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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $403.36 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $1.35B 17% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $6.87B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

The maximal case in the chief executive's own frame: that autonomously attack-capable frontier models have permanently repriced the category. The operating claim underneath it is that agentic AI multiplies machine-to-machine traffic which must be inspected in line, cementing network security - roughly 70% of revenue on management's own approximation - as critical infrastructure, while every human, machine and software agent identity becomes an attack surface Idira addresses. In this case the constraint is landing platformizations fast enough rather than demand, and $20B of FY2030 NGS ARR is a floor. It is the only case in this model whose fair value clears the 26 August 2026 close, and it does so on a 15x terminal revenue multiple that is still more than ten turns below the 25.5x trailing revenue the stock trades on today. What it does not achieve: it does not make the FY2028 margin target arrive early, and it does not remove the multiple compression - it only slows it.

Product

Basis quarter$594M
Final quarter$1.35B
Implied CAGR+18%
Final revenue mix17%

The appliance and self-hosted-software line. Management sizes hardware at roughly 10% of total revenue against 20% in FY2021, and says 46% of trailing-twelve-month product revenue is now recurring software - software firewalls, Prisma AIRS credits, SD-WAN, self-hosted identity subscriptions - against 22% three years ago. Q3 FY2026 was the strongest hardware quarter in a decade: next-generation firewall bookings rose nearly 40% year over year on Gen 5 appliances and AI data-centre build-outs, and a 10% hardware list-price increase took effect in early April 2026.

Last four quarters
2025 Q4 $574M Reported
2026 Q1 $434M Reported
2026 Q2 $514M Reported
2026 Q3 $594M Reported
Next-generation firewall appliances (hardware)Software firewalls, VM-Series and firewall Flex creditsPrisma AIRS credits, SD-WAN and self-hosted identity subscriptions billed through the product line
Sequential growth +4.5%/qtr decaying toward +1.0% Deseasonalised trend, not a printed step: 22.1-22.6% y/y organic in the two clean quarters is 5.1%/qtr, trimmed for component-cost inflation.
Product

Latest: $1.35B (2031Q3E)

Period Value
2024Q4 $480M
2025Q1 $354M
2025Q2 $421M
2025Q3 $453M
2025Q4 $574M
2026Q1 $434M
2026Q2 $514M
2026Q3 $594M
2026Q4E $763M
2027Q1E $575M
2027Q2E $685M
2027Q3E $739M
2027Q4E $939M
2028Q1E $701M
2028Q2E $828M
2028Q3E $886M
2028Q4E $1.12B
2029Q1E $829M
2029Q2E $973M
2029Q3E $1.04B
2029Q4E $1.30B
2030Q1E $959M
2030Q2E $1.12B
2030Q3E $1.19B
2030Q4E $1.49B
2031Q1E $1.09B
2031Q2E $1.28B
2031Q3E $1.35B

Assumptions & reasoning

  • SEASONALITY, derived by ratio-to-centred-four-quarter-moving-average on this line's own eight disclosed quarters: Q1 0.852, Q2 0.964, Q3 0.988, Q4 1.196 after normalising to a mean of 1.0. The engine deseasonalises the $594M basis quarter to a $601M trend level before the driver runs, so growthQoQ is a trend rate and the printed sequential path carries the shape.
  • SEASONALITY SPREAD: eight quarters give one moving-average window per fiscal quarter, so the window-to-window spread cannot be measured directly. The corroboration is the repeated sequential step: Q4-to-Q1 printed -26.3% and -24.4% (1.9 points apart) and Q1-to-Q2 printed +18.9% and +18.4% (0.5 points apart), against a 34.3-point peak-to-trough factor amplitude. Signal exceeds spread by more than an order of magnitude, which is why this line is seasonal and the other two carry a smaller, jointly-derived shape.
  • Product revenue is not the same thing as hardware. Management's own framing puts roughly 10 points of hardware inside a line that is 20% of company revenue and 46% recurring software on a trailing-twelve-month basis. Any model that treats this vertical as pure appliance sales will misread both the growth rate and the margin.
  • No unit shipments, average selling price or backlog value is disclosed, so a unit driver cannot be evidenced. The disclosed leading indicators - NGFW bookings up nearly 40%, software firewall ARR up 25%, the April 2026 price increase and roughly one million firewalls in the field - bound the growth rate rather than generate it.
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