About Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW) is a Technology company in the Computer Peripheral Equipment, NEC industry with a market capitalisation of $263.6B. The stock trades at 632.67x trailing earnings.
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Computer Peripheral Equipment, NEC
- Market cap
- $263.6B
- P/E ratio
- 632.67
- EPS (TTM)
- $0.40
- Revenue (TTM)
- $11.5B
- Free cash flow
- $4.1B
- Profit margin
- 2.7%
- Shares outstanding
- 818M
Financial health: Weak4.3/10
3 strengths, 4 concerns. Weakest points: current ratio, return on equity, net margin and 1 more.
- Current ratio: 0.87 (Concern, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover only 0.87x short-term liabilities — below 1.0, meaning bills due this year exceed the assets on hand to pay them. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 1.1% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 1.1% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 70.4% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 70.4% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 2.7% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 2.7% of revenue into profit, well short of the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $4.1B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $4.1B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 24.5% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 24.5% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -73.0% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -73.0% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.