OUR VISION
Our vision is a world
where each day is safer
and more secure than
the one before
WHAT WE DO
We innovate to stay ahead of the evolving threat
landscape, so organizations can embrace our
technology with confidence. We provide next-gen
cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally,
across all sectors. Our cybersecurity platforms
and services are backed by industry-leading threat
intelligence and strengthened by state-of-the-art
automation.
Whether deploying our products to enable the Zero
Trust Enterprise, responding to a security incident,
or partnering to deliver better security outcomes
through a world-class partner ecosystem, we’re
committed to helping ensure each day is safer than
the one before.
Letter from the Chair and the Lead
Independent Director
At Palo Alto Networks, we are rebuilding
cybersecurity based on the principles of
Zero Trust, fueled by rigorous analytics
and automation. We are here to secure
the way forward by making cyber security
stronger yet simpler so that each day is safer
than the one before. We’ve Got Next and so
will you.
Dear Fellow Stockholders:
Fiscal 2022 was another year of achievement at Palo Alto Networks. Our billings exceeded $7.4 billion, reflecting a growth rate of
37% year over year, and our revenues exceeded $5.5 billion – 29% year-over-year growth. In July, we celebrated our 10th anniversary
as a public company. At the close of trading on the day of our initial public offering, our market capitalization was $3.5 billion,
reflecting the value of a company that pioneered a new era of security through its groundbreaking firewall technology. Today, as our
market capitalization exceeds $51 billion (at the close of trading on October 28, 2022), we are confident in the strong foundation we
have built and eager to tackle the challenges of the next ten years.
As always, innovation drives our success. During the past year, we deployed 49 major product releases as compared to 29 in fiscal
2021, including advancements in next generation cloud access security broker (CASB), cloud code security, cloud next generation
firewall and, in an industry first, agent and agentless cloud security posture management (CSPM) – just to name a few. We deliver to
our customers best-of-breed capabilities across a platform of network security, cloud security and security operations. Simply put,
we remain the cybersecurity leader, serving tens of thousands of customers worldwide, many of whom are still in the early stages of
their cybersecurity transformations.
Of course, none of these accomplishments would have been possible without the dedication and engagement of our employees.
We continue to prioritize their health, safety and professional fulfillment through FLEXWORK, an employee-centric strategy that
offers over 12,500 employees an expanded set of choices. These choices include where individual work is completed, time spent
in the office, personalized learning paths, and flexibility of benefits. We are proud of the workplace recognitions that the company
received in fiscal 2022, including Most Loved Workplaces (Newsweek), Top 100 of America’s Most JUST Companies (Just Capital), Next
Gen honoree (Ripplematch), and Best Company in Bay Area (Comparably).
Finally, we recognize the contributions and character of Mark McLaughlin and Asheem Chandna, neither of whom will stand
for reelection to the Board of Directors when their terms expire at the conclusion of our 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Mark’s leadership as the company’s chief executive officer from August 2011 until June 2018, and his continued service on our
Board of Directors since then, have been instrumental in driving the company’s growth and nurturing our unique culture. Likewise,
without Asheem’s technical expertise, financial acumen and, most notably, keen discernment of emerging technology trends, our
transformation into the company we are today would have been less complete and consequential. On behalf of our employees and the
entire Board of Directors, we express our deep appreciation to Mark and Asheem for their profound impacts on Palo Alto Networks.
* * * * *
As in the past, this year’s Proxy Statement is constructed to maximize clarity and understanding about the company’s strategies,
successes and challenges. Several of our key initiatives are worth prefacing here.
Stockholder Engagement. We remain guided by, and appreciative of, the perspectives of our stockholders as expressed through
their engagement with us. Throughout fiscal 2022, we once again executed an extensive stockholder outreach program. In total, we
engaged in discussions with stockholders holding approximately 60% of our outstanding shares as of June 30, 2022. John, as our
Lead Independent Director, remained at the forefront of our engagement efforts and participated in 30 meetings with stockholders
holding approximately 39% of our outstanding shares as of June 30, 2022. In addition to our financial outlook, our stockholders
conversed with us about our executive compensation, sustainability, corporate governance practices, inclusion and diversity, as well
as other topics of import to them. We will continue this valuable dialogue with our investors in the coming year, and are committed
to maintaining outreach that is truly a dialogue with our stockholders.
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Letter from the Chair and the Lead Independent Director
Executive Compensation. We implemented the commitments that we made to our
stockholders in our 2021 proxy statement. We maintained an executive compensation
program closely tied to our financial performance, 100% of our named executive officers’
equity compensation awards (aside from new hire awards) were performance-based, with
different performance targets than the cash incentive plan awards, added an ESG modifier to
our cash incentive plan, increased the stock ownership guidelines for our executive officers,
and established a one-year equity post vesting holding period for all named executive officers.
The compensation discussion and analysis (CD&A) section of this Proxy Statement describes
our performance against these commitments. We encourage you to read the letter from our
Compensation and People Committee accompanying the CD&A for their views on our executive
compensation program, particularly as it relates to our pay-for-performance philosophy and
how we performed against that backdrop.
Our Commitment to ESG. We continue to take seriously our commitment to environmental
sustainability, social responsibility and corporate governance (ESG). In fiscal 2022, in direct
response to the feedback we received from our stockholders, your Board of Directors adopted
majority voting for uncontested elections of directors and a resignation policy in the event a
director does not receive a majority of the vote. Elsewhere in Proxy Statement, we discuss our
ESG successes in fiscal 2022 and provide an overview of our ESG programs and commitments,
and how your Board and executive leadership team oversee our ESG efforts.
You are cordially invited to attend the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Palo Alto
Networks, Inc. to be held on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 12:15 P.M., Pacific Time.
This year’s annual meeting will be a virtual meeting conducted via a live webcast. You will be
able to listen to the annual meeting, submit your questions, and vote during the live webcast
of the meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PANW2022 and entering the
16-digit control number included on your proxy card or in the instructions that accompanied
your proxy materials. If you did not receive a 16-digit control number, please reach out to your
broker for further instructions.
On behalf of our Board, we thank you for your investment in Palo Alto Networks and for your
continued trust. We look forward to the annual meeting on December 13, 2022.
Thank you,
Nikesh Arora
Chair and
Chief Executive Officer
John M. Donovan
Lead Independent
Director
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Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Notice of 2022 Annual Meeting
of Stockholders
DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
12:15 PM Pacific Time
VIRTUAL MEETING SITE
www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/
PANW2022
WHO CAN VOTE
Stockholders of record as of
October 14, 2022 are entitled
to vote
Voting Items
Proposals
1. To elect two Class II directors named in the
accompanying proxy statement to serve until our
2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified.
2. To ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as
our independent registered public accounting firm
for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2023.
3. To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation
of our named executive officers.
4. To approve an amendment to the 2021 Palo Alto
Networks, Inc. Equity Incentive Plan to increase the
number of plan shares reserved for issuance.
Board Vote Recommendation
For Further Details
“FOR” each director nominee
Page 40
“FOR”
“FOR”
“FOR”
Page 57
Page 60
Page 98
Stockholders will also act on such other business that may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any
adjournments or postponements thereof.
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT. Please act as soon as possible to vote your shares, even if you plan to attend the annual
meeting online. For instructions to vote your shares and more information, see “About the Annual Meeting” on
page 112.
We appreciate your continued support of Palo Alto Networks and look forward to receiving your proxy.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Bruce Byrd
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
November 3, 2022
H OW TO VOT E
ONLINE
Visit www.proxyvote.com. prior to
the Annual Meeting, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week.
BY PHONE
Call the phone number located on
the accompanying proxy card or
voting instruction form.
BY MAIL
Complete, sign, date and return
the accompanying proxy card
or voting instruction form in the
envelope provided.
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING THE AVAILABILITY OF PROXY MATERIALS FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON
DECEMBER 13, 2022: THE NOTICE OF 2022 ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING AND PROXY STATEMENT AND THE 2022 ANNUAL
REPORT ON FORM 10-K ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW.PROXYVOTE.COM.
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Proxy Roadmap
ENVIRONMENT,
SOCIAL AND
CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE
(ESG)
Read more about
our approach to ESG,
including the roles of our
Board and management
team in setting our
programs and priorities.
ABOUT US
Read about our corporate
values, fiscal 2022 financial
and business highlights,
stockholder engagement
efforts, and executive
compensation highlights.
BOARD AND CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE AT A GL ANCE
Learn more about the makeup of our Board
of Directors, as well as corporate governance,
at a glance.
PROPOSAL NO. 1
PROPOSAL NO. 2
Read about our proposal to
elect Dr. Helene D. Gayle and
James J. Goetz to a new term,
and learn more about our Board
members, Board committees and
Board compensation.
Read about our proposal to
ratify Ernst & Young as our
independent registered public
accounting firm for fiscal 2023.
COMPENSATION,
DISCUSSION AND
ANALYSIS
Read the letter from our
Compensation and People
Committee, and learn
more about our executive
compensation programs.
EXECUTIVE
COMPENSATION
Learn more about the components of each of
our named executive officers’ compensation,
including salary, annual cash incentive and
equity grants, and read about our CEO pay ratio.
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PROPOSAL NO. 3
Read about our “Say-on-Pay” proposal
to approve, on an advisory basis, the
compensation of our named executive
officers as disclosed in this proxy statement.
PROPOSAL NO. 4
Read about our proposal to
approve an increase in the number
of shares of common stock
available for issuance under our
2021 Equity Incentive Plan.
About Us
Our
Company
Palo Alto Networks is a global
cybersecurity provider with a
vision of a world where each
day is safer and more secure
than the one before. We were
incorporated in Delaware in
2005 and are headquartered
in Santa Clara, California. Our
principal executive offices are
located at 3000 Tannery Way,
Santa Clara, CA 95054.
We empower enterprises,
organizations, service providers,
and government entities to
protect themselves against
today’s most sophisticated
cyber threats. Our
cybersecurity platforms and
services help secure enterprise
users, networks, clouds, and
endpoints by delivering
comprehensive cybersecurity
backed by industry leading
artificial intelligence and
automation. We are a leading
provider of zero trust solutions,
starting with next-generation
zero trust network access to
secure today’s remote hybrid
workforces and extending to
securing all users, applications
and infrastructure with zero
trust principles. Our security
solutions are designed to
reduce customers’ total cost
of ownership by improving
operational efficiency and
eliminating the need for siloed
point products. Our Company
focuses on delivering value
in five fundamental areas:
Network Security, Secure
Access Service Edge, Cloud
Security, Security Operations,
and Threat Intelligence and
Security Consulting.
Our Corporate Values
Our corporate decisions are guided by our corporate values, which were
co-created by our employees. Foremost among these is integrity, which is the
foundation of everything we do and every decision we make. We believe that
collaboration enhances our ability to disrupt entrenched beliefs, which we
think ultimately leads to innovation. Our ability to execute on our innovations
and deliver products and services that address the cybersecurity needs of our
customers is critical to our long-term success. Finally, we are intentional about
including diverse points of view, perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and ideas
in our decision-making process. True inclusion and diversity exists when we have
representation of all ethnicities, orientations and identities, and cultures in our
workforce. We believe that our core values make us a better company.
• When we work
together, we win together
N
A
TIO
COLLABOR
• We can rely on
each other
N
belief and look to the future
• We challenge entrenched
• We take risks, fearlessly
TIO
• We fail early, fail fast and move forward
• We solve real problems with new ideas
P
U
R
DIS
• We ensure individual
and company goals
are aligned
empower
• We seek to
• We open
ourselves to
accountability
Our Mission
Our mission is to be the
cybersecurity partner of
choice, protecting our
digital way of life.
• We’re
committed
to quality
• Our
technology
just works as
promised, always
E
X
E
C
U
T
I
O
N
• We strive tirelessly for
simplicity and usability
• We believe
diversity
strengthens
our ideas
and our
business
• We support the
communities
where we live,
work and operate
our employees
• We care about
• We strive to
reflect the
N
O
S
I
diversity of our
customers in
the diversity
of our
L
C
U
company
N
I
self-aware
• We are
• We take
pride in our
work because we
do it the right way
employees, and stockholders
• We respect our customers, partners,
• We’re transparent and share
• We inspire trust and
with our teams
we live up to it
IN
T
EGRITY
“...Palo Alto is
#10 in our list
of the 50 best
companies to
work for women;
list created
from millions
of anonymous
employer ratings
and reviews by
working women”
Sept. 2021
(InHerSight)
“...for the third
consecutive year,
received a perfect
score on the Human
Rights Campaign
Foundation’s
2021 Corporate
Equality Index
(CEI) and achieved
designation as a
Best Place to Work
for LGBTQ Equality”
Jan. 2022 (Human
Rights Campaign
Foundation)
“...Palo Alto
Networks in the top
10% of companies
on Comparably in
its diversity score,
[which] provides
insights into how
diverse employees
feel and rate their
work experience
across various
culture dimensions”
“...the companies that
made this list are
delivering the respect,
care, and appreciation
that it takes to create
a positive workplace
that nurtures talent
[.]” Newsweek
recognized PANW
in the top 100 most
loved workplaces of
the Year
Sept. 2021
(Comparably)
Oct. 2021
(Newsweek)
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About Us
Our 2022
Financial
and Business
Highlights
We delivered another year of
outstanding results for our
stockholders in fiscal 2022,
with a strong year of financial
performance and execution.
Highlights include:
• Total revenue increased
to $5.5 billion, or by
approximately 29%
compared to fiscal 2021.
• Total billings increased
to $7.5 billion, or by
approximately 37%
compared to fiscal 2021.1
• Next-Gen Security ARR
increased to $1.89 billion,
or by approximately 60%
compared to fiscal 2021.2
• In the fourth quarter of fiscal
2022, we achieved GAAP
profitability.
• Continued to return capital
to our stockholders through
our stock repurchase
program, totaling
$0.9 billion for fiscal 2022,
for a total of $3.6 billion
during fiscal 2019 through
fiscal 2022.
• Accelerated our product
innovation efforts, with 49
major product releases.3
Building a Stronger
Palo Alto Networks
TOTAL REVENUE
($ in millions)
TOTAL BILLINGS
($ in millions)
$5,502
$7,472
$4,256
$3,408
$5,452
$4,302
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY20
FY21
FY22
NEXT- GEN
SECURIT Y ARR
$1,893M
$1,180M
$651M
PRODUCT INNOVATION
Major Product Releases
49
18
13
18
29
9
6
14
22
8
4
10
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY20
FY21
FY22
Security Operations
Cloud Security
Network Security
RETURN OF CAPITAL
Fiscal 2022
Fiscal 2019-2022
$0.9 Billion
$3.6 Billion
1. Total billings is a key financial metric calculated as total revenue plus change in total deferred revenue, net of total acquired deferred
revenue. Appendix A includes a calculation of total billings.
2. Next-Gen Security ARR is annualized allocated revenue of all active contracts as of the final day of the reporting period for Prisma and
Cortex offerings inclusive of the VM-Series and related services, and certain cloud-delivered security services.
3. Major product release is defined as full or dot release with significant new capability, new or add-on modules, or subscription services,
new software or hardware appliance models, significant PAN-OS, acquired capabilities and significant new platform support.
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About Us
Stockholder Engagement
We are proud of our investor engagement program, and committed to maintaining outreach that is truly a dialogue
with our stockholders. Our relationship with our stockholders is an important part of our Company’s success. In
fiscal 2022, we once again engaged in robust stockholder engagement, with a focus on executive compensation,
environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and corporate governance (ESG), and other matters of particular
import to our stockholders. Our Lead Independent Director played a central role in developing and implementing our
program, and once again actively participated in our stockholder engagement efforts in fiscal 2022.
Our Lead Independent Director and management team regularly update our Board and Board committees on our
engagement efforts, providing summaries and analyses of our stockholders’ feedback. The feedback that we received
from our stockholders resulted in significant improvement in our compensation and corporate governance practices,
as described in detail in this proxy statement, including our adoption of majority voting for uncontested elections of
our directors in May 2022.
We believe that our approach to engaging directly and openly with our investors drives increased corporate
accountability, improves decision making, and ultimately creates long-term value.
68%
60%
39%
We reached out to stockholders
representing 68% of our
outstanding shares.
We engaged in discussions with
investors representing 60% of
our outstanding shares (which is
all stockholders that indicated a
willingness to engage with us).
Our Lead Independent Director
participated in discussions
(30 meetings) with investors
representing 39% of our
outstanding shares.
* Stockholder ownership, to our knowledge, as of June 30, 2022.
Below are the key elements of our stockholder engagement cycle:
SPRING/SUMMER
SUMMER/FALL
• Implement changes to align with
investor feedback
• Conduct proactive off-season investor outreach
• Investor meetings and conferences
• Prepare and publish Annual Report
• Engage with investors on enhanced
proxy disclosures
• Prepare and publish Proxy Statement
• Investor meetings and conferences
WINTER/SPRING
FALL/WINTER
• Consider voting results and investor feedback
• Consider changes to align with
investor feedback
• Investor meetings and conferences
• Engage with stockholders about voting matters
• Review proxy advisory firms’ analyses of voting
matters and proxy disclosures
• Publish ESG Report
• Annual Meeting of Stockholders in December
• Receive and publish voting results
• Investor meetings and conferences
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2022 Proxy Statement About Us
Executive Compensation
Our Compensation Best Practices
In fiscal 2022, we implemented our redesigned executive compensation programs, meeting the commitments we
made to our stockholders in our 2021 proxy statement. Our compensation programs reflect recognized best practices
and principles that align the compensation of our named executive officers with the long-term interests of our
stockholders, and are supported by market benchmarks.
NEW FOR 2022
% 100% of equity compensation (aside from
new hire awards) is performance-based, with
different performance targets than the cash
incentive plan
% Addition of ESG modifier to cash incentive
plan, which modifies the annual incentive cash
compensation (plus or minus 10%), based on our
performance relative to an ESG scorecard with
climate, inclusion and human capital metrics
% Increase to stock ownership guidelines
% One-year post-vesting holding period for all NEOs,
including our Chief Executive Officer
ROBUST AND INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION DECISION-MAKING, ALIGNED WITH OUR
CORPORATE VALUES
% 100% independent Compensation and
People Committee
% Independent compensation consultants
% Annual review of compensation strategy
% Consideration of annual say-on-pay vote
COMPENSATION BEST PRACTICES
% Majority of compensation is performance-based
and at-risk
% 100% of fiscal 2022 equity compensation for
NEOs performance-based and at risk (excluding
new hire grants)
% 100% of short-term incentive cash compensation
is performance-based and at-risk
% No single trigger vesting of equity awards on
occurrence of a change in control
% No dividends paid on unvested equity
% Robust stock ownership guidelines
% No hedging or pledging, except limited pledging
permitted with the prior approval of the ESG and
Nominating Committee
% Meaningful clawback policy
% Limited perquisites and personal benefits
% No defined benefit plans or SERPs
% Implementing the advice of independent
compensation consultants
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About Us
Significant At-Risk Compensation
Our executive compensation program is tied to our financial and operational performance. The graphs below illustrate
the predominance of at-risk and performance-based components of our fiscal 2022 compensation program for our
Chief Executive Officer and other named executive officers.
CEO
6%
Base Salary(1)
88%
Performance
Stock Units (PSU)
6%
Target
Annual Cash
Incentive
Opportunity
94%
At-Risk
AVERAGE OF OTHER NEOs (2)
8%
Base Salary
92%
At-Risk
84%
Performance
Stock Units (PSU)
8%
Target
Annual Cash
Incentive
Opportunity
(1) Graph reflects Mr. Arora’s target base salary of $1 million, a significant portion of which he elected to forgo.
(2) Excludes Mr. Jenkins’ new hire RSUs which were granted to compensate him for a portion of our estimated value of the unvested
equity that he forfeited upon joining us.
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3 Letter from the Chair and the Lead Independent Director
5 Notice of 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
6 Proxy Roadmap
7 About Us
14 Our Board at a Glance
16 Our Corporate Governance at a Glance
17 ESG at Palo Alto Networks
17 An Overview of Our ESG Strategies
17 ESG Oversight and Governance
19 Environmental
21 Social
26 Our ESG Journey
27 Corporate Governance
27 Board of Directors Corporate
Governance Highlights
37 Director Independence
38 Communications with the Board
28 Board Responsiveness to Investors
of Directors
in FY2022
31 Leadership Structure
34 Board’s Role in Strategy Oversight
35 Board’s Role in Risk Oversight
36 Annual Board and Committee
Self-Evaluations
37 Succession Planning
38 Corporate Governance Guidelines
and Code of Business Conduct
and Ethics
38 Director Stock Ownership Guidelines
38 Compensation and People
Committee Interlocks and
Insider Participation
39 Voting Roadmap
40
Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
41 Director Tenure and Refreshment
41 Board Diversity
42 Board Skills and Experience Matrix
49 Board Committees and
Responsibilities
54 Director Compensation
55 Identification and Evaluation of
Director Nominees
56 Director Attendance
57
Proposal No. 2 Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
57 Fees Paid to the Independent
59 Report of the Audit Committee
Registered Public Accounting Firm
57 Auditor Independence
58 Audit Committee Policy on
Pre-Approval of Audit and
Permissible Non-Audit Services
of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm
60
Proposal No. 3 Advisory Vote on the Compensation of our
Named Executive Officers
61 Executive Compensation
61 Letter from our Compensation
and People Committee
63 Compensation Discussion
and Analysis
87 Report of the Compensation
Committee
88 Executive Compensation Tables
89 CEO Pay Ratio
93 Executive Employment Agreements
96 Executive Officers
97 Equity Compensation Plan
Information
98
Proposal No. 4 Amendment to Our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan
98 Why Should Stockholders Vote to
100 Summary of the 2021 Plan
Approve the Amendment to the
2021 Plan?
109 Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management
111 Related Person Transactions
112 About the Annual Meeting
117 Other Matters
118 Appendix A
120 Appendix B
HIGHLIGHTS
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63
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Our Board at a Glance
Our Corporate Governance
at a Glance
ESG at Palo Alto Networks
Board Skills and
Experience Matrix
Letter from our
Compensation and
People Committee
Compensation Discussion
and Analysis
Amendment to Our 2021
Equity Incentive Plan
This document includes forward-
looking statements within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. All statements
other than statements of historical or
current facts, including statements
regarding our social, environmental
and sustainability plans and goals, and
executive compensation plans, made
in this document are forward-looking.
We use words such as anticipates, plan,
believes, expects, future, intends, and
similar expressions to identify forward-
looking statements. Forward-looking
statements reflect management’s
current expectations and are inherently
uncertain. Actual results could differ
materially for a variety of reasons. Risks
and uncertainties that could cause
our actual results to differ significantly
from management’s expectations are
described in our 2022 Annual Report on
Form 10-K. Unless otherwise provided
herein, all statements in this proxy
statement are as of November 3, 2022.
References to our website in this proxy
statement are not intended to function
as a hyperlink and the information
contained on our website is not intended
to be part of this proxy statement.
In this proxy statement, the terms “the
Company”, “we,” and “our” refer to Palo
Alto Network, Inc. and the term “Board”
refers to the Board of Directors of Palo
Alto Networks, Inc.
To the extent that this proxy statement
has been or will be specifically
incorporated by reference into any
other filing of the Company under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
or the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, the sections of this
proxy statement titled “Report of the
Audit Committee” and “Report of the
Compensation Committee” shall not be
deemed to be so incorporated, unless
specifically stated otherwise in such filing.
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Our Board at a Glance
Our Board consists of a diverse group of highly qualified leaders in their respective fields who bring unique perspectives to the
Board. All directors have either held senior leadership positions at large companies or otherwise gained significant and wide-ranging
management experience in their respective fields (including strategic, financial, public company financial reporting, compliance, risk
management, and leadership development). Many of our directors also have public company experience (serving as chief executive
officer, chief operating officer, or chief financial officer, or on boards of directors and board committees), and as a result have a deep
understanding of corporate governance practices, including risk and management oversight.
The tenure, age and certain other
information as of July 31, 2022, for the
members of the Board are set forth below.
B OA R D S N A P S H OT
TENURE
5
2
5
1
7
4
4
8
8
3
1
Average
8.3 years
0-5 years
6-10 years
>10 years
AGE
Average
56.5 years
41-50 years
51-60 years
>60 years
GENDER DIVERSIT Y
Women
Men
ETHNIC DIVERSIT Y
White
South Asian
Black
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John M. Donovan
LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR
Former Chief Executive Officer, AT&T
Communications, AT&T Inc.
