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PANW·Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

$313.79
-0.88 (-0.28%)
After Hours
High
$332.10
Open
$331.50
Market Cap
257.64B
52W High
$432.33
Low
$312.70
P. Close
$313.79
P/E
839.23
52W Low
$139.57
Fwd P/E
65.53
DailyIQ Est.
$429.02
Inst. Own.
67.8%
Short Interest
2.59%
Days to Cover
4.5
NewEarnings release, scored · filed Sep 1, 2026New outlook issued · tone +1.6 vs prior release · 36 lines scoredSee the breakdown
Technical Score (1D)
93
BULLISH
News Sentiment
63
BULLISH
On Nov 6, Palo Alto Networks entered talks to acquire AI‑agent security startup Clutch for $500 million in cash plus milestone payments, a deal that would be the company’s seventh acquisition this year and expand its AI‑centric security portfolio. The same day, a neutral comparison article noted that PANW is shifting from legacy hardware to an AI‑driven integrated platform, while its competitor Zscaler focuses on zero‑trust exchange for remote workforces. On Nov 5, Palo Alto’s shares fell 10 % amid a broader AI‑related market sell‑off, with analysts pointing to a valuation near 84× forward earnings and political scrutiny of AI data centers as contributing factors. That day also saw a 8 % drop in PANW stock as investors liquidated AI‑related names, a decline attributed to a sector‑wide correction rather than a company‑specific event. Additionally, on Nov 5, the company’s president, William D. Jenkins Jr., sold 37,992 shares worth $13.4 million under a Rule 10b5‑1 plan, a routine portfolio rebalancing that left him with majority control. Finally, on Nov 5, a report highlighted PANW’s pursuit of a $500 million AI security acquisition, framing it as a positive strategic move to enhance its product portfolio and competitive position.
LOW TARGET
$190 -39.4%
2 analysts
MEAN TARGET
$399 +27.0%
35 analysts
HIGH TARGET
$525 +67.3%
26 analysts
PRICE RANGE
$190.00 - $525.00
SB / B / H / S / SS
15/33/13/1/1
DAILYIQ EST.
$429.02 (+36.7%)
Sector
Technology
Industry
Software - Infrastructure
Exchange
NMS
Country
United States
Symbol
PANW
Description
Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity provider specializing in comprehensive solutions designed to protect organizations across diverse industries. The company's core value proposition centers on delivering advanced security through a multi-faceted platform that encompasses cloud-based access, network security management, and AI-driven threat detection. These offerings are complemented by a suite of security operation solutions, including AI-powered platforms for incident management and response. Palo Alto Networks distributes its products and services through channel partners and direct sales, catering to enterprises, service providers, and government entities, ensuring broad market reach and robust protection against evolving cyber threats.
Bought (1Y)
0 shares
$0
Sold (1Y)
536,510 shares
$186.6M
Jenkins William D JrPresident
Sell320 shares2026-11-04
Jenkins William D JrPresident
Sell440 shares2026-11-04
Jenkins William D JrPresident
Sell520 shares2026-11-04
Jenkins William D JrPresident
Sell205 shares2026-11-04
Jenkins William D JrPresident
Sell1,035 shares2026-11-04
79/ 100
Bullish
Overall: Bullish
✓Revenue growing year over year
✓Positive net margin
✓Positive operating cash flow
Gross Margin
70.4%
Net Margin
2.7%
Revenue CAGR
35.6%
Current Ratio
0.87x
Debt / Equity
0.07x
Return on Equity
1.1%
Earnings Summary
In Q2 2025, Palo Alto Networks reported EPS of $0.95 versus an estimate of $0.885, and revenue of $2.536 billion, while Q3 2025 EPS was $0.93 against an estimate of $0.891 and revenue of $2.474 billion, indicating a slight decline in revenue growth but consistent EPS beats. The company rebounded in Q4 2025 with EPS of $1.03 beating the $0.937 estimate and revenue of $3.002 billion surpassing the $2.582 estimate, marking a sharp acceleration in top‑line growth. In the first half of 2026, Q2 EPS of $1.03 beat the $0.961 estimate and revenue of $2.594 billion fell short of the $2.633 estimate, while Q3 EPS of $0.85 beat the $0.797 estimate and revenue of $3.002 billion narrowly missed the $3.003 estimate. Q4 2026 saw EPS of $1.02 beating the $0.977 estimate and revenue of $3.410 billion just below the $3.418 estimate, demonstrating a pattern of EPS beats with revenue oscillating around estimates. Historically, the company has maintained a YoY revenue growth trajectory of roughly 20% over the past three years, with EPS growth consistently outpacing revenue growth and beating analyst estimates in 5 of the last 6 quarters, underscoring disciplined profitability. Recent news highlights the integration of Palo Alto’s browser security technology into Guardz’s Prisma Browser for Business, expanding the company’s reach into the small‑business market served by managed service providers and potentially opening new revenue streams; the announcement coincided with a brief institutional sell‑side activity but did not materially alter the company’s earnings narrative.

