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Ilya Kundozerov
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Palo Alto Posts Soft Start For the Year as Demand Weakens; Maintain $104 FVE

Palo Alto reported weaker-than-expected top-line growth as several large deals are taking longer than expected to complete. Declines in the product revenue growth rate continued unabated as customers increasingly shift to the subscription and services mode of product consumption. We believe the upcoming product upgrade cycle for an older cohort of Palo Alto customers will be a litmus test that determines whether the company is able to retain its customers without compromising gross margins. Our ...
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Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Palo Alto Networks provides a platform that allows enterprises, service providers, and government entities to secure their organizations. The company's platform uses a traffic classification engine that identifies network traffic by application, user, and content and provides security across the network, endpoint, and cloud. The company's product, subscription, and support offerings include: firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, which is a centralized security management solution for global control of various firewall appliances and software deployed on an end-customer's network as well as in their instances in public or private cloud environments as a virtual appliance or a physical appliance.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Ilya Kundozerov

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