After the crowdstrike breakdown and the massive sell-off, I made an anticyclical move and have now $CRWD (+2,85 %) and have now sold again at a tidy profit.
I have already $ZS (+1,51 %) from the sector and see more potential here for the future.
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2Sem.·
$ZS (+1,51 %) | Zscaler Q1 Earnings Highlights:
🔹 Revenue: $628M (Est. $606M) 🟢; UP +26% YoY
🔹 Adjusted EPS: $0.77 (Est. $0.63) 🟢
🔹 Calculated Billings: $517M (Est. $504M) 🟢; UP +13% YoY
🔹 Deferred Revenue: $1.78B; UP +27% YoY
🔹 Cash Flow from Operations: $331.3M; UP +27% YoY
🔹 Free Cash Flow: $291.9M; UP +30% YoY
Q2 FY25 Guidance:
🔹 Revenue: $633M-$635M (Est. $633M) 🟡
🔹 Adjusted EPS: $0.68-$0.69 (Est. $0.68) 🟡
FY25 Guidance:
🔹 Revenue: $2.623B-$2.643B (Est. $2.613B) 🟢
🔹 Adjusted EPS: $2.94-$2.99 (Est. $2.87) 🟢
🔹 Calculated Billings: $3.124B-$3.149B
Profitability Metrics:
🔹 GAAP Net Loss: $12.1M (Improved from $33.5M YoY)
🔹 Non-GAAP Net Income: $124.3M (UP from $86.4M YoY)
🔹 Non-GAAP Operating Income: $134.1M (21% of revenue; up from 18% YoY)
Balance Sheet Metrics:
🔹 Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments: $2.71B; UP $298.2M from the prior quarter
Operational Highlights:
🔸 Revenue growth driven by strong sales execution and growing customer engagements.
🔸 Deferred revenue increased by 27% YoY, reflecting higher subscription demand.
🔸 Non-GAAP operating margin improved to 21% from 18% YoY.
🔸 Zscaler’s cloud platform surpassed half a trillion daily transactions, underscoring scalability and trust.
Strategic Updates:
🔸 Appointed Adam Geller as Chief Product Officer to accelerate AI-driven security innovation.
🔸 Announced integrations with CrowdStrike and Okta to enhance Zero Trust and AI-based security solutions.
🔸 Published the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Threat Report, highlighting a 45% YoY increase in IoT malware blocking.
CEO Commentary:
🔸 "Growing customer engagements and strong sales execution drove a solid Q1 with all metrics exceeding our guidance. The combination of Zero Trust and AI is creating exciting new opportunities, which we are well-positioned to capture." – Jay Chaudhry, Chairman and CEO
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2Sem.·
Zscaler Inc. $ZS (+1,51 %) outperformed analysts' estimates of USD 0.63 with earnings per share of USD 0.77 in the first quarter.
Sales of USD 628 million exceed expectations of USD 605.43 million.
3Mo·
Hello everyone,
I am currently considering leaving my position at $PYPL (-0,38 %) and move more into cybersecurity like $ZS (+1,51 %) or $PANW (-2,12 %) to invest.
Do you have any alternatives or which company in this sector would you choose?
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I think the upward trend is only just beginning. For me, 40% is definitely still inside.
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3Mo·
$ZS (+1,51 %) | Zscaler Q4 Earnings Highlights:
🔹 Revenue: $592.9M (Est. $567.46M) 🟢; UP +30% YoY
🔹 EPS: $0.88 (Est. $0.70) 🟢
FY2025 Guidance:
🔹 Revenue: $2.60B-$2.62B (Est. $2.62B) 🟡
🔹 EPS: $2.81-$2.87 (Est. $3.01) 🔴
🔹 Calculated Billings: $3.11B-$3.14B
Q1 Guidance:
🔹 Revenue: $604M-$606M (Est. $603M) 🟢
🔹 EPS: $0.62-$0.63 (Est. $0.73) 🔴
Other Key Non-GAAP Metrics:
🔹 Operating Margin: 22% (Est. 19.3%) 🟢
🔹 Calculated Billings: $910.8M; UP +27% YoY
🔹 Deferred Revenue: $1.90B; UP +32% YoY
🔹 Free Cash Flow: $136.3M; 23% of revenue
🔹 Cash from Operations: $203.6M; 34% of revenue
🔹 Gross Margin: 80.2%
🔹 Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Short-Term Investments: $2.41B
CEO Jay Chaudhry's Commentary:
🔸 "We ended a successful Fiscal 2024 with Q4 results exceeding the high end of our guidance across all metrics. Customers' adoption of our Zero Trust Exchange platform is stronger than ever, and I’m thrilled to share that we have achieved a major milestone with our cloud platform surpassing over half a trillion transactions daily. I'm excited about the year ahead, as we enter Fiscal 2025 with a strong go-to-market machine and a high pace of innovation."
