When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock’s price, but are they really important? Let’s take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage. CrowdStrike currently has an average brokerage recommendation of 1.31, on a scale of 1 to 5 (Strong Buy to Strong Sell), calculat…