Stock Analysis on Net

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD)

Cash Flow Statement 
Quarterly Data

The cash flow statement provides information about a company cash receipts and cash payments during an accounting period, showing how these cash flows link the ending cash balance to the beginning balance shown on the company balance sheet.

The cash flow statement consists of three parts: cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities, cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities, and cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities.

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., consolidated cash flow statement (quarterly data)

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3 months ended: Apr 30, 2025 Jan 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2024 Jul 31, 2024 Apr 30, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 Oct 31, 2023 Jul 31, 2023 Apr 30, 2023 Jan 31, 2023 Oct 31, 2022 Jul 31, 2022 Apr 30, 2022 Jan 31, 2022 Oct 31, 2021 Jul 31, 2021 Apr 30, 2021 Jan 31, 2021 Oct 31, 2020 Jul 31, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 Jan 31, 2020 Oct 31, 2019 Jul 31, 2019 Apr 30, 2019
Net income (loss) (110,993) (92,731) (16,819) 46,690 46,264 54,941 26,669 8,476 499 (48,932) (54,631) (48,313) (30,409) (41,739) (50,450) (57,318) (82,871) (19,002) (24,531) (29,874) (19,222) (28,408) (35,505) (51,889) (25,977)
Depreciation and amortization 56,423 50,101 48,915 46,247 42,689 36,866 33,788 29,775 26,409 23,623 19,476 17,805 16,341 16,402 14,537 12,995 11,974 10,982 10,107 9,419 8,202 7,003 5,830 5,320 4,873
Amortization of intangible assets 7,634 7,339 6,333 6,337 5,995 5,503 4,637 4,102 4,174 4,227 4,146 4,104 4,088 3,830 3,337 3,318 2,417 869 372 104 103 102 100 139 146
Amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs 102,903 91,124 79,862 73,723 74,128 65,743 60,281 57,555 55,322 49,258 43,996 39,962 37,592 34,172 29,293 26,043 24,376 21,485 16,769 14,720 13,451 11,334 9,049 7,731 7,345
Non-cash operating lease cost 4,186 4,183 3,933 3,795 3,372 3,673 3,394 3,239 3,092 2,622 2,294 2,287 2,237 2,376 2,258 2,289 2,180 120 2,727 2,656 2,283
Change in fair value of redeemable convertible preferred stock warrant liability 4,855 1,167
Stock-based compensation expense 253,604 272,531 208,888 200,877 183,125 176,272 159,614 164,777 130,856 152,347 140,113 131,550 102,494 92,637 86,666 76,287 54,362 47,714 40,610 37,713 23,638 24,363 21,966 29,859 3,752
Deferred income taxes (1,681) (7,781) (193) (1,674) (255) (1,032) (2,003) (97) (255) (980) 682 (148) 1,752 (12,618) (371) (760) (207)
Realized gains on strategic investments (94) 654 (6,881) (3,936)
Gain on sale of debt securities, net (1,347)
Non-cash interest expense 1,088 1,015 963 911 874 836 806 777 754 736 711 697 669 645 625 604 595 347 186 169 151 142 130 587 (424)
Change in fair value of strategic investments 1,579 1,000 1,459 2,927 (629) (1,920) (2,208) (467) (4,356)
Amortization (accretion) of short-term investments purchased at a premium (discount) 2,285 (351) (1,934) 578 66 (353) (447) (513)
Other non-cash charges (427)
Accounts receivable, net 319,871 (313,403) (152,876) 41,811 150,249 (283,557) (20,860) (78,371) 165,089 (140,869) (66,512) (49,670) (1,058) (84,710) (16,741) (55,643) 31,740 (66,419) (22,354) (5,049) 20,800 (19,293) (30,438) (27,901) 5,121
Deferred contract acquisition costs (102,803) (223,072) (203,079) (91,853) (66,480) (164,971) (84,671) (72,475) (49,532) (115,451) (74,325) (57,586) (51,354) (82,407) (64,325) (51,176) (36,400) (66,234) (35,753) (26,425) (22,563) (31,356) (27,450) (19,317) (8,471)
Prepaid expenses and other assets (20,995) (147,400) 20,392 (34,622) (28,602) (80,548) 4,366 (17,796) (8,542) (32,686) (3,183) (15,181) 4,243 (21,484) 38,636 (46,002) (685) (284) 3,440 (7,285) 5,332 (23,584) (7,378) (8,456) (4,049)
Accounts payable (83,228) 50,843 34,168 (348) 276 (21,259) 5,343 15,614 (18,596) (40,470) 24,213 37,225 (36,431) 40,281 (12,416) 15,945 (10,562) 4,769 (3,078) 4,898 4,736 (2,797) 2,124 (8,715) 2,818
Accrued expenses and other liabilities (43,763) 132,851 77,699 24,597 (16,629) (19,011) 28,662 41,511 (36,576) 37,103 16,097 13,023 (7,300) (35,943) 7,136 25,110 42,180 23,066 12,422 (2,819) (43) 5,528 5,835 96 (2,584)
Accrued payroll and benefits (37,848) (4,023) 119,328 (11,740) (17,692) 63,292 31,971 (12,880) (17,281) 43,591 21,390 (12,990) 13,235 10,423 (595) 16,884 5,969 14,500 19,423 (1,359) 648 (95) 16,848 7,374 (6,601)
Operating lease liabilities (4,586) (3,845) (4,699) (2,582) (4,531) 2,112 (9,672) (3,276) (3,199) (3,327) (2,333) (2,494) (2,210) (2,506) (2,372) (2,467) (2,555) (6,671) (2,749) 4,290 (2,975)
