PANW
May 21, 2021 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, Millennial, PANW |
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.
March 1, 2021 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, PANW, Top 50 Stocks |
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
February 26, 2021 | CRM, CTVA, Daily JAM, ILMN, ISRG, Jubak Picks, PANW, Top 50 Stocks, VMW, Volatility, WST, You Might Have Missed |
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)
June 29, 2020 | AAPL, CRUS, Daily JAM, DIS, NXPI, PANW, SHAK, Short Term, TWLO |
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...
June 12, 2020 | Daily JAM, PANW, Stock Alerts |
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...
April 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, PANW |
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...
April 2, 2020 | Daily JAM, Dip-O-Meter, PANW, Stock Alerts |
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...
January 21, 2020 | Daily JAM, PANW, SCHW, VEEV, WST |
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...
January 6, 2020 | Daily JAM, Morning Briefing, PANW, You Might Have Missed |
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....
October 18, 2019 | Daily JAM, PANW, Special Reports, TWLO, VMW |
I've recently made two tech picks for the shorter-term. I think that over the next four weeks or so both Cirrus Logic (CRUS) and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) will beat Apple (AAPL) and an Apple-driven technology sector rally. But what about the longer term for technology...
September 16, 2019 | CSCO, Daily JAM, GLW, ISRG, PANW, Special Reports |
(A word of apology. I hadn't realized that I had written about this Special Report but never posted it until several readers brought it to my attention last week. My initial reaction was "Impossible! Of course I'd posted it." But checking showed I hadn't. It took...
June 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, PANW, Stock Alerts, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
Today I made Palo Alto Networks (PANW) the sixth pick in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Rest of 2019. Tomorrow, June 28, I'll add these shares to my Jubak Picks Portfolio and my Volatility Portfolio with a target price of $260. The stock closed at $204.89...
