Sales up 24.5%, free cash flow up to $4.1B
The latest figures
All key numbers (36) From EDGAR
| EPS (ttm) | 0.40 | Sales (ttm) | 11.5B | Net income (ttm) | 307.0M | Sales growth | +24.5% | EPS growth | -75.0% | Sales Q/Q | - |
| Free cash flow | 4.1B | Gross margin | 70.4% | Oper. margin | 6.1% | Net margin | 2.7% | FCF margin | 35.8% | ROE | 1.1% |
| ROA | 0.6% | R&D / sales | 22.2% | Dividend | - | Debt/Eq | - | Curr. ratio | 0.87 | Cash | 2.5B |
| Op. cash flow (ttm) | 4.6B | EBITDA | 1.6B | EBITDA margin | 13.5% | Quick ratio | 0.86 | ROIC | 1.4% | Tax rate | 42.7% |
| Stock pay / sales | 15.5% | Shares out. | 818.0M | Shares Y/Y | +7.8% | Book / share | 33.61 | Cash / share | 3.07 | Sales / share | 14.03 |
| Asset turnover | 0.24 | Inventory turns | 29.09 | Days sales out. | 115 | Sales 3Y CAGR | +18.5% | Sales 5Y CAGR | +22.0% | EPS 3Y CAGR | -14.5% |
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Changes in the numbers
FY2026 against FY2025-
Revenue growth sped up to +24.5%+14.9% → +24.5% · Revenue FY2026 / revenue FY2025 − 1, against the same a year earlier · 10-K ↗
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Operating margin narrowed to 6.1%13.5% → 6.1% · Operating income / revenue · 10-K ↗
PANW against Technology peers
Ten years, side by side → · All 75 →Each side 0 to 100, ranked against every company we cover: relative position on reported figures, not a buy score. How
Every dot is one of the 75 companies, the better end on the right. Hover a dot for the company.
| Company | Revenue (ttm) | Sales growth | Gross margin | Net margin | ROE | FCF margin | Debt / equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PANW Palo Alto Networks | $11.5B | +24.5% | 70.4% | 2.7% | 1.1% | 35.8% | - |
| MSI Motorola Solutions | $12.6B | +8.0% | 52.2% | 16.5% | 67.9% | 20.1% | 3.29 |
| ANET Arista Networks | $11.9B | +28.6% | 62.9% | 40.0% | 28.9% | 42.2% | - |
| WDAY Workday, Inc. | $10.2B | +13.1% | - | 12.3% | 19.4% | 28.0% | 0.46 |
| MRVL Marvell Technology | $9.5B | +42.1% | 52.2% | 27.9% | 14.2% | 18.3% | 0.27 |
| SNPS Synopsys | $9.4B | +15.1% | 72.4% | 11.4% | 3.5% | 29.2% | 0.32 |
From $6.9B of sales to $439.7M of profit
FY2023, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by productSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $8.0B of sales to $2.6B of profit
FY2024, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by productSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $9.2B of sales to $1.1B of profit
FY2025, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by productSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $11.5B of sales to $307.0M of profit
FY2026, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by productSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
Where each $100 of sales went
- Cost of revenue
- Sales, admin & other
- Net profit
- R&D
- Tax & other
Band widths are the money. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue; operating expenses are gross profit less operating profit; R&D is from the income statement and the rest of the operating expenses is everything else; tax includes interest and other items when they are small. Y/Y is the change from the fiscal year before. Revenue by part only for the years in the last two 10-Ks' segment tables. The full income statement →
Profitability
1 of 4- !Net margin below the peer median2.7% vs 19.1%
- ✓Gross margin up over 5 years70.0% → 70.4%
- !Return on equity below 15%1.1%
- !A profit in 4 of 10 years
Cash and shareholders
2 of 3- ✓Free cash flow positive in every one of 10 years$4.1B last year
- !Share count up over 5 years+32.1%
- ✓Cash from operations above net income$4.6B vs $307.0M
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Revenue and net income, FY2017 to FY2026
Revenue 11.5B Net income 307.0MFrom XBRL in each 10-K. Hover a bar for the line item and filing. Full financials →
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
PANW's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow as reported to the SEC in XBRL, one column per fiscal year. Hover a number to see the line item and filing it comes from. Where a company changed how it tags a line, the first tag it reported for that period is used. A number looks wrong? Tell us.
Revenue by product or service
year to Jul 31, 2026| Revenue | Share | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription | 6.2B | 54.3% | +25.4% |
| Support | 3.0B | 25.8% | +21.1% |
| Cost of product revenue | 2.3B | 19.9% | +26.5% |
10-K 0001327567-26-000023, segment and revenue notes (XBRL).
Revenue by region
year to Jul 31, 2026| Revenue | Share | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Americas | 7.7B | 66.9% | +23.8% |
| United States | 7.1B | 61.9% | +22.8% |
| Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (“EMEA”) | 2.4B | 21.1% | +26.7% |
| Asia Pacific and Japan (“APAC”) | 1.4B | 12.0% | +24.9% |
| Other Americas | 571.0M | 5.0% | +36.3% |
10-K 0001327567-26-000023, segment and revenue notes (XBRL).