Deferred revenue 42,716 527,084 103,321 23,818 15,041 510,984 33,127 103,850 48,678 339,574 171,346 151,555 163,276 240,826 123,840 142,366 109,376 149,221 70,910 53,867 64,805 123,529 77,877 54,550 24,812
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of impact of acquisitions 69,364 19,035 (5,746) (50,919) 31,632 7,042 (11,734) (23,823) 80,041 87,465 86,693 63,882 82,401 64,480 73,163 45,017 139,063 51,948 42,261 20,118 70,740 51,932 37,418 (2,369) 11,046
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 495,100 438,453 342,955 279,951 336,964 292,075 246,849 236,305 300,393 322,225 297,482 258,219 245,366 201,457 209,508 165,793 230,404 133,465 113,032 84,899 117,799 94,515 74,140 45,675 27,392
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 384,107 345,722 326,136 326,641 383,228 347,016 273,518 244,781 300,892 273,293 242,851 209,906 214,957 159,718 159,058 108,475 147,533 114,463 88,501 55,025 98,577 66,107 38,635 (6,214) 1,415
Purchases of property and equipment (85,751) (87,211) (78,704) (39,254) (49,683) (52,584) (21,264) (40,417) (62,264) (55,410) (61,270) (66,128) (52,211) (26,723) (29,627) (29,997) (25,796) (12,554) (9,911) (20,640) (9,694) (13,350) (29,689) (21,618) (15,541)
Capitalized internal-use software and website development costs (17,437) (17,703) (16,271) (14,516) (10,479) (10,852) (12,630) (15,073) (10,902) (8,356) (7,504) (8,021) (5,214) (5,665) (5,928) (4,839) (4,434) (4,519) (2,495) (1,968) (1,882) (2,081) (1,898) (1,326) (1,984)
Purchases of strategic investments (374) (7,000) (10,000) (1,044) (1,658) (5,000) (1,664) (10,513) (3,802) (10,181) (5,000) (2,825) (500) (8,500) (6,000) (1,309) (500) (1,000) (1,000)
Proceeds from sales of strategic investments 3,146 1,612 488 10,407 2,000
Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired (213,876) (5) (96,376) (281) (238,749) 115 (18,464) (60,772) (339) (353,407) (48) (85,469)
Purchases of intangible assets (10,600) (26) (500) (1,623) (700) (680) (180)
Purchases of short-term investments (195,581) (250,000) (84,904) (592,004) (70,125) (65,767) (51,805)
Proceeds from maturities and sales of short-term investments 97,300 98,281 100,000 150,000 731,191 36,320 74,450 54,319 73,468
Purchases of deferred compensation investments (1,459) (906) (606) (600) (609) (569) (586) (586) (290) (64)
Proceeds from sales of deferred compensation investments 45 65 41
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities (101,830) (325,019) (105,581) (54,890) (51,098) 20,395 (468,836) 41,760 66,031 (319,140) (97,419) (79,149) (60,950) (93,660) (44,735) (41,175) (384,946) (17,301) (98,375) (23,608) 634,711 (572,115) (27,262) (34,392) 4,138
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock upon initial public offering, net of underwriting discounts 665,092
Payments of debt issuance costs related to revolving line of credit (219) (3,328)
Payments of debt issuance costs related to Senior Notes (1,581)
Proceeds from issuance of Senior Notes, net of debt financing costs 739,569
Repayment of loan payable (1,591)
Payments of deferred offering costs (1,792) (1,688) (2,392)
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock upon exercise stock options 634 675 844 1,641 823 2,517 2,053 1,474 2,651 2,259 1,477 1,813 3,106 3,103 3,304 5,738 3,754 7,309 4,921 10,208 6,393 12,162 824 7,016 1,510
Proceeds from the issuance of common stock upon exercise of early exercisable stock options 10,264
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under the employee stock purchase plan 43,517 56,099 30,943 45,432 24,974 34,445 22,825 27,452 16,979 17,284 12,365
Settlement related to stockholder short-swing trade profit 2,283
Distributions to non-controlling interest holders (806) (244) (3,841)
Capital contributions from non-controlling interest holders 1,500 3,000 5,000 500 2,831 5,257 1,901 5,090 2,501 1,462 250 4,250 3,000 655 250 50 500 500
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities 2,134 46,386 844 62,496 (2,518) 33,460 2,053 49,737 7,908 29,134 4,976 38,759 4,568 26,178 7,554 36,190 2,609 760,529 5,171 27,542 6,893 27,310 (968) 680,684 (882)
Effect of foreign exchange rates on cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 6,546 (4,637) 399 877 (1,917) 5,369 (4,494) 1,273 (190) 5,579 (2,744) (1,858) (2,472) (3,111) (1,420) (1,436) 1,193 991 (105) 784 12 (109) 392 (263) (86)
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash 290,957 62,452 221,798 335,124 327,695 406,240 (197,759) 337,551 374,641 (11,134) 147,664 167,658 156,103 89,125 120,457 102,054 (233,611) 858,682 (4,808) 59,743 740,193 (478,807) 10,797 639,815 4,585

