“Investing Activities Net cash used in investing activities during fiscal 2026 of $2,652.7 million was primarily attributable to the purchases of short-term investments of $2,254.3 million, business acquisitions, net of cash acquired, of $918.1 million, capita…”10-K · Sep 3, 2026 ↗
Zscaler, Inc.
ZS
Market read
Zscaler, Inc.'s move is spreading beyond its market group.
ZS accounts for 8.3% of the group's measured movement across 2.6 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 4 of 6 session-normalized paths align to the downside. Capital-flow agreement is 0%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
Is this move genuinely shared?
FTNT, CGNT, VIA moved materially before ZS. ZS crossed its material path threshold at 15:50 ET, 380 minutes after the first measured mover.
5 of 6 members in Software Companies are active. 0 of 3 disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 4 of 6 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- SAIL remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 2 of 6 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
ZS accounts for 8.3% of the group's measured movement across 2.6 effective names. raw member direction is mixed; 4 of 6 session-normalized paths align to the downside. Capital-flow agreement is 0%, so confirmation is not yet clean. No verified headline preceded the measured group move.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 4 of 6 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- SAIL remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
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 +25.4% year over year.
- Capital investment and capacity has repeated favorable evidence across 6 filings.
- Diluted shares increased 3.8% in the latest annual period.
- Data center and AI demand has repeated adverse evidence across 6 filings.
- EV/sales is 19% below the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Oct 1, 2026
198.88Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“As our customers expand and increase the use of our cloud platform, driven by additional users, applications, workloads, AI agents, and connected devices, our cost of revenue will increase due to higher bandwidth and data center expenses.”10-K · Sep 3, 2026 ↗
“The gains and losses related to changes in the fair value of the interest rate swap contracts are included within interest expense in the condensed consolidated statement of operations and substantially offset changes in the fair value of the hedged portion o…”10-Q · Nov 25, 2025 ↗
“Substantially all of our revenue is transacted in U.S.”10-Q · Nov 25, 2025 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 9.5× · EV/sales 9.2×. 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 1 Oct, 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 ZS. 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 ZS. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind ZS
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depended on by
PANWPalo Alto Networks, 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.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
ZS is currently a Early Follower in the organic co-movement group Software Companies. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 1 filing-linked name 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.