Director Since: 2012
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Lockheed Martin Corporation
ENC (Chair), CDC (Chair) and SC (Chair), CC
Right Honorable Sir John Key
INDEPENDENT
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Director Since: 2019
Other Current Public Company Boards: ANZ Bank New
Zealand Ltd, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
CC (Chair), AC, SC
Mary Pat McCarthy
INDEPENDENT
Former Vice Chair, KPMG LLP
Director Since: 2016
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Micron Technologies, Inc.
AC (Chair), SC, CDC
Nir Zuk
Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Palo Alto Networks
Director Since: 2005
Other Current Public Company Boards:
None
Nikesh Arora
Chair and Chief Executive Officer,
Palo Alto Networks
Director Since: 2018
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A.
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Aparna Bawa
INDEPENDENT
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Director Since: 2021
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Partner, Greylock Partners
Director Since: 2005
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Director Since: 2011
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Qualcomm, Inc.
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Dr. Helene D. Gayle
INDEPENDENT
President of Spelman College
Director Since: 2021
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Organon, The Coca-Cola Company
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James J. Goetz
INDEPENDENT
Managing Member, Sequoia Capital
Director Since: 2005
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Intel Corporation
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Lorraine Twohill
INDEPENDENT
Chief Marketing Officer, Google
Director Since: 2019
Other Current Public Company Boards: None
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Carl Eschenbach
INDEPENDENT
General Partner, Sequoia Capital Operations
Director Since: 2013
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Zoom Video Communications, Workday, Inc.,
Snowflake Inc., UiPath, Inc., Aurora Innovations
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Our Corporate Governance
at a Glance
• Consider nominees and candidates in light of current skill sets and needs
• All candidates and nominees evaluated and considered for their expertise, experience,
leadership and diversity, including gender, ethnicity and background
• Board comprised of diverse directors, including gender, ethnic, racial and experiential diversity
º Appointed four new directors since 2019, including three who brought gender, ethnic
and/or racial diversity to the Board
• Board leadership reviewed annually
• Clearly defined roles for Board leadership
• Strong Lead Independent Director, who leads executive sessions of the Board
• Strong Board independence, with nine independent directors
Independent Board committees, with frequent executive sessions
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• Strong partnership between Chair and Lead Independent Director
• Annual Board evaluation process includes assessments and reviews of the Board,
committees and individual directors
• Director orientation and continuing director education
• High standards of corporate governance
• Board meeting agendas set by Chair in collaboration with Lead Independent Director
• Frequent review of oversight, including over significant risks
º culture, employee retention and human capital management (Compensation and
People Committee oversight)
º sustainability and corporate governance (ESG and Nominating Committee)
º security and cybersecurity (Security Committee)
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financial reporting, internal controls over financial reporting, and enterprise risk
relating to financial matters (Audit Committee)
º M&A and strategic transactions (Corporate Development Committee)
• Engaged in setting corporate strategy
• Engaged in management succession planning to ensure next generation of leadership
• Strong Lead Independent Director, who actively engages in management oversight
• Transparent lines of accountability to our stockholders
• A robust and interactive stockholder engagement program based on dialogue,
transparency and responsiveness to stockholder concerns
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In response to stockholder feedback, adopted majority voting for uncontested
elections of directors, including a resignation policy in the event a director does not
receive a majority of the vote
• Appropriate director compensation structured in a manner that is aligned with
stockholder interests
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An Overview of Our ESG Strategies
Our values of execution, disruption, collaboration, inclusion and integrity are the foundation of everything we
do—which extend into our approach to environmental, social and corporate governance (“ESG”) practices. From our
climate commitments, our people strategy based on FLEXWORK, and our supplier responsibility initiatives, to our
social impact programs and our dedication to integrity, ethics, security and privacy, we believe we are executing
meaningful outcomes that reinforce our intention to respect our planet, uplift our communities and advance our
industry. The content that follows summarizes the actions we have taken, the impact we believe we have had and our
ongoing journey to demonstrate leadership in ESG.
ESG Oversight and Governance
ESG at Palo Alto Networks is overseen and governed at the highest levels and includes Board and committee
oversight, executive-level leadership, and subject-matter experts who lead our ESG efforts across our business.
Board Oversight. The Board and its applicable committees provide guidance and oversight to management with
respect to ESG matters. During fiscal 2022, we reconstituted our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
as the ESG and Nominating Committee to enhance the Board’s oversight of ESG matters and reinforce the important
role that ESG practices play in our business. The ESG and Nominating Committee is responsible for setting our ESG
priorities and monitoring our performance. Our Compensation and People Committee, Audit Committee and Security
Committee also serve an important role in ESG oversight. Our Lead Independent Director and management team
share feedback received from our stockholders with the Board.
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∙ Pay equity
∙ Human capital management,
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Management Leadership. A cross-functional, executive-level ESG leadership team sets our overall ESG strategy,
objectives and initiatives, provides guidance on program implementation, and oversees the continuing enhancement
of our approach to ESG. This committee which is led by our Chief Executive Officer and includes our General Counsel,
Chief People Officer and Chief Financial Officer, receives analysis and presentations regarding current and emerging
ESG-related risk topics and the status of our ESG programs.
Our executive-level ESG leadership team also empowers our ESG steering committee to implement our ESG
programs and to pursue activities to achieve our objective and goals. The ESG steering committee is a cross functional
team of employees, consisting of representatives from our accounting, internal audit, corporate responsibility, legal,
investor relations and operations teams, and oversees the work of our subject matter experts in the implementation of
our ESG programs.
ESG Governance Structure
Board of
Directors
ESG and Nominating
Committee
Chair and CEO
Executive Leadership Team
Chief Executive Officer
Chief People Officer
General Counsel
Chief Financial Officer
ESG Steering Committee
Senior Director, Global
Corporate Responsibility
SVP, Chief Accounting
Officer
SVP, Worldwide
Operations
VP, Supply Chain
Operations and
Procurement
VP, Deputy General
Counsel, Corporate
VP, Deputy General
Counsel, Ethics and
Compliance
Head of Investor
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VP, Internal Audit
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Executive
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Approves priorities,
provides guidance and
oversight, and monitors
performance in all areas
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Sets ESG strategy,
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Environmental
Climate change is a global crisis and we are committed to doing our part to reduce our environmental impacts.
Aligned to the Climate Commitments we declared in early 2021, in fiscal 2022 we evolved our comprehensive
Sustainability Strategy focused on three pillars: operational excellence (Sustainable Operations), a Sustainable
Value Chain, and a Sustainable Ecosystem. In fiscal 2022, we engaged with external consultancies, conducted a
comprehensive analysis of our global environmental footprint, and obtained third party assurance of our analysis and
related emissions data, across all three pillars.
SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS
Accelerate carbon and waste free growth across our
FLEXWORK footprint through energy efficiency,
decarbonization, renewable energy and science-based targets.
SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAIN
Collaborate and partner with stakeholders throughout our
value chain to drive to zero carbon, zero waste, 100% renewable
energy and 100% circular cybersecurity products.
SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEM
Drive leading public commitments, policy advocacy and
partnerships to elevate our thought leadership position
in sustainable cybersecurity.
Raising Our Ambition
We raised the ambition of our Climate Commitments through developing and setting Science-Based Targets (“SBTs”)
aligned to a climate scenario of 1.5° celsius. They are:
• Scope 1 and 2: Sustainable Operations
Palo Alto Networks commits to reduce Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 35% by the end of fiscal 2027, as compared
to fiscal 2021.
• Scope 3: Sustainable Supply Chain
Palo Alto Networks commits to get 65% of our suppliers (measured by total spend) to set Science-Based Targets by
the end of fiscal 2027.
• Scope 3: Sustainable Customers (Use of Sold Products)
Palo Alto Networks commits to reduce emissions from our customers’ use of our products by 40% by the end of
fiscal 2027.
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Our SBTs were submitted to the Science-Based Targets Initiative for verification, which we expect to obtain in 2023.
In fiscal 2022, in line with the most reputable non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), we refined and elevated our
Carbon Neutral goal to be defined as “Net Zero” targets:
• We intend to achieve Net Zero across our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by fiscal 2030, by reducing emissions by 90%, as
compared to fiscal 2021, and mitigating any remaining emissions through carbon removal investments.
• We intend to achieve Net Zero across all Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions by fiscal 2040, aligned with The Climate Pledge,
by reducing emissions by 90%, as compared to fiscal 2021, and mitigating any remaining emissions through carbon
removal investments.
Through our climate ambition across our operations, value chain and ecosystem, we are confident that we can
achieve these goals by the dates above.
Sustainable Operations
Early in fiscal 2022, we elevated our operational goals by committing to purchasing 100% true renewable energy,
expanding operational excellence through deep energy efficiency, and driving decarbonization throughout our real
estate footprint.
We continued to execute our sustainable approach to real estate and opened new LEED certified offices in multiple
cities, including London and Bangalore, and expanded our LEED footprint through certifications in Tel Aviv, Bangalore
and San Francisco. We launched multiple sustainability work groups to evaluate and act on implementing green
packaging, waste reduction and resource conservation. To address the digital divide, promote reuse and reduce our
e-waste, we engaged in an external partnership to efficiently donate obsolete equipment, accessories and furnishings
for social benefit.
Sustainable Value Chain
Through our carbon footprint assessment, we gained a complete understanding of where
our greatest impacts - and best opportunities - are, and we set 1.5° Celsius aligned Science-
Based Targets to effectively address them. We set critical Scope 1 and 2 SBTs, but we know
that our greatest impact is in our Scope 3 emissions. Because of this, we have set what we
believe are ambitious SBTs to drive a Sustainable Value Chain across our purchased goods
and services and the use by our customers of the products we sell to them.
Achieved a Supplier Engagement
Rating of A- from CDP (2021)
Throughout fiscal 2022, we began the journey to engage stakeholders throughout our value chain, from
suppliers to customers, to drive to zero carbon, zero waste, 100% renewable energy and 100% circularity in our
cybersecurity products.
Sustainable Ecosystem
Recognizing that addressing climate change will require collaboration on systemic issues,
we increased and expanded our engagements with environmental coalitions. By joining The
Climate Pledge, formally committing to emissions reductions through the Science-Based
Target initiative, our ongoing participation in the World Economic Forum’s Alliance of CEO
Climate Leaders and other partnerships, we continued to demonstrate our eagerness to
engage with others on this critical issue.
Achieved an Environmental
QualityScore of 1 by Institutional
Shareholder Services (2022)
Highest score available,
corresponding to the top decile
We believe thoughtful and ardent policy advocacy is one of the most effective tools for addressing climate change. In
fiscal 2022, we signed on to a letter from Ceres supporting the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule
mandating climate disclosure. We also engaged directly with several policy makers to reinforce the importance of
climate action and its intersectionality with cybersecurity.
We remained committed to transparency by submitting our 2022 CDP Climate and Supply Chain disclosures for the
third year in a row.
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Social
During fiscal 2022, we continued to execute our People strategy and philosophy of FLEXWORK, engaged with our
supply chain to reinforce our Code of Conduct expectations and invested in our Communities.
Our People
We believe our ongoing success depends on our employees. Development and investment in our people is, and will
always be, central to who we are. Our People Strategy, built upon our philosophy of FLEXWORK, is a comprehensive
approach to source, hire, onboard, integrate, develop, engage and reward employees. Caring for our global workforce
of over 12,500, and inspiring them to do the best work of their careers is a critical element of our overall Company
strategy and a demonstration of our values in action.
FLEXWORK
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while prioritizing the health and safety of our
employees, we have learned how to collaborate in a distributed hybrid work reality and
to create opportunities for employees to maintain a sense of belonging and focus on
well-being. Moving into the future, we aim to continue to disrupt the nature of work. Our
philosophy is simple: place our employees at the center of their working life by providing
them with flexibility, personalization, and choice regarding how they work, the benefits
they choose, the way they consume learning and, where possible, when and where
they work. We truly believe that the more our employees have choice and demonstrate
mutual trust and respect, the more engaged they will be. We believe that FLEXWORK is a
significant factor in positioning Palo Alto Networks as the cybersecurity workplace of choice.
Recognized by Newsweek among
100 of America’s “Most Loved
Workplaces”
FLEXWORK adds even more opportunity to scale our efforts to improve inclusion and diversity. It further enables us to
recognize each individual as unique, with their own priorities and needs, and gives the employee greater agency to
personalize their decisions and utilize our programs and initiatives to meet those interests and desires.
Source & Hire
Sourcing and hiring diverse talent and enabling them to create and execute is central to our comprehensive
approach to talent acquisition, which we refer to as “The Way We Hire.” Our talent acquisition team utilizes a number
of methods to find subject experts in their respective fields, including the use of a variety of channels that focus on
reaching underrepresented talents. Our university relations team partners with hundreds of academic institutions,
including colleges and universities that focus on serving diverse populations, to provide career pathways for early-
in-career candidates. Current employees also provide qualified candidates through our Employee Referral Program.
During fiscal 2022, we “welcomed home” numerous employees who voluntarily left Palo Alto Networks and found
they wanted to return. Through our Internal Mobility program, numerous hires during fiscal 2022 were internal, and
many of those internal hires resulted in promotions for those individuals. We equip hiring managers with training so
that they are made aware of potential unconscious biases and interview for the values and competencies that we
believe enhance our culture. We require diverse interview panels to deliver a quality interview experience to a diverse
slate of candidates.
Onboard & Integrate
We believe that a positive onboarding experience results in employees thriving and therefore rapid productivity.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we built and utilized virtual learning platforms and employee communication
channels to provide new employees with inspirational, often personalized, onboarding experiences. For every
employee, onboarding is a journey of integration that extends through the first year at Palo Alto Networks. In addition,
we have built specialist learning tracks for interns and new graduates that have been recognized as best in class
externally. As part of our merger and acquisition strategy, we have also established a robust integration program with
the goal to enable individuals joining our teams to feel part of our culture at speed.
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Develop & Motivate
Because we value disruption and innovation, we created FLEXLearn—a unique approach
to personalized employee development. FLEXLearn is a learning experience platform that
provides employees with a path based on their needs, interests, style, and career journey.
Through FLEXLearn employees have full agency to direct their growth at their pace and
choosing. Development information about core business elements, professional skill sets,
working in a distributed hybrid environment, as well as required compliance training,
such as Code of Conduct, privacy and security, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, and
anti-bribery training, is also deployed through the FLEXLearn platform for all employees.
In addition, FLEXLearn provides employees with events and activities that motivate and
spark critical thinking, on topics ranging from inclusion, to well-being and collaboration.
On average, employees had completed 16 hours of development through the FLEXLearn
platform during fiscal 2022.
Recognized among the “Top
Workplaces for the Next Generation
of Talent” as evaluated by
Ripplematch (2021)
Because we know that business leaders have unique learning and development needs and interests, we also created
FLEXLead. Focused on providing tools and resources to those who manage teams and drive business functions,
FLEXLead aims to increase the awareness of inclusion and diversity, coaching and mentorship, and the capacity for
leaders to align employee priorities with our strategic business priorities.
Engage & Reward
We conduct regular executive listening sessions and “pulse surveys” to better understand employee engagement,
sentiment, well-being, and the agility to transition to a distributed work model. These sessions and surveys, including
employee feedback to external surveys and crowdsourcing platforms, have informed our holistic People Strategy and
influenced our FLEXWORK philosophy, inclusion and diversity strategies, and Internal Mobility program. For example,
our FLEXCircle program is the result of employee input, requesting new opportunities to meet and interact with
employees who share common interests. And our FLEXAssist program was developed based on suggestions from
employees looking for tools that help them identify key employee milestones and facilitate increased communication
and collaboration.
Employee sentiment has continued to be highly positive, and we are proud of the external recognition we have
received about our culture. We continue to use insights from an anonymous global employee engagement survey we
conducted in fiscal 2021 to execute action plans that reinforce our culture of engagement. The survey indicated that
employees have a strong sense of belonging, confidence in leadership, and an understanding of how their work
contributes to the Company’s goals. Equally important, our internal pulse surveys and other feedback mechanisms,
including insights from external employee sentiment sources and employer brand recognition, indicate that
employees continue to view Palo Alto Networks as a great place to work, with strong benefits, a commitment to
inclusion and diversity and respected leadership.
Our comprehensive compensation program includes competitive base pay. In addition, all
employees participate in one of two variable pay programs our sales incentive plans or our
variable incentive program. All employees are also eligible to participate in our stock-based
offerings through a generous Employee Stock Purchase Plan and a competitive Equity
Incentive Plan, both of which are available to all of our employees where regulations permit.
We conduct annual external audits of our pay practices. Our fairness and equity analysis
includes gender for all global employees and race and ethnicity for employees in the U.S. As a
result of these measures and corrections, we believe that our employees are paid fairly and
equitably regardless of race/ethnicity (in the U.S.) or gender (globally).
As a global employer with a diverse employee population, we understand everyone’s benefit
needs are different. Our benefit plans include a variety of health, time-off, wellness and
voluntary options. And, our FLEXBenefits program provides all employees with a funding
allowance from which they can choose to obtain additional benefits.
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Recognized by Comparably in
7 “Best of ” categories including
“Best Compensation” (#9)(2022)
Recognized by Comparably in
7 “Best of ” categories including
“Perks & Benefits” (#75)(2022)
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We believe in an always-on feedback and rewards philosophy. From recurring 1:1 sessions and multiple feedback
channels to use of our Cheers for Peers peer recognition program, employees get regular input about the value they
bring to the organization. And while always-on practices are useful in providing real-time feedback, we also execute a
Company-wide semi-annual performance review process so that leaders and employees have recurring constructive
conversations aimed at elevating performance, increasing capability and executing with excellence.
Inclusion & Diversity
We are intentional about including diverse points of view, perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and ideas in our
decision-making processes. We deeply believe that true diversity exists when we have representation of all ethnicities,
genders, orientations and identities, and cultures in our workforce. Our inclusion and diversity (“I&D”) programs
continue to advance those visions.
The diversity of our Board, with women representing 33% of the Board is an example of that vision in action. We
have nine employee network groups (“ENGs”) which are employee-led groups that play a vital role in building
understanding and awareness. Our ENGs are provided with a budget to fund activities for their communities
and to make charitable grants to organizations advancing their causes. We involve our ENGs in listening sessions
with executive teams and we work in partnership to develop our annual I&D plans, because we believe employee
involvement is critical.
As referenced above, our I&D philosophy is fully embedded in our talent acquisition, learning and development
and rewards and recognition programs. We believe that outcomes such as increases in gender and ethnic diversity,
no differential in attrition based on gender or ethnicity, equity in performance evaluation and internal mobility are
indicators that our efforts are making the desired progress. Further, the awards and recognition the Company has
received during fiscal 2022, most of which are the direct result of employee input, reinforce our growth in this crucial
topic.
Recognized by
Comparably in
7 “Best of ” categories
including “Best CEOs for
Diversity ” (#15)(2022)
Achieved a perfect
score of 100% on the
Human Rights Campaign
Corporate Equality Index
(2022, 2021 & 2020)
Achieved a perfect score of 100%
on the Disability Equality Index as
evaluated by Disability:IN (2022)
Achieved “Gold”
status as a Military
Friendly Employer as
evaluated by Military
Friendly (2022)
Our Supply Chain
Through the deployment of our Global Supplier Code of Conduct, we continued to reach across our supply chain
to communicate our expectations regarding labor standards, business practices and workplace health and safety
conditions. During fiscal 2022, we maintained our affiliate membership in the Responsible Business Alliance and
maintained our commitment to Supplier Diversity.
Our codes of conduct are useful in documenting our expectations that materials suppliers honor our commitment to
human rights. That said, beyond communicating our expectations, we follow industry best practices when assessing
risks for incidents of human rights violations within our supply chain. We take a risk-based and business impact
approach and leverage the risk assessment resources of the Responsible Business Alliance to help identify suppliers
who may be at high risk for child, forced or compulsory labor issues. If we believe additional research into a suppliers’
ethical practices is necessary, we take action to do so.
We focus our risk assessments on suppliers where we have large annual spend, where Palo Alto Networks is a
significant portion of their annual revenue, where the supplier’s technology impacts our business, and where we have
an overall strategic partnership with a supplier. Understanding risks related to human rights, among others, that these
suppliers may pose is critical, from both a socially conscious and business impact perspective.
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In addition, suppliers who may provide commodities or be within industries historically known to have high risks for
labor incidents are subject to additional vetting processes. Lastly, suppliers who may be located in countries or regions
where labor conditions have historically not been prioritized within those countries or regions are also considered
high risk and managed appropriately.
We believe our strength as a company comes from building an inclusive environment and collaborating with
individuals who bring diverse experiences. This extends to our global supply chain and our commitment to increase
our awareness of and engagement with women- and minority-owned businesses. A cross-functional working
group continues to explore best practices and is working with partners such as Western Regional Minority Supplier
Development Council, to support our work to enhance our procurement policies and establish metrics to measure our
progress in growing the diversity of our supply chain.
Our Communities
We value our role as a good corporate citizen and in fiscal 2022 continued to execute our social
impact programs. In addition to ongoing efforts to help colleagues and communities impacted
by the COVID-19 pandemic, we invested in cybersecurity awareness, education programs,
scholarships, diversity and basic needs. Our employees continue to actively support the
communities in which we live and work.
Recognized by Just Capital
among Top 100 Companies
Supporting Families and
Communities (2022 & 2021)
Investing in Education and Key Cause Areas
We expanded our work to provide cybersecurity activities and curriculum to schools, universities and nonprofit
organizations to help youth protect their digital way of life and to prepare diverse adults for careers in cybersecurity.
Through our ongoing partnership with Girl Scouts of the USA hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity badges have
been earned, including troops in Singapore through USA Girl Scouts Overseas. Moreover, our Cyber A.C.E.S. program
continues to grow—not only reaching youth in the U.S. and Canada but now being used in Australia, Japan, Scotland,
Singapore, and elsewhere. Our Cybersecurity Academy is now providing curriculum to thousands of high schools,
colleges and universities in hundreds of countries around the world. In addition, by partnering with the IIT (BHU)
Foundation and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, we are funding scholarships to help make higher education
more accessible to those in need.
Because inclusion and diversity is important to Palo Alto Networks, we allocate charitable funding to our ENGs
to enable them to support non-profit organizations committed to reaching the needs of underrepresented
communities. In fiscal 2022, we supported dozens of organizations to help them achieve their respective missions.
In addition to making charitable grants to support causes like mental health and wellness, hunger and basic needs,
we invested in expanding the talent pipeline to underrepresented communities. We also supported environmental
and social justice causes. Lastly, to address the digital divide, promote reuse, and reduce our e-waste we engaged in
an external partnership to efficiently donate obsolete equipment, accessories and furnishings for social benefit.
Engaging Employees to Increase Impact
Employees continued to participate in our giving, matching and volunteer programs to make impacts in their local
communities.
Aligned with our FLEXWORK philosophy, we continued to offer virtual volunteer projects so that employees had
choice in how they support their communities, while at the same time supporting in-person volunteer activities.
Employees volunteered as individuals and often in groups to make a meaningful difference. While employees always
have choice in the causes they support, on occasion we also highlight causes through “drives” such as our Annual
Hunger Campaign as well as relief for natural disasters and humanitarian efforts. Between our “Dollar-for-Doers”
volunteer and matching gift programs, thousands of causes received funding.
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Corporate Behavior
Ethics & Compliance
Palo Alto Networks is committed to conducting business with high degrees of honesty and integrity wherever we
operate. Integrity is one of our core values and we respect our customers, partners, employees and stockholders.
Our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics summarizes the ethical standards and key policies that guide the business
conduct of the directors, officers and employees of the Company, and we have a public Global Supplier Code of
Conduct, both available on our corporate website. All employees, contractors and suppliers are informed about our
governance expectations through our Codes of Conduct and compliance training programs.
We also have a policy focused on respect in the workplace and a corresponding training through our FLEXLearn
platform. All new hires must complete the training and existing global employees are required to complete the
training every other year. The training includes anti-discrimination, antiharassment and anti-retaliation lessons and
hypotheticals. Our Audit Committee and ESG and Nominating Committee of the Board are responsible for oversight
of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics compliance program. Our Ethics Hotline is also publicly available.
