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Same drumbeat, louder beat
Benchmark basically hit the "repeat" button on CrowdStrike, reiterating a Buy rating and keeping its price target parked at $500. For a stock already trading like it has a security guard at the door and a growth engine in the basement, that’s another vote of confidence in the AI cybersecurity story.
Why you should care
Analyst calls matter because they can keep sentiment sticky, especially for a name like CrowdStrike where valuation is always part of the conversation. A $500 target leaves plenty of room for bulls to argue the market still isn’t fully pricing in the company’s upside.
Oh, and there’s the buyback
The article also notes CrowdStrike expanded its buyback program by another $500 million, bringing the total authorization to $1.5 billion. In other words: management is saying, "We like our own stock enough to keep buying it back," which is usually a pretty loud message.
- The company has already repurchased 413,130 shares of Class A common stock
- Those purchases total $150.6 million so far
- More buybacks can help support the share price, especially when investors are already leaning bullish
Big picture: this isn’t a surprise explosion of news, but it does reinforce the same story Wall Street keeps circling back to: CrowdStrike is still one of the cleaner ways to play cybersecurity, AI, and the never-ending race to keep hackers out of your digital kitchen.