Shares of leading cloud-based cybersecurity juggernaut CrowdStrike (CRWD 0.01%) are up 10% Thursday as of noon ET, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
CrowdStrike is holding its three-day Fal.Con keynote this week and has the market buzzing with optimism.
The key figure that may have stolen the show was updated guidance for net new annual recurring revenue (ARR) to accelerate to at least 20% in 2027 -- above the 17% expected this year.
Following this announcement, more than a dozen analysts scrambled to raise their CrowdStrike price targets this morning, prompting today's soaring share price.
Is CrowdStrike set to rebound?
Just over one year ago, CrowdStrike's stock plummeted over 40%, following a massive outage stemming from a faulty update.
Following this outage, the company's sales growth declined from above 30% to 20%, and its free cash flow (FCF) margin dropped from above 30% to 24% within the same year. Worse yet, it wasn't initially clear how much customer trust CrowdStrike lost amid the mess.
Image source: CrowdStrike.
However, following last quarter's first reacceleration in revenue growth to 21% and management's better-than-expected guidance for 2027, it seems the company avoided the worst-case scenario.
Furthermore, CrowdStrike recently acquired Pangea Cyber and Onum, launching it full speed ahead into three critical growth areas: next-generation cloud, identity, and security information and event management (SIEM).
These solutions currently account for roughly $1.6 billion in ARR and are growing by 40% annually. However, management believes the target addressable market for these growth areas could be $116 billion by 2030.
On top of this, CrowdStrike also recently partnered with Salesforce to create security solutions for its artificial intelligence (AI) agents -- a nascent market that could be worth $90 billion on its own by 2030, according to industry estimates.
