Palo Alto Networks is a software - infrastructure business based in the US. Palo Alto Networks shares (PANW) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Palo Alto Networks employs 15,166 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $7.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $320.13 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $201.17 - $380.84 |
| 50-day moving average | $318.11 |
| 200-day moving average | $297.05 |
| Wall St. target price | $341.50 |
| PE ratio | 47.8165 |
| Dividend yield | N/A (0%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $6.92 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $320.13 from 2024-07-25
| 1 week (2024-07-19) | -3.25% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-26) | -1.58% |
| 3 months (2024-04-26) | 9.85% |
| 6 months (2024-01-26) | -6.52% |
| 1 year (2023-07-26) | 30.66% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-26) | -31.19% |
| 3 years (2021-07-26) | 398.99 |
| 5 years (2019-07-26) | 41.01% |
Valuing Palo Alto Networks stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Palo Alto Networks's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Palo Alto Networks's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 48x. In other words, Palo Alto Networks shares trade at around 48x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Palo Alto Networks's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.116. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Palo Alto Networks's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Palo Alto Networks's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $1.1 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Palo Alto Networks's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $7.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 9.09% |
| Gross profit TTM | $3.8 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 3.43% |
| Return on equity TTM | 85.88% |
| Profit margin | 31.42% |
| Book value | $13.82 |
| Market Capitalization | $107.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Palo Alto Networks to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Palo Alto Networks's shares were split on a 3:1 basis on 13 September 2022. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Palo Alto Networks shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 66.7% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Palo Alto Networks shares which in turn could have impacted Palo Alto Networks's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Palo Alto Networks's shares have ranged in value from as little as $201.17 up to $380.84. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Palo Alto Networks's is 1.145. This would suggest that Palo Alto Networks's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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.
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