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$CRWD is just amazing:

"8 out of 10 times when an enterprise customer tests, they choose CrowdStrike over Microsoft and our win rates across all competitors remained strong in the quarter." Image
Similar to $PANW, $CRWD seeing consolidation in their Falcon platform:

"In Q1, we closed over 50% more deals involving eight or more modules, compared to a year ago.

We believe this speaks to increasing customer demand for consolidation using the Falcon platform." Image
$CRWD generative AI advantage

- LLMs to become commoditized over time but the data they are trained on will not.

- $CRWD has a sustainable data advantage as a result of its petrabytes of existing data and trillions more daily. Image
$CRWD > $MSFT

"Enterprise customer with 50k employees told $CRWD the upgrade cost of moving from $MSFT E3 to E5 would be at least $2.3 million more than their subscription and that's just for the upgrade."

"When customers map it all out, they quickly realize that using… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
$CRWD catapulted to a leader position in the Forrester Wave for managed detection and response.

$CRWD maintained number-one market share position for the second consecutive year based on Gartner's managed security service report. Image
As the cybersecurity industry continues to consolidate, $CRWD is the key beneficiary:

"On average, enterprise customers can realize over 200% ROI with Falcon with ROI results like this, it's no surprise companies turn to CrowdStrike." Image
$CRWD

Charlotte AI: A new generative AI security analyst

Charlotte AI is meant to help customers improve security outcomes, lower costs and yield faster results.

Works with OverWatch, Falcon Complete & Intel teams. Image
$CRWD working with $AMZN AWS “to develop powerful new generative AI applications that help customers accelerate their cloud, security, and AI journey.” Image
Generative AI customers see the benefit of Falcon Cloud Security Complete and I think we will see more generative AI player expand to or take up $CRWD Falcon Cloud Security Complete in the future. Image
Closing off with $CRWD CEO George Kurtz 4 key points:

1. Clear data advantage built over the past 12 years
2. Introduction of Charlotte AI
3. Consolidation of the security stack
4. Robust business model capable of generating rapid growth at scale, earnings and durable FCF. Image

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Is CrowdStrike $CRWD expensive today?

Yes.

Is $CRWD deserving of its expensive valuation?

Yes.

Here's why: A thread🧵 Image
1. The $PANW question

$CRWD has always been direct in addressing its competitors.

Given $PANW recent comments about needing to shift its strategy towards platformization given rogue behavior by vendors and some fatigue in spending in the space, $CRWD was once again rather direct in addressing this.
1. The $PANW question

Firstly, $CRWD was clear that it sees the current macro environment as stable and consistent as what it has seen in earlier quarters, and that deal scrutiny is expected through the year. This does suggest a better and more stable outlook than what $PANW was referring to.

Secondly, I think $CRWD did mention that the cybersecurity vendor landscape is one that is rather messy today, with many point products that are trying to use copycat products to clutter the market, which essentially leads to customers just curing the symptoms and not the illness itself. There are also multi-platform hardware vendors with point products that are put together that are marketed as a platform.

With these vendors that are in the market today, it does seem that $CRWD does see its single platform, which has one console and one agent as a leading solution.

$CRWD does see that these vendors mentioned above could lead to customers seeing difficulties in deployment, higher costs and cybersecurity with poor or less than ideal performance.

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