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We recently published a list of Why These 15 Large Tech Stocks Are Skyrocketing So Far in 2025. In this article, we are going to take a look at where CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) stands against other large tech stocks that are skyrocketing so far in 2025.
Tech stocks have done much better than expected in the past two years, and if the economy continues to grow and AI hype continues, it is likely that the next two years could also see better-than-expected growth in the technology sector.
Large tech companies have been spearheading the development of data centers and AI and these have delivered the most gains in recent years. This doesn’t seem to be changing as growth has remained solid and more tailwinds could be in play as companies double down on AI.
It is worth looking into which ones have delivered the most gains so far this year, as they could end up being the ones delivering the most gains for the full year.
Methodology
For this article, I screened the top-performing large tech stocks ($10 billion+ market cap) year-to-date. Stocks that I have covered recently will be excluded from this list.
I will also mention the number of hedge fund investors in these stocks. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds invest in? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 275% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 150 percentage points (see more details here).
Security personnel at their consoles, monitoring a global network of threats in real-time.
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)
Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q3 2024: 74
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is a cybersecurity company that offers AI-native threat detection and response through its Falcon platform.
The stock is up significantly so far in 2025 after it became the first pure-play cybersecurity firm to exceed $1 billion in quarterly revenue, which grew 29% year-over-year.
Moreover, non-GAAP net income rose to $234.3 million, up 18% year-over-year. It generated $326 million in operating cash flow, with a free cash flow margin of 51%.
The recent rally is also aided by a recovery from its July 2024 global outage.
The consensus price target of $376 implies 13.49% downside.
CRWD stock is up 27.03% year-to-date.
Overall, CRWD ranks 11th on our list of large tech stocks that are skyrocketing so far in 2025. While we acknowledge the potential of CRWD as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter time frame. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than CRWD but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.