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FTNT vs PANW

Side-by-side comparison of Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) and Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both FTNT and PANW operate in Computer peripheral equipment (Technology), so they compete in similar markets.
  • FTNT is the larger of the two at $63.17B, about 1.3x PANW ($48.96B).
  • Over the past year, FTNT is down 17.2% and PANW is down 2.7% - PANW leads by 14.5 points.
  • PANW has been more active in the news (8 items in the past 4 weeks vs 6 for FTNT).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceFTNT-17.20%PANW-2.72%
2025-05-01+0.00%2026-05-01
MetricFTNTPANW
Company
Fortinet Inc.
Palo Alto Networks Inc.
Price
$86.28+2.36%
$181.08+0.95%
Market cap
$63.17B
$48.96B
1M return
+6.35%
+12.70%
1Y return
-17.20%
-2.72%
Industry
Computer peripheral equipment
Computer peripheral equipment
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
2009
News (4w)
6
8
Recent ratings
25
25
FTNT

Fortinet Inc.

Fortinet, Inc. provides broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It offers FortiGate hardware and software licenses that provide various security and networking functions, including firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, virtual private network, application control, web filtering, anti-spam, and wide area network acceleration. The company also provides FortiSwitch product family that offers secure switching solutions for connecting customers their end devices; FortiAP product family, which provides secure wireless networking solutions; FortiExtender, a hardware appliance; FortiAnalyzer product family, which offers centralized network logging, analyzing, and reporting solutions; and FortiManager product family that provides central and scalable management solution for its FortiGate products. It offers FortiWeb product family provides web application firewall solutions; FortiMail product family that secure email gateway solutions; FortiSandbox technology that delivers proactive detection and mitigation services; FortiClient that provides endpoint protection with pattern-based anti-malware, behavior-based exploit protection, web-filtering, and an application firewall; FortiToken and FortiAuthenticator product families for multi-factor authentication to safeguard systems, assets, and data; and FortiEDR/XDR, an endpoint protection solution that provides both comprehensive machine-learning anti-malware execution and real-time post-infection protection. The company provides security subscription, technical support, professional, and training services. It sells its security solutions to channel partners and directly to various customers in telecommunications, technology, government, financial services, education, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. It has strategic alliance with Linksys. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

PANW

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity platform solutions worldwide. The company provides firewall appliances and software; Panorama, a security management solution for the control of appliances and software deployed on an end-customer's network as a virtual or a physical appliance; and virtual system upgrades, which are available as extensions to the virtual system capacity that ships with physical appliances. It also offers subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, uniform resource locator filtering, malware and persistent threat, laptop and mobile device protection, and firewall, as well as cyberattacks, threat intelligence, and data loss prevention. In addition, the company provides professional services, including architecture design and planning, configuration, and firewall migration, as well as online and in-classroom education training services, as well as support services. Palo Alto Networks, Inc. sells its products and services through its channel partners, as well as directly to medium to large enterprises, service providers, and government entities operating in various industries, including education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare, Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.