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Palo Alto Networks PANW

equity

Price History

$7.03$133.69$260.35$387.01
2012-07 · DCA start$9.52

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-42.1%-28.1%-14.0%0.0%
2012-072026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −42%, peaking Nov 2015 and bottoming Apr 2017 — 29 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$17,000
Value today
$234,207
Return
+1277.7%
Months invested
170

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $21,410 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +993.9%.

Lump sum instead — $17,000 all at once in Jul 2012: $690,847 (+3963.8%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jun 2026): $330.12 on $300 invested (+10.0%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2012-07: +1277.7%

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The core product is a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference. It is a partner organization of the World Economic Forum. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under information technology and systems software, with a market cap of about $315.4B.

It rates Medium-High Risk at 2.3/5, meaning real but ordinary risk — the kind most mainstream assets carry, with some factors scoring poorly.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and market / volatility (3.0/5).

Scoring well: sector / regulatory at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-High Risk(2.3/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)4/541.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/542.1
  • Beta vs S&P 5003/51.1
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/52.5bn
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equitynot yet researched
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)1/5414
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/5371
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure1/5low

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