How is Palo Alto Networks (PANW) doing?
Palo Alto Networks is a company in the software, infrastructure industry, based in Santa Clara, CA, worth $341.3B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Strong
Palo Alto Networks shares are up 92% over the past year, 66 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Bellwether. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 96th percentile on market beat, the 82nd on staying power and the 86th on business growth. It appears on 15 of our dashboards, including 4th on “Which stocks are priced for perfection?”.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Bellwether
Beating the market, steadily, with a growing business and buyers adding. Everything is lined up.
Bellwether since Jul; Hot Hand before that.
Also Bellwether (93 in all): TWLO · OKTA · SNOW · NET · RNG · DDOG
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Software / cloud, 53 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Enterprise software and cloud — the long-duration growth engine.
Palo Alto Networks is +92% over the past year, against +13% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 6th of 53 in Software / cloud.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Palo Alto Networks typically moves 4.1% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 71% of large US stocks.
PANW on our dashboards
Every question where Palo Alto Networks appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with PANW highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| How much are stocks swinging? Market health | 88Stormy | 25 of 60 | Daily move now 3.7% · Usual 2.8% · 1M change +24% |
| Which stocks are setting new highs? Market health | 95Top | 11 of 31 | 1Y +92% · 3M +27% · Days at a high 4 |
| What moved today, and why? What’s leading | 91Unusual | 26 of 30 | Today +5.1% · × normal day 1.2× |
| What are this year’s biggest winners and losers? What’s leading | 97Top | 16 of 60 | This year +127% · vs S&P +113 pts · Past month +24% |
| Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading | – | 39 of 50 | Market value $341.3B · Places, 1Y +7 · Value, 1Y +143% |
| Is the market rewarding earnings beats? Earnings | –Beat | 40 of 60 | Surprise +4% · Move vs S&P −13.8% · Reported 2026-09-01 |
| Where are analysts raising estimates? Earnings | 95Raised | 25 of 60 | Change, 1M +2.2% · Next-year EPS $4.19 |
| Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks | 88Excellent | 18 of 60 | Pressure 66 · 1Y +92% |
| Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks | 95Ahead | 28 of 60 | 3M +18 pts · 1Y +73 pts · Rivals CRWD, FTNT, ZS, S |
| Which companies are growing fastest? Business quality | 88Fast | 60 of 60 | Revenue, 1Y +24% · Change +10 pts · Earnings, 1Y −73% |
| Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality | 97Backed | 11 of 60 | 3 years 279% · Last year 300% · Free cash flow $4.4B |
| Which companies invest the most in research? Business quality | 88Heavy | 25 of 60 | R&D / revenue 22.2% · R&D a year $2.6B · R&D, 1Y +29% |
| Which stocks are priced for perfection? Value | 99Priced for perfection | 4 of 60 | Forward P/E 77× · EV / sales 26.6× · Expected EPS growth +16% |
| Which companies have more cash than debt? Value | 87Net cash | 50 of 60 | Net cash $4.2B · % of value +2% · Debt payback 0.1 yrs |
| Which companies pay the most in stock? Dividends and buybacks | 92Heavy | 32 of 60 | % of revenue 6.6% · A year $761.0M · % of cash flow 17% |
Go deeper on Stox
PANW’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see PANW’s full profile on Stox.
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