Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.620-0.630 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.730. The company issued revenue guidance of $604.0 million-$606.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $602.8 million. Zscaler also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 2.810-2.870 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several research firms have commented on ZS. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on Zscaler from $230.00 to $220.00 and set an overweight rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday. Robert W. Baird dropped their target price on Zscaler from $260.00 to $225.00 and set an outperform rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday. Mizuho lowered Zscaler from an outperform rating to a neutral rating and set a $220.00 price target on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, July 16th. Loop Capital lowered their price objective on shares of Zscaler from $180.00 to $165.00 and set a hold rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company dropped their price objective on shares of Zscaler from $182.00 to $180.00 and set an equal weight rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-five have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of Moderate Buy and an average target price of $217.41.

Zscaler Trading Up 3.3 %

NASDAQ:ZS opened at $162.25 on Friday. Zscaler has a 12-month low of $146.59 and a 12-month high of $259.61. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.04, a current ratio of 1.75 and a quick ratio of 1.75. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $188.36 and a 200 day simple moving average of $188.32. The firm has a market capitalization of $24.52 billion, a P/E ratio of -318.14 and a beta of 0.82.

Zscaler (NASDAQ:ZS) last released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, September 3rd. The company reported $0.88 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.70 by $0.18. The business had revenue of $592.90 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $567.46 million. Zscaler had a negative net margin of 2.66% and a negative return on equity of 3.75%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 30.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company earned ($0.17) EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Zscaler will post -0.38 EPS for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Zscaler news, CFO Remo Canessa sold 7,981 shares of Zscaler stock in a transaction on Thursday, June 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $177.21, for a total transaction of $1,414,313.01. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 243,486 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $43,148,154.06. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Corporate insiders own 19.20% 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.