holders total "$159.93B" in aggregate holdings as of 2026-06-30, with 2,476 reported holders and 147 exited positions in the quarter.
13F holdings · 2476 filers · as of 2026-06-30Major asset managers reported large position sizes in the 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30: BlackRock, Inc. "$16.67B", VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC "$12.37B", and STATE STREET CORP "$8.84B".
13F holdings · 2476 filers · as of 2026-06-30Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline on October 16 reports that CrowdStrike stock fell 7% that day and discusses factors that could drive shares through 2026.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-16Multiple outlets published comparative coverage on October 16 that contrasts CrowdStrike's revenue trends with ServiceNow, noting both have posted eight consecutive quarters of sequential growth.
News · aol.com · 2026-10-16Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5: who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No open-market officer purchases are recorded in the parsed transactions for the most recent 180-day window; the summary shows "distinct_buyers": 0 and "bought": "$0".
Form 4 · Kurtz George (PRESIDENT AND CEO) · $105k sold · 2026-10-01Kurtz George (PRESIDENT AND CEO) executed multiple sales on 2026-10-01, including transactions of "$105k" for 403 shares and "$808k" for 3046 shares, each filing states the trades were made pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Kurtz George (PRESIDENT AND CEO) · $105k sold · 2026-10-01Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model shows the FCF growth rate today's price would justify is 72.7% (implied_growth = 0.727).
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice-to-FCF (price / FCF trailing twelve months) is 174.14, implying the market price equals about 174 times trailing free cash flow.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score. The argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several company-specific and market signals together support a favorable read. Quarterly gross profit shows a clear sequential increase across the quarters cited (fundamentals-0), and operating results and net income per quarter move from larger losses toward narrower losses and then small positive net income in two of the three quarters shown (fundamentals-2, fundamentals-3), which is consistent with improving operating performance; these accounting facts are direct XBRL/filing extractions and therefore strong evidence. Free cash flow (TTM) is materially positive and balance-sheet cash exceeds long-term debt (valuation-2, valuation-4), which are strong, directly reported balance-sheet and cash-flow facts that mitigate concerns about capital scarcity. Market-momentum measures are robust (market-0, market-1, market-2) and institutional ownership and ETF inclusion are high (ownership-0, ownership-1, ownership-2), indicating strong market participation and favorable technical positioning; those signals are strong within the provided research universe. Against the bear points — net losses and the disclosed Falcon incident (filings-0, filings-1), elevated volatility, insider selling, and high P/FCF multiples (market-3, insider-4, valuation-1, valuation-3) — the strongest counter-evidence here is the size of cash and positive FCF plus demonstrated quarterly operating improvement; the filings asserting losses and the incident are well-sourced and materially negative (strong evidence), but the cash/FCF and improving quarterly P&L facts are also well-sourced and materially supportive, so the dataset contains both substantive headwinds and substantive operational/financial offsets.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.35
36 surviving claims rest on 15 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 17% of them, and 96% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
Surviving claims draw on a moderate number of distinct sources but a small set of analysts carry disproportionate influence; the largest analyst contributes roughly one-sixth of the claims while the desk retained almost everything raised in debate. That combination makes the read substantively supported by filings and data, but somewhat fragile to source or-analyst errors and to any single new primary filing that materially revises a key fact (for example shares outstanding or price/technical facts).
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 3rd of 23 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-10-16).
90-day volatility ranks 11th of 23 in Software—Infrastructure (as of 2026-10-16).
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
Third-party consensus shown for context. It never enters Moneyta sentiment. When the two diverge, the debate above is where the why lives.
What this was built from
Every figure on this page traces to one of these. The desk reads only what is listed here (no outside knowledge, no browsing), and each card shows who read it and what it contributed to the score.
10 filings· 2 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data, not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer−0.1 to the score
12 documents· 1 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes−1.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash+0.2 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.8 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
2 filings· 1 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.8 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
Third-party consensus, shown for context only; it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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