CrowdStrike can compound above 20% as AI expands security demand and Falcon’s platform breadth captures consolidation and new AI-security spend.
The bull case is increasingly priced in, while concentrated growth, demanding expectations, and execution risks leave estimates and the multiple exposed.
The stock received an upgrade from DB, indicating a positive outlook.
DB upgraded the stock to Buy and raised its price target to $300 from $240, citing AI's expansion of the cyber TAM and strengthening of Falcon's consolidation edge.
DB's checks indicate accelerating endpoint momentum for four straight quarters and share gains driven by Falcon Flex/single-agent architecture, with additional AI upside from Guardian, SafeMind, and partnerships.
DB believes the company is comfortably ahead of its $10B FY30 ARR target and can sustain over 20% compounded growth for years.
CRWD +3% on a DB upgrade; ORCL -1% on 6-part $10B Bond offering.
Cyber: JPM sees AI-driven vulnerability growth elevating security spend, with CRWD/PANW/SAIL preferred
JPM argues AI is compressing the vulnerability discovery-to-exploitation cycle and pushing cyber further into C-suite/board-level business continuity budgets, supporting spend across SASE, Zero Trust, next-gen endpoint, exposure management and incident resp...
The company's stock held up well as the cyber security sector continued to perform strongly, with JPM making it a top pick, and a consensus view that hacking will worsen before improving.
The company benefits from rising cybersecurity budgets and AI security leading incremental spend.
MSFT dominates across cloud AI, infrastructure software and Copilot, while SNOW is the strongest next-tier infrastructure beneficiary and CRWD/PANW benefit from cybersecurity budgets +6.9% and AI security leading incremental spend. The key risk is ROI: only...
Mizuho's partner checks suggest Falcon Guardian could be a major incremental growth driver, with AIDR ARR up significantly and early Guardian pricing implying meaningful monetization upside.
Partners describe F4Q AI-security pipelines as very strong, with Guardian, Agentic Identity, and SafeMind broadening the company's AI security stack.
Mizuho also sees the company's FY28 framework for 20%+ year-over-year net new ARR growth as beatable compared to the Street's ~10%.
Mizuho raised its price target to $275 from $250.
The stock gave back an early pop despite Mizuho's checks showing AIDR ARR up significantly from June to August, with early Falcon Guardian pricing at more than double AIDR.
The company's stock rose significantly due to critical vulnerabilities identified in PHP, which highlighted the need for enhanced cybersecurity solutions.
Semis +2.2% outperformed as SPCX’s guide, SMCI’s preannouncement, and some bullish Anthropic comments by Gerstner on CNBC had semi vibes feeling better than they have been over the past couple weeks. Software +1.8% was led by cyber on an AI-found PHP flaw (...
Stifel's C3Q26 VAR survey was the strongest in its 35-quarter history, with 80% of VARs growing year-over-year, all Tier-1 contacts at or above plan, and record pull-ins with record low push-outs.
Cyber budgets remain healthy, with most expecting 5–10% growth in CY26 and a plurality expecting over 10% in CY27.
AI is already generating pipeline for CrowdStrike, with the real purchasing inflection anticipated in C4Q26/CY27.
CrowdStrike is among Stifel's preferred names in the cybersecurity sector.
AI is already creating pipeline at PANW/CRWD, but the real purchasing inflection is expected in C4Q26/CY27. Preferred names: CRWD, PANW, NET, OKTA and ZS; FTNT likely another upside print, CHKP more subdued.
Wells Fargo's reseller survey indicates strengthening security spending, with 2027 budgets expected to increase by 10-15%, and AI security being the top growth area.
The company is identified as a clear AI winner, with 74% of partners recognizing its strength in AI security.
PANW/CRWD remain the clearest AI winners at 71%/74%, with PANW also leading SASE share momentum at +66% and SIEM/SOAR at +63%.
CRWV -7% as investors and X focus on spiking bonds yields (‘32 bonds hit 14% yield, below 80c) while CDS almost at 1000bps. Cyber weaker (PANW/CRWD -3%) on OpenAI in early talks to acquire a Cyber co and OAI CFO saying cyber will be a revenue driver next year.
