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PANW
Palo Alto Networks Inc
NASDAQ· Technology· Software - Infrastructure· CUSIP 697435105
$354.92+2.21%Price as of Oct 23, 00:41 UTC · updated once a day, after the close
At a glance
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Software - Infrastructure, part of the Technology sector. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, United States and has 21,921 employees. The company is worth $290.32B and trades at 865.7x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 28.0x. Revenue was $11.48B in fiscal 2026, up 24.5% from the year before. Net income was $307M. The share price is 17.9% below its 52-week high of $432.33. 5 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $511.23M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. Over the last 30 days, company insiders sold $11.13M of its stock on the open market and bought none. $10.93M of those sales were scheduled in advance under 10b5-1 plans.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Key metrics
- Market cap
- $290.32B
- P/E
- 865.7x
- Forward P/E
- 72.7x
- P/B
- 10.5x
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- Payout
- —
- EPS
- $0.41
- ROE
- 1.74%
- Profit margin
- 2.67%
- Revenue growth
- +34.50%
- Beta
- 0.93
- 52-week high
- $432.33
- 52-week low
- $139.57
History
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Investors holding this
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
Ken GriffinReducedCitadel Advisors · Q2 2026$511.23M1.5M shares · 0.3% of portfolio- Cliff AsnessReducedAQR Capital Management · Q2 2026$265.66M780.79K shares · 0.1% of portfolio
- Israel EnglanderAddedMillennium Management · Q2 2026$137.49M403.17K shares · 0.1% of portfolio
- Stanley DruckenmillerNew positionDuquesne Family Office · Q2 2026$39.78M116.65K shares · 0.9% of portfolio
- Lee AinslieNew positionMaverick Capital · Q2 2026$1.25M3.66K shares · 0.0% of portfolio
Price over time
▲ +275.2% over 5Y.
today you would have $4,030.72▲ +303.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
Indicators, year by year
The last 15 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $342.00 | $184.20 | $181.96 | $147.44 | $69.77 | $92.79 | $59.23 | $38.54 | $31.39 | $24.16 | $20.84 | $29.36 | $20.43 | $9.58 | $8.92 | |
| P/E | — | 855.0x | 115.1x | 50.0x | 230.4x | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| P/S | 12.7x | 24.4x | 13.4x | 14.8x | 13.2x | 7.6x | 12.7x | 10.0x | 7.7x | 7.8x | 7.6x | 8.2x | 16.1x | 16.3x | 10.4x | 14.2x |
| P/B | 17.5x | 10.2x | 15.7x | 22.9x | 52.1x | 198.8x | 85.5x | 31.1x | 14.1x | 15.2x | 17.5x | 12.7x | 30.7x | 20.8x | 15.1x | 15.9x |
| EPS | $0.40 | $1.60 | $3.64 | $0.64 | -$0.45 | -$0.87 | -$0.46 | -$0.15 | -$0.22 | -$0.37 | -$0.37 | -$0.27 | -$0.51 | -$0.07 | $0.00 | |
| Profit margin | -5.37% | 2.67% | 12.30% | 32.12% | 6.38% | -4.85% | -11.72% | -7.83% | -2.82% | -5.37% | -11.52% | -13.98% | -14.15% | -37.86% | -7.38% | 0.29% |
| ROE | -10.74% | 1.12% | 14.49% | 49.87% | 25.15% | -127.14% | -78.63% | -24.23% | -5.16% | -10.53% | -26.72% | -21.53% | -26.91% | -48.34% | -10.74% | 0.32% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
Fair price, seven ways
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Earnings
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Cash flow
$83.34
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Operating
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Dividends
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This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
How the average is calculated
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
Cash flow $83.34÷ 1 =$83.34
$83.34
1 methods answered, across 1 families.
$62.50
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
$354.92
-76.5% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
Others in the same sector
Companies of similar size in Technology, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRCXLam Research Corp | $230.15 | 34.3x | 23.1x | 0.57% | 65.07% | $288.02B |
| DELLDell Technologies Inc. | $452.95 | 26.3x | — | 0.56% | — | $287.99B |
| AMATApplied Materials Inc | $375.58 | 35.3x | 11.6x | 0.56% | 41.07% | $298.06B |
| SAPSAP SE | $240.59 | 29.8x | 5.6x | 1.22% | 18.32% | $277.69B |
| TXNTexas Instruments Inc | $279.50 | 36.9x | 15.6x | 2.18% | 35.18% | $255.25B |
| CRWDCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | $237.94 | 4758.8x | 47.8x | 0.00% | 1.46% | $243.64B |
About the company
- 21,921
- Santa Clara, United States