Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 3.040-3.090 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 3.570. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.6 billion-$2.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.2 billion. Zscaler also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 0.750-0.760 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts have recently commented on the company. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their price target on Zscaler from $225.00 to $245.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, November 26th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their target price on shares of Zscaler from $200.00 to $225.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 3rd. Robert W. Baird upped their price target on shares of Zscaler from $240.00 to $250.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday. Royal Bank of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating and set a $230.00 price target on shares of Zscaler in a report on Tuesday, December 3rd. Finally, BTIG Research boosted their price objective on shares of Zscaler from $205.00 to $238.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 27th. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-four have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Zscaler has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $231.16.

Zscaler Stock Performance

Shares of Zscaler stock opened at $208.41 on Thursday. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $195.83 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $191.54. Zscaler has a 52 week low of $153.45 and a 52 week high of $217.84. The stock has a market capitalization of $31.98 billion, a PE ratio of -831.88 and a beta of 0.89.

Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, December 2nd. The company reported $0.77 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.14. The firm had revenue of $628.00 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $605.51 million. Zscaler had a negative net margin of 1.58% and a negative return on equity of 0.75%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 26.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned ($0.18) earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that Zscaler will post -0.1 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Zscaler news, CFO Remo Canessa sold 3,703 shares of Zscaler stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $200.32, for a total transaction of $741,784.96. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 220,635 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $44,197,603.20. The trade was a 1.65 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. Also, insider Syam Nair sold 3,682 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $200.32, for a total transaction of $737,578.24. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 142,866 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $28,618,917.12. This represents a 2.51 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 10,248 shares of company stock worth $2,052,879 in the last quarter. Insiders own 18.10% of the company’s stock.

Zscaler Company Profile

Zscaler, Inc operates as a cloud security company worldwide. The company offers Zscaler Internet Access solution that provides users, workloads, IoT, and OT devices secure access to externally managed applications, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and internet destinations; and Zscaler Private Access solution, which is designed to provide access to managed applications hosted internally in data centers, and private or public clouds.