EPS

EstBeatMiss
$0.76$0.84$0.91$0.99$1.06Q3'25Q4'25Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26Q1'27
QtrEstActual+/−
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

EstBeatMiss
$2.3B$2.6B$2.9B$3.3B$3.6BQ3'25Q4'25Q2'26Q3'26Q4'26Q1'27
QtrEstActual+/−
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 -

Market Data

PANW Stock Snapshot

BULLISH93/100
$313.73−$0.06 (0.0%)
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
52-week range+124.8% off low · -27.4% from high
$139.57$432.33
Price $313.73 DailyIQ Est. $429.02

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

Options Market

What is the options market pricing for PANW?

CallsPuts

For Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s nearest expiry (2026-11-06, 0 days out), open interest is put-heavy, a defensive/bearish tilt (put/call ratio of 1.88), with at-the-money implied volatility around 13.6%.

Put/call ratio (2026-11-06)
1.88
ATM implied volatility
13.6%
Total open interest
14,612

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.

Quarter endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Oct 2026$0.97$0.95 to $0.9844$3.31B45
Jan 2027$0.39$0.24 to $0.5915$3.42B44
Apr 2027$0.55$0.49 to $0.6414~$3.36B-
Oct 2027$0.62$0.53 to $0.7710~$3.61B-
Fiscal year endingEPS estimateEPS rangeEPS analystsRevenue estimateRevenue analysts
Jul 2027$4.18$4.15 to $4.2451$14.17B51
Jul 2028$2.21$1.32 to $3.0318$16.23B47
Jul 2029$3.54$2.78 to $4.205~$20.59B-

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
DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 15, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$410 → $440
Oct 13, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$475 → $525
Oct 8, 2026AmerxInitiatedHold-
Oct 2, 2026TD CowenMaintainedBuy$400 → $440
Sep 28, 2026BTIGMaintainedBuy$404 → $425
Sep 21, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$394 → $410
Sep 17, 2026BernsteinDowngradeOutperform → Market Perform$253 → $351
Sep 3, 2026Argus ResearchReiteratedBuy$425
Sep 2, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$400 → $410
Sep 2, 2026Roth CapitalMaintainedNeutral$210 → $300
Sep 2, 2026OppenheimerMaintainedOutperform$400 → $450
Sep 2, 2026Piper SandlerReiteratedOverweight$345 → $410

Earnings Release, Scored

What did Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s latest earnings release say?

Filed Sep 1, 2026 · SEC Form 8-K, Exhibit 99

New outlook issued
Tone71.1/ 100+1.6 vs prior release
Hedging words0.00per 100 words0.00 vs prior release
Tone, last 2 releasesScale 50–77

Most important lines

  1. 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. 2

    Remaining performance obligations grew 34% year over year to $21.2 billion.

  3. 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

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.

Daily close and news tone, Oct 6 to Nov 6
$350$400Oct 6: tone 65Oct 7: tone 78Oct 8: tone 77Oct 9: tone 52Oct 12: tone 60Oct 13: tone 78Oct 14: tone 35Oct 15: tone 56Oct 16: tone 22Oct 19: tone 70Oct 20: tone 34Oct 21: tone 77Oct 22: tone 85Oct 23: tone 60Oct 26: tone 63Oct 27: tone 68Oct 28: tone 25Oct 29: tone 51Oct 30: tone 58Nov 2: tone 45Nov 3: tone 51Nov 4: tone 57Nov 5: tone 52Nov 6: tone 52Oct 6News toneNov 6123
  1. Oct 16 -8.2%same day: Cybersecurity Stocks Slide as AI Financing Jitters Spread: Palo Alto Falls 7%, SentinelOne Sinks 9%, Zscaler Drops 6%
  2. Oct 23 +8.3%same day: Palo Alto Networks Fuels Resilience With Cybersecurity Tools
  3. 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.

Momentum rank by timeframe0 = weakest, 100 = strongest
See what drives the rankThe inputs behind each timeframe's momentum rank, plus RSI, stochastics, Bollinger Bands and moving averages. Free with an account.

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%.

90adding130trimming2unchanged
Largest holders by stake, latest 13FBar = share of PANW
  1. $25.8B positionAdded 4.6% last quarter
  2. $18.1B positionAdded 0.7% last quarter
  3. $12.6B positionAdded 4.2% last quarter
  4. $10.0B positionTrimmed 8.9% last quarter
  5. $8.7B positionAdded 49.8% last quarter
  6. $7.7B positionAdded 0.9% last quarter
  7. $7.2B positionAdded 61.2% last quarter
  8. $6.8B positionAdded 147.4% last quarter
  9. $6.7B positionAdded 1.5% last quarter
  10. $6.6B positionTrimmed 1.3% last quarter
Full holdings history

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.

BuysSellsAprJulOctJan ’26AprJul
BuySell$1K–$15K$15K–$50K$50K–$100K$100K–$250K

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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%.

Change since May 6, through Nov 6
−100%−50%0%+50%+100%+150%May 6JunJulAugSepOctNov 6GTLB +98.0%PANW +67.6%ORCL −39.4%