Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 6.180-6.310 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 6.190. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.1 billion-$9.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.1 billion. Palo Alto Networks also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 1.470-1.490 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

PANW has been the topic of several research reports. Rosenblatt Securities raised their price objective on Palo Alto Networks from $300.00 to $345.00 and gave the company a neutral rating in a research report on Monday. Susquehanna raised their target price on Palo Alto Networks from $325.00 to $340.00 and gave the company a positive rating in a report on Tuesday, May 21st. Piper Sandler upped their price target on Palo Alto Networks from $300.00 to $330.00 and gave the stock a neutral rating in a report on Tuesday. Robert W. Baird lifted their price objective on shares of Palo Alto Networks from $360.00 to $375.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a research note on Friday, August 16th. Finally, Evercore ISI upped their target price on shares of Palo Alto Networks from $385.00 to $395.00 and gave the company an outperform rating in a research note on Tuesday. Thirteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-nine have assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and an average target price of $363.49.

Palo Alto Networks Price Performance

Shares of PANW opened at $359.75 on Thursday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $328.90 and its 200-day moving average is $311.18. Palo Alto Networks has a 12-month low of $224.64 and a 12-month high of $380.84. The stock has a market capitalization of $116.49 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.29, a P/E/G ratio of 4.48 and a beta of 1.14.

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, August 19th. The network technology company reported $1.51 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.41 by $0.10. Palo Alto Networks had a net margin of 31.42% and a return on equity of 32.74%. The firm had revenue of $2.19 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.16 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.80 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 12.1% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, equities research analysts forecast that Palo Alto Networks will post 2.94 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Transactions at Palo Alto Networks

In related news, EVP Nir Zuk sold 36,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, June 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $293.31, for a total value of $10,559,160.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 1,259,567 shares in the company, valued at approximately $369,443,596.77. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. In other Palo Alto Networks news, President William D. Jenkins, Jr. sold 1,475 shares of Palo Alto Networks stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, July 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $339.12, for a total transaction of $500,202.00. Following the transaction, the president now directly owns 19,026 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,452,097.12. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Nir Zuk sold 36,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, June 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $293.31, for a total value of $10,559,160.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 1,259,567 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $369,443,596.77. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 366,372 shares of company stock valued at $118,440,693 over the last three months. Company insiders own 3.30% of the company’s stock.

Palo Alto Networks Company Profile

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.