PANW

-7.6%🟢 Fundamentally supported

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Common Stock · Technology

$342.26Vol 5.34M · 1.2× normalMkt cap −$22.91Blive · 2026-10-16 ET

What happened

Move

-7.6%

Price

$342.26

Volume

5.34M

1.2× normal

Market cap

$279.97B

−$22.91B today

Why it moved

Legal / regulatorymedium confidence

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora: Our security response time has to get faster as AI gets faster — finnhub-news
PubMatic, Bandwidth, Palo Alto Networks, Unity, and Five9 Shares Are Falling, What You Need To Know — finnhub-news

Possible catalyst: legal / regulatory, 4.7pp below its sector.

Verdict — was the move justified?

🟢 Fundamentally supported

Legal / regulatory — direction and rough magnitude are consistent with the identified fundamental catalyst.

How unusual is this move

σ score

2.6σ

vs own 20d volatility

Percentile

99th

of 1277 daily moves

Avg daily move

±1.9%

own 5y average

vs sector

-4.7%

beyond sector median

Today’s move is among the largest 1% of PANW’s daily moves over the last 5 years — while the sector moved -2.9% and the market -0.5%.

What happened after similar moves

35 similar down moves in PANW’s 5-year history:

After 5 days

+2.6%

59% higher

After 20 days

+9.5%

82% higher

Median of same-direction moves within ±35% magnitude band. Past patterns don’t predict outcomes — context, not signal.

Fundamental context

V 5G 50P 35H 81Q 67EW 36/65

Insider activity (90d): net selling $11.03M

Valuation context

P/E (TTM)

359.4

5y median 115.7

P/E percentile

80%

vs own 4y history

FCF yield

0.0%

Trading richer than 80% of its own historical valuation range.

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