Is the price fair?
What PANW's price assumes
Palo Alto Networks trades at 292× earnings against 31.8× for the median Software - Infrastructure name, more expensive than its own group.
292
Trailing P/E · Software - Infrastructure median 31.8 · 9.20× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 13.5
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 1.6%
Free cash flow yield · Software - Infrastructure median 5.3%
- Growth the price implies
- +21%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +21% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +11% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q2
- 5.19
- Technology median P/E376 names
- 37.0
- Software - Infrastructure median P/E81 names
- 31.8
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.79B
- Market capitalisation
- $234.5B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +18%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +11%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Software - Infrastructure
Ranks #43 of 78 by Smart Score