US Equities Analysis

PANW — Palo Alto Networks

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins -2.46%
Profit Margins 7.95%
Return on Equity 4.83%
Return on Assets 1.77%
Free Float 0.81B
Short Int % Utilisation 3.17%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 31.1%
Free Cash Flow 3.58B
EBITDA 143.95 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 213.54B
EV/Revenue 20.13
EV/EBITDA 143.95

Revenue growth of 31.1% places the company in a high-growth category.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 137.73%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 41.48%
1-Year Price Return* 116.99%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $384.27
52-Week Range $139.57 – $398.88
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $375.76
Market capitalisation $306.24B
Enterprise value proxy $303.68B
Revenue $9.22B
EBIT $1.60B
EBITDA $1.94B
Reported free cash flow $3.47B
Unlevered free cash flow $2.16B
FCF yield 1.13%
EV / EBITDA proxy 156.46x
Net debt / EBITDA -1.32x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.89
Cost of equity 9.64%
Pre-tax cost of debt 0.23%
WACC 9.63%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 3/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:48:40.882116 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-07-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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