Recent Business Highlights:
🔸 Surpassed half a trillion daily transactions, demonstrating leadership in Zero Trust cloud security.
🔸 Released Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Ransomware Report, highlighting an 18% YoY increase in ransomware attacks.
🔸 Collaborated with Google Chrome Enterprise and NVIDIA to enhance AI-driven security solutions and expand capabilities in private access and data protection.
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4Mo·
Which cybersecurity companies do you think will dominate in 5 years?
$CRWD (+2,85 %)
$FTNT (+1,49 %)
$PANW (-2,12 %)
$S (+0 %)
$ZS (+1,51 %)
$MSFT (-1,05 %)
$GOOGL (+0,94 %)
$CSCO (+0,68 %) .....
How large companies fit into the ecosystem:
How some of the largest security companies in the world fit into the ecosystem. All of these companies offer products across the security ecosystem and strive to provide security platforms on which customers can consolidate.
$PANW (-2,12 %) - Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto is the largest pure-play cybersecurity company in the world, both by market capitalization and revenue. Their core product is network firewalls (hardware and software); they have significantly expanded their portfolio through an aggressive acquisition strategy. Their goal is to be the consolidator for cybersecurity, and they continue to show progress towards that goal.
Palo Alto has four main solution areas: Strata (Network), Prisma (Cloud, Access), Cortex (Endpoint, SecOps) and Unit 42 (Managed Services). The only area in which they do not compete is Identity. They have achieved a turnover of 7.5 billion dollars in the last 12 months.
$FTNT (+1,49 %) - Fortinet:
Fortinet is the second largest pure-play cybersecurity company by revenue. Like Palo Alto, their core product is the firewall (both hardware and software). Fortinet is still primarily a network security company (60-70% of revenue) and is focused on providing a strong SASE (Secure access service edge) product for growth. Apart from that, they have an extensive portfolio of security products including cloud security, app security, data security and managed services. Fortinet has achieved a turnover of 5.3 billion dollars in the last 12 months.
$CRWD (+2,85 %) - Crowdstrike:
Crowdstrike's core product is endpoint security; they are another example of being able to expand to a platform. In endpoint security, they are one of the two market leaders (Microsoft is the other). In cloud and software security, they have a unified platform for posture management, workload protection, and app protection. They offer a data protection suite as well as services for security operations. They do not offer Identity & Access Management, but they do offer identity security that protects other IAM (Identity & Access Management) products.
Their product is based on a unified data layer. CEO George Kurtz explained that the
true value comes from centralizing data, using AI/ML to detect threats and anomalies, and responding to those threats. This value can be continually delivered through new products that give us the overall roadmap for how CrowdStrike expands in the future. CrowdStrike has generated $2.8 billion in revenue in the last 12 months.
$MSFT (-1,05 %) - Microsoft:
In January 2021, Microsoft surpassed 10 billion dollars in security revenue. Just two years later, Microsoft announced that they had surpassed 20 billion dollars in revenue from Microsoft security.
Microsoft has 6 main segments of its cybersecurity portfolio: Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft InTune, Microsoft Priva and Microsoft Purview. Defender (Cloud, Apps, Endpoint, IoT) is Microsoft's security product across all solution areas. Sentinel is a SIEM/SOAR solution. (SOAR = Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) (SIEM = Security Information and Event Management) Entra is Microsoft's IAM solution (market leader by market share). InTune is a unified endpoint management tool. Priva covers data protection and compliance. Finally, Purview is a data governance tool.
$CSCO (+0,68 %) - Cisco Systems:
Cisco has an impressive collection of security products; with the acquisition of Splunk, it became one of the largest security companies in the world. In FY2023, Cisco generated ~$4 billion in security revenue, while Splunk had $3.7 billion in ARR at the end of the same quarter. Together, this puts Cisco in the same revenue range as Palo Alto.
Cisco's core security strength comes from its massive networking business. They have also expanded into cloud, endpoint and SASE. Splunk brings a strong SecOps presence with SIEM, SOAR and analytics. It will be interesting to see what synergies Cisco can further create between the two companies.
$GOOGL (+0,94 %) - Google:
One of Google's main goals is to be the go-to cloud for security, and they have done an impressive job building their portfolio. They offer network security with load balancing, cloud firewalls and secure web proxies. GCP (Google Cloud Platform) offers several services for data protection (building on their strength as a data company). They also focus on securing DevOps with several SecDevOps tools.
In 2022, Google completed the acquisition of Mandiant for $5.4 billion, which strengthened GCP's managed services offering (in addition to other products). Combined with their data governance, observability and SIEM/SOAR solution, it makes GCP a formidable player in the security space. It will be interesting to see what revenue figures management reveals for security in the future.
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