Information Security & Privacy
Palo Alto Networks maintains a written information security program that is managed by our Chief Information
Security Officer, who is responsible for overseeing and implementing the program; includes administrative, technical
and physical safeguards reasonably designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of end user
data; and is appropriate to the nature, size and complexity of Palo Alto Networks’ business operations. The Security
Committee of our Board of Directors reviews data privacy and cybersecurity strategies and risks and provides oversight
over risk mitigation related to cyber threats. Eight of our 12 Board Directors have cybersecurity and IT technology
expertise. We provide annual information security and compliance training to all of our employees.
We engage external agencies to conduct background checks for personnel. We also maintain a security process to
conduct appropriate due diligence prior to engaging contractors; assess the security capabilities of subcontractors on
a periodic basis; and require subcontractors to adhere to our key information security policies and standards. We also
restrict access to, control and monitor physical areas where we process end user data. Data centers that we operate
are in alignment with industry standards such as ISO 27001 and SSAE 16 or ISAE 3402.
We deploy firewall technology and an intrusion detection system to generate, monitor and respond to alerts which
could indicate potential compromise of our network. We also apply security by design principles throughout the
software development lifecycle, track vulnerabilities of open-source software, and run internal and external network
scans at least quarterly and after any material change in the network configuration. We conduct application security
assessments using a qualified third party, such as our annual assessment for internet-facing applications that collect,
transmit or display end user data.
Palo Alto Networks also develops, implements and maintains a business continuity management program to address
the needs of the business and the products we provide to customers. To that end, we complete a minimum level of
business impact analysis, crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery planning.
Privacy is important to our customers and helps us build trust. Our privacy practices are informed by several key
principles including:
• Accountability. We are responsible for the protection of personal information entrusted to us.
• Transparency and Control. We inform customers about our collection of their personal information and honor their
preferences.
• Third Parties Processing Our Information. We choose trustworthy vendors and suppliers to process personal
information and we require them to commit to adequate privacy and data security standards.
• Privacy by Design. We continue to build on this principle when designing and implementing products.
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• Data Integrity and Proportionality. We collect personal information for specific and legitimate business purposes
and store it safely and accurately.
• Customer Benefit/Value for Customers. We share with our customers the benefits and value we derive from
processing their personal information.
• Security. We implement technical, organizational and physical security measures to confirm an appropriate level
of security of the personal information we process. This includes employee training.
Our ESG Journey
Palo Alto Networks has always been a values-based company, and the core principles of ESG have been part of our
day-to-day operations. Still, the Company has made a dedicated focus to continuously improve and further integrate
ESG into the business. From elevated environmental initiatives, such as setting emissions reduction goals aligned
to Science-Based Targets and constantly evolving social strategies like FLEXWORK to increased transparency in our
governance and disclosures, including our fiscal 2021 ESG Supplement released in October 2021, we have made
strides to advance our ESG journey.
We have made improvements and yet we recognize that we have more work to do, particularly as stakeholders
become more and more interested in our efforts and as regulatory matters and ESG frameworks evolve. During fiscal
2022, our overall ESG performance improved across all of the rating institutions we measure against. We monitor these
ratings so that we remain diligent in our practices and execute a path to achieve our place as industry leaders in ESG.
Recognized by Sustainalytics as
“Industry Top Rated” for our overall ES
performance (2022, 2021)
Recognized by Institutional Shareholder
Services (ISS) as Prime (2022)
Achieved “Gold” rating by EcoVadis
(2021)
Recognized by JUST Capital as a “Top
100 Most JUST Company in America”
(2022)
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Corporate Governance
Board of Directors Corporate
Governance Highlights
Our Board is governed by our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which are amended from time to time to incorporate
certain current best practices in corporate governance. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines may be found on our
website at https://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
In addition to a strong, independent Board, we are committed to corporate governance structures that promote long-
term stockholder value creation through a sound leadership structure and by providing our stockholders with both
the opportunity to provide direct feedback, and substantive rights and policies to ensure accountability.
THE BOARD’S CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES AND STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS INCLUDE
THE FOLLOWING:
% Majority voting for uncontested elections
of board members, with an associated
resignation policy
% Strong Lead Independent Director
% Board Composed of 75% Independent Directors
% 100% Independent Audit Committee, ESG and
Nominating Committee, Compensation and
People Committee and Security Committee
% Annual Review of Board leadership Structure
% Board Refreshment
% Director Changes in Circumstances
Actively Evaluated
% Board and Committee Access to Management
% Annual Board and Committee Evaluations
% Independent Compensation and People
Committee Consultant
% Board Authority to Retain Outside Advisors
% Board and Committee Risk Oversight,
including Security
% Board Continuing Education Program
% No Poison Pill
% Single Class of Shares
% Formed the Security Committee of our Board
to enhance oversight over security issues,
including cybersecurity
% Annual Review of Committee Charters and
Governance Policies
% Fair Director Compensation Practices
% Active Management Succession Oversight
% Active Management of Director Conflicts
of Interest
% Annual Say-on-Pay Vote
% Continuous Stockholder Engagement Program
% Stock Ownership Guidelines for Directors and
Executive Officers
% Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for
Directors, Officers and Employee
% Anti-Hedging Policy
% Restrictive Pledging Policy
% Clawback Policy
% Regular Meetings of Independent Directors
Without Management Present
% Proxy Access Bylaws
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Board Responsiveness to Investors in FY2022
Our Board is committed to actively engaging with our stockholders, and committed to maintaining outreach
that is truly a dialogue with our stockholders. Through year-round engagement and outreach, we regularly
provide stockholders with opportunities to deliver feedback on our corporate governance, executive and director
compensation, and environmental and sustainability practices. We regularly meet with investors, prospective
investors, and investment analysts. These meetings can include participation by our Chair and Chief Executive Officer,
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Products Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary or other business leaders,
and are often focused on company strategy, financial performance, product strategy and ESG philosophy. Members
of our Investor Relations team also participate in meetings with our stockholders and, on occasion, members of the
Board participate as appropriate. In fiscal 2022, our Lead Independent Director participated in 30 meetings with our
stockholders.
Following our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, we reinvigorated our approach and practices to stockholder
engagement and implemented a strategy that focused on extensive engagement on a wide range of topics. Our Lead
Independent Director played an active and central role in our stockholder engagement efforts in fiscal 2022, and our
management team regularly communicated topics discussed and stockholder feedback to the Board and our Board
committees for consideration in their decision-making.
Who we
met with
• Investors holding 60% of shares outstanding engaged with in discussions
• Investors holding 39% of shares outstanding engaged by Lead
Independent Director
Our Primary
engagement
team
• Lead Independent Director (participated in 30 meetings)
• Investor Relations team
• General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
• People Team (human resources)
• Corporate responsibility team
What we
discussed
• Executive compensation
• Board structure
• Board composition and governance, including Board refreshment
and diversity
• Board oversight
• Board leadership
• Stockholder engagement
• ESG initiatives
• ESG disclosure and governance
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Corporate Governance
WHAT WE HEARD
HOW WE RESPONDED
Board Governance
Plurality voting for directors, dual role of
CEO and Chairman and annual election
of all Board members
• Adopted a majority voting requirement for uncontested elections of
directors, including a resignation policy in the event a director does
not receive a majority of the vote.
• Committed to maintaining our practice of annually reviewing our
Board leadership structure, including whether an independent
director should be the Chair of our Board.
• Committed to maintaining our practice of annually reviewing whether
maintaining a classified Board is appropriate for our Company.
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Board Oversight of Risks, Including
Cybersecurity and ESG Risks
How the Board is addressing oversight
of increased, varied and new risks.
• Formed the Security Committee of our Board to enhance oversight
over security issues facing our Company, including cybersecurity.
• Reconstituted our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
as the ESG and Nominating Committee to enhance the Board’s
oversight of ESG matters.
• Reallocated ESG responsibilities among our Board Committees, clearly
identifying the responsibilities of each Committee.
• Added additional disclosure in this proxy statement relating to
Board oversight.
• The Board appointed Ms. Bawa and Dr. Gayle to our Board during fiscal
2021, increasing the gender, racial and ethnic diversity of the Board.
Presently, four of our twelve directors are women.
• During the period between April 2019 and May 2021, we appointed
four new independent directors: Ms. Bawa, Dr. Gayle, Ms. Twohill and
Rt Hon Sir John Key.
• Expanded disclosure in this proxy statement of the rationales as to
why each of our directors continue to serve on our Board.
• Conducted extensive stockholder and investor outreach.
• Engaged in discussion with stockholders holding 60% of our
outstanding shares.
• Our Lead Independent Director participated in 30 investor meetings
and engaged in discussion with stockholders holding 39% of our
outstanding shares.
Board Diversity and Refreshment
The duration of Board service by certain
long-standing directors, and the
makeup of the Board and the rationale
therefore.
Stockholder Engagement
Continued 1:1 investor outreach on
compensation, ESG and other matters
of interest to our stockholders.
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WHAT WE HEARD
HOW WE RESPONDED
• Published our first ESG report in fiscal 2022, in which we report on our
carbon emissions.
• Added more disclosure in our annual report on Form 10-K
and this proxy statement describing our ESG initiatives and
our ESG governance.
• Adopted a set of Climate Commitments that include our strategies
to be carbon neutral by 2030, use 100% renewable energy, reduce
emissions aligned to Science-Based Targets and advocate for
climate action.
• Increased our social impact programs, to leverage our core
competency in cybersecurity and align those efforts to help develop a
diverse talent pipeline while uplifting communities.
• Formed the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Education Fund with
a mission to fund education programs focused on cybersecurity that
inspire youth.
• Reconstituted our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
as the ESG and Nominating Committee to enhance our focus on
ESG matters.
• Formalized our ESG governance structure by forming an ESG
Steering Committee, with employees from accounting, internal audit,
operations, legal and corporate responsibility to recommend strategies
and lead implementation of ESG programs, which reports regularly to
our ESG Executive Leadership Team and the Board.
• 100% of our NEOs’ equity compensation (aside from new hire awards)
is performance-based, with different performance targets than the
cash incentive plan awards.
• Increased our stock ownership guidelines for our NEOs, including
our Chief Executive Officer.
• Added an ESG modifier to our cash incentive plan.
• Established a one-year post-vesting holding period for all NEOs,
including our Chief Executive Officer.
ESG Initiatives, Disclosure
and Governance
Would like to see more information
about how we develop and
manage environmental, social and
governance initiatives.
Executive Compensation
Modifications to the structure of our
executive compensation program and
enhanced disclosure.
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Corporate Governance
Leadership Structure
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that our Board is free to choose its chairperson (the “Chair”) based
on our Board’s view of what is in the best interest of the Company and our stockholders. The Chair and the Chief
Executive Officer may, but need not be, the same person.
Annual Evaluation of Leadership Structure and Annual
Election of Lead Independent Director
As part of its annual review and evaluation process, the Board reviews its leadership structure and whether
combining or separating the roles of Chair and Chief Executive Officer is in the best interests of the Company and our
stockholders. The Board also considers:
• The effectiveness of the policies, practices, and people in place at the Company to help ensure strong, independent
Board oversight.
• The importance of consistent, unified leadership to execute and oversee the Company’s strategy.
• The strength of Mr. Arora’s vision for the Company and the quality of his leadership.
• Our performance and the effect the leadership structure could have on our performance.
• The Board’s performance and the effect the leadership structure could have on the Board’s performance.
• The meaningful and robust responsibilities and the performance of our Lead Independent Director.
• The views of our stockholders through our ongoing engagement efforts.
• The practices at other companies and trends in governance.
• The current state of our Company.
In the circumstance that the Board determines that it remains in the best interests of the Company and its
stockholders that our Chief Executive Officer serve as our Chair, the independent members of the Board then elect a
Lead Independent Director as provided in our Corporate Governance Guidelines.
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Why Our Leaders Are Ideally Suited For Their Roles
The Board believes that the independent Board members should have the flexibility to respond to changing
circumstances and choose the Board leadership structure that best fits the then-current situation. As it does annually,
in August 2022, the Board reviewed our leadership structure. Following that review, the Board determined that
the combination of the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer roles, along with the robust authority given to our
experienced Lead Independent Director, effectively maintains independent oversight of management. The Board
consists of nine independent directors, and exercises a strong, independent oversight function through frequent
executive sessions, independent Board committees and by having a strong Lead Independent Director with clearly
delineated and comprehensive duties.
The Board strongly believes that its leadership structure strikes the right balance of allowing our Chair and Chief
Executive Officer to promote a clear, unified vision of the Company’s strategies, while ensuring robust, independent
oversight by the Board and our Lead Independent Director. The Board also believes there is value in presenting a
single face to our customers through combining the Chair and Chief Executive Officer roles, and that this structure
of having the Board and management operate under the unified leadership of a highly experienced Chief Executive
Officer best positions the Company to successfully implement its next phase of growth.
Accordingly, in August 2022, the Board determined that it is in the best interests of our stockholders for Mr. Arora to
serve as Chair and John Donovan to serve as Lead Independent Director.
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman
John M. Donovan
Lead Independent
Director
• Substantial knowledge and deep understanding
• Independence, confidence and gravitas, enabling
of our business and the challenges we face
strong oversight of executive leadership
• Substantial international business experience and
business acumen and valued strategic, financial
and operational insights
• Day-to-day insight into our prospects,
opportunities, strategies and challenges facilitates
the timely deliberation by the Board of the most
important matters
• Brings a unique, stockholder-focused insight to
assist the Company to most effectively execute
its strategy and business plans to maximize
stockholder value
• Serves as an important bridge between the Board
and management, and provides critical leadership
for carrying out our strategic initiatives and
confronting our challenges
• Provides the Board with more complete and
timely information about the Company
• Provides a unified structure and consistent
leadership direction internally and externally
• Proven success in leading Palo Alto Networks since
joining the Company
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• Deep understanding of our business
• Strong working relationship with our Chair and
Chief Executive Officer
• Strong working relationship with other
management and our independent directors
• Substantial experience leading large multinational
companies
• Strong background in corporate governance
• Dedicated to his service as Lead Independent
Director, as demonstrated by the fact that he met
with stockholders holding 39% of our outstanding
shares during fiscal 2022
• Strength and effectiveness of communication with
Mr. Arora, resulting in active and visible oversight
of the issues, plans and prospects of Palo Alto
Networks
• Promotes a collaborative and collegial environment
for Board decision making
Corporate Governance
OVERVIEW OF LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR RESPONSIBILITIES
The responsibilities of the Lead Independent Director are well-defined. The Lead Independent Director engages
in regular communication between the independent directors and Mr. Arora, keeping Mr. Arora apprised of any
concerns, issues, or determinations made during the independent sessions, and consults with Mr. Arora on other
matters pertinent to the Company and the Board. As part of the Board’s annual review and evaluation, the Board
further defined the role and responsibilities of our Lead Independent Director to include:
• Presiding at meetings of the Board at which the Chair is not present, including executive sessions of the
independent directors.
• Serving as liaison between the Chair and the independent directors.
• Developing agendas for Board meetings in collaboration with the Chair, and communicating with
independent Board members to ensure that matters of interest are being included on agendas for Board
meetings.
• Communicating with independent Board members and with management to affirm that appropriate briefing
materials are being provided to Board members sufficiently in advance of Board meetings to allow for proper
preparation and participation at meetings.
• Having the authority to call meetings of the independent directors.
• Preparing agendas for meetings of the independent directors.
• Organizing and leading the Board’s evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer.
• Leading the Board’s annual self-evaluation.
• If requested by major stockholders, ensuring that he is available, as necessary after discussions with the Chair
and Chief Executive Officer, for consultation and direct communication.
In addition to the responsibilities outlined above, our Lead Independent Director also:
• Has biennial one-on-one discussions with each independent director, as part of the Board’s annual evaluation
process.
• Has access to all committee materials.
• Has the authority to engage independent consultants.
• Interviews Board candidates.
• Spends time with senior management outside of Board meetings (as necessary) to ensure a deep understanding of
the business and strategy of the Company.
• Participates in stockholder engagement planning and activities.
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Independent Directors Sessions
A meeting of the independent directors is scheduled at every regular Board meeting and the independent directors
meet in an executive session. These independent sessions are organized and chaired by our Lead Independent
Director, and our Lead Independent Director provides direct feedback to Mr. Arora after these executive sessions.
Independent Committee Leadership
The Audit, Compensation and People, Security, and ESG and Nominating Committees are each composed solely of,
and led by, independent directors, and provide independent oversight of management. In addition:
• Each committee chair meets with management in advance of meetings to review and refine agendas, add topics of
interest, and review and comment on materials to be delivered to the committee.
• Every independent director has access to all committee materials.
• Each committee chair provides a report summarizing committee meetings to the full Board at each regular
meeting of the Board.
• Each committee meeting includes adequate time for executive session and the committees meet in
executive session on a regular basis with no members of management present (unless otherwise requested by
the committee).
• Each committee effectively manages its Board-delegated duties and communicates regularly with the Chair, Lead
Independent Director, the Board, and members of management.
Furthermore, the Compensation and People Committee has an effective process for monitoring and evaluating
Mr. Arora’s compensation and performance, as well as succession planning.
Board’s Role in Strategy Oversight
Our Board is responsible for overseeing the development of the Company’s strategy (including product development
roadmaps), which articulates objectives for the business, helps establish and maintain effective risk management
and internal controls frameworks, and provides direction to senior management to determine which business
opportunities to pursue. The Board is also actively engaged in ensuring that Palo Alto Networks culture reflects our
commitment to our core values of disruption, execution, collaboration, integrity and inclusion.
Annually holds a strategy
offsite, receiving detailed
presentations from, and
engagement with, senior
management across
the Company
Annually reviews
and approves the
Palo Alto Networks
operating plan
Quarterly
engagement with
senior management
on critical business
matters that tie to
Palo Alto Network’s
overall strategy
Regularly interacts
with the next
generation of
leadership to ensure
the talent pipeline
remains diverse,
inclusive and up to
the task
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Corporate Governance
Board’s Role in Risk Oversight
Risk is inherent with every business, including strategic, financial, business and operational, legal and compliance,
and reputational. We have designed and implemented processes to manage risk in our operations. Management is
responsible for the day-to-day management of risks our Company faces, while our Board, as a whole and assisted by
its committees, has responsibility for the oversight of risk management. In its risk oversight role, our Board has the
responsibility to satisfy itself that the risk management processes designed and implemented by management are
appropriate and functioning as designed.
Our Board believes that open communication between management and our Board is essential for effective risk
management and oversight.
While our Board is ultimately responsible for risk oversight, our Board committees assist our Board in fulfilling its
oversight responsibilities in certain areas of risk.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
• Meets with our Chief Executive Officer and other members of the senior management team at quarterly
meetings of our Board, where, among other topics, they discuss risks facing our Company, as well as at such
other times as they deem appropriate.
• Reviews strategic and operational risk in the context of reports from the management team, including data
privacy, information security and cybersecurity, receives reports on all significant committee activities at
each regular meeting, and evaluates the risks inherent in significant transactions.
AUDIT COMMITTEE
ESG AND NOMINATING COMMITTEE
• Assists our Board in fulfilling its oversight
• Assists our Board in fulfilling its oversight
responsibilities with respect to risk
management in the areas of liquidity risk,
internal control over financial reporting and
disclosure controls and procedures, legal
and regulatory compliance, and discusses
with management and the independent
auditor guidelines and policies with respect
to risk assessment, risk management and
risk mitigation.
• Reviews our antifraud programs and controls.
• Reviews our major financial risk exposures and
the steps management has taken to monitor
and control these exposures.
responsibilities with respect to the
management of risk associated with Board
organization, leadership, membership and
structure, and corporate governance.
• Reviews and monitor compliance with
the Company’s Code of Business Conduct
and Ethics.
• Oversees and periodically reviews the
Company’s risks relating to corporate social
responsibility and environmental sustainability.
• Oversees and discusses, as needed, with
management, compliance with applicable laws,
regulations and internal compliance programs.
COMPENSATION AND PEOPLE
COMMITTEE
• Assesses risks created by the incentives inherent
in our compensation programs and policies, and
determines whether they encourage excessive
risk taking.
SECURIT Y COMMITTEE
• Assists our Board in fulfilling its oversight
responsibilities with respect to the
management of risk associated with
cybersecurity, information security and physical
security of Palo Alto Networks.
Responsible for the day-to-day management of risks our Company faces.
MANAGEMENT
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Annual Board and Committee Self-Evaluations
Our Board and each of its committees perform an annual self-assessment to evaluate the effectiveness of our Board
and its committees in fulfilling their respective obligations. As part of this annual self-assessment, directors are able to
provide feedback on the performance of other directors.
Our Lead Independent Director, who is also the Chair of our ESG and Nominating Committee, leads our Board
in its review of the results of the annual self-assessment and takes further action as needed. In connection with
the annual evaluation, each director receives a survey to complete to evaluate the Board and separate surveys
for each committee on which they serve. These surveys include detailed questions regarding: the effectiveness
and performance of the Board and committees; Board and committee composition and refreshment; timing,
agenda, and content of Board and committee meetings; Board dynamics and function; peer reviews of other
members; access to and performance of management; and executive succession planning. At least biennially
our Lead Independent Director also conducts one-on-one meetings with each director to receive their feedback
and assessment of the Board and its committees. A summary of the results is presented to the Board and each
committee on an anonymous basis.
In addition, all members of our Board have the opportunity to attend director education programs to assist them in
remaining current with best practices and developments in corporate governance.
FEEDBACK
INCORPORATED
Policies and practices
updated as appropriate
as a result of the annual
self-assessment and
ongoing feedback
ONGOING
FEEDBACK
Directors are
encouraged to provide
ongoing feedback in
addition to the annual
self-assessment
SELF-ASSESSMENT
QUESTIONNAIRES
Provides director
feedback on the Board
and each of the
Committees as
well as each director
Annual
Self-Assessment
SUMMARY OF
RESULTS
Summary of the Board
and Committee
self-assessment results
provided to each
Committee and
the Board
RESULTS
ANALYZED
Results of the self-
assessment analyzed
by the Lead
Independent Director
INDIVIDUAL
DISCUSSIONS
Lead Independent
Director engages with
individual directors as
appropriate, and at
least biennially
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Corporate Governance
Succession Planning
Our Board and management team recognize the importance of continually developing our talented employee base.
Accordingly, our management team conducts an annual talent review of the current senior leadership positions.
In addition, our Chief Executive Officer annually reviews a succession plan for the Chief Executive Officer position,
using formal criteria to evaluate potential internal and external successors and interim candidates in the event of an
emergency situation. In conducting its evaluation, our Board considers organizational needs, competitive challenges,
leadership and management potential, and development and emergency situations. As a result of succession
planning, BJ Jenkins became our President in August 2021 and Dipak Golechha became Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer in March 2021.
Director Independence
Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”). Under Nasdaq listing standards, independent
directors must comprise a majority of a listed company’s board of directors. In addition, the listing standards of
Nasdaq require that, subject to specified exceptions, each member of a listed company’s audit and compensation
committees be independent, and that the nomination of all directors be by either a majority of its independent
directors or a committee comprised solely of independent directors. Under Nasdaq regulations, a director will only
qualify as an “independent director” if, in the opinion of that listed company’s board of directors, that director does
not have a relationship with the listed company, either directly or indirectly, that would interfere with the exercise of
independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.
Audit committee members must also satisfy the additional independence criteria set forth in Rule 10A-3 under the
Exchange Act and Nasdaq listing standards. In order to be considered independent for purposes of Rule 10A-3, a
member of a listed company’s audit committee may not, other than in his or her capacity as a member of the audit
committee, the board of directors, or any other board committee: (1) accept, directly or indirectly, any consulting,
advisory, or other compensatory fee from the listed company or any of its subsidiaries; or (2) be an affiliated person of
the listed company or any of its subsidiaries.
Compensation committee members must also satisfy the additional independence criteria set forth in Rule 10C-1
under the Exchange Act and Nasdaq listing standards. In order for a member of a listed company’s compensation
committee to be considered independent for purposes of Nasdaq listing standards, the listed company’s board of
directors must consider all factors specifically relevant to determining whether a director has a relationship to the
listed company that is material to that director’s ability to be independent from management in connection with the
duties of a compensation committee member, including, but not limited to: (1) the source of compensation of such
director, including any consulting, advisory, or other compensatory fee paid by the listed company to such director;
and (2) whether such director is affiliated with the listed company, a subsidiary of the listed company, or an affiliate of
a subsidiary of the listed company.
