CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on CrowdStrike 2/23/26
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Kramer here to share a short preview of my take on the market from today's members-only |
| 0:07.1 | CNBC Investing Club Morning Meeting. |
| 0:09.0 | Join the club for full access to the morning meeting every day at 1020 a.m. |
| 0:14.7 | Visit CnBC.com slash morning take to sign up today. |
| 0:19.9 | That's one word, morning take. |
| 0:24.2 | Let's go to the Friday sell-off when it comes to Claude. |
| 0:30.4 | What I tried to do, and I'll do again tonight, is explain that we know that the companies involved who own companies that can be disemediated |
| 0:41.3 | by AI are trading down and that can be Blackstone and that can be Blue Al, but it also could |
| 0:47.6 | be CrowdStrike and it could be Palantir and it could be Palo Alto Salesforce and it could be Palo Alto, Salesforce. |
| 0:55.2 | And I am aware, we're not oblivious to this. |
| 0:58.7 | I mean, we come in, we own Crowdstrike. |
| 1:01.0 | I talked about a post that George Kurtz put in on his LinkedIn page, |
| 1:05.5 | and I recognize that these are dead meat, so as well. |
| 1:09.6 | So then you say, okay, what do you do as a portfolio manager when you know you have something |
| 1:13.6 | something to you, if you're a hedge fund, do you avoid it and then come back to it? |
| 1:17.6 | Probably. |
| 1:18.6 | We don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with crowd strike. |
| 1:21.6 | Maybe the price or use multiples to do I, but we're not nimble enough to get out and get in. |
| 1:26.6 | I want people to know, it's not like we think it's done going down. |
| 1:30.3 | No. And you are seeing selling, obviously. Friday, what happened was the cloud, excuse me, Claude Anthropic. They announced a Claude Code Security. You can scan code basis for security vulnerabilities and suggest software patches for |
| 1:44.8 | human review. All the analysts that I can see that have written about this all saying, no, |
| 1:51.4 | this selloff is wrong for the cybersecurity. It's insulated from AI disruption. UBS, they still |
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