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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AAPL Apple	$232.14 -0.2%	$215.79	$169.21 ▼ $260.10	$3.45T	1.11	55.68 million shs	39.38 million shs
COST Costco Wholesale	$943.32 -0.2%	$966.42	$867.16 ▼ $1,078.23	$418.34B	0.97	2.24 million shs	1.61 million shs
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$190.52 -0.3%	$189.39	$144.15 ▼ $210.39	$127.04B	0.98	10.60 million shs	5.19 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AAPL Apple	0.00%	+1.92%	+14.71%	+15.09%	+1.37%
COST Costco Wholesale	0.00%	-1.59%	-0.97%	-10.74%	+5.71%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	0.00%	+2.50%	+10.20%	-2.23%	+5.05%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AAPL Apple	4.6367 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	3.3	2.8	3.3	2.5	2.5
COST Costco Wholesale	4.3235 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	3.3	1.5	3.4	2.5	1.9
PANW Palo Alto Networks	4.6473 of 5 stars	3.3	1.0	0.0	3.8	3.5	2.5	3.1

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AAPL Apple	2.57	Moderate Buy	$237.37	2.25% Upside
COST Costco Wholesale	2.63	Moderate Buy	$1,050.00	11.31% Upside
PANW Palo Alto Networks	2.63	Moderate Buy	$211.52	11.02% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest COST, PANW, and AAPL Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/27/2025	COST Costco Wholesale	Telsey Advisory Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$1,100.00
8/26/2025	AAPL Apple	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$266.00 ➝ $266.00
8/25/2025	AAPL Apple	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$250.00
8/21/2025	AAPL Apple	Loop Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$230.00 ➝ $226.00
8/20/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Morgan Stanley Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$205.00 ➝ $210.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$205.00 ➝ $220.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Sanford C. Bernstein Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Set Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$204.00 ➝ $207.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$210.00 ➝ $215.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Royal Bank Of Canada Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$232.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Stephens Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$205.00
8/19/2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$225.00

(Data available from 9/1/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AAPL Apple	$391.04B	8.81	$7.64 per share	30.40	$3.77 per share	61.58
COST Costco Wholesale	$254.45B	1.64	$21.21 per share	44.47	$53.28 per share	17.70
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$9.22B	13.78	$2.70 per share	70.56	$11.73 per share	16.24

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AAPL Apple	$93.74B	$6.59	35.23	28.31	2.42	24.30%	170.91%	31.94%	10/30/2025 (Estimated)
COST Costco Wholesale	$7.37B	$17.63	53.51	47.91	5.86	2.92%	30.48%	10.52%	9/25/2025 (Estimated)
PANW Palo Alto Networks	$1.13B	$1.60	118.70	90.72	4.55	12.30%	17.66%	5.56%	11/19/2025 (Estimated)

Latest COST, PANW, and AAPL Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
9/25/2025	Q4 2025	COST Costco Wholesale	$5.80	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
8/18/2025	Q4 2025	PANW Palo Alto Networks	$0.89	$0.95	+$0.06	$0.36	$2.50 billion	$2.54 billion
7/31/2025	Q3 2025	AAPL Apple	$1.43	$1.57	+$0.14	$1.57	$88.64 billion	$94.04 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AAPL Apple	$1.04	0.45%	N/A	15.78%	14 Years
COST Costco Wholesale	$5.20	0.55%	N/A	29.50%	22 Years
PANW Palo Alto Networks	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Latest COST, PANW, and AAPL Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/15/2025	COST Costco Wholesale	quarterly	$1.30	0.55%	8/1/2025	8/1/2025	8/15/2025
7/31/2025	AAPL Apple	quarterly	$0.26	0.5%	8/11/2025	8/11/2025	8/14/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AAPL Apple	1.25	0.87	0.83
COST Costco Wholesale	0.21	1.02	0.52
PANW Palo Alto Networks	N/A	0.94	0.90

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AAPL Apple	67.73%
COST Costco Wholesale	68.48%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	79.82%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AAPL Apple	0.06%
COST Costco Wholesale	0.18%
PANW Palo Alto Networks	2.50%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AAPL Apple	164,000	14.84 billion	14.83 billion	Optionable
COST Costco Wholesale	333,000	443.48 million	442.68 million	Optionable
PANW Palo Alto Networks	15,289	666.80 million	650.13 million	Optionable

COST, PANW, and AAPL Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

PANW's NGS ARR Hits $5.58B in Q4: What's Fueling the Growth?