Our Board has undertaken a review of the independence of each of our directors. Based on information provided by
each director concerning his or her background, employment, and affiliations, our Board has determined that each
of Mmes. Bawa, McCarthy and Twohill, Dr. Gayle and each of Messrs. Chandna, Donovan, Eschenbach, Goetz, and the
Rt Hon Sir John Key do not have a material relationship with our Company, either directly or indirectly, that would
interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director and that each
of these directors is “independent” as that term is defined under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and
Nasdaq listing standards. In making these determinations, our Board considered the current and prior relationships
that each non-employee director has with our Company and all other facts and circumstances our Board deemed
relevant in determining their independence, including the beneficial ownership of our common stock by each non-
employee director and the transactions involving them described in the section titled “Related Person Transactions.”
There are no family relationships among any of the Company’s directors or executive officers.
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Communications with the Board of Directors
Interested parties wishing to communicate with our Board or with an individual member or members of our
Board may do so by writing to the Board or to the particular member or members of our Board, and mailing the
correspondence to our General Counsel or our Legal Department, at Palo Alto Networks, Inc., 3000 Tannery Way,
Santa Clara, California 95054. Our General Counsel or our Legal Department, in consultation with appropriate
members of our Board, as necessary, will review all incoming communications and, if appropriate, all such
communications will be forwarded to the appropriate member or members of our Board, or if none is specified, to
the Chair.
Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of
Business Conduct and Ethics
Our Board has adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines. These guidelines address items such as the qualifications
and responsibilities of our directors and director candidates and corporate governance policies and standards
applicable to us in general. In addition, our Board has adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies
to all our employees, officers and directors, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and other
executive and senior financial officers. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines and our Code of Business Conduct and
Ethics are posted on the Investor Information portion of our website at investors.paloaltonetworks.com. We will post
amendments to our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or waivers of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for
directors and executive officers on the same website.
Director Stock Ownership Guidelines
Our Board believes that our directors should hold a meaningful financial stake in our Company in order to further
align their interests with those of our stockholders and therefore adopted stock ownership guidelines in fiscal 2017.
Under the guidelines, each non-employee director must own Company stock with a value of five times the annual
retainer for board service within five years of such director’s initial appointment or election date. All of our non-
employee directors comply with our stock ownership guidelines.
Compensation and People Committee
Interlocks and Insider Participation
None of the members of our Compensation and People Committee is, or has been, an officer or employee of our
Company. None of our executive officers currently serves, or in the past year has served, as a member of the board or
compensation committee (or other board committee performing equivalent functions) of any entity that has one or
more of its executive officers serving on our Board or Compensation and People Committee.
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Voting Roadmap
Voting Roadmap
P R OP OS AL 1
Election of Directors
The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” each of the nominees named below.
Our Board is comprised of 12 members and is divided into three staggered classes of directors. At each annual
meeting of stockholders, a class of directors will be elected for a three-year term to succeed the same class whose
term is then expiring.
The following Class II directors have been nominated for election to the Board at the 2022 annual meeting of
stockholders:
• Dr. Helene D. Gayle
• James J. Goetz
See page 40.
P R OP OS AL 2
Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of
Ernst & Young LLP.
Our Audit Committee has appointed Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), independent registered public accountants, to
audit our financial statements for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2023. EY has served as our independent registered
public accounting firm since 2009.
See page 57.
P R OP OS AL 3
Advisory Vote on the Compensation of our Named
Executive Officers
The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” the approval, on an advisory basis, of the
compensation of our named executive officers.
We are providing our stockholders with the opportunity to vote to approve, on an advisory or non-binding basis,
the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in the “Executive Compensation” section of this
proxy statement.
See page 60.
P R OP OS AL 4
Approve Amendment to Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 2021 Equity
Incentive Plan
The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” the approval of an amendment to our 2021
Equity Incentive Plan to increase plan shares reserved for issuance.
We are asking stockholders to approve an amendment to our equity incentive plan to increase plan shares
reserved for issuance. The ability to grant equity awards is crucial to recruiting and retaining the best personnel.
If stockholders do not approve the amendment to 2021 Equity Incentive Plan at our Annual Meeting, we may be
unable to continue to grant equity awards as needed, which could prevent us from successfully attracting and
retaining the highly skilled talent we need.
See page 98.
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PR OP OS AL NO. 1
Election of Directors
Our Board is comprised of 12 members and is divided into three staggered classes of directors. At each annual
meeting of stockholders, a class of directors will be elected for a three-year term to succeed the same class whose
term is then expiring. Each director’s term continues until the election and qualification of his or her successor, or
such director’s earlier death, resignation, or removal. Any increase or decrease in the number of directors will be
distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of our directors.
This classification of our Board may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control of the Company.
The following Class II directors have been nominated for election to the Board at the Annual Meeting:
• Dr. Helene D. Gayle
• James J. Goetz
Mark McLaughlin and Asheem Chandna will not stand for reelection to the Board of Directors when their terms expire
at the conclusion of our 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Board recognizes the contributions and character
of Mark’s leadership as the company’s chief executive officer from August 2011 until June 2018, and his continued
service on our Board of Directors since then, which have been instrumental in driving the company’s growth and
nurturing our unique culture. Likewise, without Asheem’s technical expertise, financial acumen and, most notably,
keen discernment of emerging technology trends, our transformation into the company we are today would have
been less complete and consequential. On behalf of our employees and the entire Board of Directors, we express our
deep appreciation to Mark and Asheem for their profound impacts on Palo Alto Networks.
The sections titled “Board Skills and Experience Matrix” and “Directors” on pages 42 and 43 of this proxy statement
contain more information about the leadership skills and other experiences that caused the ESG and Nominating
Committee and our Board to determine that these nominees should serve as directors of the Company. Immediately
after the Annual Meeting, it is anticipated that the Board will be comprised of ten members.
Following the Annual Meeting, we expect that our Board will reduce the number of members of the Board from
twelve to ten, and will move a director, who currently serves as a Class I or Class III director, to serve as a Class II in
order to distribute the number of directors among the three classes as evenly as possible.
REQUIRED VOTE
We have implemented a majority voting standard for elections
of directors. Each director nominee will be elected by a vote
of the majority of the votes cast. A majority of the votes cast
means the number of votes cast “For” such nominee’s election
exceeds the number of votes cast “Against” that nominee. You
may vote “For,” “Against,” or “Abstain” with respect to each
director nominee. Broker non-votes and abstentions, if any,
will have no effect on the outcome of the election.
Majority Voting
Standard
In May 2022, adopted
majority voting for
uncontested elections
of directors, including a
resignation policy in the
event a director does
not receive a majority of
the vote.
Pursuant to our Corporate Governance Guidelines, a
director shall promptly tender his or her resignation if he
or she fails to receive the required number of votes for
re-election. The ESG and Nominating Committee will act
on a prompt basis to determine whether to recommend
that our Board accept the director’s resignation and will submit such recommendation for prompt consideration by
our Board. Our Board may accept the resignation, refuse the resignation, or refuse the resignation subject to such
conditions as our Board may impose. The Board will act within 90 days following certification of the stockholder
vote, and will promptly publicly disclose its decision in a filing with the SEC. Additional details about this process
are specified in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, which are available on our Investor Relations website
at https://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
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If you are a stockholder of record and you sign your proxy card or vote by telephone or over the Internet, but do not
give instructions with respect to the voting of directors, your shares will be voted “For” the re-election of Dr. Gayle
and Mr. Goetz. We expect that each of Dr. Gayle and Mr. Goetz will accept such nomination; however, in the event
that a director nominee is unable or declines to serve as a director at the time of the Annual Meeting, the proxies
will be voted for any nominee who shall be designated by our Board to fill such vacancy. If you wish to give specific
instructions with respect to the voting of directors, you may do so by indicating your instructions on the accompanying
proxy card or when you vote by telephone or over the Internet. If you are a street name stockholder and you do not give
voting instructions to your broker or nominee, your shares will not be voted on this matter.
Recommendation of the Board
The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” each of the nominees named above.
Director Tenure and Refreshment
The Board generally believes that a mix of long- and shorter-tenured directors promotes an appropriate balance of
views and insights and allows the Board as a whole to benefit from the historical and institutional knowledge that
longer-tenured directors possess and the fresh perspectives contributed
by newer directors. With the additions of Aparna Bawa, Dr. Helene Gayle,
Lorraine Twohill and Rt Hon Sir John Key in fiscal 2019 through fiscal
2021, we added directors who have brought their experiences and fresh
perspectives to our Board’s deliberations.
DIRECTOR TENURE
As of July 31, 2022, our independent directors will have served an average
of 7.6 years on the Board. Overall, our Board, including both independent
and non-independent directors, will have an average tenure of 8.3 years.
We believe that this mix of tenure on the Board represents a collection of
individuals with both new perspectives and deep institutional knowledge.
Board Diversity
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines embody our Board’s commitment
to actively seek out women and minority candidates as well as candidates
with diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills. Our Board believes
representation of gender, race, ethnic, geographic, cultural or other
diverse perspectives expands the Board’s understanding of the needs
and viewpoints of our customers, partners, employees and other
stakeholders worldwide.
Our directors reflect diverse perspectives, including a complementary
mix of skills, experience and backgrounds that we believe are paramount
to our ability to represent your interests as stockholders. As part of
our ongoing commitment to creating a balanced Board with diverse
viewpoints and deep industry expertise, we added four new independent
directors in fiscal 2019 through fiscal 2021 to infuse new ideas and fresh
perspectives in the boardroom, two of whom were women of color. As of
July 31, 2022, 56% of our independent directors as a group and 50% of our
full Board can be considered diverse based on self-identified demographic
background and 33% of our Board members self-identify as women.
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(independent directors)
8.3 years
(all directors)
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BOARD DIVERSIT Y
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50% of our Board can
be considered diverse
based on self-identified
demographic
background
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Board Skills and Experience Matrix
Our Board has taken a thoughtful approach to board composition to ensure that our directors have backgrounds that
collectively add significant value to the strategic decisions made by the Company and that enable them to provide
oversight of management to ensure accountability to our stockholders. The Board and the ESG and Nominating
Committee believe the skills, qualities, attributes, experience and diversity of backgrounds of our directors provide
us with a diverse range of perspectives to effectively address our evolving needs and represent the best interests of
our stockholders.
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Deep insight in the cybersecurity and IT technology industry to
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Experience in senior leadership positions to analyze, advise and
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Knowledge of financial markets, financing and accounting and
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Diverse backgrounds and experiences provide unique
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Expertise to oversee cybersecurity, privacy, and information
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Sales, marketing, and brand management experience to provide
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Global/International Experience
Experience and knowledge of global operations, business
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Risk Management
Experience in risk oversight and management.
Emerging Technologies and Business Models Experience
Experience identifying and developing emerging technologies
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Experience attracting and retaining top talent to advise
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Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
DIRECTORS
Nominee Directors
Dr. Helene D. Gayle INDEPENDENT
Age: 66
Director Since: 2021
Committee Membership:
ESG and Nominating Committee,
Security Committee
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Organon, The Coca-Cola Company
Skills and Experience:
$
BACKGR OUND
Dr. Helene D. Gayle has served as a member of our Board since May 2021. Dr. Gayle has been President
of Spelman College since July 2022. Prior to this position, Dr. Gayle served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of The Chicago Community Trust, a community foundation dedicated to improving
the Chicago region through strategic grant making, civic engagement and inspiring philanthropy,
from 2017 to 2022. Dr. Gayle previously served as Chief Executive Officer of McKinsey Social Initiative,
an independent non-profit organization, from 2015 to 2017 and as President and Chief Executive
Officer of CARE USA, a leading international humanitarian organization, from 2006 to 2015. From 2001
to 2006, she was an executive in the Global Health program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Gayle began her career in public health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in 1984, and held
positions of increasing responsibility over her 20-year tenure there, ultimately becoming the director
of the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention and achieving the rank of Assistant Surgeon
General and Rear Admiral in the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Gayle earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree in Psychology from Barnard College of Columbia University, an M.D. from University of
Pennsylvania and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves as a
member of the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, and Organon &
Co., a pharmaceutical company. Dr. Gayle previously served as a member of the board of directors of
Colgate-Palmolive Company, a global consumer products company, from 2010 to 2021.
James J. Goetz INDEPENDENT
Age: 56
Director Since: 2005
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
Audit Committee,
Security Committee
Other Current Public
Company Boards: Intel
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Dr. Gayle was selected to
serve on our Board because
of her senior leadership
and chief executive officer
experience and broad
international exposure
and emerging market
experience, as well as her
governmental and non-profit
expertise, risk management
expertise and corporate
governance experience as
a director of private and
public companies.
BACKGR OUND
James J. Goetz has served as a member of our Board since April 2005.
Mr. Goetz has been a managing member of Sequoia Capital Operations,
LLC, a venture capital firm, since June 2004, where he focuses on
cloud, mobile, and enterprise companies. Mr. Goetz currently serves on
the board of directors of Intel Corporation and several privately held
companies. Mr. Goetz has previously served on the boards of directors
of Barracuda Networks, Inc., a data security and storage company from
2009 to 2017, Nimble Storage, Inc., a data storage company, from 2007 to
2017, Jive Software, Inc., a provider of social business software, from 2007
until 2015, and Ruckus Wireless, Inc., a manufacturer of wireless (Wi-Fi)
networking equipment, from 2012 until 2015. Mr. Goetz holds an M.S. in
Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Computer Networking
from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a
concentration in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
QUALIFICATIONS AND E X PERI EN C E
Mr. Goetz was selected to serve on our Board because
of his senior leadership, technology, information
technology (IT), business development and
cybersecurity experience, and knowledge of emerging
technologies, arising from his experience as a partner
of a venture capital firm, where he focuses on cloud
mobile, and enterprise technology investments, as well
as providing guidance and counsel to a wide variety of
internet and technology companies. He also brings his
experience as a senior management leader in network,
data security and storage, software, and manufacturing
companies, through various senior roles and other
board experiences. Mr. Goetz also has extensive public
company board experience.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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2022 Proxy Statement
Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
Continuing Directors
Nikesh Arora
Age: 54
Director Since: 2018
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
None
Other Current Public
Company Boards:
Compagnie Financière Richemont
BACKGR OUND
Nikesh Arora has served as the Chair of our Board and Chief Executive Officer since June 2018. Prior
to joining us, from 2016 through 2018 Mr. Arora was an angel investor and from June 2016 through
December 2017, Mr. Arora served as an advisor to SoftBank Group Corp., a multinational conglomerate
company (“SoftBank”). From July 2015 through June 2016, Mr. Arora served as president and chief
operating officer of SoftBank and from July 2014 through June 2015, Mr. Arora served as vice chair
and chief executive officer of SoftBank Internet and Media, a subsidiary of SoftBank. Prior to SoftBank,
from December 2004 through July 2014, Mr. Arora held multiple senior leadership operating roles at
Google, Inc., including serving as senior vice president and chief business officer, from January 2011
to June 2014. Mr. Arora also serves on the board of Compagnie Financiere Richemont S.A., a public
Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company and is an advisor to Zoom Video Communications,
Inc., a video communications company. Mr. Arora previously served on the boards of Sprint Corp., a
communications services company, from November 2014 to June 2016, Colgate-Palmolive Company,
a worldwide consumer products company focused on the production, distribution and provision of
household, health care and personal care products, from March 2012 to September 2014, SoftBank
from 2014 to 2016, and Yahoo! Japan, an internet company, from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Arora holds an M.S.
in Business Administration from Northeastern University, an M.S. in Finance from Boston College, and
a B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University.
QUALIFICATIO NS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Mr. Arora was chosen to
serve on our Board due to
his leadership skills and
experience as the chief
architect of the Company’s
strategic vision, as well as
his thorough knowledge of
all aspects of our business.
Through his extensive career in
executive leadership, he brings
expertise in leading and
scaling technology businesses,
risk management oversight,
and in-depth knowledge
of the cybersecurity and
technology sectors.
Aparna Bawa INDEPENDENT
Age: 44
Director Since: 2021
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
Audit Committee,
Security Committee, Corporate
Development Committee
Other Current Public
Company Boards: None
BACKGR OUND
Aparna Bawa has served as a member of our Board since May 2021. Ms. Bawa has served as the
Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Legal Officer of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a video
communications company, since May 2020. Ms. Bawa served as Zoom’s Chief Legal Officer from
August 2019 to May 2020, its General Counsel from September 2018 to May 2020 and its Secretary
from December 2018 to November 2020. Prior to Zoom Video Communications, Ms. Bawa served
as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Magento, Inc., an e-commerce platform company,
from June 2017 until its acquisition by Adobe Inc. in June 2018. From November 2012 to May 2017,
Ms. Bawa served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Nimble Storage, Inc., an
enterprise flash storage company, which was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in April 2017.
Ms. Bawa holds a B.Sc. in Accounting from Marquette University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
QUALIFICATIO NS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Ms. Bawa was selected to
serve on our Board due
to her senior leadership
and management
experience at public
technology companies, risk
management oversight
expertise, and legal and
business operations expertise.
She has extensive experience
in technology companies.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
John M. Donovan LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR
Age: 61
Director Since: 2012
Committee Membership:
Compensation and People Committee,
ESG and Nominating Committee (Chair),
Security Committee (Chair), Corporate
Development Committee (Chair)
Skills and Experience:
$
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Lockheed Martin
BACKGR OUND
John M. Donovan has served as a member of our Board since September 2012. Since
May 2019, Mr. Donovan has served as Chair of The President’s National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Mr. Donovan worked at AT&T Inc., a provider
of telecommunication services, since April 2008, first as Chief Technology Officer and
subsequently as Chief Executive Officer—AT&T Communications until his resignation,
effective October 1, 2019. From November 2006 to April 2008, Mr. Donovan was
Executive Vice President of Product, Sales, Marketing and Operations at Verisign.
From November 2000 to November 2006, Mr. Donovan served as Chair and CEO
of inCode Telecom Group Inc., a provider of strategy and consulting services to the
telecommunications industry. Prior to joining inCode, Mr. Donovan was a Partner
with Deloitte Consulting where he was the Americas industry practice director for
telecommunications. Mr. Donovan serves on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin
Corporation, an aerospace, defense and technology company. Mr. Donovan holds a
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from
the University of Minnesota.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Mr. Donovan was selected to serve on
our Board because of his technical
knowledge and extensive business
leadership, management, operations and
risk management oversight experience, as
a result of serving as the Chief Technology
Officer and later the Chief Executive Officer
of AT&T Communications. He is skilled in
overseeing global information, software
development, supply chain, network
operations and big data organizations and
has expertise in cybersecurity, artificial
intelligence and machine learning.
Carl Eschenbach INDEPENDENT
Age: 55
Director Since: 2013
Skills and Experience:
$
BACKGR OUND
Committee Membership:
Security Committee
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Zoom, Workday, Snowflake,
UiPath, Aurora Innovation
Carl Eschenbach has served as a member of our Board since May 2013. Mr. Eschenbach
has been a general partner at Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC, a venture capital firm, since
April 2016. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC, Mr. Eschenbach served as Chief
Operating Officer and President of VMware, Inc., a provider of cloud and virtualization
software and services, a role he held from December 2012 to February 2016. Mr. Eschenbach
previously served as VMware’s President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2012
to December 2012, as VMware’s Co-President, Customer Operations from January 2011
to April 2012 and as VMware’s Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations
from May 2005 to January 2011. Prior to joining VMware in 2002, he was Vice President
of North America Sales at Inktomi from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Eschenbach also held various
sales management positions with 3Com Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc. and EMC.
Mr. Eschenbach also serves on the board of directors of Zoom Video Communications, Inc.,
a video communications company, Workday, Inc., an on-demand financial management
and human capital management software vendor, UiPath, Inc., a robotic process
automation software company, Snowflake Inc., a cloud data platform company, and
Aurora Innovation, a self-driving vehicle technology company. Mr. Eschenbach received an
electronics technician diploma from DeVry University.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Mr. Eschenbach was selected to serve
on our Board because of his extensive
experience in the technology
industry and his previous public
company management experience.
He brings to our Board over 30 years
of operational and sales experience
in the technology industry, and
has extensive experience in risk
management oversight and scaling
large organizations, as well as a
deep knowledge of high-growth
companies. Mr. Eschenbach also
has extensive public company
board experience.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
Right Honorable Sir John Key INDEPENDENT
Committee Membership:
Age: 61
Audit Committee, Compensation
Director Since: 2019
and People Committee (Chair),
Security Committee
Skills and Experience:
$
Other Current Public Company Boards:
ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd, Australia &
New Zealand Banking
Group Ltd
BACKGR OUND
Right Honorable Sir John Key has served as a member of our Board since April 2019.
Sir John was a Member of Parliament for Helensville in New Zealand until April 2017.
Sir John served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from November 2008 to
December 2016 having commenced his political career as a Member of Parliament
for Helensville in July 2002. Prior to his political career, he had a nearly twenty-year
career in international finance, primarily for Bankers Trust of New Zealand and Merrill
Lynch in Singapore, London and Sydney. Sir John serves as the chair and member of
the board of directors of ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd and is a member of the board
of directors of the parent Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, a public bank
that provides various banking and financial products and services and also serves on
the board of directors of several privately held companies. He previously served on
the board of directors of Air New Zealand Limited, a public airline, from 2017 to 2020.
Sir John has a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Canterbury.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Sir John was selected to serve on our Board
due to his global business leadership and
extensive financial, capital markets, and
management expertise as former Prime
Minister of New Zealand, his extensive
background in foreign affairs, and his
career in investment banking and finance.
He brings extensive experience in policy-
making and a global business perspective
from his experience and service on other
boards, which is especially valuable to us as
we grow internationally.
Mary Pat McCarthy INDEPENDENT
Age: 67
Director Since: 2016
Committee Membership:
Audit Committee (Chair), Security Committee,
Corporate Development Committee
Other Current Public Company Boards:
Micron Technology
Skills and Experience:
$
BAC KGR OU ND
Mary Pat McCarthy has served as a member of our Board since October 2016.
Ms. McCarthy, now retired, served as Vice Chair of KPMG LLP, the U.S. member
firm of the global audit, tax and advisory services firm, until 2011 after attaining
such position in 1998. She joined KPMG LLP in 1977 and became a partner in
1987. She held numerous senior leadership positions in the firm, including
Executive Director of the KPMG Audit Committee Institute from 2008 to 2011,
Leader of the KPMG Client Care program from 2007 to 2008, U.S. Leader,
Industries and Markets from 2005 to 2006, and Global Leader, Information,
Communication and Entertainment Practice from 1998 to 2004. Ms. McCarthy
also served on KPMG’s Management and Operations Committees.
Ms. McCarthy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration
from Creighton University and completed the University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School’s KPMG International Development Program. Ms. McCarthy
serves as a director of Micron Technology, Inc., a producer of semiconductor
devices and previously served on the board of directors of Mutual of Omaha,
an insurance company, from 2012 to 2018 and Andeavor Corporation (formerly
Tesoro Corporation), a global energy corporation from 2012 to 2018.
QUALIFICATIONS AND E XPER IEN CE
Ms. McCarthy was selected to serve on our
Board because of her deep technical expertise
in financial and accounting matters from her
experience as the Vice Chair of KPMG LLP,
advising numerous companies on financial and
accounting matters, as well as her leadership
experience as a member of management at
KPMG. She is an “audit committee financial
expert” with over 40 years of experience in finance,
operations and risk management oversight of
technology companies, particularly publicly
traded companies with knowledge of complex
global financial and business matters. In addition,
she brings a global business perspective and
contributes valuable insights and perspectives to
our business and operations from her service on
other boards.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
Lorraine Twohill INDEPENDENT
Age: 51
Director Since: 2019
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
Compensation and People
Committee, ESG and Nominating
Committee, Security Committee
Other Current Public
Company Boards: None
BACKGR OUND
Lorraine Twohill has served as a member of our Board of directors since
April 2019. Ms. Twohill currently serves as Google LLC’s (formerly Google,
Inc.) Chief Marketing Officer, a position she has held since June 2009. From
July 2003 until June 2009, Ms. Twohill served as Google’s Head of Marketing
Europe, Middle East and Africa. Ms. Twohill previously served on the board
of directors of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., a consumer retail company that sells
kitchenwares and home furnishings, from January 2012 until May 2017.
Ms. Twohill holds joint honors degrees in International Marketing and
Languages from Dublin City University.
QUALIFICATIONS AND E X PERI EN C E
Ms. Twohill was selected to serve on our Board due
to her leadership skills and extensive marketing
knowledge, with over 25 years of experience. She
has deep management and business operations
experience, as well as risk management oversight
experience. She provides the Board with valuable
insights into brand management and the global
issues facing technology companies today.
