Cybersecurity Stock Pops as Analyst Highlights AI Advantage

Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:CRWD) stock is garnering analyst support this morning, with Wolfe Research upgrading the cybersecurity name to "outperform" from "peer perform" and setting its price target at $450. The analyst cited benefit from AI disruption, as well as its Anthropic model release. Plus, Morgan Stanley named CRWD a "top pick" earlier this month. 

CRWD is up 3.6% at $382.94 at last glance, but still carries a 18.2% year-to-date deficit. The shares have shaved nearly 30% off their Nov. 13, all-time high of $543.85, but are up 7.2% in the last 12 months.

Short-term options traders lean bullish toward CRWD. This is per the security's Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio (SOIR) of 0.85, which ranks in the low 8th percentile of readings from the last 12 months.