The company posted strong year-over-year growth and is gaining market share beyond endpoint security.
Cyber: Barclays VAR call positive on NET/OKTA/CRWD/PANW; mixed elsewhere
Barclays’ security VAR call was most positive on NET, OKTA, CRWD and PANW: NET saw healthy 3Q growth as AI-driven traffic pushed customers into higher tiers; OKTA saw healthy Aug/Sept growth with identity the VAR’s #1 CIO/CISO priority; CRWD posted strong y...
Early one today as I need to head out shortly. QQQs +61bps as of 2pm ET, after the S&P and NDX both tagged fresh record highs late morning before fading as crude bounced off its lows; small caps lagged (IWM -62bps; ARKK -1.8%). Software +1.2% outpaced semis...
The company's valuation at 40x revenue is considered extremely high, posing a significant risk if the market sentiment shifts.
Cyber ripped off the open: PANW +4.6%; OKTA +3.6%; ZS +3.3%; CRWD +2.8%; S +1.6%; FTNT +1.7%; NET +1.5%. No bid pre-market despite a weekend of AI-agent breach headlines, but NVDA named CRWD and PANW as security partners on its agent safety platform.
Broader platform consolidation is expected to favor the company.
The company showed strength in the cyber security sector.
The stock was bid higher for most of the day after early weakness, despite Bernstein's view that valuations were full.
Bernstein stated that valuations were full.
Funda.AI sees the company as one of the clearest beneficiaries of the shift towards automated, cross-domain security platforms.
Cyber outperformed again: S +4%; OKTA +2%; ZS +1%. Funda.ai had a good report out yesterday saying AI says Dario Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay and the linked METR investigation show agentic attacks already spanning zero-days, credentials, cloud workloa...
Software: DDOG 9:30am (CFO) · RBRK 9:30am (CEO) · U 9:30am (CFO) · INTU 10:10am (CFO) · MDB 10:10am (CEO/CFO/CPO) · Capgemini 10:10am (CEO) · SpaceXAI 12:25pm (CFO) · CRWD 1:45pm (CEO) · SHOP 2:25pm (CFO/VP Product & Growth) · AUR 2:25pm (CEO) · SAIL 3:05pm...
The company is seeing strong demand for its security platform, with significant net new ARR growth and successful adoption of its multi-product offerings.
In Tech, a lot of red with Semis/Software both down 2% and Internet -1%. Broad low liquidity de-grossing day: everything red except Telecom (+0.3%), with the damage concentrated in the high multiple growth: Security SW -5.3% (CRWD/S/NET/ZS/FTNT all -5% to -...
Cybersecurity stocks are weaker ahead of PANW's earnings, as investors are grappling with strong near-term demand versus fears of frontier models entering their space more aggressively.
Cybersecurity stocks were strong as the Hugging Face OpenAI incident reinforced the need for higher security spending, with enterprises needing to defend against autonomous attackers and control agent access.
The company delivered a significant beat on net new ARR, with FY27 NNARR growth guidance raised to 34% from 28%, exceeding Street and buyside expectations.
Endpoint accelerated for the fourth consecutive quarter, and AIDR ARR nearly tripled q/q, indicating strong growth in key segments.
Falcon Flex ARR surpassed $2.29B, growing 101% y/y, with significant ARR uplift on conversions and new-logo Flex deals contributing a substantial portion of NNARR.
The post-Mythos urgency translated into increased cyber investment, accelerated modernization, more deals, larger deal sizes, and record new-logo NNARR.
Endpoint emerged as the biggest source of incremental growth, driven by AI tools and a large replacement opportunity for legacy antivirus.
Management indicated that FQ2 was not a peak endpoint quarter and that larger deals, increased win rates, and faster Falcon Complete implementation cycles are ongoing.
AIDR nearly tripled q/q and is expected to eventually become larger than EDR, offering a separate, incrementally priced module with usage-linked expansion.
Flex added over 935 accounts, more than the preceding three quarters combined, with all ten largest transactions being Flex deals, demonstrating strong adoption.
Win rates and competitive displacements increased, including migrations from legacy vendors and next-gen products, driven by superior efficacy and consolidation.
