PANW options flow: unusual options activity in Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

The 500 most recent unusual options prints in Palo Alto Networks Inc. (PANW), from 21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026, carry $44.5M of tracked premium, close to even between bullish and bearish premium. The delayed tape holds that many at a time, and this name fills it in 6 sessions. Bullish premium was $15.6M against $17.6M bearish; $36.5M went into calls and $8.0M into puts, a put call ratio of 0.22. The largest print was $1.9M of PANW 15 Dec 2028 $430 calls on 23 September 2026, executed at bid. The last session with prints, 28 September 2026, added 4 prints and $295K of premium. PANW closed at $374.74 on 25 September 2026, down 3.9%.

The latest unusual flow

The 500 most recent prints, 21 September 2026 to 28 September 2026, 6 sessions. The delayed tape holds that many at a time; the full stream with every print is in the app. Every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $11.6M, is aimed at the 15 Dec 2028 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 2 Oct 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 28 September 2026

Every print in PANW with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open PANW in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open PANW in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 31 firms, have a median of $415, 10.7% above the last close. The last 90 days brought 1 downgrade.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Exchange

Nasdaq

Sector

Information Technology

Industry

Computer Hardware

Headquarters

Dover, California

Website

paloaltonetworks.com

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions worldwide. The company offers firewall appliances and software; Panorama, a security management solution. It also provides subscription services covering the areas of threat prevention, malware and persistent threat, uniform resource locator filtering, laptop and mobile device protection, and firewall.

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Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints