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Crowdstrike Holdings  / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>CrowdStrike started the 2023 fiscal on a positive note with results surpassing Wall Street expectations showing the company’s ability scale fast with excellent growth, profitability, and cash flows.</li><li>Furthermore, CrowdStrike introduced new Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) capabilities during the quarter to speed up threat hunting for cloud environments and workloads while also reducing response time.</li><li>In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.</li></ul>

CrowdStrike started the 2023 fiscal on a positive note with results surpassing Wall Street expectations showing the company’s ability scale fast with excellent growth, profitability, and cash flows.Furthermore, CrowdStrike introduced new Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) capabilities during the quarter to speed up threat hunting for cloud environments and workloads while also reducing response time.In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc.: Subscription Growth

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

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Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

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<li>61% revenue growth, 17% operating margins (up 720bps YoY) and 32% FCF margins. Best in class growth + profitability.</li>
<li>ECommerce engine opening up from 4 modules to 12 means higher velocity sales on the come.</li>
<li>VMWare's Carbon Black will become a major share donator due to Broadcom acquisition.</li>
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61% revenue growth, 17% operating margins (up 720bps YoY) and 32% FCF margins. Best in class growth + profitability.
ECommerce engine opening up from 4 modules to 12 means higher velocity sales on the come.
VMWare's Carbon Black will become a major share donator due to Broadcom acquisition.


Crowdstrike FY1Q23: Share Gains Will Lead to Share Gains

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<li>Elastic just dramatically raised its revenue guidance for FY2025...implying a massive acceleration in revenue growth that the 18% move in the stock underplayed.</li>
<li>Dynatrace is a wildly profitable software company trading at a significant discount to its Rule of 40 metrics.</li>
<li>The overall observability space is red hot, unimpacted by macro factors and being overlooked by software investors.</li>
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Elastic just dramatically raised its revenue guidance for FY2025...implying a massive acceleration in revenue growth that the 18% move in the stock underplayed.
Dynatrace is a wildly profitable software company trading at a significant discount to its Rule of 40 metrics.
The overall observability space is red hot, unimpacted by macro factors and being overlooked by software investors.


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<ul><li>Sherwin-Williams is a dominant leader in the paint and advanced coating market. They have been a superb investment for about 150 years at this point</li><li>Waste Management is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management and environmental services</li><li>CrowdStrike was already growing at a rapid pace before the pandemic, and their revenue growth accelerated during the pandemic. CrowdStrike’s technology is best suited for this remote work environment</li></ul>

Sherwin-Williams is a dominant leader in the paint and advanced coating market. They have been a superb investment for about 150 years at this pointWaste Management is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management and environmental servicesCrowdStrike was already growing at a rapid pace before the pandemic, and their revenue growth accelerated during the pandemic. CrowdStrike’s technology is best suited for this remote work environment

<ul><li>CrowdStrike delivered yet another set of strong results across 2021 that exceeded Wall Street expectations.</li><li>CrowdStrike has grown more than 100% over a year for log management modules, identity protection, vulnerability management, and IT hygiene.</li><li>CrowdStrike has achieved another record year for the modules that protect identity that expressively differentiates Falcon in the field.</li></ul>

CrowdStrike delivered yet another set of strong results across 2021 that exceeded Wall Street expectations.CrowdStrike has grown more than 100% over a year for log management modules, identity protection, vulnerability management, and IT hygiene.CrowdStrike has achieved another record year for the modules that protect identity that expressively differentiates Falcon in the field.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.: Investment Thesis

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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cybersecurity products and services to stop breaches. The Company offers cloud-delivered protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, and leading threat intelligence, managed security services, IT operations management, threat hunting, Zero Trust identity protection, and log management. CrowdStrike serves customers worldwide.

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CrowdStrike started the 2023 fiscal on a positive note with results surpassing Wall Street expectations showing the company’s ability scale fast...

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