September 1 at 11:46 AM | zacks.com

Flputnam Investment Management Co. Has $28.55 Million Stake in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

September 1 at 9:41 AM | marketbeat.com

Alamea Verwaltungs GmbH Makes New Investment in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

September 1 at 8:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Cyrus J. Lawrence LLC Cuts Holdings in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

September 1 at 8:11 AM | marketbeat.com

Calton & Associates Inc. Invests $358,000 in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

September 1 at 6:21 AM | marketbeat.com

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW Shares Sold by Trexquant Investment LP

September 1 at 5:12 AM | marketbeat.com

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)’s “Great Too,” Says Jim Cramer

August 31 at 1:51 PM | insidermonkey.com

Benchmark Investment Advisors LLC Grows Holdings in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 31 at 6:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Baird Financial Group Inc. Cuts Stake in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 31 at 6:27 AM | marketbeat.com

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company Has $66.89 Million Stake in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 31 at 6:04 AM | marketbeat.com

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Buys 256,845 Shares of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 31 at 5:56 AM | marketbeat.com

Stony Point Capital LLC Grows Stock Holdings in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 30 at 7:36 AM | marketbeat.com

Vident Advisory LLC Has $80.86 Million Stake in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 30 at 7:35 AM | marketbeat.com

Evergreen Capital Management LLC Sells 2,833 Shares of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 30 at 7:25 AM | marketbeat.com

Clough Capital Partners L P Grows Stake in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 30 at 7:16 AM | marketbeat.com

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW Shares Purchased by Siren L.L.C.

August 30 at 6:29 AM | marketbeat.com

OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp Has $3.92 Million Stock Holdings in Palo Alto Networks, Inc. $PANW

August 30 at 5:51 AM | marketbeat.com

The Market Is Wrong For Punishing Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW), Says Jim Cramer

August 29 at 5:51 PM | insidermonkey.com

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) Shares Up 1.2% - Time to Buy?

August 29 at 1:57 PM | marketbeat.com

Big Ideas, Global Ambitions: Startups Take the Stage in Palo Alto at Restart IL

August 29 at 11:00 AM | globenewswire.com

Recession-Proof or Overhyped? Trading the PANW Shakeup

August 29 at 8:35 AM | etftrends.comE

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COST, PANW, and AAPL Company Descriptions

Apple NASDAQ:AAPL

$232.14 -0.42 (-0.18%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$232.04 -0.10 (-0.04%)

As of 08/29/2025 08:00 PM Eastern

Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables, and accessories worldwide. The company offers iPhone, a line of smartphones; Mac, a line of personal computers; iPad, a line of multi-purpose tablets; and wearables, home, and accessories comprising AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, and HomePod. It also provides AppleCare support and cloud services; and operates various platforms, including the App Store that allow customers to discover and download applications and digital content, such as books, music, video, games, and podcasts. In addition, the company offers various services, such as Apple Arcade, a game subscription service; Apple Fitness+, a personalized fitness service; Apple Music, which offers users a curated listening experience with on-demand radio stations; Apple News+, a subscription news and magazine service; Apple TV+, which offers exclusive original content; Apple Card, a co-branded credit card; and Apple Pay, a cashless payment service, as well as licenses its intellectual property. The company serves consumers, and small and mid-sized businesses; and the education, enterprise, and government markets. It distributes third-party applications for its products through the App Store. The company also sells its products through its retail and online stores, and direct sales force; and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and resellers. Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Costco Wholesale NASDAQ:COST

$943.32 -1.64 (-0.17%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$942.44 -0.88 (-0.09%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:59 PM Eastern

Costco Wholesale Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the operation of membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, China, Spain, France, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The company offers branded and private-label products in a range of merchandise categories. It offers merchandise, such as sundries, dry groceries, candies, coolers, freezers, deli, liquor, and tobacco; appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, garden and patio products, sporting goods, tires, toys and seasonal products, office supplies, automotive care products, postages, tickets, apparel, small appliances, furniture, domestics, housewares, special order kiosks, and jewelry; and meat, produce, service deli, and bakery products. The company also operates gasoline, pharmacies, optical, food courts, hearing-aid centers, and tire installation centers; and offers business delivery, travel, grocery, and various other services online. It also operates e-commerce websites. The company was formerly known as Costco Companies, Inc. and changed its name to Costco Wholesale Corporation in August 1999. Costco Wholesale Corporation was founded in 1976 and is based in Issaquah, Washington.

Palo Alto Networks NASDAQ:PANW

$190.52 -0.50 (-0.26%)

Closing price 08/29/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$190.30 -0.23 (-0.12%)

As of 08/29/2025 07:58 PM Eastern

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, a security management solution for the global control of network security platform as a virtual or a physical appliance. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, URL filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, DNS security, Internet of Things security, SaaS security API, and SaaS security inline, as well as threat intelligence, and data loss prevention. In addition, the company offers cloud security, secure access, security operations, and threat intelligence and security consulting; professional services, including architecture design and planning, implementation, configuration, and firewall migration; education services, such as certifications, as well as online and in-classroom training; and support services. It sells its products and services through its channel partners, as well as directly to medium to large enterprises, service providers, and government entities operating in various industries, including education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare, Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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