“Year Ended July 31, Year Ended July 31, 2026 2025 Change 2025 2024 Change Amount Amount Amount % Amount Amount Amount % (dollars in millions) Cost of product revenue $ 568 $ 413 $ 155 38 % $ 413 $ 348 $ 65 19 % Cost of product revenue increased for fiscal 202…”10-K · Sep 10, 2026 ↗
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
PANW
Market read
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.'s move is being confirmed by its market group.
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 35 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 34 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 23 of 35 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- A filing-linked outsider such as ASAN begins moving with the group.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 12 of 35 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 35 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 34 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 23 of 35 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- A filing-linked outsider such as ASAN begins moving with the group.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +14.9% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +5.0 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 3.28x in the latest annual period.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Product pipeline and R&D has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
- Net margin changed -19.8 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- P/E is 621% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 227% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 11, 2026
330.60Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Three Months Ended April 30, Nine Months Ended April 30, 2026 2025 Change 2026 2025 Change Amount Amount Amount % Amount Amount Amount % (dollars in millions) Research and development $ 734 $ 494 $ 240 49 % $ 1,773 $ 1,480 $ 293 20 % Research and development…”10-Q · Jun 3, 2026 ↗
“The increase in general and administrative expense for the nine months ended April 30, 2026 was also driven by a partial release of litigation-related accrual of $40 million during the nine months ended April 30, 2025.”10-Q · Jun 3, 2026 ↗
“The increase was primarily due to growth of our business as reflected by increases in collections during the nine months ended April 30, 2026, partially offset by higher cash expenditure to support our business growth.”10-Q · Jun 3, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 25.4× · EV/sales 25.2×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for PANW. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for PANW. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind PANW
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
CRWDCrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.competitorJun 3, 2026 ▾
“Our main competitors fall into four categories: • large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc.”
CSCOCisco Systems, Inc.competitorJun 3, 2026 ▾
“Our main competitors fall into four categories: • large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc.”
Depended on by
QLYSQualys, Inc.competitorMay 5, 2026 ▾
“We compete with large and small public companies, such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and Tenable Holdings, as well as privately held security providers including Invicti, Tanium, and Wiz (which has announced a pending acquisition by Google).”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
PANW is currently a Early Follower in the organic co-movement group Software Stocks. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.