SentinelOne’s (S) “Buy” Rating Reaffirmed at Guggenheim

SentinelOne (NYSE:S)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by investment analysts at Guggenheim in a report released on Friday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $24.00 price target on the stock. Guggenheim’s price target indicates a potential upside of 72.35% from the stock’s current price.

Several other analysts also recently weighed in on S. Morgan Stanley cut their target price on SentinelOne from $20.00 to $18.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, December 5th. Citigroup lowered their price target on SentinelOne from $20.00 to $18.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 12th. UBS Group downgraded shares of SentinelOne from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 13th. TD Cowen reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of SentinelOne in a research report on Friday, December 5th. Finally, Piper Sandler reissued a “neutral” rating and set a $17.00 target price (down from $20.00) on shares of SentinelOne in a research note on Sunday, January 4th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $20.36.

SentinelOne Trading Up 1.1%

NYSE:S traded up $0.15 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $13.93. The stock had a trading volume of 6,353,041 shares, compared to its average volume of 8,246,066. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $13.92 and a 200-day simple moving average of $15.83. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.73 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -11.14 and a beta of 0.77. SentinelOne has a 52 week low of $12.23 and a 52 week high of $21.40.

SentinelOne (NYSE:S) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March 12th. The company reported $0.07 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.06 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $271.15 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $271.18 million. SentinelOne had a negative net margin of 43.04% and a negative return on equity of 14.95%. SentinelOne’s revenue was up 20.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.04 earnings per share. SentinelOne has set its FY 2027 guidance at 0.320-0.380 EPS and its Q1 2027 guidance at 0.010-0.020 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that SentinelOne will post -0.76 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at SentinelOne

In related news, insider Ana G. Pinczuk sold 11,900 shares of SentinelOne stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $14.82, for a total transaction of $176,358.00. Following the transaction, the insider directly owned 560,589 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,307,928.98. The trade was a 2.08% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. Also, CEO Tomer Weingarten sold 51,595 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, January 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.12, for a total transaction of $780,116.40. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 1,145,608 shares in the company, valued at approximately $17,321,592.96. This trade represents a 4.31% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 203,034 shares of company stock valued at $2,869,591. Corporate insiders own 4.33% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of SentinelOne

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in S. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. grew its position in SentinelOne by 25.2% in the second quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 3,442 shares of the company’s stock worth $63,000 after buying an additional 692 shares during the last quarter. Allworth Financial LP lifted its position in shares of SentinelOne by 102.4% during the 3rd quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 1,435 shares of the company’s stock valued at $25,000 after acquiring an additional 726 shares during the last quarter. Diversify Advisory Services LLC boosted its stake in shares of SentinelOne by 3.5% during the 4th quarter. Diversify Advisory Services LLC now owns 22,492 shares of the company’s stock worth $313,000 after acquiring an additional 753 shares in the last quarter. Mission Creek Capital Partners Inc. grew its holdings in shares of SentinelOne by 1.7% in the 2nd quarter. Mission Creek Capital Partners Inc. now owns 45,958 shares of the company’s stock worth $840,000 after acquiring an additional 760 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Main Management ETF Advisors LLC grew its holdings in shares of SentinelOne by 1.7% in the 2nd quarter. Main Management ETF Advisors LLC now owns 46,909 shares of the company’s stock worth $857,000 after acquiring an additional 768 shares during the last quarter. 90.87% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting SentinelOne

Here are the key news stories impacting SentinelOne this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 reported EPS beat and company milestones — SentinelOne posted $0.07 EPS (above the $0.06 consensus), revenue roughly matched expectations, grew ~20% YoY, surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue and said it achieved full-year operating profitability, all of which support a longer-term growth/profitability story. SentinelOne Announces Fourth-Quarter and Fiscal-Year-2026 Financial Results
• Positive Sentiment: Aggressive forward EPS guidance vs. street — Management raised Q1 FY27 EPS guidance to $0.01–$0.02 (consensus was around -$0.18) and FY27 EPS to $0.320–$0.380 (consensus deeply negative). This swing to positive EPS guidance materially improves the company’s near-to-medium-term profitability outlook. Press Release / Slide Deck
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst/media coverage of the beat — Coverage (Zacks/MarketBeat) highlights the EPS beat and improving margins, which can support sentiment if management executes on guidance. Zacks: Q4 Earnings and Revenues Surpass Estimates
• Neutral Sentiment: Earnings call/transcript available — Full Q4 call transcript provides detail on product adoption, churn, and GTM execution; useful for parsing how management justifies guidance and margin trajectory. Earnings Call Transcript
• Neutral Sentiment: Industry-security incidents — Recent FortiGate/AD compromise stories underscore persistent demand for endpoint/EDR solutions, a structural positive for vendors but not a direct SentinelOne win yet. FortiGate Edge Intrusions
• Negative Sentiment: Market reaction and Reuters note on cautious stance — Some outlets (Barron’s/Reuters) flagged that the stock fell after earnings and that SentinelOne signaled a cautious near-term profit forecast amid stiff competition and a finance leadership transition, which raises execution risk. Reuters: Quarterly profit forecast falls short
• Negative Sentiment: Sector headwinds — Analysis that the endpoint market is cooling increases the risk that growth could moderate, pressuring multiples if re-acceleration doesn’t materialize. Investing.com: Endpoint market cools
• Negative Sentiment: CEO rhetoric vs. large competitors — Strong public comments (e.g., CEO calling out Microsoft vulnerabilities) can draw attention to competitive positioning but may also heighten scrutiny and competitive pushback. 247WallSt: CEO: Microsoft has more vulnerabilities

About SentinelOne

SentinelOne, Inc is a cybersecurity company specializing in AI-driven, autonomous endpoint protection. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, the firm developed its Singularity Platform to unify prevention, detection, response, and hunting across endpoints, cloud workloads, containers and IoT devices. SentinelOne’s solutions leverage machine learning and behavioral analytics to identify threats in real time, automate remediation workflows and deliver forensics to support rapid incident response.

The company’s flagship product suite includes endpoint security agents, cloud workload protection, identity threat detection and extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities.