On Monday after the US IT closure, the IT group Palo Alto Networks presented its balance sheet for the past annual quarter. This is how investors react.

Palo Alto Networks opened the books for the fourth quarter of the 2025 financial year on Monday evening after the commercial end at the US markets. Accordingly, the profit per share was $ 0.36. After $ 0.51 in the previous year, experts had assumed $ 0.885.

On the sales side, $ 2.536 billion was reported. With this, Palo Alto was able to beat the analyst expectations of $ 2.5 billion. In the previous year, $ 2.19 billion were redeemed.

In 2025, the profit per share amounted to $ 1.6, after $ 3.274 in the previous year. Experts had expected $ 3.672 per share. In the past twelve months, sales have increased from $ 9.186 billion to $ 9.221 billion. This was below the forecasts of the experts ($ 10,422 billion).

Outlook seems to calm down investors

The company predicts robust sales growth of 14 percent and strives to exceed the $ 10 billion. Even more important is the optimistic forecast for the Next-generation Security Arr, which is to record growth of 26 percent to 27 percent. This key figure, which measures recurring business with promising products, could signal a strong and growing demand for the company’s core solutions. Together with the expectation of fulfilling the profitable “Rule-of-50” again, this outlook could be expected that Palo Alto Networks will continue its growth course and also increase profitability.

The Palo Alto share is at times 6.8 percent higher in the aftercare on Nasdaq at $ 188.39.

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