Nir Zuk
Age: 51
Director Since: 2005
Skills and Experience:
Committee Membership:
None
Other Current Public
Company Boards:
None
BACKGR OUND
Nir Zuk is one of our founders and has served as our Chief Technology Officer and
as a member of our Board since March 2005. From April 2004 to March 2005,
Mr. Zuk was Chief Security Technologist at Juniper Networks, Inc., a supplier of
network infrastructure products and services. From September 2002 until its
acquisition by Juniper in April 2004, Mr. Zuk was Chief Technology Officer at
NetScreen Technologies, Inc., a provider of ASIC-based Internet security systems.
In December 1999, Mr. Zuk co-founded OneSecure, Inc., a provider of prevention
and detection appliances, and was Chief Technical Officer until its acquisition
by NetScreen in September 2002. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Zuk served in several
technical roles, including Principal Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd., an enterprise software security company. Mr. Zuk attended Tel Aviv University
where he studied Mathematics.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERIENCE
Mr. Zuk is a co-founder of Palo Alto Networks,
a network security expert and brings a wealth
of network security knowledge and industry
experience to Palo Alto Networks. He brings
business leadership, operational experience,
risk management oversight experience, and
experience developing technology. He has an
in-depth knowledge of the technology and
cybersecurity industries.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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2022 Proxy Statement
Proposal No. 1 Election of Directors
Non-Continuing Directors
Asheem Chandna
Age: 58
Director Since: 2005
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
ESG and Nominating Committee,
Security Committee, Corporate
Development Committee
Other Current Public Company
Boards: None
BAC KGR OU ND
Asheem Chandna has served as a member of our Board since April 2005.
Mr. Chandna has been a Partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm,
since September 2003, where he focuses on investments in enterprise IT,
including security products. From April 2003 to June 2013, Mr. Chandna was a
director of Imperva, Inc., a provider of cyber security solutions. From April 1996
to December 2002, Mr. Chandna was Vice President, Business Development
and Product Management at Check Point Software. Mr. Chandna currently
serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held companies.
Mr. Chandna holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer
Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
QUALIFICATIONS AND E XPER IENCE
Mr. Chandna was selected to serve on our
Board because of his specific experience with
enterprise IT and security products, background
with information technology and cybersecurity
companies, and knowledge of emerging
technologies. He also brings extensive financial and
investment expertise as a venture capitalist, where
he focuses investments in enterprise IT. He also
brings perspective from his service on other public
and private company boards.
Mark D. McLaughlin
Age: 56
Director Since: 2011
Skills and Experience:
$
Committee Membership:
Corporate
Development Committee
Other Current Public
Company Boards: Qualcomm
BACKGR OUND
Mark D. McLaughlin has served as our Vice Chair since June 2018, and has been a member of
our board of directors since August 2011. During that period, from April 2012 until June 2018 he
served as Chair of our board of directors. Mr. McLaughlin served as our Chief Executive Officer
from August 2011 until June 2018 and also served as President from August 2011 through
August 2016. From August 2009 through July 2011, Mr. McLaughlin served as President and
Chief Executive Officer and as a director at VeriSign, Inc., a provider of Internet infrastructure
services, and from January 2009 to August 2009, Mr. McLaughlin served as President and Chief
Operating Officer at VeriSign. From February 2000 through November 2007, Mr. McLaughlin
served in several roles at VeriSign, including as Executive Vice President, Products and Marketing.
Prior to joining VeriSign, Mr. McLaughlin was Vice President, Sales and Business Development
at Signio Inc., an Internet payments company acquired by VeriSign in February 2000. In
January 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Mr. McLaughlin to serve on the President’s
National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Mr. McLaughlin currently serves on,
and is the Chair of, the board of directors of Qualcomm, Inc., a global semiconductor company
that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services, and previously
served on the board of directors of Opower, Inc., a provider of cloud based software to the utility
industry, from 2013 to 2016. Mr. McLaughlin holds a B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point and a J.D. from Seattle University School of Law.
QUALIFICATIONS
AND E XPERI ENCE
Mr. McLaughlin was selected to
serve on our Board because of
his perspective and experience
as our former Chief Executive
Officer, and his operational and
management experience at
several technology companies.
He has an extensive background
in the technology industry
and risk oversight expertise.
Mr. McLaughlin also served as
Chair of The President’s National
Security Telecommunications
Advisory Committee and
serves as Chair of a large global
semiconductor company.
Industry and IT/Technical
Senior Leadership
$ Financial
Diverse Backgrounds
and Experiences
Cybersecurity
Sales, Marketing and
Brand Management
Global/International
Governance, Risk Oversight
and Compliance
Emerging Technologies
and Business Models
Human Capital Management
Public Company Board Experience
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The demographic information presented below for our directors is based on voluntary self-identification by each
director. Each of the categories listed in the below table has the meaning as it is used in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5605(f).
Additional biographical information of our directors and executive officers as of July 31, 2022 is set forth above.
BOARD DIVERSIT Y MATRIX (AS OF NOVEMBER 3, 2022)
Total Number of Directors
12
Female Male
Non-Binary
Did Not
Disclose Gender
Part I: Gender Identity
Directors
Part II: Demographic Background
African American or Black
Alaskan Native or Native American
Asian
Hispanic or Latinx
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
White
Two or More Races or Ethnicities
LGBTQ+
Did Not Disclose Demographic Background
4
1
0
1
0
0
2
0
8
0
0
2
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Board Committees and Responsibilities
Our Board has a standing Audit Committee, Compensation and People Committee, Corporate Development
Committee, ESG and Nominating Committee and Security Committee, which have the composition and
responsibilities described below. Directors serve on these committees until their resignation or until otherwise
determined by our Board.
The membership and meetings during fiscal 2022 and the primary functions of each of the standing committees are
described below.
Board of Directors
Nikesh Arora
Aparna Bawa*
Asheem Chandna*
John M. Donovan*
Carl Eschenbach*
Dr. Helene D. Gayle*
James J. Goetz*
Rt Hon Sir John Key*
Mary Pat McCarthy*
Mark D. McLaughlin
Lorraine Twohill*
Nir Zuk
$
Member
Committee Chair
* Independent Director
$ Financial Expert
Audit
Committee
Compensation
and People
Committee
Corporate
Development
Committee
ESG and
Nominating
Committee
Security
Committee
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Audit
Committee
Chair:
Mary Pat McCarthy
Members:
Aparna Bawa
James J. Goetz
Right Honorable
Sir John Key
Number of meetings in
fiscal 2022: 7
Our Audit Committee is responsible for, among other things:
• selecting and hiring our
independent registered public
accounting firm, including leading
the review and selection of the
lead audit engagement partner;
• evaluating the performance and
independence of our independent
registered public accounting firm;
• approving the audit and pre-
approving any non-audit
services to be performed by our
independent registered public
accounting firm;
• reviewing our financial statements
and related disclosures and
reviewing our critical accounting
policies and practices;
• reviewing and participating in
the selection of our chief audit
executive and periodically
reviewing the activities and reports
of the internal audit function and
any major issues encountered in
the course of the internal audit
function’s work;
• reviewing the adequacy and
effectiveness of our internal
control policies and procedures
and our disclosure controls
and procedures;
• overseeing procedures for the
treatment of complaints on
accounting, internal accounting
controls, or audit matters;
• reviewing and discussing
with management and the
independent registered public
accounting firm the results of
our annual audit, our quarterly
financial statements, and our
publicly filed periodic reports;
• reviewing and approving or
ratifying any proposed related
person transactions; and
• preparing the Audit Committee
report that the SEC requires in our
annual proxy statement.
The composition of our Audit Committee meets the requirements for independence for audit committee members
under the listing standards of Nasdaq and the rules and regulations of the SEC. Each member of our Audit
Committee also meets the financial literacy and sophistication requirements of the listing standards of Nasdaq. In
addition, our Board has determined that Ms. McCarthy is an “audit committee financial expert” within the meaning of
the rules and regulations of the SEC.
Our Audit Committee operates under a written charter that was adopted by our Board and satisfies the applicable
rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing standards of Nasdaq. A copy of the charter of our Audit Committee is
available on our website at http://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
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Compensation
and People
Committee
Chair:
Right Honorable
Sir John Key
Members:
John M. Donovan
Lorraine Twohill
Number of meetings in
fiscal 2022: 9
Our Compensation and People Committee is responsible for, among other things:
• reviewing and approving
our Chief Executive Officer’s
and other executive officers’
annual base salaries, incentive
compensation arrangements,
including the specific goals and
amounts, equity compensation,
employment agreements,
severance arrangements and
change in control agreements, and
any other benefits, compensation
or arrangements;
• establishing and administering our
equity compensation plans;
• preparing the Compensation and
People Committee report that
the SEC requires to accompany
the Compensation Discussion
and Analysis contained in this
proxy statement;
• overseeing our talent management
and people management,
including the Company’s inclusion
and diversity initiatives and results,
the Company’s pay equity reviews
and results, and the Company’s
FLEXLearning, FLEXBenefits and
FLEXWORK initiatives; and
• overseeing our overall
• reviewing and discussing with
compensation philosophy and
compensation plans;
management the risks arising from
the Company’s compensation
philosophy and practices
applicable to employees to
mitigate such risks.
The composition of our Compensation and People Committee meets the requirements for independence for
Compensation Committee members under the listing standards of Nasdaq and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
Each member of our Compensation and People Committee is also a “non-employee director,” as defined pursuant to
Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act, and an “outside director,” as defined pursuant to Section 162(m) of
the Internal Revenue Code.
Our Compensation and People Committee operates under a written charter that was adopted by our Board and
satisfies the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and the listing standards of Nasdaq. A copy of the charter of
our Compensation and People Committee is available on our website at http://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
Our Compensation and People Committee may form subcommittees for any purpose and may delegate to such
subcommittees such power and authority as our Compensation and People Committee deems appropriate, except
such power or authority required by law, regulation or listing standard to be exercised by our Compensation and
People Committee as a whole.
Corporate
Development
Committee
Chair:
John M. Donovan
Members:
Aparna Bawa
Asheem Chandna
Mary Pat McCarthy
Mark McLaughlin
Our Corporate Development Committee is responsible for, among other things:
• assisting the Board in fulfilling its responsibilities relating to the
review, evaluation, and approval of certain acquisitions and strategic
investment transactions;
• reviewing proposed acquisition and investment strategies with
management; and
• reporting to the Board the Committee’s approval or recommendation of
acquisitions or investment transactions and of such activity in general.
Our Corporate Development Committee operates under a written charter that was adopted by our Board.
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ESG and
Nominating
Committee
Chair:
John M. Donovan
Members:
Asheem Chandna
Dr. Helene D. Gayle
Lorraine Twohill
Number of meetings in
fiscal 2022: 4
Our ESG and Nominating Committee is responsible for, among other things:
•
identifying and evaluating
individuals who are qualified to
become members of the board
of directors and selecting and
recommending to the Board
individuals as director nominees
and appointments to the board
of directors;
• evaluating and making
recommendations regarding
the composition, organization,
and governance of our board of
directors and its committees,
including issues of integrity,
experience, expertise and diversity
of membership;
• considering board of director
leadership structure, including
the separation of the chairperson
and chief executive officer roles
and the appointment of a lead
independent director and making
recommendations to the board
of directors;
• evaluating and making
recommendations regarding the
creation of additional committees
or the change in mandate or
dissolution of committees;
• reviewing and making
recommendations with regard
to our corporate governance
guidelines and compliance with
laws and regulations;
• reviewing and approving conflicts
of interest of our directors and
corporate officers, other than
related person transactions
reviewed by our Audit Committee;
• overseeing our annual board
of director and committee
self-assessment process;
• overseeing our succession
planning process for the chief
executive officer and members of
the management team; and
• overseeing our ESG efforts and
related policies and programs.
The composition of our ESG and Nominating Committee meets the requirements for independence under the listing
standards of Nasdaq and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
In February 2022, we reconstituted our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee as the ESG and
Nominating Committee to enhance our focus on ESG matters, giving it oversight of our ESG strategies and initiatives,
including our short- and long-term goals, and to reinforce the important role that ESG practices play in our business.
The ESG and Nominating Committee is responsible for setting our ESG priorities, and monitors our performance. The
ESG and Nominating Committee receives regular updates on priority ESG issues, including information on actions
and progress toward goals.
Our ESG and Nominating Committee operates under a written charter that was adopted by our Board and satisfies
the applicable listing standards of Nasdaq. A copy of the charter of our ESG and Nominating Committee is available
on our website at http://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
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Security
Committee
Chair:
John M. Donovan
Members:
Aparna Bawa
Asheem Chandna
Carl Eschenbach
Dr. Helene D. Gayle
James J. Goetz
Rt Hon Sir John Key
Mary Pat McCarthy
Lorraine Twohill
Number of meetings in
fiscal 2022: 2
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Our Security Committee is responsible for, among other things:
• overseeing (i) our policies, plans,
metrics and programs relating
to the physical security of our
facilities and employees, and
enterprise cybersecurity and data
protection risks associated with
our security-related infrastructure
and related operations, and (ii) the
effectiveness of our programs and
practices for identifying, assessing
and mitigating such risks across
our business operations;
• overseeing our cyber crisis
preparedness, security breach
and incident response plans,
communication plans, and
disaster recovery and business
continuity capabilities;
• overseeing the safeguards used
to protect the confidentiality,
integrity, availability, safety and
resiliency of the Company’s
employees, facilities, intellectual
property and business operations;
• reviewing and discussing with
management the cybersecurity
risks associated with our outside
partners (such as vendors,
suppliers, operations partners, etc.);
• overseeing our compliance with
applicable information security
and data protection laws and
industry standards, new or
updated legal implications of
security, data privacy, or other
regulatory or compliance risks
to us or our employees, facilities
and business operations and
the threat landscape facing our
business operations;
• reviewing and advising on our
physical and cybersecurity strategy,
crisis or incident management
and security-related information
technology planning processes
and review strategy for investing in
our security systems; and
• reviewing and discussing
with management our public
disclosures relating to the
Company’s security of its
employees, facilities and
information technology systems,
including privacy, network security
and data security.
In November 2021, our Board formed the Security Committee to facilitate Board oversight of security issues, including
product security, data security, cybersecurity, security risk management, risk exposure and related controls and
enterprise risk management related to these risks.
Our Security Committee operates under a written charter that was adopted by our Board. A copy of the charter of our
Security Committee is available on our website at http://investors.paloaltonetworks.com.
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Director Compensation
Our ESG and Nominating Committee has approved a policy for the compensation of the non-employee members of
our Board (the “Director Compensation Policy”) to attract, retain and reward these individuals and align their financial
interests with those of our stockholders. Only non-employee directors who are not affiliated with investment funds
that hold shares of our common stock are eligible for compensation under the Director Compensation Policy. There is
no cash compensation paid under the Director Compensation Policy.
Initial Award. Under the Director Compensation Policy, when an eligible director initially joins our Board, the eligible
director receives an initial award of restricted stock units having a value of $1 million (as determined based on the
average closing price of our common stock on Nasdaq during the 30 calendar days prior to fifteenth day of the month
in which the grant is made). This initial award will vest as to one third of the shares covered by the restricted stock unit
award on the first anniversary of the date the eligible director joined our board of directors, and the remaining shares
will vest quarterly over the following two years, subject to the director’s continued service as of each such date.
Annual Award. Under the Director Compensation Policy, at each annual meeting of stockholders, each eligible
director receives an annual restricted stock unit award having a value equal to $300,000 (as determined based on the
average closing price of our common stock on Nasdaq during the 30 calendar days ending on the date of the annual
meeting). In addition, at each annual meeting of stockholders, our Lead Independent Director receives an additional
annual restricted stock unit award having a value equal to $50,000 (as determined based on the average closing price
of our common stock on Nasdaq during the 30 calendar days ending on the date of the annual meeting). All annual
awards, including the annual awards to the Lead Independent Director, will vest quarterly over a period of one year,
subject to the director’s continued service as of each such date.
Committee Awards. At each annual meeting of stockholders, the chairpersons and members of the five standing
committees of our Board will receive additional annual restricted stock unit awards for committee service having
the following values (as determined based on the average closing price of our common stock on Nasdaq during the
30 calendar days ending on the date of the annual meeting):
Board Committee(1)
Audit Committee
Compensation and People Committee
ESG and Nominating Committee
Security Committee
Chairperson
Retainer
$35,000
$25,000
$15,000
$50,000
Member
Retainer
$20,000
$15,000
$10,000
$50,000
(1) No additional compensation is paid for serving on the Corporate Development Committee.
Any eligible director who serves as chairperson of a committee is not entitled to a member retainer for the same
committee. The committee awards will vest quarterly over a period of one year, subject to the director’s continued
service as of each such date.
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Fiscal 2022 Director Compensation Table
The following table presents summary information regarding the compensation paid to our non-employee directors
for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
Director
Aparna Bawa(2)
Asheem Chandna(3)
John M. Donovan(3)
Carl Eschenbach(3)
Dr. Helene D. Gayle(4)
James J. Goetz(5)
Rt Hon Sir John Key(3)
Mary Pat McCarthy(3)
Mark D. McLaughlin(6)
Lorraine Twohill(3)
Stock Awards(1)
Total
—
—
$347,988 $347,988
$415,638 $415,638
$338,763 $338,763
—
—
$381,813 $381,813
$372,588 $372,588
—
$362,338 $362,338
—
—
—
(1) The amounts reported in this column represent the aggregate grant date fair value of these restricted stock units (“RSUs”)
as computed in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718,
Compensation—Stock Compensation, or ASC Topic 718. The assumptions used in the valuation of these awards are set forth in the
notes to our consolidated financial statements, which are included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended
July 31, 2022. These amounts do not necessarily correspond to the actual value that may be recognized by the director upon the
vesting of such awards.
(2) Ms. Bawa received an initial equity award upon her appointment to the Board in May 2021, which was reported in our fiscal 2021
proxy statement. Pursuant to our director compensation policy, she will first be eligible to receive equity grants equal to the value
of the annual board and committee stock awards, at the upcoming Annual Meeting. As of July 31, 2022, Ms. Bawa held 5,697 RSUs
(as adjusted for the three-for-one stock split effected in the form of a stock dividend in September 2022, or the “Stock Split”).
(3) As of July 31, 2022, Mr. Chandna held 1,017 RSUs, Mr. Donovan held 1,215 RSUs, Mr. Eschenbach held 990 RSUs, Rt Hon Sir John Key
held 1,116 RSUs, Ms. McCarthy held 1,089 RSUs and Ms. Twohill held 1,059 RSUs (as adjusted for the Stock Split).
(4) Dr. Gayle received an initial equity award upon her appointment to the Board in May 2021, which was reported in our fiscal 2021
proxy statement. Pursuant to our director compensation policy, she will first be eligible to receive equity grants equal to the value
of the annual board and committee stock awards at the upcoming Annual Meeting. As of July 31, 2022, Dr. Gayle held 5,778 RSUs
(as adjusted for the Stock Split).
(5) Mr. Goetz receives no compensation under the Director Compensation Policy.
(6) Mr. McLaughlin received no compensation for his services as a director. For the compensation paid to him as an employee, see
“Related Person Transactions.”
Identification and Evaluation of
Director Nominees
Our ESG and Nominating Committee uses a variety of methods for identifying and evaluating director nominees. The
ESG and Nominating Committee regularly assess the appropriate size, composition and needs of our Board and its
respective committees, and the qualification of candidates considering these needs. Some of the qualifications that
our ESG and Nominating Committee considers include issues of character, integrity, judgment, diversity (including
gender and race), experience of relevance to us and the Board, independence, age, area of expertise, potential
conflicts of interest and other commitments. These factors may be weighted differently depending on the individual
being considered or the needs of the Board at the time.
Nominees must also be able to offer advice and guidance to our Chief Executive Officer based on past experience
in positions with a high degree of responsibility and be leaders in the companies or institutions with which they
are affiliated. Director candidates must have sufficient time available in the judgment of our ESG and Nominating
Committee to perform all Board and committee responsibilities. Members of our Board are expected to prepare for,
attend, and actively participate in all Board and applicable committee meetings.
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Other than the foregoing, there are no stated minimum criteria for director nominees, although our ESG and
Nominating Committee may also consider such other factors as it may deem, from time to time, are in our and our
stockholders’ best interests. Our ESG and Nominating Committee will also seek appropriate input from our Chief
Executive Officer, from time to time, in assessing the needs of our Board for relevant background, experience, diversity
and skills of its members.
Our ESG and Nominating Committee considers diversity (whether based on broader principles such as diversity of
perspective, experiences, and expertise, as well as factors commonly associated with diversity such as gender, race or
national origin) in connection with its evaluation of director candidates, including the evaluation and determination
of whether to re-nominate incumbent directors. The committee also considers these and other factors as it oversees
the annual Board and committee evaluations. The committee seeks qualified and diverse director candidates,
including women and individuals from minority groups, to include in the pool from which director candidates are
chosen. Any search firm retained by the committee to find director candidates would be instructed to account for
these considerations, including diversity.
Stockholder Recommendations for Nominations to the
Board of Directors
Our ESG and Nominating Committee will consider candidates for director recommended by stockholders, so long as
such recommendations comply with our certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws and applicable
laws, rules and regulations, including those promulgated by Nasdaq and the SEC. The ESG and Nominating
Committee will evaluate the recommendations in accordance with its charter, our amended and restated bylaws,
our policies and procedures for director candidates, as well as the regular director nominee criteria described above.
This process is designed to ensure that our Board includes members with diverse backgrounds, skills and experience,
including appropriate financial and other expertise relevant to our business. Eligible stockholders wishing to
recommend a candidate for nomination should contact our Corporate Secretary in writing. Such recommendations
must include information about the candidate, a statement of support by the recommending stockholder, evidence
of the recommending stockholder’s ownership of our common stock and a signed letter from the candidate
confirming willingness to serve on our Board. Our ESG and Nominating Committee has discretion to decide which
individuals to recommend for nomination as directors.
Director Attendance
During our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, the Board held five meetings (including regularly scheduled and special
meetings), and no director attended fewer than 75% of the total number of meetings of the Board and the
committees of which he or she was a member.
Although we do not have a formal policy regarding attendance by members of our Board at annual meetings of
stockholders, we encourage, but do not require, our directors to attend. Eleven of our twelve directors attended our
2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, either telephonically or by video conference.
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Proposal No. 2 Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm
PR OP OS AL NO. 2
Ratification of Appointment of
Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
Our Audit Committee has appointed Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), independent registered public accountants, to audit
our financial statements for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2023. EY has served as our independent registered public
accounting firm since 2009.
At the Annual Meeting, our stockholders are being asked to ratify the appointment of EY as our independent
registered public accounting firm for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2023. Our Audit Committee is submitting the
selection of EY to our stockholders because we value our stockholders’ views on our independent registered public
accounting firm and as a matter of good corporate governance. Representatives of EY will be present at the Annual
Meeting, and they will have an opportunity to make statements and will be available to respond to appropriate
questions from our stockholders.
Notwithstanding the selection of EY and even if our stockholders ratify the selection, our Audit Committee, in
its discretion, may appoint another independent registered public accounting firm at any time during our fiscal
year if our Audit Committee believes that such a change would be in the best interests of Palo Alto Networks and
its stockholders. If our stockholders do not ratify the appointment of EY, our Audit Committee may reconsider
the appointment.
Fees Paid to the Independent Registered Public
Accounting Firm
The following table presents fees for professional audit services and other services rendered to our Company by EY for
our fiscal years ended July 31, 2021 and 2022.
Audit Fees(1)
Audit-Related Fees(2)
Tax Fees(3)
All Other Fees(4)
2021
2022
$6,757,000
688,000
1,020,000
4,000
$8,469,000
$6,139,000
—
477,000
5,000
$6,621,000
(1) Audit fees consist of professional services rendered in connection with (a) the audit of our annual consolidated financial
statements, including audited financial statements presented in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, (b) review of our quarterly
consolidated financial statements presented in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, (c) professional services provided for new and
existing statutory audits of subsidiaries or affiliates of the Company, and (d) other regulatory filings.
(2) Audit-Related fees consist of fees for professional services for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the
performance of the audit or review of our consolidated financial statements and are not reported under “Audit Fees.” These
services include acquisition due diligence services, technical accounting guidance and other attestation services.
(3) Tax Fees consist of fees for professional services for federal, state and international tax compliance and tax planning.
(4) All Other Fees includes fees for professional services other than these services reported above. These services specifically relate to
subscriptions to an accounting regulatory database.
