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BL vs CRWD

Side-by-side comparison of BlackLine Inc. (BL) and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. (CRWD): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both BL and CRWD operate in Computer Software: Prepackaged Software (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CRWD is the larger of the two at $115.56B, about 57.2x BL ($2.02B).
  • Over the past year, BL is down 28.3% and CRWD is up 3.4% - CRWD leads by 31.7 points.
  • CRWD has been more active in the news (30 items in the past 4 weeks vs 2 for BL).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceBL-28.26%CRWD+3.40%
2025-05-02+0.00%2026-05-01
MetricBLCRWD
Company
BlackLine Inc.
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.
Price
$33.91+8.44%
$455.58+2.17%
Market cap
$2.02B
$115.56B
1M return
-7.07%
+15.87%
1Y return
-28.26%
+3.40%
Industry
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2016
2019
News (4w)
2
30
Recent ratings
25
25
BL

BlackLine Inc.

BlackLine, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions to automate and streamline accounting and finance operations in the United States and internationally. It offers financial close management solutions that include account reconciliations providing a centralized workspace from which users can collaborate to complete account reconciliations; transaction matching that analyzes and reconciles high volumes of individual transactions from different sources of data based upon user-configured logic; task management, which enables users to create and manage processes and task lists; journal entry that allows users to manually or automatically generate, review, and post manual journal entries; variance analysis that monitors and identifies anomalous fluctuations in balance sheet and income statement account balances; consolidation integrity manager that manages the automated system-to-system tie-out process that occurs during the consolidation phase of the financial close; and compliance that facilitates compliance-related initiatives, consolidates project management, and provides visibility over control self-assessments and testing. The company also provides cash application that drives end-to-end process from an invoice to cash in the bank. In addition, it offers intercompany workflow that stores permissions by entity and transaction type, ensuring that both the initiator and the approver of the intercompany transaction are authorized to conduct business; intercompany processing, which records an organization's intercompany transactions; and netting and settlement that generates a real-time, aggregated settlement matrix, which shows the balance of transactions across an entire organization. The company sells its solutions primarily through direct sales force to multinational corporations, large domestic enterprises, and mid-market companies across various industries. BlackLine, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California.

CRWD

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cloud-delivered solutions for endpoint and cloud workload protection in the United States, Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Romania, and the United Kingdom. It offers 19 cloud modules on its Falcon platform through a software as a service subscription-based model that covers various security markets, such as corporate workload security, security and vulnerability management, managed security services, IT operations management, threat intelligence services, identity protection, and log management. The company primarily sells its platform and cloud modules through its direct sales team. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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