Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ:PANW) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.39M but it saw 7590642 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 120.86B USD, the company’s current market price of $186.14 came rising about 2.69 while comparing to the previous closing price of $181.26. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $208.39 and as low as $142.01.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Roth Capital which initiated the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on May 15, 2025, recommending a price target of $210 for it. HSBC Securities upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Hold” from “Reduce” on April 10, 2025 while assigning a price target of $156. Stephens also issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $205.
Over the week, PANW’s stock price is moving -3.50% down while it is 10.59% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 2.30% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 14.98%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.88 while estimate for next year EPS is 3.27. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.44B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $9.19B and seeing the company making $10.5B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $2.5B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Palo Alto Networks Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 665.90M with 1.01% of that held by the insiders while 81.95% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 16.34% and return on equity (ROE) at 21.16%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 106.52 while having a 50.54 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.96. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 17.14 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 13.62. Its return on asset (ROA) is 6.20% on average.
