Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. continues to deliver strong cybersecurity leadership in the AI era, as evidenced by its Q1 FY 2026 beat and raise. However, a deeper dive into its fundamentals shows emerging cracks over the durability of the stock's growing valuation premium on both an intrinsic and relative basis. Despite clear AI tailwinds in identity and cloud-native security, bolstered by its upcoming M&A activity, PANW's current premium has yet to de-risk for imminent dilution and integration inefficiencies.
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Analysts at Wedbush repeated their ‘Outperform' rating and $225 price target on Palo Alto Networks Inc (NYSE:PANW, XETRA:5AP) after it reported fiscal first quarter results that modestly exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company posted revenue of $2.47 billion, at the high end of its guidance range and slightly above the Street's estimate of $2.46 billion.
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Palo Alto Networks, Inc. ( PANW ) Q1 2026 Earnings Call November 19, 2025 4:30 PM EST Company Participants Hamza Fodderwala Nikesh Arora - Chairman & CEO Dipak Golechha - Executive VP & CFO Lee Klarich - Executive VP, Chief Product Officer, CTO & Director Conference Call Participants Brad Zelnick - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division Robbie Owens - Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division Saket Kalia - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Matthew Hedberg - RBC Capital Markets, Research Division Tal Liani - BofA Securities, Research Division Meta Marshall - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Brian Essex - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Joseph Gallo - Jefferies LLC, Research Division Joshua Tilton - Wolfe Research, LLC Patrick Edwin Colville - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets, Research Division Fatima Boolani - Citigroup Inc., Research Division Gregg Moskowitz - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Presentation Hamza Fodderwala Good day, everyone, and welcome to Palo Alto Networks First Fiscal Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. I'm Hamza Fodderwala, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance.
Although the revenue and EPS for Palo Alto (PANW) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended October 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.