recurring fees

tiered / negotiated

70.4% Gross Margin (Premium (>60%))

subscription / transactional

Channel partner-driven (44.2% through three distributors); direct sales force supports large accounts and channel partners

enterprise

government / service providers

SaaS / platform vendor

managed services / advisory services

Moderate

324.8% OpEx / Revenue (High Cost Structure)

Global; primarily domestic (Americas 67.3% of revenue) with significant international (EMEA 20.8%, APAC 11.9% in fiscal 2025)

Medium

Low

Yes

High

Moderate

Moderate

Partial

High

1.1% Return on Assets (Excellent)

Mixed

Moderate

0.07x Total Debt / Equity (Conservative)

Low intensity; China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

64.3% OpEx as % Revenue (High Growth Cost)

N-A

High

["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations"]

0.34 (HIL — ~34% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)

Low intensity; commodities: silicon (polysilicon/wafers), copper, gold, aluminum, rare earth elements (NdPr magnets), gallium/germanium, tin (solder); geopolitical: China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

Medium burden; regimes: FTC, DOJ, GDPR, FCC, CFIUS, SEC; Antitrust breakup risk and cross-border data sovereignty rules are escalating.

0001327567

PANW

Moderate

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0

65

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2026-09-24

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16,068; international share not disclosed

Low

Cisco Systems, Inc., Microsoft, Alphabet, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Fortinet, Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Wiz, Inc.

Fragmented

Subscription and support = 80.5% of revenue

Buyback-only

Moderate; tariffs, export controls, and sanctions on Russia; specific dollar amount not quantified in Item 7

Pronounced; Q2 and Q4 stronger

Affirmed

High; 44.2% of revenue from three distributors

No

High; $7.1 billion in commitments

No

NIST CSF, ISO 27001

Security Committee

Moderate; multiple currencies in operating expenditures; revenue primarily USD

FX forwards on revenue and operating expenditures; no commodity hedging disclosed

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3

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recurring fees

tiered / negotiated

70.4% Gross Margin (Premium (>60%))

subscription / transactional

Channel partner-driven (44.2% through three distributors); direct sales force supports large accounts and channel partners

enterprise

government / service providers

SaaS / platform vendor

managed services / advisory services

Moderate

324.8% OpEx / Revenue (High Cost Structure)

Global; primarily domestic (Americas 67.3% of revenue) with significant international (EMEA 20.8%, APAC 11.9% in fiscal 2025)

Medium

Low

Yes

High

Moderate

Moderate

Partial

High

1.1% Return on Assets (Excellent)

Mixed

Moderate

0.07x Total Debt / Equity (Conservative)

Low intensity; China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

64.3% OpEx as % Revenue (High Growth Cost)

N-A

High

["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations"]

0.34 (HIL — ~34% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)

Low intensity; commodities: silicon (polysilicon/wafers), copper, gold, aluminum, rare earth elements (NdPr magnets), gallium/germanium, tin (solder); geopolitical: China's 2023-2025 export-licensing regime on gallium, germanium, antimony, and rare-earth magnet materials — merely suspended for US-bound shipments until the November 2026 cliff, with licensing still in force — combined with advanced-node wafer fabrication concentrated in Taiwan, makes single-jurisdiction supply cutoff rather than commodity price the sector's binding 2026 chokepoint.

Medium burden; regimes: FTC, DOJ, GDPR, FCC, CFIUS, SEC; Antitrust breakup risk and cross-border data sovereignty rules are escalating.

0001327567

PANW

Moderate

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0

65

-162471

2026-09-24

2026-10-03T13:41|activist_13d_count_1y,activist_last_13d_date,blockholder_13g_count_1y,insider_buys_6m,insider_last_transaction_date,insider_net_shares_6m,insider_sells_6m

16,068; international share not disclosed

Low

Cisco Systems, Inc., Microsoft, Alphabet, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Fortinet, Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Wiz, Inc.

Fragmented

Subscription and support = 80.5% of revenue

Buyback-only

Moderate; tariffs, export controls, and sanctions on Russia; specific dollar amount not quantified in Item 7

Pronounced; Q2 and Q4 stronger

Affirmed

High; 44.2% of revenue from three distributors

No

High; $7.1 billion in commitments

No

NIST CSF, ISO 27001

Security Committee

Moderate; multiple currencies in operating expenditures; revenue primarily USD

FX forwards on revenue and operating expenditures; no commodity hedging disclosed

0

3

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