The FY27 NNARR guidance raise exceeded FQ2 outperformance, and management's prudent guidance methodology increases confidence in the outlook.
Non-GAAP operating margin reached 25.3%, exceeding Street expectations, and subscription gross margin improved, credited to top-line leverage and cloud optimization.
The company is evolving from an endpoint vendor to a security infrastructure layer for enterprise AI, leveraging its sensor footprint and Flex for consolidation.
The shift to agents creates more endpoints, identities, and data flows to secure, providing a long replacement cycle and growing attack surface for cross-selling.
FQ2 provided strong evidence for the bull thesis, with AI-security translating into measurable ARR, core endpoint accelerating, and AIDR nearly tripling.
Flex demonstrated powerful economics with significant uplift on conversion and further expansion within eight months for re-Flexes.
The company addressed demand concerns with strong net new ARR and showed improved retention and monetization of new products.
The FQ2 outperformance may be more concentrated than the headline platform narrative suggests, with endpoint accounting for a large portion of the NNARR improvement.
Growth rates for Cloud, SIEM, and Identity have moderated from six months ago, indicating that overall acceleration was more dependent on endpoint, AIDR, and Flex.
Bears argue the quarter was driven by a renewed endpoint replacement cycle, AIDR from a small base, and rapid migration to Flex, rather than synchronized acceleration across the portfolio.
Flex creates analytical complexity, as the significant uplift could pull forward future expansion that would have occurred over several years.
Non-Flex NNARR was negative as customers migrated, and FQ3 and FQ4 NNARR growth is expected to decelerate due to tougher comparisons.
Competitive risks remain substantial from Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and specialized cloud, identity, and vulnerability-management vendors.
The company carries an extreme valuation premium, meaning merely good execution may not be sufficient to justify it.
A slowdown in growth, weaker AIDR monetization, increased discounting, an outage, or heavier-than-expected investment could compress both estimates and the multiple.
RBRK -10%: Strong across the board, but pretty tough to clear raised bars after CRWD/OKTA
Some investors have expressed concern that Anthropic will promote its own cybersecurity products, given the security talent it has hired to build and sell into cyber peer plays.
Morgan Stanley's partner checks remain healthy across various product lines, including Next-Gen SIEM, Falcon Flex, endpoint, Cloud, Identity, MDR, and AI security, with SIEM showing particular strength.
The company is leveraging existing endpoint telemetry to offer attractive total cost of ownership for SIEM compared to legacy vendors.
Morgan Stanley anticipates F2Q net new ARR of approximately $305-307 million, representing a 7-8% beat versus Street expectations, and revenue of approximately $1.455-1.460 billion versus consensus of $1.440 billion.
Most of the upside is likely to flow through to FY27 guidance.
With shares up approximately 50% over the last three months and checks not strengthening quarter-over-quarter, Morgan Stanley believes a normal beat may already be largely priced in.
Morgan Stanley would consider buying meaningful post-print weakness.
BNP Paribas says DDOG and CDNS hiring accelerated in July, while sales job openings also increased versus six months ago, a potentially positive leading indicator for future top-line growth. Rep quota attainment improved across much of software, particularl...
The CTO is leaving to launch an AI-cyber fund.
Evercore ISI's partner checks indicate resilient cyber demand, with budgets growing faster than broader IT spending.
The partner was very bullish on CRWD, noting healthy Flex/Re-Flex activity and strong adoption of next-gen SIEM.
Platform consolidation remains a key driver, benefiting larger vendors like CRWD.
cyber budgets still outpacing broader IT spend at ~15% growth vs. ~7% and spending priorities centered on identity and AI-related security. The partner was most bullish on PANW and CRWD: PANW is tracking well ahead of expectations with strong SASE, cloud se...
The AI-security demand narrative has reaccelerated, with channel partners now describing the company as one of the strongest AI cybersecurity vendors.
Channel checks were positive and support an upside case for 2Q NNARR to over $300 million, driven by stronger-than-normal seasonality, growing Reflex adoption, and an AIDR pipeline.
Platform ARR is expected to reach approximately $2.2 billion, representing about 38% of total ARR, and a 2Q beat should positively impact FY27 guidance.
