Currently, there are 660.40M common shares owned by the public and among those 655.62M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.29% and -5.22% over the past three months. PANW shares are trading 6.88% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 22.79% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $142.01 and touched a high of $208.39 over the same period. PANW has an average intraday trading volume of 5.11 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 3.89%, 8.73%, and 6.95% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ: PANW) shares accounts for 79.47% of the company’s 660.40M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $128.77B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.97. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 109.87, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.77. The company has a PEG of 7.69 and a Quick Ratio of 0.79 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.14. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.76% over the week and 2.39% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 14.15%, and 13.35% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the PANW, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Roth Capital stated their Neutral rating for the stock in a research note on May 15, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $210. HSBC Securities coverage for the Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) stock in a research note released on April 10, 2025 offered a Hold rating with a price target of $156. Deutsche Bank on their part issued Hold rating on January 08, 2025.
