Yahoo · Sep 18, 2026
Why Palo Alto Networks Stock Dropped Today
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NYSE · PANW
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Technology · Software - Infrastructure
$393.30
Down-$3.11 (-0.79%)
Updated Sep 24, 2026, 3:43 PM
SID Score
7.1/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
53/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 127.32B
- P/E ratio
- 115.71
- Dividend yield
- 0.00%
- 52-week range
- $139.57 – $398.88
- Volume
- 6.28M
- Avg. volume
- 5.55M
Price performance
PANW price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
PANW closed at $393.30 after 20 trading sessions, up 15.91% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $393.30
- Period change
- +15.91%
- Period low
- $328.48
- Period high
- $393.30
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 | $379.80 | $393.52 | $374.20 | $393.30 | 6.28M |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $374.80 | $377.91 | $363.58 | $374.57 | 8.11M |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $364.09 | $374.56 | $357.59 | $371.76 | 5.39M |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $375.075 | $376.01 | $356.00 | $363.58 | 13.8M |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $365.465 | $383.12 | $360.66 | $375.06 | 6.29M |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $367.51 | $381.96 | $367.2958 | $375.65 | 5.25M |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $368.43 | $380.4431 | $366.80 | $375.09 | 6.48M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $346.485 | $378.60 | $340.2501 | $373.94 | 12.03M |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $338.49 | $341.14 | $327.053 | $330.65 | 4.68M |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $331.145 | $344.7917 | $330.30 | $338.49 | 4.67M |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $337.905 | $339.83 | $332.53 | $335.10 | 4.41M |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $327.57 | $339.3999 | $325.3211 | $336.98 | 6.13M |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $329.66 | $339.0999 | $328.00 | $333.26 | 5.64M |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $333.305 | $333.31 | $321.42 | $331.94 | 6.91M |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $346.00 | $350.67 | $321.39 | $328.48 | 13.21M |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $374.62 | $375.92 | $357.26 | $362.09 | 9.28M |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $370.00 | $383.73 | $370.00 | $382.13 | 8.8M |
| Aug 28, 2026 | $377.26 | $378.52 | $355.50 | $371.59 | 5.85M |
| Aug 27, 2026 | $358.56 | $387.3325 | $356.66 | $382.85 | 7.31M |
| Aug 26, 2026 | $330.455 | $342.25 | $328.00 | $339.31 | 4.59M |
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Company profile
Palo Alto Networks is a platform-based cybersecurity vendor with product offerings covering network security, cloud security, and security operations. The California-based firm has more than 80,000 enterprise customers across the world, including more than three fourths of the Global 2000.
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- Consensus
- Buy
- Average target
- $228.83
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- 39
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | Morgan Stanley | Overweight | — |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Bernstein | Market Perform | — |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Argus Research | Buy | — |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Piper Sandler | Overweight | — |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Oppenheimer | Outperform | — |
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Yahoo · Sep 12, 2026
Why Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Shares Are Trading Lower Today
Shares of cybersecurity platform provider Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) fell 3% in the afternoon session after the company published a security advisory addressing a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software. The security advisory detailed an XML processing flaw in PAN-OS, cataloged as CVE-2026-0310 with a CVSSv4 base score of 9.2. This high-severity vulnerability enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges or trigger denial-of-service
Yahoo · Sep 11, 2026
Palo Alto (PANW)’s CEO Puts a Trillion-Dollar Number on the AI Security Gap
CNBC reported that Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PANW) CEO Nikesh Arora said on September 1 that AI is forcing companies to modernize roughly $1 trillion of aging cybersecurity infrastructure that cannot handle attacks moving at machine speed. Arora told CNBC’s Jim Cramer, “You have to rethink your cyber architecture,” arguing that security modernization is now […]
Benzinga · Sep 11, 2026
Wedbush Assumes Palo Alto Networks at Outperform, Announces Price Target of $400
Wedbush analyst Steven Wahrhaftig assumes Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) with a Outperform rating and announces Price Target of $400.
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