Fal.Con could serve as the next catalyst, with potential for the company to pull its $10 billion ARR target forward to FY30, with FY29 as an upside case.
Field work remains positive, led by Flex consolidation across Next-Gen SIEM and AI security.
Partner surveys showed 31% net above plan and improving pipeline strength.
The company tied PANW as the top consolidation beneficiary and ranked highly in SecOps/AI positioning.
Partner performance moderated slightly but remains consistent with solid execution, with notable improvement in NG SIEM and Falcon Cloud Security.
Wells Fargo sees a mixed near-term setup into FQ2 given a rising bar, but field work remains positive, led by Flex consolidation across Next-Gen SIEM and AI security. Partner surveys showed 31% net above plan and improving pipeline strength, while CRWD tied...
The near-term setup into FQ2 is mixed given a rising bar.
Cybersecurity stocks continue to perform well, demonstrating that security is a budget AI cannot cannibalize.
BTIG had positive checks, indicating that endpoint modernization demand is accelerating as AI expands attack surfaces and forces enterprises to upgrade security infrastructure.
Cyber continues to act well: PANW +6%; CRWD +5% as Cyber checks continue to demonstrate the one software budget AI can’t cannibalize is the one protecting AI.
The cybersecurity sector, including CRWD, showed strong performance.
Citi reiterated Buy and raised its split-adjusted price target to $250, reinforcing confidence in high-20% near-term ARR growth and durable mid-20% growth thereafter.
Early checks point to stronger eight-figure deal activity, while AI-driven attack surfaces, regulatory pressure, and procurement disruption are increasing demand for the company’s broad platform, services footprint, and Flex offerings.
Citi believes the company is becoming a "cyber OEM" for emerging AI architectures, supporting higher multiples and outsized incremental budget capture.
Valuation is near peak levels and estimate revisions remain limited.
Strong demand and momentum in emerging products support growth expectations.
Barclays' VAR check showed the company accelerated in May/June, contributing to overall security revenue growth.
The company's performance supported continued momentum across platform consolidation, endpoint, SASE, and cyber resilience.
PANW/CRWD/ZS/RBRK Lead Barclays’ Strong 2Q Security VAR Check; FTNT/OKTA Mixed, CHKP Weak
PANW saw strong big-deal activity, CRWD accelerated in May/June, ZS grew 20% with a healthy pipeline, and RBRK posted 49% growth in June, supporting continued momentum across platform consolidation, endpoint, SASE and cyber resilience.
The stock performed well after IBM's negative pre-announcement, which cited rapidly evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity concerns.
AI security demand is entering a lasting "Mythos moment" rather than a one-time spending spike.
Accelerating interest in AI Detection & Response (AIDR), Falcon Flex, Project Quilt, Next-Gen Identity, and SIEM reflects enterprises increasingly treating AI security as foundational infrastructure for AI deployments.
Demand is expected to build through FY27 and beyond, with the AI security opportunity potentially becoming a multi-billion-dollar ARR business over time.
Readthroughs from cyber partner checks skew most positive for the company.
Cybersecurity: Evercore ISI Channel Checks Skew Positive on PANW, CRWD, FTNT — Incrementally Negative on ZS
Readthroughs skew most positive for CRWD, PANW, FTNT, and OKTA, and most mixed on ZS.
There are emerging signs of cracks in the demand narrative, despite continued positive sell-side checks.
Cyber weaker with PANW -5% / CRWD -2% as finally hearing some cracks on the edges of the Mythos demand ramp narrative despite continued positive sell side checks. We called these out yesterday:
Hyperscaler AI capex should continue expanding, supporting security leaders.
The company is entering a new leg of growth driven by AI adoption and continued platform consolidation, leading to a raised price target.
There is accelerating demand across endpoint security, identity, SIEM, cloud, and Falcon Complete, while AI products such as Charlotte AI and AI-SPM expand monetization opportunities.
The company deserves to maintain a premium valuation given its broad platform leadership, strong enterprise demand, and favorable competitive positioning.
The stock underperformed within the cyber security software sector.
Cyber underperformed in software PANW -6% / ZS -60bps / CRWD -2.4%. A good thread on the space here in Slack:
Outside of semis, security continues to lead the way in software as names like OKTA, PANW, and CRWD all hitting 52wk highs after a couple of positive sell-side checks early which called out improving demand.
