Jim Cramer on CrowdStrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD): Resilience Amid Tech Outage
We recently published a list of Jim Cramer’s Latest Calls: 10 Stocks to Buy and Sell Now. Since Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) ranks 5th on the list, it deserves a deeper look.
Jim Cramer in a recent program on CNBC yet again talked about the importance of investing in individual stocks and said with discipline and patience beginner investors can beat the market by picking solid stocks with strong fundamentals.
“If you are willing to put in the work, regular people can trounce the averages as long as you are disciplined and you follow the rules,” Cramer said.
Talking about his stock-picking process, Cramer said that he likes to “start” hunting for stocks by going through the list of stocks making new highs. This is a good start, according to Cramer, because a lot of times momentum keeps pushing the same stocks higher and higher unless something fundamentally changes. Cramer said he does not recommend buying stocks when they are trading at new highs. Instead, he waits for a pullback.
“New high list is not a shopping list it’s an inspirational list. You keep an eye on those names and then wait for them to come down before you pull the trigger,” Cramer said.
Cramer said that you should only pile into stocks on a pullback if you believe they will rebound for reasons “unrelated to the broader market.”
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Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD)
Number of Hedge Fund Investors: 69
Commenting on Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD), Jim Cramer referred to CEO George Kurtz’s comments and said the company has “lost almost no clients” despite the major tech outage incident.
Cramer said another important thing was that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined Kurtz and the companies are now working together.
Cramer was referring to the Fal.Con 2024 event where Kurtz and Nadella talked about the collaboration between the two companies.
“That is very threatening to the rest of the industry, it’s very positive. Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) has bottomed,” Cramer added.
Despite the tech outage incident, the fundamental story of Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) remains unchanged, despite short-term damages. Wedbush Securities estimates that less than 5% of CrowdStrike’s customers might switch providers, potentially impacting revenue by $150 million out of the projected $3 billion in sales for fiscal year 2024. This would lower the company’s forward revenue growth from 30.6% to 25.6%, but even at this adjusted rate, Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) would remain well above the IT sector median.
TimesSquare Capital Management U.S. Focus Growth Strategy stated the following regarding CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) in its Q2 2024 investor letter:
“Our cybersecurity holdings were also beneficial to the strategy this quarter. That included the 20% gain from CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD), a cloud-based network security service provider that supports a range of devices, endpoints, and cloud environments. CrowdStrike’s revenues and earnings exceeded expectations, with 33% growth in annual recurring revenue. CrowdStrike continues to see growing momentum in emerging areas such as Cloud Security, Identity, and Security Information & Event Management where it is displacing legacy providers. That led CrowdStrike’s management to increase its guidance for revenues and earnings for the balance of its fiscal year.”
Overall, Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) ranks 5th on Insider Monkey’s list titled Jim Cramer’s Latest Calls: 10 Stocks to Buy and Sell Now. While we acknowledge the potential of Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD), our conviction lies in the belief that AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns, and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than CRWD but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.
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