Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Stock: Price, Trend, Options & Financials
Palo Alto Networks' price regime, relative strength, unusual-options and unusual-volume history, curated-manager ownership and filed fundamentals — joined into one dated stock intelligence page.
What the evidence says now
PANW closed at $398.50 on Oct 8, 2026. The price is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +56.4% from its 200-day average, which places it in the rules-based “established uptrend” regime. The relative-strength check: over three months the stock returned +22.3%, beating SPY by 19.8%. It remains 7.8% below its 52-week high.
Sources, methodology & freshnessSplit-adjusted OHLCV, end-of-day options chains, SEC 13F filings and EDGAR XBRL company facts · Price/options daily; 13F quarterly; Financials each earnings seasonData as of 2026-10-08 · Open ↓Close ↑
The close is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +56.4% from its 200-day average. Over three months, PANW returned +22.3% versus +2.5% for SPY.
- vs 50-day
- +8.0%
- vs 200-day
- +56.4%
- From 52W high
- -7.8%
Descriptive, not predictive. “Uptrend” is a rules-based reading of the close and moving averages; it is not a rating, price target or recommendation.
Price & regime
One year of daily price and volume
252 split-adjusted sessions · candles above, share volume below
Unusual options — attention, not intent
PANW appeared in a UOA top-30 list on 3 of 94 archived scanner sessions: 3 call-side, 0 put-side and 0 on both lists. The latest session did not place it in either top 30. Its larger composite score was 0.20, below the 1.5 “strong” threshold. That is repeated options attention, not proof of bullish trade initiation.
| Recent flag | Call rank | Put rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | #5 | — |
| 2026-06-03 | #17 | — |
| 2026-05-26 | #23 | — |
Latest chain snapshot
2026-10-07Strong-signature cutoff: 1.5. Current OTM volume/OI: 0.116 calls, 0.060 puts.
Researched catalyst context
2026-09-14Sep 14: +13.1% to $373.94 on 11.5 million shares, 2.0 times the 30-day average, in the group-wide cybersecurity bid that followed Dario Amodei's Sep 12 essay urging a slower pace of frontier AI capability gains and warning of machine-speed cyberattacks. Software rallied while chips and AI infrastructure fell (SOXX -5.5%, Vertiv -7.7%).
Palo Alto Networks is the largest cybersecurity vendor by revenue and absorbed CyberArk this year. On Sep 1 it reported fiscal Q4 revenue of $3.41 billion, up 34%, and guided fiscal 2027 revenue to $14.10 to $14.20 billion; the stock fell 9.3% on that print on a slower RPO guide. The Sep 14 close recovers all of that and sits 5.6% below the Aug 13 52-week closing high of $396.00, 164.0% above the Feb 24 low of $141.67. The essay changed the perceived threat environment rather than any Palo Alto number, so the next dated test is the fiscal Q1 report in November.
Source: Dario Amodei, 'We Must Pace the Frontier', Sep 12, 2026 ↗Curated-manager ownership
2 of the 20 managers in the project's curated 13F set reported a long Palo Alto Networks position in their latest filing, worth $43M in aggregate at each filing's reported value. This is a focused manager panel, not the complete institutional holder list.
| Fund / manager | Position value | Portfolio | Shares | Quarter change | Report date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Duquesne Family Office Stanley Druckenmiller · PANW | $40M | 0.76% | 116,650 | — new | 2026-06-30 |
Baron Capital Group Ron Baron · PANW | $4M | 0.01% | 10,774 | -39.9% reduced | 2026-06-30 |
Filed fundamentals — latest snapshot
Go deeper into the filings
The dedicated Financials dashboard carries the complete quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history, with derived figures flagged and every XBRL concept disclosed.
Open PANW Financials →How PANW trades — the working manual
Palo Alto Networks sells network, cloud and security-operations products through subscriptions, support and appliance revenue. For the stock, platform adoption must translate into durable recurring commitments, renewal growth and cash flow while the company absorbs product transitions and competes across several security categories.
What can move the tape
- 01Platform consolidation, subscription growth and the conversion of remaining performance obligations into revenue.
- 02Large-customer additions, renewal activity and cross-selling across network, cloud and security operations.
- 03Product and support gross margin as software mix rises and hardware cycles change.
- 04Free-cash-flow conversion, stock-based compensation and capital returned through repurchases.
What can fool the read
- 01Security spending can remain strategic while procurement reviews lengthen sales cycles and delay bookings.
- 02Competition from focused vendors and broader platforms can pressure pricing or customer expansion.
- 03Platform migrations and acquisitions can create execution risk before expected consolidation benefits arrive.
- 04A high-expectation valuation can react sharply when billings, obligations or guidance decelerate.
Palo Alto Networks triggered 6 issuer-level flags in the committed 2026-04-01–2026-10-08 archive. The latest was PANW on 2026-09-14: 2.0× its 30-day average volume while the stock moved +7.9% that session.
Not published yet. The local archive has 1 reported PANW events—too few for a defensible gap-and-drift study. This missing block is an explicit indexing blocker.
Source map & freshness
| Block | What it uses | Vintage | Raw data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | SEC issuer + primary security mapping | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
| Price & trend | Split-adjusted daily OHLCV + SPY comparison | 2026-10-08 | CSV ↓ |
| Options | End-of-day chain anomaly ranks | 2026-10-07 | Premium → |
| Ownership | Latest filings from 20 curated 13F managers | 2026-10-08 | Tool → |
| Financials | SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts | 2026-09-11 | JSON ↓ |
| Joined profile | The exact contract rendered by this page | 2026-10-08 | JSON ↓ |
PANW stock questions
Is PANW stock in an uptrend?+
PANW is classified in the “established uptrend” regime as of 2026-10-08: the close is +8.0% from its 50-day average and +56.4% from its 200-day average. This describes the current tape. It is not a forecast.
What does unusual options activity in PANW mean?+
Palo Alto Networks's OTM option chain produced an outlier relative to the scanner universe on at least one archived session. Call-side and put-side labels identify which book produced the signature; end-of-day chain data does not identify buyers, sellers, institutions or spread legs.
Are the PANW 13F holdings current?+
No. 13F filings are delayed quarter-end snapshots and cover only the curated managers in this project. They are useful for documented ownership changes, not real-time positioning or complete institutional ownership.
Where are PANW's income statement and cash flow?+
The dedicated PANW Financials page contains the full quarterly and annual income statement, balance sheet and cash-flow history parsed from SEC EDGAR XBRL. This stock page carries only the latest filed snapshot.
Why is there no PANW earnings-move base rate yet?+
The committed earnings archive does not yet contain enough reported events for a defensible company-level reaction study. The page leaves that block unpublished instead of presenting a tiny sample as a reliable base rate.