Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) is a cybersecurity company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The firm develops a broad suite of security products and services designed to prevent successful cyberattacks and protect enterprise networks, clouds, and endpoints. Built around a platform strategy, its offerings target threat prevention, detection, response and governance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

The company’s product portfolio includes next‑generation firewalls as a core on‑premises capability, alongside cloud‑delivered security services and software for securing public and private clouds. Key product families include Prisma, which addresses cloud security and secure access service edge (SASE) use cases; Cortex, which focuses on security operations, endpoint protection and extended detection and response (XDR); and platform capabilities for threat intelligence, automated threat analysis and malware prevention. Palo Alto Networks markets a mix of hardware appliances, virtualized software and subscription-based cloud services to support a range of deployment scenarios.

Palo Alto Networks serves a global customer base of enterprises, service providers and government organizations, operating in multiple geographies with offices and customers around the world. Over time the company has expanded its scope from network firewall technology to a broader cybersecurity platform that integrates cloud security, analytics and automation. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol PANW and is led by CEO Nikesh Arora; Nir Zuk is credited as one of the company’s founders and early technical architects.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $321.39 to $350.67
• 50-Day Range: $285.26 to $396.00
• 52-Week Range: $139.57 to $398.88
• Volume: 13.18 million shs
• Average Volume: 8.60 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $267.71 billion
• P/E Ratio: 269.25
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $384.37
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Palo Alto Networks Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Palo Alto Networks scored higher than 78% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 224th out of 600 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.9 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Palo Alto Networks has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.84, and is based on 1 strong buy rating, 39 buy ratings, 9 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Palo Alto Networks has a consensus price target of $384.15, representing about 18.5% upside from its current price of $324.14.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Palo Alto Networks has been the subject of 36 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.3 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 11.94%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Palo Alto Networks are expected to grow by 11.94% in the coming year, from $2.01 to $2.25 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Palo Alto Networks is 265.99, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.05.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Palo Alto Networks is 265.99, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 74.73.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Palo Alto Networks has a PEG Ratio of 12.08. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Palo Alto Networks has a P/B Ratio of 27.70. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.79% of the float of Palo Alto Networks has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Palo Alto Networks has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 3.95, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Palo Alto Networks has recently increased by 6.73%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Palo Alto Networks does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Palo Alto Networks does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 4.4 / 5
• News Sentiment: 1.03

News Sentiment

Palo Alto Networks has a news sentiment score of 1.03. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.84 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 117 news articles for Palo Alto Networks this week, compared to 12 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

139 people have searched for PANW on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 104% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

91 people have added Palo Alto Networks to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 406% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.5 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Palo Alto Networks insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $10,814,266.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

1.40% of the stock of Palo Alto Networks is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

79.82% of the stock of Palo Alto Networks is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 9/01/2026
• Today: 9/02/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 11/18/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 7/31/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Software
• Sub-Industry: Systems Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:PANW
• CIK: 1327567
• Web: www.paloaltonetworks.com
• Phone: (408) 753-4000
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 16,068
• Year Founded: 2005

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Palo Alto Networks: $384.37
• High Price Target: $475.00
• Low Price Target: $175.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +17.0%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.84
• Research Coverage: 49 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $1.22
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 269.25
• Forward P/E Ratio: 163.42
• P/E Growth: 12.08
• Net Income: $1.13 billion
• Net Margins: 7.95%
• Pretax Margin: 13.17%
• Return on Equity: 10.53%
• Return on Assets: 4.76%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.04
• Current Ratio: 0.86
• Quick Ratio: 0.86

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $9.22 billion
• Price / Sales: 29.03
• Cash Flow: $2.57 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 127.57
• Book Value: $11.70 per share
• Price / Book: 28.08

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 815,000,000
• Free Float: 803,590,000
• Market Cap: $267.71 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.91