Auditor Independence
In our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, there were no other professional services provided by EY that would have
required our Audit Committee to consider their compatibility with maintaining the independence of EY.
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Audit Committee Policy on Pre-Approval of
Audit and Permissible Non-Audit Services of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consistent with requirements of the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”)
regarding auditor independence, our Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, compensation and
oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm. In recognition of this responsibility,
our Audit Committee has established a policy for the pre-approval of all audit and permissible non-audit services
provided by our independent registered public accounting firm. These services may include audit services, audit-
related services, tax services and other services.
Before engagement of the independent registered public accounting firm for the next year’s audit, the independent
registered public accounting firm submits a detailed description of services expected to be rendered during that year
for each of the following categories of services to our Audit Committee for approval:
• Audit services. Audit services include work performed for the audit of our financial statements and the review
of financial statements included in our quarterly reports, as well as subsidiary audits, equity investment audits
and other procedures required to be performed by the independent auditor to be able to form an opinion on our
consolidated financial statements.
• Audit-related services. Audit-related services are for assurance and related services that are (1) reasonably related
to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements (2) are traditionally performed by our
independent registered public accounting firm and (3) not covered above under “audit services.”
• Tax services. Tax services include all services performed by the independent registered public accounting firm’s tax
personnel for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.
• Other services. Other services are those services not described in the other categories.
Our Audit Committee pre-approves particular services or categories of services on a case-by-case basis. The fees are
budgeted, and our Audit Committee requires our independent registered public accounting firm and management
to report actual fees versus budgeted fees periodically throughout the year by category of service. During the year,
circumstances may arise when it may become necessary to engage the independent registered public accounting
firm for additional services not contemplated in the original pre-approval. In those instances, (a) if the additional
services do not require specific approval by the Audit Committee, a detailed description of the services will be
submitted to the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer, who will determine whether such services are
included within the list of services that have received the general pre-approval of the Audit Committee and the Audit
Committee will be informed on a timely basis of any such services rendered by the independent auditor, or (b) if the
additional services require specific approval by the Audit Committee, they will be submitted for pre-approval to the
Audit Committee by both the independent auditor and the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer, and
shall only be submitted if the independent auditor and such officer mutually agree that the request or application
is consistent with the SEC’s rules on auditor independence. All fees paid to EY for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022
were pre-approved by our Audit Committee.
Required Vote
The ratification of the appointment of EY as our independent registered public accounting firm requires the
affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the Annual Meeting
and entitled to vote thereon. Abstentions are treated as shares present virtually or by proxy and entitled to vote at the
Annual Meeting and, therefore, will have the same effect as a vote “Against” this proposal. Any broker non-votes will
have no effect on the outcome of the vote.
Recommendation of the Board
The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of
Ernst & Young LLP.
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Report of the Audit Committee
The Audit Committee consists of Mmes. Bawa and McCarthy, Mr. Goetz and the Rt Hon Sir John Key. Each member
of the committee is an independent director as required by the listing standards of Nasdaq and rules and regulations
of the SEC. The Audit Committee operates under a written charter approved by the Board, which is available on the
Investor Information portion of our website at https://investors.paloaltonetworks.com/. The composition of the Audit
Committee, the attributes of its members and the responsibilities of the Audit Committee, as reflected in its charter,
are intended to be in accordance with applicable requirements for corporate audit committees. The Audit Committee
reviews and assesses the adequacy of its charter and the Audit Committee’s performance on an annual basis.
The Audit Committee assists our Board in the Board’s oversight and monitoring of:
• our accounting and financial reporting processes and internal controls as well as the audit and integrity of our
financial statements;
• the qualifications, independence and performance of our independent registered public accounting firm;
• the performance of our internal audit function;
• our compliance with applicable law; and
• risk assessment and risk management pertaining to financial, accounting and tax matters of the Company.
With respect to the Company’s financial reporting process, the management of the Company is responsible for (1)
establishing and maintaining internal controls and (2) preparing the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Our independent registered public accounting firm, EY, is responsible for auditing these financial statements. It is the
responsibility of the Audit Committee to oversee these activities. It is not the responsibility of the Audit Committee to
prepare or certify our financial statements or guarantee the audits or reports of the independent auditors. These are
the fundamental responsibilities of management and our independent registered public accounting firm.
The Audit Committee is responsible for the appointment, compensation, retention, and oversight of the work
performed by EY. In fulfilling its oversight responsibility, the Audit Committee carefully reviews the policies and
procedures for the engagement of the independent registered public accounting firm, including the scope of the
audit, audit fees, auditor independence matters, performance of the independent auditors, and the extent to which
the independent registered public accounting firm may be retained to perform non-audit services.
In the performance of its oversight function, the Audit Committee has:
• reviewed and discussed the audited financial statements with management and EY;
• discussed with EY the applicable requirements of the PCAOB and the SEC; and
• received the written disclosures and the letter from EY required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB
regarding the independent accountant’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence,
and has discussed with EY its independence.
Based on the Audit Committee’s review and discussions with management and EY, the Audit Committee
recommended to the Board that the audited financial statements be included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, for filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Respectfully submitted by the members of the Audit Committee of the Board:
Mary Pat McCarthy (Chair)
Aparna Bawa
James J. Goetz
Rt Hon Sir John Key
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Advisory Vote on the Compensation
of our Named Executive Officers
We are providing our stockholders with the opportunity to vote to approve, on an advisory or non-binding basis, the
compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC
in the “Executive Compensation” section of this Proxy Statement. This proposal, commonly known as a “say-on-pay”
proposal, gives our stockholders the opportunity to express their views on our named executive officers’ compensation
as a whole. This vote is not intended to address any specific item of compensation or any specific named executive
officer, but rather the overall compensation of our named executive officers and the philosophy, policies and practices
described in this Proxy Statement.
The say-on-pay vote is advisory, and therefore is not binding on us, our Compensation and People Committee or
our Board. The say-on-pay vote will, however, provide information to us regarding stockholder sentiment about our
executive compensation philosophy, policies and practices, which our Compensation and People Committee will be
able to consider when determining executive compensation for the remainder of the current fiscal year and beyond.
Our Board and our Compensation and People Committee value the opinions of our stockholders and to the extent
there is any significant vote against the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy
statement, we will endeavor to communicate with stockholders to better understand the concerns that influenced
the vote and our Compensation and People Committee will evaluate whether any actions are necessary to address
those concerns. We currently conduct advisory votes on our named executive officer compensation on an annual
basis, and we expect to conduct our next advisory vote at our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
As a result of the feedback that we received from our stockholders through our extensive engagement efforts, our
Compensation and People Committee made extensive changes to our executive compensation program. We believe
that the information we have provided in this “Executive Compensation” section, and in particular the information
discussed in the sections titled “Executive Compensation—Letter from our Compensation and People Committee”
and “Executive Compensation—Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” which describe these changes in detail,
demonstrates that our executive compensation program has been designed appropriately and is working to ensure
management’s interests are aligned with our stockholders’ interests to support long-term value creation. Accordingly,
we ask our stockholders to vote “FOR” the following resolution at the Annual Meeting:
“RESOLVED, that Palo Alto Networks, Inc.’s stockholders approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of
the named executive officers, as disclosed in Palo Alto Networks, Inc.’s proxy statement for the 2022 Annual
Meeting of Stockholders pursuant to the compensation disclosure rules and regulations of the SEC, including
the compensation discussion and analysis, the compensation tables and narrative discussion, and other
related disclosure.”
Required Vote
The approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers requires the affirmative
vote of a majority of the shares of our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the virtual Annual Meeting
and entitled to vote thereon to be approved. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” with respect to this proposal.
Abstentions are considered votes present and entitled to vote on this proposal, and thus will have the same effect as
votes “against” this proposal. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal.
Although the advisory vote is non-binding, our Board values our stockholders’ opinions. The Compensation and
People Committee will review the results of the vote and, consistent with our record of stockholder responsiveness,
consider stockholders’ concerns and take into account the outcome of the vote when considering future decisions
concerning our executive compensation program.
Recommendation of the Board
The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the approval, on an advisory basis, of the
compensation of our named executive officers.
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Letter from our Compensation and
People Committee
November 3, 2022
Dear Fellow Stockholders,
The Compensation and People Committee of the Palo Alto Networks Board of Directors is committed to ensuring
that we have the right leadership team in place, and that our compensation programs appropriately compensate our
executives, allowing us to retain and attract individuals of outstanding character and ability who are champions of our
culture and mission. As a committee, we strongly believe in, and are committed to, executing a pay-for-performance
compensation philosophy that closely aligns executive compensation to our financial and operational performance.
Fiscal 2022 was once again a year marked by disruption and uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to
create significant global economic and social uncertainty, as new variants of the disease disrupted workplaces and
contributed to organizational disruption. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other geopolitical tensions disrupted the
global economy, and contributed to global economic uncertainty. Our management team once again embraced
these challenges by mobilizing our people and resources to keep our employees healthy, safe and professionally
fulfilled, while delivering very strong financial and operational performance.
We believe that Palo Alto Networks is at an inflection point in our mission to be the cybersecurity partner of choice.
In speaking for the entire Board, we believe that Nikesh Arora is one of only a few leaders who can deliver the level
of performance critical to our successful accomplishment of the next phase of our growth. Further, we believe that
Nikesh has built a strong management team that we are committed to retaining because we also believe that
continuity of our leadership team is critical to reaching our goals.
Consistent with our pay-for-performance philosophy, we designed our fiscal 2022 executive compensation program
to provide strong rewards for strong performance. In designing the program, we sought the advice of independent
compensation consultants, and carefully evaluated and tied program parameters to metrics that we believe
significantly impact long-term value and return for our stockholders and other stakeholders.
• Paid For Performance Based on Aggressive Targets: We set our executive cash incentive and performance stock
unit (“PSU”) award targets above the guidance we provided in our August 23, 2021 earnings release, which aligns
with our pay-for-performance philosophy of requiring strong performance for strong rewards.
• Adopted Multiple Year Measurement Period: 100% of fiscal 2022 named executive officer equity awards are
performance based, require sustained performance over multiple years for any payout, and include a relative total
stockholder return multiplier in addition to financial metrics, which aligns a significant portion of our executive
compensation to long-term financial performance.
• Eliminated Duplicative Metrics: We eliminated duplicative performance metrics in our cash incentive plan and
PSU awards, ensuring alignment of compensation with a broader set of financial performance metrics.
• Tied Compensation to ESG Goals: We added an ESG modifier to our cash incentive plan to ensure a linkage
between compensation and our ESG goals, which provided for the calculated result to be adjusted up or down by
up to 10% based on an ESG scorecard with climate, inclusion and diversity, and human capital metrics.
• Implemented a One Year Holding Policy: We implemented a policy requiring our name executive officers to hold
all net shares for one year following vesting, subject to certain exceptions.
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We are confident that our 2022 executive compensation program delivers on the commitments we made to our
stockholders in our 2021 proxy statement.
We are again asking for your support of our executive compensation program. After gathering extensive feedback
from stockholders and engaging an independent consulting firm, we believe that our Compensation and People
Committee has implemented a sustainable, best-in-class program that is supported by market benchmarks aligned
with best practices and the interests of our shareholders.
Thank you for your continued support and investment in Palo Alto Networks.
Sincerely,
The Compensation and People Committee
Rt Hon Sir John Key (Chair)
John Donovan
Lorraine Twohill
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Executive Compensation
Compensation Discussion and Analysis
This Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“CD&A”) describes in detail our executive compensation programs and
the resulting pay decisions for our named executive officers (“NEOs”).
Our Compensation and People Committee believes that the fiscal 2022 compensation of our NEOs is commensurate
with our size and performance, the significant scope of their roles and responsibilities, and their strong leadership in a
manner consistent with our corporate values of disruption, collaboration, execution, integrity and inclusion.
Named Executive Officers
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive
Officer, Chair of
the Board
Dipak Golechha
Executive Vice
President, Chief
Financial Officer
William “BJ”
Jenkins
President*
Lee Klarich
Executive Vice
President, Chief
Product Officer
Nir Zuk
Executive Vice
President,
Founder, Chief
Technology
Officer
* Mr. Jenkins was appointed President in August 2021.
CD& A HIGHLIGHTS
• Our employees, led by our NEOs, continued to deliver strong financial results for our stockholders in
fiscal 2022.
• Our financial performance has led to strong financial returns, a one-year total shareholder return (“TSR”) of
25.07% (or at the 92nd percentile of our compensation peer group), and a return of capital through our stock
buyback program.
• We engaged in discussions with stockholders holding 60% of our outstanding shares (as of
June 30, 2022), with a concentrated focus on the issues that mattered to them, including our executive
compensation program.
• We followed through on the commitments we made to our stockholders in the proxy statement for our 2021
annual meeting of stockholders.
• Our fiscal 2022 executive compensation programs align with recognized best practices.
Philosophy and Objectives
As a global cybersecurity provider based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we operate in a highly competitive and
rapidly evolving market, and we expect competition among companies in our market to continue to increase. We
compete with many other technology companies in seeking to attract and retain highly skilled top talent. Our
continued success has made our employees and executives more attractive as candidates for employment with other
companies, and we are intently focused on maintaining competitive compensation programs, in part, to address
recruiting efforts by other companies in the technology industry.
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As a result, our compensation philosophy is designed to establish and maintain a compensation program that attracts
and rewards talented individuals who possess the skills necessary to support our near-term objectives and create
long-term value for our stockholders, grow our business and assist in the achievement of our strategic goals. We
believe that a performance-based culture is crucial to our growth and success.
The specific objectives of our executive compensation program are to:
Drive the development of a successful and profitable business through our next phase of growth.
Create sustainable long-term value for our stockholders by aligning the interests of our
executive officers with those of our stockholders.
Reward our executive officers for the successful achievement of our financial and strategic
growth objectives.
Attract, motivate and retain highly qualified executives who possess the skills and leadership
necessary to continue to grow our business, and provide compensation packages that are
comparable to our peers and the overall competitive market and that are heavily weighted to
be based on our performance.
While remaining true to our compensation objectives, as well as sound compensation policies and practices, our
compensation program also has the flexibility to incorporate feedback and evolving compensation practices that
are important to us and our stockholders, such as the addition of an ESG modifier to our NEOs’ cash incentive plan
ensuring a linkage between NEO compensation and our ESG commitments.
Stockholder Engagement in Fiscal 2022
In fiscal 2022, we once again undertook extensive engagement efforts to obtain our stockholders’ views on executive
compensation, corporate governance and other matters, and to determine how best to respond to that feedback.
Our Lead Independent Director once again played a central role in our stockholder engagement efforts in fiscal 2022.
The Chair of our Compensation and People Committee also met with numerous stockholders to discuss their views
regarding our executive compensation program.
Our Lead Independent Director and management team regularly update our Board on our engagement
efforts, providing summaries of our stockholders’ feedback. The continuous feedback that we receive from our
stockholders has shaped the executive compensation program and practices implemented by our Compensation
and People Committee.
The discussions with our stockholders also provided valuable insights into the concerns that led to the low
say-on-pay support that we received at our 2020 annual meeting of stockholders, and provided the foundation
of our executive compensation program in fiscal 2021 and 2022. At our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, we
were pleased that approximately 81% of votes were cast in favor of our say-on-pay proposal, which was significantly
higher than the approximately 40% support we received the prior year.
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68%
60%
39%
We reached out to
stockholders representing 68%
of our outstanding shares.
We engaged in discussions with
investors representing 60% of
our outstanding shares (which is
all stockholders that indicated a
willingness to engage with us).
Our Lead Independent Director
participated in discussions
(30 meetings) with investors
representing 39% of our
outstanding shares.
* Stockholder ownership, to our knowledge, as of June 30, 2022.
WHAT WE HEARD
HOW WE RESPONDED
Executive Compensation
Modifications to the structure of our
executive compensation program and
enhanced disclosure.
• 100% of our NEOs’ equity compensation (aside from new hire awards)
is performance-based, with different performance targets than the
cash incentive plan awards.
• We increased our stock ownership guidelines for our NEOs, including
our Chief Executive Officer.
• We added an ESG modifier to our cash incentive plan.
• We established a one-year post-vesting holding period for all NEOs,
including our Chief Executive Officer.
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Our Compensation Best Practices
In line with the feedback that we received from our stockholders and our independent compensation consultants,
we implemented extensive changes to our executive compensation program in fiscal 2021, and maintained these
compensation practices in fiscal 2022.
We believe our executive compensation program represents recognized best practice and reflects principles that
align the compensation of our NEOs with the long-term interests of our stockholders.
NEW FOR 2022
% 100% of equity compensation (aside from
new hire awards) is performance-based, with
different performance targets than the cash
incentive plan
% Addition of ESG modifier to cash incentive
plan, which modifies the annual incentive cash
compensation (plus or minus 10%), based on our
performance relative to an ESG scorecard with
climate, inclusion and human capital metrics
% Increase to stock ownership guidelines
% One-year post-vesting holding period for all
NEOs, including our Chief Executive Officer
ROBUST AND INDEPENDENT COMPENSATION DECISION-MAKING, ALIGNED WITH OUR
CORPORATE VALUES
% 100% independent Compensation and
People Committee
% Independent compensation consultants
COMPENSATION BEST PRACTICES
% Annual review of compensation strategy
% Consideration of annual say-on-pay vote
% Majority of compensation is performance-based
% No hedging or pledging, except limited
and at-risk
% 100% short-term incentive cash compensation
is performance-based and at-risk
% No single trigger vesting of equity awards on
occurrence of a change in control
% No dividends paid on unvested equity
% Robust stock ownership guidelines
pledging permitted with the prior approval of
the ESG and Nominating Committee
% Meaningful clawback policy
% Limited perquisites and personal benefits
% No defined benefit plans or SERPs
% Implementing the advice of independent
compensation consultants
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We Followed Through On Our Commitments
In the proxy statement for our 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, we made several commitments with respect
to the design of our executive compensation program and related policies. We made these commitments following
receipt of extensive feedback from our stockholders and advice from two independent compensation consultants,
Pay Governance and Meridian Compensation Partners.
Summarized below are our fiscal 2022 commitments, and our follow through in meeting those commitments.
OUR FISCAL 2022 COMMITMENTS
Maintain a robust stockholder outreach program
Provide more transparency in our executive compensation disclosures, as well as more
robust CD&A disclosures
Disclose the target value of equity grants to our NEOs for the completed fiscal year in
the CD&A
Increase the CEO stock ownership guidelines to 10x base salary
Make any one-time awards to NEOs a majority performance based and only make such
grants in exceptional circumstances
Annual equity grants to our NEOs to be at least 75% performance-based in line with
market best practices
Require a one year minimum vesting period for all grants to our Chief Executive Officer
and other NEOs going forward, and implement a policy to require our Chief Executive
Officer and other NEOs to hold all net shares for one year after vesting subject to certain
exceptions
Use a PSU award design that requires sustained performance over multiple years for
any payout
Include a relative TSR multiplier to our executive PSU awards
Ensure that ongoing incentive goals are considered “challenging” with targets set at or
above management guidance
Disclose performance targets compared to actual results and corresponding payout scale
Eliminate duplicate performance metrics in our cash incentive plan and PSU awards
No upward discretion except for extraordinary circumstances (such as the
COVID-19 pandemic)
Incorporate an ESG metric into fiscal 2022 cash incentive plan to ensure linkage between
compensation and our ESG goals
OUR FOLLOW
THROUGH
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Compensation-Setting Process
Compensation Timeline and Process
The compensation setting timeline and process of our Compensation and People Committee is summarized below.
August
Review preceding full fiscal year performance
Review and approve annual budget and
operating goals for fiscal year
Set target compensation for fiscal year
Determine and approve incentive
equity awards to NEOs
Determine and approve cash
incentive plan
P R O V E
P
A
September-February
Consider stockholder feedback from
outreach discussions
Consider results of say-on-pay vote
Review year to date performance
to goals
Review trends in executive
compensation and governance
E
V
A
L
U
A
T
E
May-July
Review year-to-date performance
relating to cash incentive plan
and equity awards to goals
Engage with independent
compensation consultant and receive
recommendations regarding executive
compensation on design of cash incentive
plan (measures, targets and payout curves)
and annual PSU design (measures, targets and
payout curves)
E
R
A
P
E
PR
M
O
NITOR
March-April
Review executive compensation program
to ensure that it remains competitive and
aligned with stockholder interests
Engage with management to provide
feedback on design of cash incentive plan
(measures, targets and payout curves) and
annual PSU design (measures, targets and
payout curves)
Work with independent compensation consultant
on peer group
Engage with independent compensation
consultant regarding trends in compensation
and governance
Review year to date performance to goals
Our Compensation and People Committee makes compensation decisions after considering factors that include:
• The performance and experience of each executive officer;
• The scope and strategic impact of the executive officer’s responsibilities;
• Our past business performance and future expectations;
• Our long-term goals and strategies;
• The performance of our executive team as a whole;
• An analysis of competitive market conditions, with the assistance of its external compensation consultant(s);
• The incentives provided to our executives to remain with the Company and drive the Company’s continued growth;
• The value of each executive’s unvested equity holdings;
• For each executive officer, other than our CEO, the recommendation of our CEO based on an evaluation of
his performance;
• The challenge and cost of replacing high-performing leaders with in-demand skills; and
• The internal parity of compensation among our executive officers.
Our Compensation and People Committee does not apply a formula or assign relative weights to specific
compensation elements.
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Roles and Responsibilities
PARTICIPANT
ROLE IN COMPENSATION DETERMINATION PROCESS
Compensation and
People Committee
• Review, evaluate and approve the compensation arrangements, plans, policies, and
practices for our NEOs
Management
• Oversee and administer cash-based and equity-based compensation plans
• Review our executive compensation program, from time to time, to determine
whether they are appropriate, properly coordinated, achieve their intended purposes
and to make any modifications to existing plans and arrangements or to adopt new
plans or arrangements
• Retain the services of external advisors, including compensation consultants, legal
counsel and other advisors, from time to time, as it sees fit, in connection with carrying
out its duties
• Together with our independent compensation consultants, the Chief Executive Officer
and the Chief People Officer assist the Compensation and People Committee in the
execution of its responsibilities by providing information on corporate and individual
performance, market data with respect to compensation and management’s
perspective and recommendations on compensation matters
• Chief Executive Officer makes recommendations to the Compensation and People
Committee regarding compensation matters, including the compensation of executive
officers (other than himself)
• Chief Executive Officer participates in meetings of the Compensation and People
Committee (other than portions of meetings that involve discussions of his
own compensation)
While our Compensation and People Committee solicits the recommendations and
proposals of our Chief Executive Officer with respect to compensation-related matters,
these recommendations and proposals are only one factor in our Compensation and
People Committee’s decision-making process.
Independent
Compensation
Consultants
For fiscal 2022 advice,
the Compensation
and People
Committee engaged
Pay Governance
and Meridian
Compensation
Partners, national
compensation
consulting firms
• Assist the Compensation and People Committee in executing the executive
compensation strategy and guiding principles, assessing the current target total direct
compensation opportunities of our executive officers, including comparing them
against competitive market practices, developing a compensation peer group and
advising on executive compensation decisions
• Pay Governance and Meridian Compensation Partners did not provide any services
to the Company other than the services provided to our Compensation and
People Committee
• Our Compensation and People Committee assessed the independence of Pay
Governance and Meridian Partners taking into account, among other things, the
factors set forth in Exchange Act Rule 10C-1 and the listing standards of Nasdaq and
has concluded that no conflict of interest exists with respect to the work that Pay
Governance and Meridian Compensation Partners perform for our Compensation and
People Committee
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Use of Competitive Data
To assess the competitiveness of our executive compensation program and to assist in setting compensation levels,
at the Compensation and People Committee’s request, Compensia, Inc., our prior independent compensation
consultant, compiled market data from a compensation peer group approved by our Compensation and People
Committee and industry surveys, including the Radford Global Technology Executive Compensation Survey. The
Compensation and People Committee, with the assistance of Pay Governance and Meridian Partners, then analyzed
the market and survey data when making fiscal 2022 compensation decisions.
Competitive Positioning
For fiscal 2022, our Compensation and People Committee continued to compare and analyze our executive
compensation program and each component of executive compensation against data from a formal compensation
peer group of companies.
