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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Technology · CIK 0001327567
$354.92
+2.21% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$289.26B market value
From Palo Alto Networks Inc's FY2026 10-K, filed Sep 10, 2026 · read the filing
Palo Alto Networks makes computers and computing hardware. It took in $11.48B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 3 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by growth and debt, with profitability worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 2 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$205.2K sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Strong finances across the board.
From Palo Alto Networks Inc's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating income
$1.24B → $695.0M
Profit
$1.13B → $307.0M
Profit margin
12.3% → 2.7%
Earnings per share
$1.70 → $0.38
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Sep 10, 2026
Deteriorated: -44.1%
$1.24B to $695.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -72.9%
$1.13B to $307.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
PANW rose 2.21% on the latest quote. The average Technology company tracked here moved −1.31%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 3.5 points above its sector and 3.2 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 22% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 22% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 3 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $307.0M last year.
Yes, quickly. Sales grew 24.5% last year.
It does not appear so. For every $1 it owes, it owns $2.31 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $307.0M and generated $4.55B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Sep 10, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Sep 10, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Sep 10, 2026Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Sep 10, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Sep 1, 2023Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $11.48B | $9.22B | $8.03B | $6.89B | $5.50B | +24.5% |
| Cost of revenue | $3.40B | $2.45B | $2.06B | $1.91B | $1.72B | +38.8% |
| Gross profit | $8.08B | $6.77B | $5.97B | $4.98B | $3.78B | +19.3% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 70.4% | 73.4% | 74.3% | 72.3% | 68.8% | −3.1 pts |
| Selling, general and administrative | $899.0M | $443.0M | $680.0M | $447.7M | $405.0M | +102.9% |
| Operating income | $695.0M | $1.24B | $684.0M | $387.3M | -$188.8M | −44.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 6.1% | 13.5% | 8.5% | 5.6% | -3.4% | −7.4 pts |
| Interest expense | $0.00 | $3.0M | $8.3M | $27.2M | $27.4M | −100.0% |
| Income before tax | $536.0M | $1.60B | $988.0M | $566.3M | -$207.2M | −66.4% |
| Net income | $307.0M | $1.13B | $2.58B | $439.7M | -$267.0M | −72.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 2.7% | 12.3% | 32.1% | 6.4% | -4.9% | −9.6 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.3767 | $1.70 | $3.96 | $1.43 | $-0.8936 | −77.8% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PANWPalo Alto Networks Inc · this page | 8.7/10 | 3/8 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Gifted shares — 60,000 shares
Holds 555,070 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 170 shares at $410.00 ($69.7K)
Holds 4,507 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Annual report for FY2026
Revenue +24.5% · Operating margin −7.4 pts · Operating income -44.1% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 114 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 40 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from PANW's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-07-31, filed Sep 10, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 6.0 | 3/8 | 10-K, filed Sep 10, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 4/8 | 10-K, filed Sep 10, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Sep 6, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 7.0 | 8/9 | 10-K, filed Sep 1, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Sep 6, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 6.0 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Sep 3, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
3 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
8.61
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: −9.6 pts
12.3% to 2.7%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -77.8%
$1.70 to $0.38Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: +22.0%
668.0M to 815.0MCritical
Why it matters: New shares divide the same company into more pieces, so each existing holding owns slightly less of it. Often pay for staff or an acquisition rather than anything wrong.
Changed: +78.1%
$247.0M to $440.0MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +24.5%
$9.22B to $11.48BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +19.3%
$6.77B to $8.08BSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −3.1 pts
73.4% to 70.4%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Deteriorated: −7.4 pts
13.5% to 6.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +18.6%
$3.47B to $4.11BSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +10.8%
$2.27B to $2.51BNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 20% and 25%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 62 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 62 analysts publishing on this company, 15 say strong buy, 33 say buy, 13 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 2.7% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 339.9x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Sold on the open market — 80 shares at $417.13 ($33.4K)
Holds 4,427 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,308 shares at $397.31 ($519.7K)
Holds 78,387 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 400 shares at $395.70 ($158.3K)
Holds 77,987 shares after this filing.
Gifted shares — 25,000 shares
Holds 615,070 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 260 shares at $392.69 ($102.1K)
Holds 4,677 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 900 shares at $388.69 ($349.8K)
Holds 144,350 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,160 shares at $389.85 ($842.1K)
Holds 142,190 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 9,539 shares at $390.65 ($3.7M)
Holds 132,651 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,301 shares at $391.71 ($2.1M)
Holds 127,350 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 6,400 shares at $392.71 ($2.5M)
Holds 120,950 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,200 shares at $393.58 ($865.9K)
Holds 118,750 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 900 shares at $394.98 ($355.5K)
Holds 117,850 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 100 shares at $396.21 ($39.6K)
Holds 117,750 shares after this filing.
Was granted or awarded shares — 7,211 shares
Holds 79,695 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 500,000 shares ($201.4M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Open market purchase pursuant to the terms set forth in the offer letter by and between the Issuer and the Reporting Person, dated 5/30/2018, that was filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the Issuer with the SEC on 6/4/2018..
Filed notice to sell 250 shares ($99.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Transfer.
Filed notice to sell 60,000 shares ($23.9M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Acquired as compensation -- Restricted Stock Units.
Filed notice to sell 35,000 shares ($13.8M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via RSU/PSU.
Filed notice to sell 750 shares ($295.0K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Transfer.
Filed notice to sell 20,000 shares ($7.5M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Distribution from a Partnership.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Had a director or senior officer leave or join · Amended its charter or changed its financial year
Quarterly report for Q3 FY2026
Revenue +31.1% · Operating margin −15.7 pts · Operating income turned negative — against Q3 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +14.9% · Operating margin +4.6 pts · Operating income +64.7% — against Q2 FY2026
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation · Reported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +15.7% · Profit margin −2.9 pts · Earnings per share -54.9% — against Q1 FY2026
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Revenue +14.9% · Operating margin +5.0 pts · Operating income +81.7% — against FY2024
Read the filingThe first 40 of 114. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-09-10. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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