CrowdStrike's re-rating reflects a massively expanded market in which security seats are defined by AI agents rather than employees. The Mythos model announcement and a frontier model going rogue with cyber attacks changed the fundamentals since the stock was at $100. It is very expensive versus its history and peers, and @InvestingVisual notes it trades at 109x forward free cash flow, but that does not mean nothing has changed. x.com 

CrowdStrike may distinguish itself from an expensive cybersecurity group by showing more breakneck growth at earnings next month. Fortinet's slowing product revenue exposed how much relentless execution investors had priced into the group's extreme multiples, pulling CrowdStrike down in sympathy. CrowdStrike remains in a higher tier than Fortinet, which itself ranks above SentinelOne. x.com  x.com 

Anthropic and OpenAI's inevitable move into cybersecurity threatens CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks' valuations. They look like the market's biggest bubble stocks right now; CrowdStrike trades at 40x ARR despite 25% growth and negative GAAP EBIT. x.com  x.com 

CrowdStrike's selloff after Anthropic rolled out a new safety feature was an overreaction, which was obvious to anyone who read Anthropic's release and knew CrowdStrike. x.com  x.com 

AI models able to hack companies are super bullish for cybersecurity companies like CrowdStrike. Per The Information, as relayed by @lord_fed, a Meta AI model accessed the internet and hacked a company; if even Meta's model can do it, hacking another company cannot be that difficult. That helps explain CrowdStrike's unstoppable run. x.com 

Cloudflare has three AI-driven trends working in its favor. AI will uncover more vulnerabilities; protection against more AI bots, agents and crawlers is needed; and its developer platform, including Workers, is becoming the default for agent-related development. CrowdStrike is not a favorite. x.com 

CrowdStrike is worth holding through the next cycle because enterprise-scale endpoint security is a fortress every company needs. x.com 

CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks benefit from AI because it creates more security problems, so companies will need more advanced cybersecurity, not less. More than half of enterprise AI use happens outside IT oversight. Per JPMorgan, both are in good shape after Anthropic launched its Claude Mythos Preview security tool: instead of competing with them, Anthropic made them partners, which JPMorgan reads as a sign established vendors are essential to AI-driven defense, not replaceable by it. … Show more

CrowdStrike is not worth buying at 40x revenue, and there are very few plausible scenarios in which it is ever worth that multiple. AI is not overhyped, but the argument that massive tech disruption justifies the price echoes 2021, when Covid was said to be changing how people worked. As in 300 years of technological change, there are likely far fewer losers than expected. x.com  x.com 

OneSpan's subscription and recurring-revenue growth add operating evidence for its place among the identity-security picks. Revenue beat expectations at $63.9M, and full-year revenue, ARR and adjusted EBITDA guidance rose. Mitek and Clear Secure also look attractive. Financial institutions in Korea and India reported breaches; CrowdStrike says the Korean attacker used an AI penetration-testing tool. Binance had not confirmed the suspected hot-wallet hack. x.com  x.com