Jim Cramer Said In January 2025 That CrowdStrike (CRWD) Would Go Up “Big”

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the Jim Cramer’s Hottest AI Stock Picks. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the world that uses AI as part of its business and also provides products to the AI industry. Since mid-January, the shares are up by 13%. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) spent most of 2025 recovering from the effects of its global outage in 2024. Its shares dipped by 3% in August after the firm’s third quarter revenue forecast was lower than analyst estimates. Then, in December, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)’s stock dipped once again, even though its third-quarter earnings saw the firm post forecasts that were higher than what analysts expected. Cramer has been quite optimistic about CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) and the cybersecurity sector, as he believes that growing national security threats and the surge in data use due to AI growth are tailwinds for the sector. In January, he predicted that the shares were going to perform well due to contracts and the recovery from the 2024 outage:

Jim Cramer Said In January 2025 That CrowdStrike (CRWD) Would Go Up "Big"

“I think CrowdStrike is going up big from here. I think that [the] cybersecurity business is terrific. I think that they are just now beginning to play offense after that glitch that occurred. I do think that this is the time to own CrowdStrike and to own what George Kurtz has built.”

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