PANW Chief ExecutiveWhat Nikesh Arora says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Chairman & CEO · Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
CEO since 2018. Former Google/Alphabet exec and SoftBank president. Transformed PANW into platform player.
Arora owns about 0% of Palo Alto Networks, Inc., worth $425.1M at the last close.
Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.
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| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Common Stock | See footnote | 726,542 |
| Common Stock | Direct | 343,394 |
| Reported as of 2026-03-27 | 1,069,936 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2026 filing: Buy, Open-market purchase across 2 lots, $146.87–$147.48 | Buy | Open-market purchase across 2 lots, $146.87–$147.48 | +68,085 | $146.87 avg | $10.0M | no 10b5-1 plan |
| Feb 12, 2026 filing: Award, Grant or award | Award | Grant or award | +165 | — | — | |
| Nov 1, 2025 filing: Award, Grant or award | Award | Grant or award | +1,185,721 | — | — | |
| Nov 1, 2025 filing: To issuer, Disposition to the issuer | To issuer | Disposition to the issuer | −1,185,721 | — | — | |
| Sep 23, 2025 filing: Exercise, Option or RSU conversion | Exercise | Option or RSU conversion | +846,408 | $33.08 | $28.0M | |
| Sep 23, 2025 filing: Sale, Open-market sale across 7 lots, $203.09–$208.35 | Sale | Open-market sale across 7 lots, $203.09–$208.35 | −846,408 | $204.06 avg | $172.7M | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc This page | Chief Executive Officer | 1,069,936 2026-03-27 |
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| S SPRINT Corp | Director | 72,783 2015-08-07 |
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| CL COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO | Director | 12,997 2014-07-03 |
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| UBER Uber Technologies, Inc | Director | 1,304 2025-05-31 |
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| GOOG Google Inc. | Director | 776 2014-08-06 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
292 filings under CIK 0001468233 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
10 recorded appearances
Arora argued the window between a vulnerability being discovered and exploited is collapsing, so patching has to move from a ~55-day industry baseline to hours. He also explained why he signed Jensen Huang's open-source AI letter and why autonomous agents force enterprise security to be rebuilt.
Watch or read: Nikesh Arora: $300B, 40 Acquisitions, Still Paranoid, Aug 17, 2026 →Launching an AI-driven platform that compresses detection-to-protection from weeks to hours, Arora told Ed Ludlow he expects enterprises to eventually spend as much as 15% of operating expenses on AI.
Watch or read: How Palo Alto Wants AI to Patch Cyber Threats in Hours, Aug 4, 2026 →Arora said AI token pricing needs to fall roughly 90% before large-scale enterprise adoption is economic, while insisting demand for AI consumption is effectively infinite and that his own capex will decline over time as efficiency improves.
Watch or read: Watch CNBC's full interview with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, Jul 9, 2026 →Arora laid out a breadth-versus-depth critique of frontier models, said enterprises are still deploying AI wrong, and warned that current AI guardrails are not robust enough for agentic workloads.
Watch or read: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs, Jun 22, 2026 →Arora described AI surfacing years' worth of vulnerabilities in Palo Alto's own codebase in weeks, argued analytical SaaS is dead, and discussed where value accrues if models become a utility, plus the company's M&A playbook toward a $1T ambition.
Watch or read: Palo Alto Networks CEO: "AI Found 5 Years of Bugs in 6 Weeks", Jun 8, 2026 →Arora defended the quarter and made the case that platform consolidation plus AI integration is what lets Palo Alto grow while the rest of the security stack fragments.
Watch or read: Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora goes one-on-on with Jim Cramer, Jun 2, 2026 →Arora told Aditya Agarwal that AI is simultaneously the threat and the only viable defense, and that the same models writing code today will soon expose decades of latent vulnerabilities faster than IT teams can respond. He also recounted arriving at Palo Alto from Google with no security background.
Watch or read: The AI Cybersecurity Crisis Is Here | Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks CEO), Apr 30, 2026 →Arora opened the company's keynote with the strategic framing for the agentic-AI era, ahead of the launch of Prisma AIRS 3.0 and the Prisma Browser for Business and the roadmap to an autonomous SOC.
Watch or read: OFFICIAL KEYNOTE: The Future of AI Enterprise Security | Palo Alto Networks, Mar 27, 2026 →Speaking with Deirdre Bosa, Arora tied rising cyber risk to geopolitical conflict and AI disruption, and explained the rationale for partnering with Databricks.
Watch or read: Watch CNBC's full interview with Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora, Mar 24, 2026 →Arora's pitch that security controls for AI have to be built into the platform layer, otherwise enterprises will choose speed over safety and deploy agents ungoverned.
Watch or read: Nikesh Arora on Securing AI Without Slowing Business, Feb 22, 2026 →
