By Angela Palumbo

Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings were falling after the cybersecurity firm reported strong results offset by a disappointing earnings outlook.

CrowdStrike posted fourth-quarter earnings of $1.03 a share on revenue of $1.06 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected the company to report earnings of 86 cents a share on revenue of $1.04 billion.

In the same period last year, CrowdStrike reported earnings of 95 cents a share on revenue of $845 million.

"As businesses of all sizes rapidly adopt AI, stopping the breach necessitates cybersecurity's AI-native platform," CEI George Kurtz said in the earnings release.

The stock was down 6.5% in after-hours trading, though, because CrowdStrike said it expects first-quarter earnings to be between 64 cents a share and 66 cents a share, well below Wall Street's estimates of 95 cents a share. Earnings for the year are expected to be between $3.33 a share to $3.45 a share, also below the analyst call of $4.40 a share.

Over the summer, an update to the CrowdStrike's software led to widespread crashes of computers using Microsoft's PC operating systems, resulting in IT outages across multiple industries.

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March 04, 2025 16:33 ET (21:33 GMT)

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