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Palo Alto crushes earnings, AI fears evaporate — ride the cybersecurity comeback
Palo Alto Networks just reported quarterly earnings that smashed expectations. Their CEO said AI advances are making cybersecurity more urgent than ever, and Wall Street analysts are raising their price targets on the stock.
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Investors had worried that AI would make cybersecurity companies less relevant, but Palo Alto's CEO just said the opposite is happening — AI advances are creating more threats and more urgency around security spending. The stock popped 12% on blowout earnings, analysts are hiking targets, and the company's turnaround from a disappointing February guidance is now complete. When a heavily shorted narrative flips this decisively, momentum tends to carry the stock higher for weeks as holdout buyers are forced in.
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