Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ:PANW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.52M but it saw 4391307 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 121.83B USD, the company’s current market price of $184.01 came falling about -1.88 while comparing to the previous closing price of $187.54. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $208.39 and as low as $132.50. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $183.825 while lowest mark touched by it was $188.854.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) gives us an average price of $184.00, while its current price level is -11.70% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 38.88% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $185.83 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $178.41. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.67% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.41%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 48.55 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Over the week, PANW’s stock price is moving 4.36% up while it is -10.32% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.13% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 29.02%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-12, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.77 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.23. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.5B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.19B and seeing the company making $10.57B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.28B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Palo Alto Networks Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 660.40M with 1.05% of that held by the insiders while 81.66% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 18.62% and return on equity (ROE) at 23.38%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 103.95 while having a 50.21 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.03. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 19.06 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 14.22. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.39% on average.
