CrowdStrike narrowly beats estimates on AI tailwinds, but stock falls 9%

Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates:

• Earnings per share: $1.10 adjusted vs. $1.07 expected
• Revenue: $1.39 billion vs. $1.36 billion estimate

The cybersecurity company said revenue grew 26% from a year ago. Net income totaled about $27.8 million, or 11 cents per share. That’s up from a net loss of $104.3 million, a loss of 42 cents per share, last year.

CrowdStrike also announced a four-for-one stock split effective in July. Shares closed at $747.61 on Wednesday.

CEO George Kurtz said the company is benefiting from an “AI inflection point” fueled by rising customer platform adoption.

“In Q1, the worlds of cybersecurity and frontier AI collided: this was the Mythos moment,” he said in a press release. “CrowdStrike is AI security infrastructure, critical to successful AI adoption.”

CrowdStrike is among a wave of cybersecurity companies profiting from skyrocketing demand for cyber tools as advanced models such as Anthropic’s Mythos threaten to accelerate the pace of cyberattacks.

The sector has also managed to shake off recent AI disruption concerns that rattled software names earlier this year. CrowdStrike is up about 60% this year.

To meet the rise of agentic AI, CrowdStrike and its competitors have also been on a massive acquisition spree, scaling AI capabilities as customers reconsider their cybersecurity strategies.

Its latest push included a $740 million deal for identity security startup SGNL and AI security startup Pangea.

CrowdStrike expects revenue of about $1.44 billion in the current quarter, which was roughly in line with a $1.43 billion estimate from LSEG. The company also lifted its fiscal 2027 net new annual recurring revenue growth forecast to between $6.53 billion and $6.56 billion.