PANW Stock Overview

Provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. More details

PANW fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	1/6
Future Growth	2/6
Past Performance	6/6
Financial Health	4/6
Dividends	0/6

Rewards

Revenue is forecast to grow 12.89% per year

Earnings grew by 345.4% over the past year

Risk Analysis

Earnings are forecast to decline by an average of 3.5% per year for the next 3 years

Highly volatile share price over the past 3 months compared to the PE market

Significant insider selling over the past 3 months

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Palo Alto Networks
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$190.90
52 Week High	US$190.90
52 Week Low	US$190.90
Beta	1.14
1 Month Change	0%
3 Month Change	11.73%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	11.73%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	PANW	PE Software	PE Market
7D	0%	0%	0%
1Y	n/a	0%	0%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how PANW performed against the PE Software industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how PANW performed against the PE Market.

Price Volatility

Is PANW's price volatile compared to industry and market?
PANW volatility
PANW Average Weekly Movement	31.2%
Software Industry Average Movement	0%
Market Average Movement	0%
10% most volatile stocks in PE Market	0%
10% least volatile stocks in PE Market	0%

Stable Share Price: PANW's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the PE market.

Volatility Over Time: PANW's weekly volatility has increased from 20% to 31% over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
2005	15,514	Nikesh Arora	www.paloaltonetworks.com

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company’s network security platforms include Prisma Access, a security services edge (SSE) solution, as well as Strata Cloud Manager, a network security management solution. It also provides cloud security solutions, including Prisma Cloud, a cloud native application protection platform; and Code to Cloud platform, as well as offers VM-Series and CN-Series virtual firewalls for inline network security on multi- and hybrid-cloud environments.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Palo Alto Networks's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
PANW fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$122.61b
Earnings (TTM)	US$2.73b
Revenue (TTM)	US$8.29b

44.8x

P/E Ratio

14.8x

P/S Ratio

Is PANW overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
PANW income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$8.29b
Cost of Revenue	US$2.14b
Gross Profit	US$6.15b
Other Expenses	US$3.41b
Earnings	US$2.73b

Last Reported Earnings

Oct 31, 2024

Next Earnings Date

Feb 13, 2025

Earnings per share (EPS)	4.17
Gross Margin	74.17%
Net Profit Margin	32.99%
Debt/Equity Ratio	10.9%

How did PANW perform over the long term?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/02/06 21:32
End of Day Share Price	2025/02/05 00:00
Earnings	2024/10/31
Annual Earnings	2024/07/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* Example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more.

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Analyst Sources

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is covered by 83 analysts. 52 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Ellie Bagshaw	Arete Research Services LLP
Joseph Bonner	Argus Research Company
Shrenik Kothari	Baird