The company is expected to show upside to its quarterly and full-year guidance.
CrowdStrike is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI adoption due to its broad platform, growing module penetration, and leadership in endpoint security.
Accelerating traction in AI Detection & Response, with ARR growing approximately 250% quarter-over-quarter and an AI-related pipeline exceeding $500 million, indicates strong demand for its AI offerings.
AI workloads, MCP-based workflows, and local LLM deployments are driving a 'Core EDR renaissance,' increasing demand for visibility, monitoring, and protection at the endpoint while supporting faster NNARR growth in FY27 versus FY26.
The stock finished in the green, indicating outperformance.
Some slight outperformance from SNOW/DDOG only down 1-2% on some positive sell side mentions while cyber names PANW/CRWD finished in the green.
Piper became more confident in the company's ability to benefit from the next phase of AI-driven security spending after meetings with management.
Growing enterprise focus on securing AI models, agents, and workflows, with the launch of Mythos and GPT-5.5, has accelerated customer conversations around AI risk and broadened security prioritization.
Strong pipeline trends and increasing deal activity support the company's raised NNARR outlook.
Management emphasized the value of the company's broad platform approach, which enables customers to consolidate vendors, improve security outcomes, and lower total cost of ownership.
The company outperformed within the software sector, specifically in cyber security.
The Q2/FY27 guide is strong, and commentary around Mythos impact is positive, suggesting continued engagement from long-term bulls.
FY27 NNARR growth was raised by 520 bps to ~27.7% at the midpoint, implying acceleration over FY26 and a stronger second half despite tougher comparisons.
Management tied demand to various initiatives like "Mythos," Project Glasswing, Project QuiltWorks, and the need to secure AI agents, developer tools, and cloud workloads.
AIDR ending ARR grew over 250% quarter-over-quarter, with a >$50M Q2 pipeline, and management believes AIDR can ultimately be larger than EDR.
Customer conversations around RSA and Mythos shifted towards securing Shadow AI, identity, MCP-type services, and endpoint AI workloads, indicating new demand drivers.
AI token spend has created new budgets, and security is being incrementally funded around AI adoption.
Next-gen SIEM, Cloud, and Next-gen Identity produced record Q1 NNARR and now exceed $2B in combined ending ARR, with strong growth in Falcon Shield ARR and Next-gen Identity NNARR.
Management highlighted the third consecutive quarter of endpoint ARR growth acceleration and entered Q2 with a record endpoint pipeline, framing endpoint as the control point for AI.
Flex ending ARR surpassed $1.9B, growing 99% year-over-year, with over 1,900 Flex customers, and Re-Flex customers showed significant uplift.
FQ1 non-GAAP operating margin and free cash flow exceeded Street expectations, and FY27 FCF margin guidance remained at 30%+ despite the growth raise.
Confidence in deal velocity and pipeline is driven by Claude Code adoption and agent-management urgency, with AIDR being incremental and Next-gen SIEM still early in greenfield adoption.
The company's ability to sustain high-20s NNARR growth for FY27 is a key positive data point, and AIDR is seen as a new category the company is structurally positioned to own.
If AIDR, Next-gen SIEM, identity, and cloud continue to scale, the company can remain a 20%+ grower for longer than typical software companies at its scale.
The budget narrative has shifted, with AI creating new attack surfaces and incremental security budgets, rather than being a threat to security vendors.
Falcon Flex provides a commercial mechanism for customers to expand into new modules, and new models will accelerate demand.
The company is well-positioned to capture incremental value in the security value chain due to its broad telemetry, workflow ownership, and closed-loop security capabilities.
CRWD: Q1 NN ARR of $256M missed buy-side expects > $275M. Q2/FY27 guide strong and commentary positive around Mythos impact, but still a high bar to meet.
Q1 NN ARR of $256M missed buy-side expectations of >$275M, indicating the performance was not good enough against heightened expectations.
The company needs NNARR growth to reaccelerate above 50% for the remainder of the year, which would require a Q2 NNARR result roughly 20% above expectations.