Based on: 10-Q (reporting date: 2025-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2025-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2024-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2024-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2023-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2023-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2022-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2022-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2021-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2021-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2020-04-30), 10-K (reporting date: 2020-01-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-10-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-07-31), 10-Q (reporting date: 2019-04-30).


Net Income (Loss)
Net income displays significant volatility over the periods, with sharp losses in some quarters, notably around April 2021 and July 2025, where losses exceed $80 million and $110 million respectively. However, there are intermittent quarters showing positive net income, particularly starting from April 2023, peaking around January 2024 with nearly $55 million, before again fluctuating.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization expense has shown a consistent upward trend, rising steadily from approximately $4.9 million in April 2019 to over $56 million by April 2025, indicating increasing asset base, capital expenditures, or amortization schedules.
Stock-based Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expenses have increased notably across the periods, from around $3.7 million in April 2019 to a peak exceeding $272 million by January 2025. The growth suggests significant incentive-based compensation expansion, potentially linked to employee growth or increased valuation considerations.
Amortization of Deferred Contract Acquisition Costs
There is a marked rise in the amortization of deferred contract acquisition costs, climbing from $7.3 million in April 2019 to over $102 million in April 2025. This increase could reflect heightened sales activity or investments in acquiring customer contracts requiring deferred cost recognition.
Operating Lease Cost and Liabilities
Non-cash operating lease costs appear sporadically in the data from 2020 onwards, generally remaining in the $2 million to $4 million range. Operating lease liabilities fluctuate with no clear trend but generally show higher liabilities in later years, indicating ongoing lease commitments.
Accounts Receivable and Deferred Contract Acquisition Costs
Accounts receivable net figures demonstrate extreme volatility, alternating between significant negative and positive spikes, indicative of major changes in customer payments or billing practices. Deferred contract acquisition costs show consistent negative values, intensifying over time, pointing toward increased investments in customer acquisition.
Deferred Revenue
Deferred revenue exhibits wide fluctuations with some extremely high values, as seen in January 2024 ($510 million+) and April 2025 (~$42 million), reflecting strong upfront customer payments or subscription-based sales resulting in significant deferred income.
Changes in Operating Assets and Liabilities
These changes reveal substantial variances, with generally increasing positive cash flow inflows, but with sharp downward spikes in certain quarters such as July 2023, indicating dynamic working capital management impacts on cash flow.
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
This indicator shows a robust upward trend overall, increasing from a small positive figure in early 2019 to several quarters exceeding $300 million by early 2024, signaling improving operational cash generation despite the volatile net income.
Capital Expenditures
Purchases of property and equipment and capitalized internal-use software costs show significant outflows, with property and equipment purchases generally ranging from $9 million to $87 million quarterly, reflecting continued investments in infrastructure and technology resources.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities correlate with large investments in property, equipment, intangible assets, and strategic investments. Periods such as April 2020 and January 2021 show significant inflows linked to proceeds from sales or maturities, balancing prior outflows.
Financing Activities
Financing cash flows are characterized by major inflows, particularly around mid-2019 and early 2021, corresponding with issuance of common stock and senior notes. Smaller fluctuating cash flows reflect stock exercise proceeds and debt-related payments.
Effect of Foreign Exchange Rates
Foreign exchange effects are relatively minor and mostly range within ±$5 million, exhibiting no consistent directional trend, hence limited overall impact on cash balances.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The net increase in cash and cash equivalents follows a generally positive yet volatile path, with pronounced surges aligning with financing and operating cash inflows, but also sharp decreases reflecting heavy investing or operating outflows in certain quarters.