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$ZS — ADD 📊
Zscaler, Inc. operates as a cloud security company worldwide.
🎯 Q1 FY26 | Rev $1B | EPS $1.08 vs $1.01 🟢
💡 Consensus expects ~24% ARR growth and steady margin expansion, pricing the stock at a premium (~27x forward ARR). The variant view is that while execution is solid, growth is unlikely to re-accelerate materially given competitive pressures, and any deceleration toward 20% could trigger multiple compression.
📉 Reward/Risk: 2.5:1
🏢 Business Quality: 8/10 - Recurring subscription model, high gross margins (80%), strong competitive moat in zero trust/SASE, but large deal dependency and increasing competition from Palo Alto and Microsoft.
📊 Valuation: fair — at ~28x forward P/S and ~27x EV/ARR, ZS trades above cybersecurity peers (CRWD ~20x, NET ~25x) but in line with its historical premium.
📊 Our read: ADD. Full analysis →
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