The FQ1 ARR beat was only around $6M, much smaller than the typical recent beat range, and NNARR missed the buyside bogey.
Billings missed and RPO declined quarter-over-quarter, suggesting some bookings indicators were less clean than the revenue, operating margin, and free cash flow results.
Bears question whether the FY27 guide assumes a lot of second-half improvement at a time when NNARR comparisons become much harder.
The durability of growth is a concern, as AIDR is early, the $50M AI pipeline is not yet large enough to materially impact total ARR, and AI security adoption could take time to convert into enterprise-wide deployments.
The company already trades at an extreme premium compared to security and software peers, so even solid low-20s revenue growth with 30%+ FCF margin may struggle if growth does not materially reaccelerate.
remediation, response, governance, and audit workflows. As a result, platform vendors with broad telemetry, workflow ownership, and closed-loop security capabilities—such as PANW, MSFT, CRWD, GOOGL, and CYBR—appear best positioned to capture incremental val...
In Tech, we have a busy week coming up with Earnings from AVGO, CRWD, CRDO, HPE, GTLB, PANW, CIEN, DOCU and more. Computex continues through the week with keynotes INTC’s Lip Bu Tan, and MRVL CEO. BAML’s and ISI’s TMT conferences start Tuesday as well as th...
Clev is positive on the company, stating that Mythos is supporting increased awareness and is likely to accelerate security investments into the second half of 2026.
The company is benefiting from strong spending trends in Data/Infra Apps, Cyber, and Dev Tools, as CIOs increasingly view data quality/security as the biggest AI scaling bottlenecks.
Wedbush raised its price target, highlighting the company as a top AI-cyber beneficiary, with its Falcon/Charlotte AI positioning becoming increasingly differentiated as AI-native security demand accelerates.
Wells also noted CIOs increasingly view data quality/security as the biggest AI scaling bottlenecks, supporting continued spending toward names like $SNOW, $CRWD, and $PANW, while customer-service seat counts appear most at risk from AI automation.
Cybersecurity: Wedbush Raises PTs on PANW and CRWD, Says AI Is Creating the Strongest Cyber Demand Environment in 20 Years
The stock was down early, along with other cyber names, due to ZS's horrid print.
MU +8% getting close to $1k. Lots of your favorite AI semi names up 4-6%. Internet and Software down early, the latter led lower by ZS’s -25% horrid print, which is bringing down other cyber names as well (PANW/CRWD -4%). Interestingly, hyperscalers largely...
Cybersecurity stocks are taking a bit of a breather from recent highs in sympathy with ZS's decline.
The company is a close second to DDOG as a most loved software stock, specifically in the cybersecurity sector.
The company's stock continued to rip to new highs, indicating strong performance in the cyber security sector.
The firm raised its price target to $660 from $480 ahead of earnings, citing increasingly bullish partner/reseller checks around FY27 growth expectations.
Feedback from 25 CrowdStrike resellers skewed positive by roughly a 3:1 ratio, reinforcing confidence in durable platform demand and continued share gains across cybersecurity.
The stock saw a significant increase, driven by positive commentary on the cybersecurity space and anticipated White House executive order on cybersecurity and AI safety.
Barclays models 1Q NNARR at ~$250M with upside potential to ~$265-270M driven by solid organic trends plus incremental contribution from recent acquisitions.
Mythos is seen as a key driver of FY27 upside beyond just a 1Q beat, with the company emerging as one of the biggest AI/security beneficiaries.
Investors may be underestimating FY27 ARR upside given stronger AI-driven demand, acquisition synergies, and improving contribution from newer products.
KeyBanc reported that CrowdStrike checks remained solid/steady, with upside drivers including Mythos, Frontier AI Readiness, Flex purchasing, and strong demand tied to Project Quiltworks, leading the firm to raise its price target to $700 from $525.
Cybersecurity: KeyBanc More Positive on PANW, OKTA, and ZS; Sees CRWD Demand Staying Strong
KeyBanc sees demand for CrowdStrike remaining strong.
Strong platform consolidation trends and accelerating adoption of next-gen security offerings.
Slight weakness in endpoint seat growth.