Income statement
From EDGARBalance sheet
From EDGAR| FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 744.3M | 2.5B | 961.4M | 3.0B | 1.9B | 2.1B | 1.1B | 1.5B | 2.3B | 2.5B |
| Short-term investments | - | 896.5M | 1.8B | 789.8M | 1.0B | 1.5B | 1.3B | 1.0B | 635.0M | 557.0M |
| Receivables | 432.1M | 467.0M | 582.4M | 1.0B | 1.2B | 2.1B | 2.5B | 2.6B | 3.0B | 3.6B |
| Inventory | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 115.9M | 113.0M | 117.0M |
| Current assets | 2.0B | 4.1B | 3.7B | 5.1B | 4.6B | 6.4B | 6.0B | 6.8B | 7.5B | 8.6B |
| Property & equipment | 211.1M | 273.1M | 296.0M | 348.1M | 318.4M | 357.8M | 354.5M | 361.1M | 387.0M | 523.0M |
| Goodwill | 238.8M | 522.8M | 1.4B | 1.8B | 2.7B | 2.7B | 2.9B | 3.4B | 4.6B | 22.0B |
| Total assets | 3.4B | 5.9B | 6.6B | 9.1B | 10.2B | 12.3B | 14.5B | 20.0B | 23.6B | 48.5B |
| Accounts payable | 35.5M | 49.4M | 73.3M | 63.6M | 56.9M | 128.0M | 132.3M | 116.3M | 232.0M | 290.0M |
| Current liabilities | 1.2B | 2.1B | 2.1B | 2.7B | 5.1B | 8.3B | 7.7B | 7.7B | 8.0B | 9.9B |
| Total debt | 524.7M | 1.9B | 1.4B | 3.1B | 3.2B | 3.7B | 2.0B | - | - | - |
| Total liabilities | - | - | - | - | 9.5B | 12.0B | 12.8B | 14.8B | 15.8B | 21.0B |
| Shareholders' equity | 759.6M | 1.2B | 1.6B | 1.1B | 634.5M | 210.0M | 1.7B | 5.2B | 7.8B | 27.5B |
| Retained earnings | -836.7M | -790.7M | -900.9M | -1.2B | -1.7B | -1.7B | -1.2B | 1.4B | 2.5B | 2.8B |
Cash flow
From EDGAR| FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 868.8M | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.0B | 1.5B | 2.0B | 2.8B | 3.3B | 3.7B | 4.6B |
| Capital spending | 163.4M | 112.0M | 131.2M | 214.4M | 116.0M | 192.8M | 146.3M | 157.0M | 247.0M | 440.0M |
| Free cash flow | 705.4M | 926.1M | 924.4M | 821.3M | 1.4B | 1.8B | 2.6B | 3.1B | 3.5B | 4.1B |
| Stock-based pay (added back) | 474.5M | 496.7M | 567.7M | 658.4M | 894.5M | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.8B |
| Buybacks | 411.0M | 259.1M | 330.0M | 1.2B | 1.2B | 892.3M | 272.7M | 567.0M | 0 | 1.0B |
| Acquisitions | 90.7M | 374.1M | 773.7M | 583.5M | 777.3M | 37.0M | 204.5M | 611.0M | 1.1B | 4.7B |
| Investing cash flow | -472.6M | -520.0M | -1.8B | 288.0M | -1.5B | -933.4M | -2.0B | -1.5B | -2.2B | -3.1B |
| Financing cash flow | -386.0M | 1.2B | -773.9M | 673.0M | -1.1B | -806.6M | -1.7B | -1.3B | -779.0M | -1.2B |
Stock-based pay and leases
From EDGAR| FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock-based pay (expense) | 474.5M | 496.7M | 567.7M | 658.4M | 894.5M | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.3B | 1.8B |
| Stock-based pay / revenue | 26.9% | 21.8% | 19.6% | 19.3% | 21.0% | 18.4% | 15.6% | 13.4% | 14.0% | 15.5% |
| Operating lease cost | - | - | - | 63.5M | 59.3M | 67.6M | 64.2M | 76.0M | 88.0M | 104.0M |
| Operating lease cash paid | - | - | - | 78.3M | 81.7M | 81.5M | 82.7M | 87.0M | 91.0M | 114.0M |
| Right-of-use assets | - | - | 0 | 258.7M | 262.9M | 242.0M | 263.3M | 385.9M | 347.0M | 700.0M |
| Operating lease liabilities | - | - | - | 394.5M | 379.2M | 338.4M | 339.4M | 446.4M | 417.4M | 793.0M |
From SEC's XBRL company facts (data.sec.gov). EBITDA = operating income + depreciation and amortization; free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital spending; total debt = long-term debt (with its current part) + short-term borrowings. Stock-based pay and leases are shown as the company reports them; Tickdelta does not take them out of earnings or add leases to debt. Click a number to open the filing in SEC's Inline XBRL viewer, where you can click the same number to see how it is tagged. Values a company later revised show as revised; the Revised numbers tab lists the changes.