Watch my new YouTube video: “QuickPick Palo Alto Networks”
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-fifth YouTube video “QuickPick: Palo Alto Networks” went up today.
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Trick or Trend: A huge ransomware attack says “Buy another cybersecurity stock” and I’ll post my pick on Tuesday
Another day; another ransomware attack. This one is being called the largest non-national-state supply-chain cyberattack ever seen (and possibly the largest cyberattack ever, period.)
Palo Alto Networks beats on earnings, raises guidance, cybersecurity stock rallies strongly today–raising target price in Jubak Picks and adding to Millennial Portfolio
Yesterday, May 20, after the market closed, Palo Alto Networks (PANW) reported third-quarter fiscal 2021 non-GAAP earnings of $1.38 per share. That beat the Wall Street consensus by almost 8%. Last earnings for the third quarter of the fiscal year were $1.17. Revenue gained 24% year over year to $1.07 billion. That was slightly above the Wall Street projection of $1.06 billion. After the earnings announcement the company raised guidance for the fiscal 2021 fourth quarter to project earnings per share of $1.42 to $.44 and year over year revenue growth of 23$ to 24% to $1.65 billion to $1.715 billion. For all of fiscal 2021 the company forecast adjusted earnings of $5.97 to $5.99 a share. That was up from an earlier projection of $5.80 to $5.90 a share.
Keeping Palo Alto Networks with a big boost to my target price
After the close on Monday February 22 Palo Alto Networks (PANW) reported a loss of $1.42 million (or $1.48 a share) on revenue of $1.02 billion million for the company’s fiscal second quarter. Adjusted earnings–which exclude share-based compensation and other items, were $1.53 a share. Revenue grew by 25% year over year. Wall Street had been looking for adjusted earnings of $1.43 a share on revenue of $986 million. Billings for future orders ross to $1.21 billion from $999 in the year ago wearer. Analysts had forecast billings of $1.18 billion. But the shares fell in after hours trading when in its conference call the company forecast adjusted earnings of $1.27 to $1.29 a share on revenue of $1.05 to $1.06 billion for the fiscal third quarter. Analysts were looking for adjusted earnings of $1.29 a share on revenue of $1.05 billion for the fiscal third quarter. For the full fiscal year Palo Alto Networks forecast adjusted earnings of $5.80 to $5.90 a share on revenue of $4.15 billion to $4.2 billion. Wall Street had been looking for $5.79 a share in adjusted earnings on revenue of $4.12 for the year. On the plus side of the ledger there are two reasons that I’m keeping this company in my Jubak Picks Portfolio and my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio
Special Report: Profit and Protect–What you need to know about stock market stages for 2021–Stage 2 of 3: My rules for selling in the “When you win, you lose market” (and sells of ILMN, CTVA, WST, and VMW)
On to Stage #2 in my Special Report: “Profit and Protect–What you need to know about stock market stages for 2021. And to my rules for the sells and hedges in Stage #2 for 2021: When you win, you lose. (I just posted sells for ILMN, CTVA, WST and VMW)
A promising trading strategy for upcoming earnings season
I'd like to see this pattern season for a few more days--until next week I'd say--but I think I see a promising trading strategy for the second quarter earnings season that begins, in my mind at least, with JPMorgan Chase (JPM) before the market open on Tuesday, July...
Palo Alto Networks gets modest earnings forecast bump for 2020
Analysts have raised their earnings estimate for cyber-security software company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) by 4.5% to 6.5% (depending on the data source you use) over the last 60 days. For 2020 Wall Street is now looking for $4.79 a share for 2020. That would still be...
5 smart, short-term moves while we wait for longer-term trends to resolve
Yesterday in my post "What do you do when the market is insane and you're not?" I argued that one of the dangers in a very volatile market with strong--and temporarily profitable--short-term trends is that we'll give in to the pressure to do something--and do...
Good news out of Palo Alto Networks doesn’t count for much in a bear market–but enough to earn a neutral from me
The problem isn't that there's no good news out of individual companies. It's just that good news on specific stocks doesn't count for much in a bear market when everything moves together in a single direction--most usually down. Take Palo Alto Networks (PANW), a...
#3 of my four “Not so easy pieces” for rebalancing my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio: My four buys
In my most recent Special Report: When to sell: What to sell I recommended that any current rebalancing build up some cash. To implement that cash-building strategy, when you sell to rebalance a portfolio for 2020, buy fewer stocks than you sell so that the result is...
Oil is up but cyber security stocks up more on Iran crisis
As of 2 p.m. New York time today, January 6, U.S. crude benchmark West Texas Intermediate was up 0.17% to $63.16 a barrel. Â International benchmark Brent crude was ahead 0.34% to $68.83 a barrel. Both increases came on worries that Iran's retaliation for the U.S....
