On Friday, Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ: PANW) was -0.96% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $174.44. A 52-week range for PANW has been $132.50 – $208.39.
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Technology Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 22.69% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 13.77%. With a float of $654.86 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $660.40 million.
The firm has a total of 15289 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 73.86%, operating margin of 11.03%, and the pretax margin is 14.74%.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) Insider Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Palo Alto Networks Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Palo Alto Networks Inc is 1.09%, while institutional ownership is 78.37%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 20 ’25, was worth 129,850. In this transaction Chief Accounting Officer of this company sold 700 shares at a rate of $185.50, taking the stock ownership to the 47,374 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 05 ’25, when Company’s Chief Executive Officer sold 69,947 for $181.56, making the entire transaction worth $12,699,392. This insider now owns 1,086,671 shares in total.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 13.77% per share during the next fiscal year.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ: PANW) Trading Performance Indicators
You can see what Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.79. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 13.35. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 39.02.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.77, a number that is poised to hit 0.77 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.66 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Palo Alto Networks Inc, PANW], we can find that recorded value of 5.18 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 5.68 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 22.20%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.28.
During the past 100 days, Palo Alto Networks Inc’s (PANW) raw stochastic average was set at 15.53%, which indicates a significant increase from 9.84% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 39.78% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 33.60% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $186.93, while its 200-day Moving Average is $179.39. Now, the first resistance to watch is $174.84. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $176.92. The third major resistance level sits at $178.95. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $170.73, it is likely to go to the next support level at $168.69. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $166.61.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ: PANW) Key Stats
There are 662,100K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 114.38 billion. As of now, sales total 8,028 M while income totals 2,578 M. Its latest quarter income was 2,257 M while its last quarter net income were 267,300 K.