The stock saw a positive movement as BTIG reported positive checks with contacts indicating stable-to-improving demand trends and increasing platform consolidation around CrowdStrike.
The cybersecurity sector continues to perform well, with the stock showing positive movement.
The company's performance lifted the entire cyber security space.
FTNT +20% shaking off the bearish concerns that the big beat was a pull forward. Brought up the whole cyber space with CRWD/PANW +7-8% and ZS +10%.
Mizuho upgraded CrowdStrike due to improving demand trends and strengthening fundamentals across its platform, supporting a more constructive outlook.
CrowdStrike is well positioned to capitalize on AI security with multiple growth drivers, including Falcon Flex, hyperscaler marketplaces, and emerging AI initiatives.
Project Glasswing could provide incremental upside, and ARR growth remains durable into FY27, with valuation now more attractive.
Mizuho upgraded CrowdStrike to Outperform, citing favorable risk/reward and multi-lever growth.
Partnerships and ecosystems, such as CrowdStrike's, are becoming critical to address increasingly complex cyber threats, with autonomous defensive tools emerging as a core enterprise requirement.
CRWD/PANW/ZS: JPMorgan Sees AI Expanding Cyber Attack Surface, Driving Structural Security Spend Growth
Mizuho upgraded the stock to Buy and raised its price target, citing improving demand trends and strengthening fundamentals across the company's platform based on recent checks.
Glasswing could provide incremental upside to Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).
The company is upgraded to Overweight due to accelerating AI-driven cybersecurity demand and strong positioning of the Falcon platform across prioritized spend areas like identity, endpoint, and cloud.
Increasing CISOs focus on AI-related risks is a catalyst for higher budgets, while Falcon’s breadth and runtime protection capabilities support durable growth and competitive differentiation.
Project Glasswing provides an incremental advantage, and the company's focus on execution, platform consolidation, and runtime defense are key moats against LLM-driven disruption.
Goldman Sachs is more convinced in the software TAM after a business trip, favoring the company as enterprises shift towards selling units of labor/productivity and AI Natives sell into white space.
The stock was up early on news of Bessent meeting with bank chiefs ahead of the Mythos release, suggesting positive anticipation for the product.
PANW/CRWD +2% on more Mythos news - this time Bessent meeting with bank chiefs ahead of the release.
The stock was upgraded at DZ Bank.
APP/U -3% weaker CRWD +1.3% upgraded at DZ Bank
The company's stock underperformed.
Cybersecurity companies like CRWD, ZS and NET’s (+4%) Cloudflare Tunnels also benefit.
Citizens reiterated an Outperform rating and a price target of $550, citing recent acquisitions in identity governance and secure browser as strategic steps that close gaps and expand the platform.
KeyBanc downgraded CrowdStrike to Sector Weight without a price target, citing a more measured security spending environment and "yet-to-be-seen" AI tailwinds across the sector.
Recent CIO survey results indicate more balanced security budget intentions, which tempers near-term upside despite the company’s strong positioning.
Berenberg upgraded the stock to Buy and set a price target, highlighting the company as one of the few cybersecurity vendors positioned to sustain sector-leading growth due to its unified architecture and platform-led strategy.
The company posted healthy growth and large deals in the endpoint segment, which remained solid.
FTNT delivered strong 4Q growth on solid large-deal activity. In SASE, ZS rebounded to ~30% growth in Nov/Dec after a soft October and NET saw a strong December off a small base, while endpoint remained solid with CRWD posting healthy growth and large deals...
Barclays' checks indicated security growth of approximately 10% year-over-year in Q4, which was slightly below plan, despite improving sequentially through October–December and lagging networking/hardware.
Cyber weaker with CRWD -3, PANW -1.6%, FTNT -2.5% as barclays had some mixed checks saying security grew ~10% y/y in Q4, slightly below plan but improving sequentially through Oct–Dec and lagging networking/hardware
Strong security checks, Falcon Flex traction, and cross-sell momentum support a healthy Q3 setup and long-term ARR goals.
Survey work suggests CrowdStrike is positioned to exceed F2Q consensus ARR growth expectations as a strong sequential performer.
Muted channel checks and a high valuation leave limited room for upside unless second-half estimates are raised significantly.
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