PANW|Analyst Targets
PANW|Company Info
PANW|Insider Trading
PANW|Fundamentals
PANW|Earnings Snapshot
EPS
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1'27 | $0.99 | - | - |
| Q4'26 | $0.98 | $1.02 | +4.4% |
| Q3'26 | $0.80 | $0.85 | +6.7% |
| Q2'26 | $0.96 | $1.03 | +7.2% |
| Q4'25 | $0.94 | $1.03 | +9.9% |
| Q3'25 | $0.89 | $0.93 | +4.4% |
Revenue
| Qtr | Est | Actual | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1'27 | $3.4B | - | - |
| Q4'26 | $3.4B | $3.4B | -0.3% |
| Q3'26 | $3.0B | $3.0B | -0.0% |
| Q2'26 | $2.6B | $2.6B | -1.5% |
| Q4'25 | $2.6B | $3.0B | +16.3% |
| Q3'25 | - | $2.5B | - |
PANW|Monthly Returns
Market Data
PANW Stock Snapshot
- Market cap
- 257.64B
- P/E ratio
- 839.2
- Day range
- $312.70 – $332.10
- News sentiment
- 63/100 · Bullish
- Analyst target
- $398.52 (+27.0%)
- Consensus
- Buy · 63 analysts
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. screens well technically, with price sitting in the middle of its 52-week range. Liquidity at this scale means Technology rotation matters more to short-term price than any single headline.
Behaviour On Record
What PANW's own history says about today's numbers
- Realized volatility (21d)
- 61.7% 94th pct
- Below its peak
- -18.8%
- vs 200-day average
- +25.6%
- Up days (1y)
- 53%
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is currently running 61.7% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against PANW's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 94th percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 32.8%.
PANW is trading -18.8% below its running peak. Across 13 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -27.5%, and the deepest was -46.6% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.
Price sits +25.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 78th percentile — a somewhat wider gap than its own norm. Over the past year PANW closed higher on 53% of sessions, and it is currently 5 sessions into a falling streak.
On November specifically: over 13 years of records, PANW finished the month higher 9 of 13 times, with a median return of +6.7% and an average of +6.5%. Its strongest month historically has been May at +8.9% on average, its weakest March at -0.3%.
Overnight risk is measurable too: PANW has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 117 of 3,268 sessions (3.6% of the time), with the largest gaps running +8.1% and -10.3%.
Across the last 4 dated reports on file, PANW moved an average of 4.5% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 4 times, with a median move of -1.8% and a largest of -7.0%.
All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-11-06 and 2026-11-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against PANW's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.
Sector Rotation
Is money rotating into or out of PANW's sector?
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. sits in the Software sector, currently ranked 11th of 12 GICS sectors by relative-strength rotation score (lagging). Within its narrower Software industry group, PANW ranks 12th of 15 tracked industries, lagging.
- Sector rank
- #11 of 12
- Sector state
- Lagging
- Sector rotation score
- 18
- Industry rank
- #12 of 15
Analyst Consensus Estimates
What do analysts expect PANW to earn?
Analysts expect Palo Alto Networks, Inc. to earn $4.18 per share in the fiscal year ending Jul 2027 and $3.54 in the fiscal year ending Jul 2029, from 5 estimates. These are analyst forecasts, not company guidance, and later years rest on fewer analysts.
Revenue marked ~ is our calculation from the EPS estimate, not analyst consensus.
Analyst Rating Changes
Are analysts turning bullish or bearish on PANW?
Citigroup most recently reiterated its rating on Palo Alto Networks, Inc. to Buy on Oct 15, 2026 with a price target of $440 (from $410). Over the last 90 days, coverage has run 0 upgrades against 1 downgrade, a net bearish lean.
- Latest action
- Citigroup: Buy
- 90-day upgrades
- 0
- 90-day downgrades
- 1
- Net rating momentum
- -1
Earnings Release, Scored
What did Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?
Most important lines
- 1
"We delivered a strong Q4 to close out the year, adding nearly $1 billion of Net New NGS ARR in a single quarter," said Nikesh Arora, chairman and chief executive officer of Palo Alto Networks.
New this quarter - 2
Remaining performance obligations grew 34% year over year to $21.2 billion.
- 3
Adjusted free cash flow for fiscal fourth quarter 2026 was $1.3 billion, compared with adjusted free cash flow of $954 million for the fiscal fourth quarter 2025.
Peers & ETF holders
PANW peers & ETF holders
Software - InfrastructureMarket cap · today
News & sentiment
What is the news saying about PANW?
PANW fell 25.4% over the month to Nov 6. News tone held between 22 and 78 from Oct 6 to Oct 16, then jumped to 70 on Oct 19.
- Oct 16 -8.2%same day: Cybersecurity Stocks Slide as AI Financing Jitters Spread: Palo Alto Falls 7%, SentinelOne Sinks 9%, Zscaler Drops 6%
- Oct 23 +8.3%same day: Palo Alto Networks Fuels Resilience With Cybersecurity Tools
- Nov 5 -9.6%same day: Palo Alto Networks Just Dropped 13% in a Month. Is It Time to Sell, or Load Up?
Technical analysis
How strong is PANW's momentum right now?
On the daily chart PANW ranks at the 93rd percentile for momentum against 1,060 stocks and ETFs, a bullish reading.
Institutional ownership
Are big funds buying or selling PANW?
90 of the 222 tracked managers added to PANW in their latest 13F and 130 trimmed. Together they own 67.8% of the company, worth $191.0B. BlackRock and Vanguard Capital Management alone hold 15.7%.
- 1BlackRock, Inc.9.22%$25.8B positionAdded 4.6% last quarter
- $18.1B positionAdded 0.7% last quarter
- 3State Street Corp4.50%$12.6B positionAdded 4.2% last quarter
- 4Morgan Stanley3.59%$10.0B positionTrimmed 8.9% last quarter
- 5Invesco Ltd.3.12%$8.7B positionAdded 49.8% last quarter
- 6Bank of America Corp2.76%$7.7B positionAdded 0.9% last quarter
- 7JPMorgan Chase & Co2.64%$7.2B positionAdded 61.2% last quarter
- 8FMR LLC (Fidelity)2.44%$6.8B positionAdded 147.4% last quarter
- $6.7B positionAdded 1.5% last quarter
- $6.6B positionTrimmed 1.3% last quarter
Congressional trading
Is Congress trading PANW?
13 members of Congress disclosed 25 PANW trades between Mar 18, 2025 and Jul 31, 2026: 13 buys and 12 sells, about $507.5K in estimated value.
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How has PANW done against its peers?
Over the six months to Nov 6, PANW returned +67.6%. Of the 15 related stocks and ETFs, 2 did better, led by GTLB at +98.0%.
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