Zscaler Inc (NASDAQ:ZS): A Fundamentally Weighted Stock for Long-Term Investors

The stock of Zscaler Inc (NASDAQ:ZS) last traded at $193.85, up 1.01% from the previous session.

Data from the available sources indicates that Zscaler Inc (NASDAQ:ZS) is covered by 40 analysts. The consensus rating among analysts is ‘Overweight’. As we calculate the median target price by taking the range between a high of $229.00 and a low of $165.00, we find $207.50. Given the previous closing price of $191.91, this indicates a potential upside of 8.12 percent. ZS stock price is now 16.40% away from the 50-day moving average and 38.32% away from the 200-day moving average. The market capitalization of the company currently stands at $28.75B.

In total, 10 analysts have assigned it a hold rating, and 28 have given it a buy rating. Brokers who have rated the stock have averaged $205.72 as their price target over the next twelve months.

With the price target enhanced from $210 to $225, Needham maintained Strong Buy rating for Zscaler Inc (NASDAQ: ZS).

In other news, BLASING KAREN, Director sold 7,000 shares of the company’s stock on Nov 22. The stock was sold for $1,338,379 at an average price of $191.20. Upon completion of the transaction, the Director now directly owns 19,398 shares in the company, valued at $3.76 million. An SEC document containing details of the transaction can be found on the SEC’s website. On Nov 16, Director Sinha Amit sold 3,680 shares of the business’s stock. A total of $676,912 was realized by selling the stock at an average price of $183.94. This leaves the insider owning 36,800 shares of the company worth $7.13 million. Insiders disposed of 259,542 shares of company stock worth roughly $50.31 million over the past 1 year. A total of 40.95% of the company’s stock is owned by insiders.

During the past 12 months, Zscaler Inc has had a low of $84.93 and a high of $195.07. As of last week, the company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.51, a current ratio of 1.88, and a quick ratio of 1.81. The fifty day moving average price for ZS is $166.54 and a two-hundred day moving average price translates $140.15 for the stock.

The latest earnings results from Zscaler Inc (NASDAQ: ZS) was released for Oct, 2023. According to the Software – Infrastructure Company, earnings per share came in at $0.67, beating analysts’ expectations of $0.49 by 0.18. This compares to -$0.69 EPS in the same period last year. The net profit margin was -9.54% and return on equity was -27.07% for ZS. The company reported revenue of $455.01 million for the quarter, compared to $318.06 million a year earlier. Comparatively to last year’s same quarter, the company’s quarterly revenue rose 43.06 percent. For the current quarter, analysts expect ZS to generate $497.41M in revenue.

Zscaler Inc(ZS) Company Profile

Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds. It also provides Zscaler Digital Experience that measures end-to-end user experience across business applications, as well as provides an easy-to-understand digital experience score for each user, application, and location within an enterprise. In addition, the company offers Posture Control solutions comprising Cloud Security Posture Management that identifies and remediates application misconfigurations in SaaS, infrastructure as a service, and PaaS to reduce risk and ensure compliance with industry and organizational benchmarks; Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management that detects and remediates excessive or unused cloud permissions and enforces least privileged access without disrupting productivity; Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which analyzes IaC templates to identify misconfigurations and other security issues prior to deployment to cloud infrastructure; and Vulnerability Scanning and Data Loss Prevention solutions. Its platform modules include Zscaler Central Authority, Zscaler Enforcement Node, and Zscaler Log Servers. The company serves customers in airlines and transportation, conglomerates, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and communications, public sector and education, technology, and telecommunications services industries. The company was formerly known as SafeChannel, Inc., and changed its name to Zscaler, Inc. in August 2008. Zscaler, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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