During the recent session, Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ:PANW)’s traded shares were 0.76 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.99. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $187.15, reflecting an intraday loss of -0.73% or -$1.38. The 52-week high for the PANW share is $208.39, that puts it down -11.35 from that peak though still a striking 24.12% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $142.01. The company’s market capitalization is $123.92B, and the average trade volume was 5.50 million shares over the past three months.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.77. PANW has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 36 analysts who have looked at this stock. 7 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 1 suggest Overweight, and 28 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Palo Alto Networks Inc (NASDAQ:PANW) trade information
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) registered a -0.73% downside in the last session and has traded in the red over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -0.73% in intraday trading to $187.15, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is -0.29%, and it has moved by 8.17% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 22.52%.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $425, which implies an increase of 55.96% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $230 and $455 respectively. As a result, PANW is trading at a discount of -143.12% off the target high and -22.9% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return 13.86% in 2025, the next five years will return 14.46% per annum.
PANW Dividends
Palo Alto Networks Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings in June. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
The next largest institutional holding, with 25.01 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 7.8352% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $8.48 billion.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . Data provided on Dec 31, 2024 indicates that VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund owns about 20.56 shares. This amounts to just over 21.11 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $3.83 billion market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 17.71, or about 18.18% of the stock, which is worth about $3.3 billion.