In the context of our annual executive compensation review, with assistance from Compensia and input from
management, in February 2021, our Compensation and People Committee reviewed the peer group of publicly-
traded technology companies used to provide information regarding compensation practices for fiscal 2021 to
determine if any changes were appropriate for use for fiscal 2022 pay decisions. In determining which companies
to include in the peer group, our Compensation and People Committee considered companies that met some or
all of the following updated criteria: (i) operated in a high-technology industry; (ii) had annual revenue between
approximately $1.8 billion and $7.2 billion; (iii) had revenue growth greater than 20%; (iv) had a market capitalization
between approximately $8.6 billion and $103.1 billion; and (v) had a market capitalization that was at least three times
annual revenue. Based on our Compensation and People Committee’s review of this updated criteria, no changes
were made to the peer group, and the Company was at the 61st percentile of the peer group in terms of revenue and
51st percentile in terms of market capitalization.
The following publicly-traded companies made up our compensation peer group for fiscal 2022:
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Fortinet Inc.
ServiceNow, Inc.
Arista Networks Inc.
Autodesk, Inc.
Cadence Design Systems
F5 Networks Inc.
Norton LifeLock
Okta, Inc.
PayChex, Inc.
Snap, Inc.
Splunk Inc.
Square, Inc. (now
Block)
SS&C Technologies
Holdings, Inc.
Synopsys, Inc.
Twitter, Inc.
Workday, Inc.
CEO and NEO Pay for Performance Alignment For
Fiscal 2022
Pay for performance is a cornerstone of our compensation philosophy. We balance our strong
pay-for-performance compensation philosophy – where the vast majority of our Chief Executive Officer
and other NEO compensation is at-risk and performance-based – with our need to recruit, incentivize, and
retain talented executives in a highly competitive market. The result is an executive compensation program
that is significantly weighted toward at-risk compensation tied to our financial and operational performance.
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The graphs below illustrate the predominance of at-risk and performance-based components of our fiscal 2022
compensation program for our Chief Executive Officer and other named executive officers.
CEO
6%
Base Salary*
88%
Performance
Stock Units (PSU)
6%
Target
Annual Cash
Incentive
Opportunity
94%
At-Risk
AVERAGE OF OTHER NEOs**
8%
Base Salary
92%
At-Risk
84%
Performance
Stock Units (PSU)
8%
Target
Annual Cash
Incentive
Opportunity
* Graph reflects Mr. Arora’s target base salary of $1 million, a significant portion of which he elected to forego.
** Excludes Mr. Jenkins’ new hire RSUs which were granted to compensate him for a portion of our estimated value of the unvested
equity that he forfeited upon joining us.
In line with our pay for performance compensation philosophy, our Compensation and People Committee also
focuses on awarding compensation commensurate with the position and responsibilities held by our NEOs. If an
NEO’s position or responsibilities change, our Compensation and People Committee undertakes a review of that
NEO’s compensation to ensure that it remains commensurate with the new position and responsibilities.
How We Compensate Our Chief Executive Officer
As a result of feedback from our stockholders requesting detailed insights into the compensation of our Chief
Executive Officer, we include in this section a summary of the rationale for the decisions reached by our Board
and Compensation and People Committee regarding Mr. Arora’s compensation since he joined the Company in
June 2018.
MR. ARORA’S LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMED OUR COMPANY
After Mr. Arora joined the Company, we set an ambition to become the cybersecurity partner of choice, to innovate
and to stay ahead of the curve. To make this a reality, Mr. Arora established three strategic priorities critical to our
long-term success: transforming network security, delivering comprehensive cloud native security and revolutionizing
security operations. Under Mr. Arora’s leadership, our successful implementation of this strategy has led to:
• A $27.8 billion increase in market capitalization (as measured by our market capitalization as of July 31, 2019 and
July 31, 2022).
• $3.6 billion returned to our stockholders in fiscal 2019 through fiscal 2022 through our stock repurchase program.
• Compound annual growth rates of 24% and 29% in revenue and billings, respectively, over fiscal 2019 through fiscal
2022, culminating in fiscal year 2022 with record revenue of $5.5 billion and record billings of $7.5 billion.
• An acceleration of our product development efforts, from 22 major product introductions in fiscal 2020 to 49 in
fiscal 2022.
Additionally, Mr. Arora successfully steered the Company through the unprecedented global impact of the COVID-19
pandemic, without laying off a single employee, and personally forgoing $1 million in salary to donate to our COVID-19
pandemic relief fund in fiscal 2021. Mr. Arora subsequently forwent an additional $1 million in salary.
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Transformed Our Business Through Innovation
A transformation that has born a differentiated
position that spans our three platforms
• Network Security – Comprehensive SASE
capability, market-leading VM position, and
innovation through advanced subscriptions
• Cloud Security – 9 modules, broadest cloud
security portfolio, and strong consumption
• Security Operations – Pioneered XDR category,
XSOAR and Xpanse point product
Became an innovation leader by delivering
• 49 product releases across our three platforms in
fiscal 2022
• Next generation cloud access security broker
(CASB)
• Cloud next generation firewall (NGFW)
• Cloud code security
• Industry first agent and agentless cloud security
posture management (CSPM)
Delivered Zero Trust Security
Delivered Strong Financial Performance
and Stockholder Return
ACCELERATING REVENUE GROWTH
DELIVERING TOTAL
SHAREHOLDER RETURN
29%
$5.5B
25%
$4.3B
18%
$3.4B
FY’20
FY’21
FY’22
Revenue
Revenue growth y/y
1-Year TSR
Palo Alto Networks vs. Percentiles of Peer Group
Palo Alto
Networks, Inc.
92nd Percentile
75th Percentile
50th Percentile
25th Percentile
30
20
10
0
-10
-20
-30
-40
ACCELERATING NEXT- GEN SECURIT Y
ARR GROWTH
3-Year TSR
Palo Alto Networks vs. Percentiles of Peer Group
$1,893M
$1,180M
$651M
FY’20
FY’21
FY’22
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
-20
Palo Alto
Networks, Inc.
83rd Percentile
75th Percentile
50th Percentile
25th Percentile
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MARKET COMPETITIVE PAY LEVELS AND EVOLVING COMPENSATION IN DIRECT
RESPONSE TO STOCKHOLDER FEEDBACK
Our Board believes that Mr. Arora is uniquely qualified to lead our Company. In designing Mr. Arora’s compensation
packages since he joined the Company in 2018, our Board and Compensation and People Committee sought to
deliver market-competitive compensation commensurate with Mr. Arora’s capabilities and experience and reflective
of the considerable challenge of leading the Company’s transformation from a provider of hardware delivered security
to a provider of security delivered through the cloud, with multiple products to protect our customers’ enterprise,
cloud, endpoints, security operation centers and more.
After a disappointing “say-on-pay” vote at our 2020 annual meeting of stockholders, we conducted a comprehensive
review of our executive compensation practices. Mr. Arora, in his capacity as Chair of the Board, gave his full support
to this process and encouraged our Board and Compensation and People Committee to look at all aspects of
our executive compensation program and make the necessary changes to respond to stockholder feedback and
further align our program with best practices. As a result of this root and branch examination, our Compensation
and People Committee significantly reduced the size of the target value of Mr. Arora’s annual equity grant to $15.0
million in fiscal 2022, from $21.0 million in fiscal 2021 and $22.0 million in fiscal 2020. Mr. Arora’s fiscal 2022 target
direct compensation is at the 75th percentile of Company’s compensation peer group. We delivered TSR at the 92nd
percentile of our compensation peer group for fiscal 2022.
Our Compensation and People Committee also made other significant changes to Mr. Arora’s compensation structure
for fiscal 2022:
• A new design for PSUs featuring multi-year financial measures and a relative TSR modifier that requires sustained
performance above target, for multiple years, to receive an above target payout.
• An increase in his stock ownership requirement to 10x base salary.
• A one-year post-vesting holding period for equity awards.
CEO COMPENSATION
Annual Salary(1)
Target Bonus
Time-Based RSUs
Performance Stock Units
Total Target
Year-Over-Year Change (total compensation)
Performance-Based (total compensation)
FY21 Target
FY22 Target
$1.0M
$1.0M
n/a
$21.0M
vesting over 4 years
$23M
-4.2%
95.7%
$1.0M
$1.0M
n/a
$15.0M
$17M
-26.1%
94.1%
(1) Mr. Arora forwent a portion of his annual salary (in the case of fiscal 2021, in connection with our funding efforts to support
colleagues and communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic). He opted to receive only approximately $0.3 million of
his salary in fiscal 2021, approximately $0.25 million of his salary in fiscal 2022, and approximately $0.75 million of his salary in
fiscal 2023.
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Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program
Our executive compensation programs are tied to the Company’s financial and operational performance, support
our commitment to good compensation governance and provide market-based opportunities to attract, retain and
motivate our executives in an intensely competitive market for qualified talent.
FISCAL 2022 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• No base salary or target annual incentive opportunity increases in fiscal 2022 for continuing NEOs.
• Equity compensation granted in fiscal 2022 was 100% performance-based PSUs (aside from new hire RSUs).
• Performance measures aligned with business strategy.
• Chief Executive Officer donated 75% of his fiscal 2022 base salary and 25% of his fiscal 2023 base salary.
• Mr. Jenkins appointed President.
• Outstanding performance resulted in 150% achievement for our NEOs for cash incentive plan and 100%
performance for the portion of the PSUs granted to our NEOs in July 2019 that were eligible to vest based on
fiscal 2022 annual revenue growth.
The following table lists the pay elements of our fiscal 2022 programs and the purpose they served:
Pay Element
Purpose
Performance Period Performance Metric
Base Salary
d
e
x
i
F
y
a
P
Designed to be market-
competitive and attract and
retain talent
n/a
n/a
y
a
P
k
s
i
R
t
A
Annual Cash
Incentive
Opportunity
Incentivize achievement of near-
term financial and operational
objectives, consistent with
longer-term goals
Annual
Revenue/TSR
Performance
Stock Units
(PSU)
Reward long-term profitability
and long-term performance
relative to peers
Two years and
three years
Create alignment with
stockholders
Facilitate executive retention
Annual normalized billings for
fiscal 2022
Annual organic operating
margin for fiscal 2022
Annual revenue growth for
fiscal 2022, 2023, and 2024 and
TSR of the Company relative to
indexed companies for fiscal
2022 through 2024 (“rTSR”)
Quantum of Compensation
Palo Alto Networks delivered another year of outstanding results for our stockholders in fiscal 2022, with a strong year
of financial performance and execution. Our TSR for fiscal 2022 was 25.07%, placing us at the 92nd percentile of our
compensation peer group.
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The table below shows the targeted value of total compensation to our Chief Executive Officer and each other NEO for
fiscal 2022, as compared to fiscal 2021.
Executive Compensation
Name
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha*
Mr. Jenkins**
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk
Targeted
Value of Total
Compensation
for fiscal 2021
Targeted
Value of Total
Compensation
for fiscal 2022
Percentage
Change
$ 23,000,000
$ 17,000,000
-26.1%
$ 5,200,000
$ 5,200,000
n/a
$ 15,500,000
$ 11,100,000
$ 11,100,000
0
n/a
0
$ 3,900,000
$ 4,400,000
12.8%
* Mr. Golechha joined the Company in December 2020 and was promoted to CFO in March 2021. Targeted value of total
compensation for fiscal 2021 includes (a) annualized base salary and cash incentive compensation as CFO for fiscal 2021 and
(b) PSUs with a target value of $4,000,000, but excludes RSUs with a target value of $4,000,000 that he received in connection
with his hire, which are not reflected in the table.
** Mr. Jenkins joined the Company as President in August 2021. Targeted value of total compensation for fiscal 2022 includes
(a) annualized base salary and cash incentive compensation as President for fiscal 2022 and (b) PSUs with a target value of
$14,000,000, but excludes RSUs with a target value of $10,000,000 that he received in connection with his hire, which are not
reflected in the table. See “BJ Jenkins Compensation Arrangements” below for further detail.
Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program Components
B A S E S A L A R Y
Base salary is the primary fixed component of our executive compensation program. We use base salary to
compensate our executive officers for services rendered during the fiscal year and to ensure that we remain
competitive in attracting and retaining executive talent.
Generally, we establish the initial base salaries of our executive officers through arm’s-length negotiation at the time
of hire taking into account his or her position, qualifications, experience, prior salary level, and the base salaries of our
other executive officers. Thereafter, our Compensation and People Committee reviews the base salaries of each NEO
annually and makes adjustments as it determines to be reasonable and necessary in line with the factors described
under “Compensation Timeline and Process” above.
NO INCREASE IN BASE SAL ARY FOR ANY NEO IN FISCAL 2022 .
The table below shows the base salary for each NEO for fiscal 2022.
Name
Mr. Arora(1)
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins(2)
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk(3)
Base Salary
End of Fiscal 2021
Base Salary
End of Fiscal 2022
Percentage
Increase
$1,000,000
600,000
n/a
$ 550,000
1,482,000
$1,000,000
$ 600,000
$ 750,000
$ 550,000
1,482,000(3)
(1) Mr. Arora has elected to forgo his base salary of $1 million for the period beginning on November 1, 2021 through
October 31, 2022.
(2) Mr. Jenkins’ annual base salary for fiscal 2022 was set at $750,000 in connection with his hire in August 2021.
(3) Mr. Zuk is employed by our Israel subsidiary and his base salary is expressed in Israeli currency.
0%
0%
n/a
0%
0%
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A N N UA L C A S H I N C E N T I V E C O M P E N S AT I O N
We use annual cash incentive compensation to motivate our NEOs to achieve our annual financial and operational
objectives, while making progress towards our longer-term strategic and growth goals.
FISCAL 2022 CASH INCENTIVE PL AN
In August 2021, our Compensation and People Committee adopted a cash incentive plan for all employees not paid
commissions (including our NEOs) and approved the target levels for the annual financial objectives at levels that
were challenging and required substantial skill and effort on the part of senior management. The cash incentive plan
included an annual performance period with (i) payouts of up to 100% of the target cash incentive compensation
opportunities made on a semi-annual basis based on year to date results and (ii) payouts for over-performance
(referred to as accelerator payments and discretionary payments, as described below) made after the end of the fiscal
year. See the section titled “Fiscal 2022 Cash Incentive Plan Measure and Curves” below for additional information
regarding the target payout and actual payout under our cash incentive plan.
TARGET ANNUAL INCENTIVE COMPENSATION OPPORTUNITIES
As in prior years, the target annual cash incentive compensation opportunities for our NEOs were expressed as a
percentage of their respective base salaries.
NO INCREASE IN TARGET ANNUAL CASH INCENTIVE COMPENSATION FOR ANY NEO IN
FISCAL 2022 .
The table below shows the target annual cash incentive compensation percentage for fiscal 2022 and the
corresponding target and maximum dollar values:
Name
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins(1)
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk
Target Annual Incentive
Compensation Opportunity
(as a % of base salary) at
end of Fiscal 2022
Fiscal 2022 Target
Annual Incentive
Compensation
Opportunity
Fiscal 2022 Maximum
Annual Incentive
Compensation
Opportunity
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
$1,000,000
$ 600,000
$ 750,000
$ 550,000
$1,650,000
$ 990,000
$1,237,500
$ 907,500
1,482,000(2)
2,445,300(2)
(1) Mr. Jenkins’ target annual cash incentive compensation opportunity was set at 100% of his annual base salary in connection with
his hire in August 2021.
(2) Mr. Zuk is employed by our Israel subsidiary and his target annual cash incentive compensation opportunity is expressed in
Israeli currency.
CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MEASURES
For fiscal 2022, our Compensation and People Committee selected annual normalized billings and annual organic
operating margin as the corporate performance measures.
Corporate
Performance Metric What It Is
Annual normalized
billings
Fiscal 2022 billings as reported in our Form
10-K, less billings from entities acquired in
fiscal 2022
Annual organic
operating margin
Fiscal 2022 non-GAAP operating margin,
excluding the effects of acquisitions and
dispositions in fiscal 2022 and bonus payout
in excess of 100% of the target cash incentive
under our cash incentive plan
Why It’s Important
A billings metrics better reflects in-period
organic performance and aligns with the
shift in our business model to one focused
on annual recurring revenue
This profitability measure is tied to
management performance and profit we
generate for stockholders
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Potential payouts under the plan were based on a set of curves representing different levels of organic operating
margin and normalized billings performance.
• Design: To provide an incentive to management to make appropriate trade off decisions between investments in
growth and profitability.
• Pay and Performance Relationship: The curves were designed to require significant performance above each curve
to move to the next curve so that performance slightly above target would not result in an above target payout.
Performance below the minimum curve would result in 0% of target payout and performance above the maximum
curve would result in a formulaic payment maximum of 150% regardless of the level of overperformance.
• Target Setting: Our fiscal 2022 operating plan approved in August 2021, which was used to set the incentive plan
targets, provided normalized billings and organic operating margin targets. Performance above the high end of the
targets were required for an above 100% payout.
• Difficulty of Achieving Targets: Fiscal 2022 target for normalized billings represented growth of 24% above the
prior year actual billings. When we set the targets in August 2021, we decided that these targets were set at an
appropriate level of stretch performance based on our internal financial projections and the macro economic
environment. The fiscal 2022 target for billings growth was set above the guidance we provided in our August 23,
2021 earnings release.
The graph below contains the curves used to determine payouts in the fiscal 2022 cash incentive plan.
FISCAL 2022 CASH INCENTIVE PL AN MEASURES AND CURVES
VIP Funding as Percent of Target
100%
110%
120%
130%
140%
150%
21.0%
20.0%
90%
80%
19.0%
70%
18.0%
60%
17.0%
50%
16.0%
15.0%
0% Payout
FY22
Target
150% Payout
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$5,500
$6,000
$6,500
$7,000
$7,500
$8,000
$8,500
FY22 Normalized Billings ($MM)
* Represents normalized billings of $6,734 million and non-GAAP operating margin of 17.6% for fiscal 2022.
Normalized Billings
Organic Operating Margin
FY22 Targets
FY22 Actual
FY22 Payout
$6,734M
17.6%
$7,472M
20.0%
150% of
Target
The calculation of normalized billings and organic operating margin is provided in Appendix A to this
Proxy Statement.
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND ESG MODIFIER
Under the cash incentive plan, funding would be made as the organic operating margin target and the normalized
billings target are achieved as per the chart above. Achievement above the minimum achievement would increase
funding on a non-linear basis, with achievement of 100% of both performance targets resulting in funding at 100% of
the target cash incentive compensation opportunity. Payouts of up to 100% of the target cash incentive compensation
opportunities are made on a semi-annual basis and any payouts for performance exceeding 100% of the annual
targets (referred to as accelerator payments) are paid out as described in the following paragraph.
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To ensure a linkage between compensation and our ESG goals, we added an ESG modifier for our NEOs in the cash
incentive plan for fiscal 2022, which provided for the calculated result to be adjusted up or down by up to 10% based
on an ESG scorecard with climate, inclusion and diversity, and human capital metrics. For achievement in excess of
100%, funding would increase on a non-linear basis, based on overperformance on normalized billings and/or organic
operating margin versus the annual targets.
For fiscal 2022, no adjustments to our NEOs’ calculated payouts under the cash incentive plan were made as a result
of the ESG modifier, and our Compensation and People Committee made no discretionary changes to cash incentive
plan payouts.
The total potential payouts under the cash incentive plan to all participants (which includes any accelerator and/or
discretionary payments) were capped at 150% of the target amounts.
The following table sets forth the fiscal 2022 scorecard measures and results related to the ESG modifier to our fiscal
2022 cash incentive plan.
Climate
FY22 Scorecard
Measures
Fiscal 2022 progress
towards our 2030
climate commitment
FY22 Results
• Conducted full emissions footprint assessment to establish
Science Based Targets aligned to 1.5° scenario.
• Initiated multiple projects across Operations, Services,
Places, Accounting, Information Technology and Travel with
explicit goals to reduce energy consumption and emissions
• CO2e/$M - maintain flat over fiscal 2021 baseline
ESG
Modifier
(0.9x
to 1.1x
modifier)
Inclusion &
Diversity
Leadership
Representation (Women
globally; URM in US)
• Women: Increased at Director and above
• Underrepresented Minority (URM): Increased at Director
and above
Human
Capital
Practices
Employee engagement
• Attrition: Increased but still below market benchmarks. No
material differences for Women/URM
• Awards: Numerous employer awards, including Newsweek
Most Loved, 100% on HRC Equality Index, 100% on
Disability Index and Gold Status by Military Friendly.
• Committee assessment objectively based on the totality of fiscal 2022 results on the scorecard.
• Measures determine the modifier of 0.9X to 1.1X that will be applied to final fiscal 2022 payout.
• Overall external ESG ratings increased across every rating agency that the Company monitors.
LO N G -T E R M E Q U I T Y C O M P E N S AT I O N
Our long-term equity compensation is designed to encourage executives to achieve stretch goals in key performance
metrics selected to drive long-term performance of our Company and value creation for stockholders. As shown in the
graph below, in fiscal 2022, 100% of the long-term equity compensation granted to our NEOS was performance-based
(aside from new-hire grants, which include a restricted stock unit grant).
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RSU VS PSU/PSO MIX (1)
50%
50%
2%
98%
57%
100%
100%
43%
Fiscal 2018
Fiscal 2019
Fiscal 2020
Fiscal 2021
Fiscal 2022
PSUs / PSOs
RSUs
(1) Values above represent the target value of annual awards to NEOs. Certain grants that were made in July 2019 represented
advanced grants for fiscal year 2020 and are reflected as fiscal year 2020 above. Values exclude any new hire awards.
FISCAL 2022 EQUIT Y COMPENSATION
100% OF ANNUAL EQUIT Y GRANTED TO NEOS IN FISCAL 2022 WAS PERFORMANCE-BASED,
EXCLUDING NEW HIRE AWARDS.
In fiscal 2022, 100% of the annual equity awards granted to our NEOs continued to be in the form of PSUs
(excluding new hire awards), resulting in the entirety of such equity awards being at risk and performance-based.
The Compensation and People Committee determined the size of the awards based on the strong performance,
leadership skills and valuable contributions to the Company of our NEOs, especially in the context of the significant
transition in our business to expand to a more cloud-centric platform. For all continuing NEOs (except Mr. Zuk), the
size of the fiscal 2022 PSU award was equal to or less than the size of their fiscal 2021 PSU award.
The table below shows the targeted value of PSU grants made to our NEOs in fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022, with the
actual target number of shares subject to the fiscal 2022 PSUs determined based on (i) in the case of Mr. Jenkins,
the average closing price over the 30 calendar days prior to August 15, 2021, and (ii) in the case of each other NEOs,
the 14-day average closing price prior to August 20, 2021.
Name
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins*
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk
Targeted Value for PSUs
Granted for fiscal 2021
($)*
Targeted Value for PSUs
Granted in fiscal 2022
($)
Percentage change
21,000,000
4,000,000
n/a
10,000,000
3,000,000
15,000,000
4,000,000
14,000,000
10,000,000
3,500,000
-29%
0
n/a
0
+17%
* Mr. Jenkins received the PSU award in connection with his hire. He also received RSUs with a target value of $10,000,000 in
connection with his hire, which are not reflected in the table. See “BJ Jenkins Compensation Arrangements” below for further detail.
The fiscal 2022 PSUs were allocated into separate tranches, each of which vests based on the achievement of the
performance goals for the Company’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 fiscal years, as follows:
• for each NEO (other than Mr. Jenkins), (i) 50% of the PSUs vest based on the achievement of the performance
goals for the Company’s 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, and (ii) 50% of the PSUs vest based on the achievement of the
performance goals for the Company’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 fiscal years; and
• for Mr. Jenkins, (i) 33% of the PSUs vest based on the achievement of the revenue goal for the Company’s 2022
fiscal year (“Jenkins Tranche 1”), (ii) 33% of the PSUs vest based on the achievement of the performance goals
for the Company’s 2022 and 2023 fiscal years (“Jenkins Tranche 2”), and (iii) 34% of the PSUs vest based on the
achievement of the performance goals for the Company’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 fiscal years (“Jenkins Tranche 3”).
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The number of PSUs covered by a tranche that become eligible to vest (“Eligible PSUs”) will be equal to the product
of (i) the target number of PSUs for the tranche and (ii) the average of the Payout Percentages for each fiscal year in
the tranche (as defined below). The Payout Percentage for a fiscal year will be determined based on whether annual
revenue growth for the fiscal year is below, at or exceeds the target annual revenue growth for the fiscal year, as
follows: (i) if the annual revenue growth is 500bps below the target annual revenue growth, the Payout Percentage
will be 50%, (ii) if the annual revenue growth is at the target annual revenue growth, the Payout Percentage will be
100%, and (iii) if the annual revenue growth is at least 500bps above the target annual revenue growth, the Payout
Percentage will be 200%. If the annual revenue growth is between any of these thresholds, the Payout Percentage will
be determined based on linear interpolation between the corresponding Payout Percentages for those thresholds. If
the annual revenue growth is more than 500bps below the target annual revenue growth, the Payout Percentage will
be 0%. The target annual revenue growth will be (i) for the Company’s 2022 fiscal year, 27.5%, and (ii) for each other
fiscal year, a percentage to be determined by the Compensation and People Committee by the end of the first month
of such fiscal year.
For each NEO (except Mr. Jenkins), the number of fiscal 2022 PSUs that vest in a tranche (up to a maximum of
300% of the target number) will be equal to the product of (x) the number of Eligible PSUs for the tranche and (y)
the rTSR modifier for the tranche, subject to the applicable NEO’s continued service through the certification date.
For Mr. Jenkins, the number of fiscal 2022 PSUs that vest in Jenkins Tranche 1 (up to a maximum of 200% of the target
number) will be equal to the number of Eligible PSUs for the tranche; and the number of fiscal 2022 PSUs that vest in
each of Jenkins Tranche 2 and Jenkins Tranche 3 (up to a maximum of 300% of the target number for the Tranche)
will be equal to the product of (x) the number of Eligible PSUs for the Tranche and (y) the rTSR modifier for the
Tranche, as applicable, subject to Mr. Jenkins’ continued service through the certification date.
The rTSR modifier for a tranche will be determined based on the TSR of the Company during the applicable
performance period relative to the TSRs of the indexed companies (which are the companies that are a component
of the S&P 500 Index or any successor index on the last day of the performance period and were also a component of
such index on the first day of the performance period) during such performance period (the “relative TSR” or “rTSR”),
as follows: (i) if the relative TSR is at the 90th percentile or above, the rTSR modifier will be 1.5, (ii) if the relative TSR is
at the 75th percentile, the rTSR modifier will be 1.25, (iii) if the relative TSR is at the 50th percentile, the rTSR modifier
will be 1.0, and (iv) if the relative TSR is at the 25th percentile or below, the rTSR modifier will be 0.75. If the relative
TSR is between any of these thresholds, the rTSR modifier will be determined based on linear interpolation between
the corresponding numbers for those thresholds. Any fiscal 2022 PSUs that do not become Eligible PSUs due to the
minimum performance metrics threshold not being achieved are forfeited without consideration.
Based on our actual annual revenue growth of 29.3% (compared to a target of 27.5%), our Compensation and People
Committee determined a payout percentage of 136% to determine the number of shares that will vest for the fiscal 2022
performance period.
OUR APPROACH TO ONE-TIME AWARDS TO NAMED EXECUTIVES
The Compensation and People Committee believes it may be necessary from time-to-time to make one-time awards
outside of the normal grant cycle in certain circumstances, primarily to attract new executives, internally promote an
executive or counter an external competing offer to one of our existing executives for retention purposes.
In considering these awards, the Compensation and People Committee follows the following principles:
• For new hire awards, time vested equity should compensate the executive for a portion of the unvested equity they
would forfeit from their current role or forgo from a competing offer. Any additional upside should be delivered
through performance based equity, such that a majority of the total equity value is performance based.
• For promotion and retention awards, the majority of the award should be performance based and any time vested
equity should be granted only if the employee’s existing unvested equity is low compared to market benchmarks or
internal peers.
In fiscal 2022, the new hire award for BJ Jenkins, our President, was made with a majority of the award in performance
based equity and time vested equity was used only to compensate him for a portion of the unvested value that he
would forfeit upon resigning his current position.
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FISCAL 2022 ACHIEVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO JULY 2019 REVENUE GROWTH PSUs
In fiscal 2019, Messrs. Arora, Klarich and Zuk were granted PSUs that had performance criteria based on revenue
growth in each of fiscal 2020, fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022. Based on our annual revenue growth of 29.3% from
fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022 (compared to a target of 20% annual growth), our Compensation and People Committee
determined an achievement level of 100% for the portion of the July 2019 PSUs eligible to vest based on fiscal 2022
annual revenue growth.
FISCAL 2022 ACHIEVEMENT WITH RESPECT TO PERFORMANCE-BASED STOCK OPTIONS
We granted performance-based stock options (the “PSOs”) to Mr. Arora upon his hire in June 2018 and to Messrs.
Klarich and Zuk in fiscal 2019 to further incentivize long-term stockholder value creation. Each of the PSOs had
a per share exercise price equal to fair market value on the date of grant and they were only eligible to vest upon
achievement of stock price growth against a measurement price of $198.50. Achievement is determined in four
performance tranches, and there is an additional service-based requirement based on service since the grant date.
The performance tranches are:
• A 30 trading days average stock price of 150% of the measurement price within 4 years of grant.
• A 30 trading days average stock price of 200% of the measurement price within 5 years of grant.
• A 30 trading days average stock price of 250% of the measurement price within 6 years of grant.
• A 30 trading days average stock price of 300% of the measurement price within 7 years of grant.
The first tranche was achieved in fiscal 2021 and the second, third and fourth tranches were achieved in fiscal 2022
(August 2021, November 2021 and April 2022, respectively) and these tranches vested in accordance with individual
vesting schedules over four years from the initial grant date.
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE-BASED AWARDS
The following table shows outstanding performance based grants made to our NEOs as of July 31, 2022 which have
remaining performance targets. This table illustrates that a significant portion of performance-based awards remain
outstanding and continue to incentivize our NEOs’ performance going forward.
Grant
% of Total
PSU Grant Measure Type
Executive PSU Program
50%
(Transition
Grant)
Financial
Metrics
FY22 Grant
(Made
August 2021)
50%
Relative TSR
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
FY26
Revenue
Growth
Revenue
Growth
FY22 Target
27.5%
FY22 Actual
29.3%
2 Year Relative TSR vs.
S&P 500
Financial
Metrics
Revenue
Growth
Revenue
Growth
FY24 Target
TBD
FY22 Target
27.5%
FY22 Actual
29.3%
Relative TSR
3 Year Relative TSR vs. S&P 500
Final Payout = Average of Annual Financial Metric Payouts X
Relative TSR Modifier
Start and End of Performance Period
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BJ Jenkins Compensation Arrangements
On August 10, 2021, we announced that William “BJ” Jenkins joined the Company as our President. To determine
Mr. Jenkins’ compensation, the Compensation and People Committee considered the following factors:
• His qualifications and proven experience, including his most recent role as the President and Chief Executive Officer
of Barracuda Networks.
• A review of market data for base salaries, target annual cash incentive compensation opportunities and equity
compensation of executives holding similar positions at comparable companies.
• The fiscal 2022 changes to our executive compensation programs and our principle to make the majority of new
hire awards performance based.
• Our estimate of Mr. Jenkins’ unvested equity in his prior role as Chief Executive Officer of a privately held company.
• The input and advice from outside advisers on the quantum of each component and the design of the equity grant.
The Compensation and People Committee approved an offer letter setting forth the following terms:
• No special sign on benefits, such as a sign on bonus.
• Annual base salary of $750,000.
• Target annual incentive compensation of 100% of his base salary.
• $10,000,000 restricted stock unit award to compensate him for a portion of our estimated value of the unvested
equity that he forfeited, with 40% vesting on the one-year anniversary of the date of grant, 30% during the second
year in equal quarterly increments, 20% during the third year in equal quarterly increments and 10% during the fourth
year in equal quarterly increments, subject to his continued employment with the Company on each vesting date.
• $14,000,000 PSU award to provide upside compensation, but only if the multiple year performance targets are
achieved and subject to his continued employment with the Company on each vesting date. The PSUs were
granted under the Company’s new fiscal 2022 executive PSU program (with the same achievement targets as the
grants made to our NEOs) and vest as follows:
• 33% of the PSU shares attained will vest on the first anniversary of the grant date based on fiscal year 2022
revenue growth.
• 33% of the PSU shares attained will vest on the second anniversary of the grant date based on the Company’s
financial performance and relative total stockholder return performance for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
• 34% of the PSU shares attained will vest on the third anniversary of the grant date based on the Company’s
financial performance and relative total stockholder return performance for fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Our Board recognizes the significant investment represented by Mr. Jenkins’ new hire compensation. We intend for
Mr. Jenkins’ compensation to be awarded based on the principles we discussed in this CD&A, including future annual
equity grants to be at least 75% performance-based in line with market best practices and PSU awards designed to
include a TSR multiplier and require sustained performance over multiple years for any payout.
Other Aspects of Our Executive Compensation Programs
Employment Agreements
Each of our NEOs is a party to an employment arrangement setting forth the material terms of his employment.
For a summary of the material terms and conditions of these arrangements, see the section titled “—Executive
Employment Agreements.”
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Post-Employment Compensation
The employment arrangement for each of our NEOs provides for payments and/or benefits related to an involuntary
termination of employment, including in connection with a change in control of our Company, on a “double trigger”
basis. We believe that these protections assist us in retaining the services of these individuals. We also believe that
these protections serve our business objectives by helping our NEOs maintain continued focus and dedication to their
responsibilities to maximize stockholder value, including in the event that there is a potential transaction that could
involve a change in control of our Company. The terms of these post-employment compensation arrangements were
determined after our Board and Compensation and People Committee reviewed our retention goals for each NEO
and an analysis of relevant market data. In the cases of Messrs. Golechha and Mr. Jenkins, these post-employment
compensation arrangements were added through addenda to their offer letters in February 2022.
For a summary of the material terms and conditions of these post-employment compensation arrangements, as well
as an estimate of the amounts potentially payable pursuant to such arrangements, see the sections titled “—Executive
Employment Agreements” and “—Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control.”
In February 2022, our Compensation and People Committee adopted a continued service policy as an additional
tool to serve several critical interests when circumstances warrant. These interests include maintaining distinctive
executive ability; providing continuity of expertise in servicing our customers; minimizing the business disruption that
can follow executive attrition; and solidifying succession planning.
Employees holding the title of Senior Vice President or higher are eligible for continued vesting of equity awards
if such employee (i) voluntarily resigns from full-time employment; (ii) has attained the age of 55 years and has
been continuously employed by the Company as a full-time employee for at least five years as of the date of such
resignation or has been continuously employed by the Company as a full-time employee for at least 10 years as of the
date of such resignation or transition; and (iii) maintains a continued service relationship with the Company, including
by transitioning employment to an advisory role, whether as employee or independent contractor. Eligible employees
are not guaranteed benefits under the policy. Each award of benefits under the policy will be individually assessed
and determined by the administrator of the policy (which is our Board or Compensation and People Committee),
including the determination of which equity awards that will be subject to continued vesting and the related terms
and conditions. Eligible employees will enter into a continued service agreement with the Company in a form
approved by the administrator.
Executive Officer Stock Ownership Guidelines
Purpose
Our Board believes that our executive officers should hold a meaningful financial stake in our Company to closely
align their interests with those of our stockholders and has therefore adopted stock ownership guidelines as part of
our corporate governance guidelines.
Ownership Definition
Unvested PSUs, RSUs, and unexercised stock options do not count toward satisfying these ownership guidelines.
Ownership
The following is a summary of our robust stock ownership guidelines. Our Chief Executive Officer and executive
officers who report directly to our Chief Executive Officer must accumulate and hold shares of our common stock
based on a multiple of base salary within five years of their appointment as, or promotion to, an executive officer.
As of September 30, 2022, each of our NEOs have met their respective ownership guideline in advance of
the deadline.
The following table lists the specific ownership requirements for our NEOs, their status in meeting the guidelines,
and their deadlines to meet the current requirements.
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Officer
Nikesh Arora
Dipak Golechha
William “BJ” Jenkins
Lee Klarich
Nir Zuk
Multiple of
Base Salary
Requirement
10x
1x
1x
1x
1x
Status
Met
Met
Met
Met
Met
Deadline
June 2023
March 2026
August 2026
May 2011
February 2010
Risk Assessment and Compensation Practices
Our management assesses and discusses with our Compensation and People Committee our compensation policies
and practices as they relate to our risk management. Based upon this assessment, the Compensation and People
Committee believes that any risks arising from such policies and practices are not reasonably likely to have a material
adverse effect on us.
In reaching this conclusion, we have considered, among other things, the following factors:
• our cash incentive plan reflects a “pay for performance philosophy” that rewards our NEOs and other eligible
employees for achievement of performance targets;
• discretionary bonuses are reserved for extraordinary performance and achievement;
• total compensation features a balance of short- and long-term incentives (LTI), with the majority of pay delivered in
LTI for senior executives;
• our equity awards include multi-year vesting schedules requiring long-term employee commitment;
• our performance expectations reward long-term value creation, profitability and excellence;
• our use of multiple performance measures in incentive plans;
• our regular monitoring of short-term and long-term compensation practices to determine whether management’s
objectives are satisfied;
• performance goals require sufficient “stretch,” yet are achievable;
• both the short-term and long-term incentive programs have caps for significant upside performance; and
• our independent compensation consultant evaluated and assessed our compensation policies and practices and
confirmed that our practices do not encourage excessive risk taking.
Compensation Recovery Policy
We have adopted a Clawback Policy through which we may seek the recovery of performance-based incentive
compensation paid by us under certain circumstances. The Clawback Policy applies to our Chief Executive Officer
and to all officers who report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, including our NEOs (the “covered executives”). The
Clawback Policy provides that if (i) we restate our financial statements as a result of a material error; (ii) the amount
of cash incentive compensation or performance-based equity compensation that was paid, or is payable based on
achievement of specific financial results, to a covered executive would have been less if the financial statements had
been correct; (iii) no more than two years have elapsed since the original filing date of the financial statements upon
which the incentive compensation was determined; and (iv) our Compensation and People Committee unanimously
concludes, in its sole discretion, that fraud or intentional misconduct by such covered executive caused the material
error and it would be in our best interests to seek from such covered executive recovery of the excess compensation,
then our Compensation and People Committee may, in its sole discretion, seek repayment from such covered executive.
Hedging and Pledging Policies
Our insider trading policy prohibits our executive officers and members of our board of directors from engaging in
derivative securities transactions, including hedging or other transactions that offset, or are designed to hedge or
offset, any decrease in the market value of our equity securities and from pledging Company securities as collateral or
holding Company securities in a margin account, except, in the case of pledging, with the prior approval of the ESG
and Nominating Committee. This policy does not restrict ownership of, or transactions related to, Company-granted
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awards, such as PSUs, RSUs, employee stock options, and other securities issued by the Company or the deferral of
equity awards pursuant to our non-qualified deferred compensation plan.
Our executive officers have significant holdings of our stock to align their interests to those of our stockholders.
Establishing a conservative pledging policy enables our executive officers to continue to hold those shares, while
providing them flexibility in financial planning and allowing them to achieve financial diversification. By enabling
our executives to maintain their stock ownership in the Company, our conservative pledging program helps ensure
that they continue to have a meaningful financial interest in the success of the Company under their leadership. For
these reasons, in fiscal 2022, the Board adopted a conservative policy that allows limited pledging of our stock by our
executive officers.
Our pledging policy establishes the parameters of pledging arrangements, and provides that any pledging
arrangement must be approved in advance by our ESG and Nominating Committee, as well as sets an overall limit of
$100 million on the total value of shares pledged by our executive officers (as a group). Under this policy, all pledges of
shares of Company stock by employees must comply with the following requirements:
• any proposed pledge of shares must be approved in advance by the ESG and Nominating Committee;
• the loan amount against which shares are pledged must not exceed 30% of the aggregate fair market value of the
individual’s total stock ownership at the time the arrangement is executed;
• only outstanding shares held by an individual may be pledged (i.e., no shares subject to options or unvested RSUs,
PSUs or other unvested equity awards may be pledged);
• no shares may be pledged that would cause the total value of all pledged shares of our executive officers in the
aggregate (as a group) to exceed $100 million;
• pledged shares cannot consist of any shares that remain subject to the Company’s One Year Hold Policy; and
• the stock ownership requirements applicable to our executives are in addition to, and cannot include, pledged shares.
When approving a pledging arrangement, in addition to the requirements above, the ESG and Nominating
Committee will consider any other factors deemed relevant by the Committee, including, without limitation, the
total number of shares of Company stock beneficially owned by the applicable executive, the pledged shares as
a percentage of the executive’s aggregate beneficially owned shares, the pledged shares as a percentage of the
Company’s total outstanding shares, whether the pledged shares were purchased by the executive, and whether the
executive has entered into any other pledging arrangement.
Tax and Accounting Considerations
Deductibility of Executive Compensation. Section 162(m) of the Code generally disallows public companies a tax
deduction for federal income tax purposes of remuneration in excess of $1 million paid to the chief executive officer
and certain other highly compensated executive officers in any taxable year.
While our Compensation and People Committee is mindful of the benefit of being able to fully deduct the
compensation paid to our NEOs, our Compensation and People Committee believes that we should retain the
flexibility to provide compensation to our NEOs that is not fully tax deductible when it believes that such payments
are appropriate to attract and retain executive talent or meet other business objectives. Our Compensation and
People Committee intends to continue to compensate our NEOs in a manner consistent with the best interests of our
Company and our stockholders even if any portion of such compensation is non-deductible.
TAXAT I O N O F “ PA R AC H U T E ” PAY M E N TS
Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code provide that executive officers and directors who hold significant equity interests
and certain other service providers may be subject to significant additional taxes if they receive payments or benefits
in connection with a change in control that exceeds certain prescribed limits and that we (or a successor) may forfeit
a deduction on the amounts subject to this additional tax. We did not provide any of our NEOs with a “gross-up” or
other reimbursement payment for any tax liability that the NEO might owe as a result of the application of Sections
280G or 4999 during fiscal 2022, and we have not agreed and are not otherwise obligated to provide any NEO with
such a “gross-up” or other reimbursement in the future.
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AC C O U N T I N G FO R S H A R E - B A S E D C O M P E N S AT I O N
We follow ASC Topic 718 for our share-based compensation awards. ASC Topic 718 requires companies to measure
the compensation expense for all share-based compensation awards made to employees and directors, including
stock options and other stock-based awards, based on the grant date “fair value” of these awards. This calculation
is performed for accounting purposes and reported in the compensation tables below, even though our NEOs may
never realize any value from their awards. ASC Topic 718 also requires companies to recognize the compensation cost
of their share-based compensation awards in their income statements over the period that an executive officer is
required to render service in exchange for the option or other award.
Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits
Retirement Plans. We have established a U.S. tax-qualified Section 401(k) retirement plan for all employees who
satisfy certain eligibility requirements, including requirements relating to age and length of service. We currently
match contributions made to the plan by our employees up to $1,000, including our NEOs. In fiscal 2022, Messrs.
Golechha, Jenkins and Klarich participated in our Section 401(k) retirement plan and each received a matching
contribution of $1,000. We intend for the plan to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the
Code, so that contributions by employees to the plan, and income earned on plan contributions, are not taxable to
employees until withdrawn from the plan. We made payments for Mr. Zuk to certain Israeli pension and severance
funds available to employees of our Israel subsidiaries.
Health and Welfare Plans. In addition, we provide other benefits to our NEOs on the same basis as all of our full-
time employees in the country in which they are resident. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision benefits,
medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability insurance, accidental
death and dismemberment insurance, and basic life insurance coverage. We design our employee benefits programs
to be affordable and competitive in relation to the market, as well as compliant with applicable laws and practices.
We adjust our employee benefits programs as needed based upon regular monitoring of applicable laws and
practices and the competitive market.
Deferred Compensation Plan. In May 2022, our Compensation and People Committee adopted a deferred
compensation plan, which is a non-qualified deferred compensation plan established in compliance with Section
409A of the Code. Participation in the deferred compensation plan is voluntary and limited to U.S. employees of
the Company and affiliates that are at the Vice President level or above, as determined by the administrator of the
deferred compensation plan, and includes the Company’s executive officers. For a summary of the material terms and
conditions of the deferred compensation plan, see the section titled “—Executive Compensation Tables.”
Other Personal Benefits. In November 2019, the Company retained a leading global risk management and security
consulting firm to analyze and determine if there was a bona-fide business related security concern for Mr. Arora.
Based on the results of its investigation (which included a personal security incident involving Mr. Arora), this firm
determined that there was a bona-fide, business related security concern for Mr. Arora and credible threat actors
existed with both the willingness and resources necessary for conducting an attack on Mr. Arora. Accordingly, the
firm recommended that the Company take various steps to ensure the safety of Mr. Arora. In turn, our Compensation
and People Committee determined that, if any harm occurred to our Chief Executive Officer, our business operations,
investor confidence and employee productivity would be severely impacted.
As a result, we implemented an overall security program for Mr. Arora that continued in fiscal 2022. Our
Compensation and People Committee believes that amounts paid by the Company for this security program have
been reasonable, necessary and for our benefit. We require these security measures for the Company’s benefit
because of the importance of Mr. Arora to the Company, and we believe that the scope and costs of these security
programs are appropriate and necessary.
Our Compensation and People Committee periodically reviews the nature and cost of this program in relation to
his security profile. Despite the fact that this security program was put in place for business reasons, the component
of the program that includes security at Mr. Arora’s residence and during personal travel is a perquisite under the
relevant SEC disclosure rules and is included in the “All Other Compensation” column in the Summary Compensation
Table. The amount paid in fiscal 2022 was $965,653.
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The Board continued to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety and security of Mr. Arora, considering the nature of
the position and its criticality to the operation of the Company. Consistent with and as an extension of those efforts,
in fiscal 2022, our Compensation and People Committee approved an amendment to our chartered aircraft policy
to require the use of chartered aircraft for business and personal-related air travel by our Chief Executive Officer.
The value of Mr. Arora’s use of chartered aircraft for personal travel in fiscal 2022 was $657,424. Mr. Arora recognizes
imputed income when aircraft is used for personal travel. On occasion, guests of the Chief Executive Officer also may
accompany him, at a de minimis incremental cost to the Company, on the private aircraft.
In addition, the Company provided a relocation allowance of $250,000 to Mr. Golechha, the Chief Financial Officer, in
connection with his move to the San Francisco bay area for business purposes.
In the future, we may provide perquisites or other personal benefits in limited circumstances, such as where we believe
it is appropriate to assist an individual NEO in the performance of his or her duties, to make our NEOs more efficient and
effective, and for recruitment, motivation, or retention purposes. All future practices with respect to perquisites or other
personal benefits will be approved and subject to periodic review by our Compensation and People Committee.
Report of the Compensation Committee
Our Compensation and People Committee has reviewed and discussed the Compensation Discussion and
Analysis with management. Based on such review and discussion, our Compensation and People Committee has
recommended to our board of directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in this proxy
statement.
Respectfully submitted by the members of the Compensation and People Committee of our Board:
Rt Hon Sir John Key (Chair)
John Donovan
Lorraine Twohill
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Executive Compensation Tables
Fiscal 2022 Summary Compensation Table
The following table presents summary information regarding the compensation paid to, or earned by, our Named
Executive Officers for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
Name and
Principal Position
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer
Dipak Golechha
Chief Financial Officer
William “BJ” Jenkins(5)
President
Lee Klarich
Chief Product Officer
Nir Zuk(7)
Founder and Chief
Technology Officer
Year
2022
2021
2020
2022
2021
2022
2022
2021
2020
2022
2021
2020
Salary
($)
250,000(2)
333,333
666,667
600,000
325,821
734,375
550,000
550,000
550,000
459,420
444,073
430,000
Stock
Awards
($)(1)
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
All
Other
Compensation
($)
7,007,348
20,355,789
—
1,868,557
8,292,144
17,835,150
4,671,565
9,693,233
—
1,635,031
2,907,970
—
1,500,000
1,500,000
925,000
900,000
368,407
1,125,000
825,000
825,000
508,750
689,130
666,900
372,891
1,653,129(3)
1,094,736
615,118
251,946(4)
3,929
1,996(6)
1,996(6)
1,957
1,957
83,576(8)
63,227
144,495
Total
($)
10,410,477
23,283,858
2,206,785
3,620,503
8,990,301
19,696,521
6,048,561
11,070,190
1,060,707
2,867,157
4,082,170
947,386
(1) The amounts reported in the Stock Awards column represent the grant date fair value of the restricted stock units granted to
our Named Executive Officers as computed in accordance with ASC Topic 718. With respect to the performance-based restricted
stock units, in fiscal year 2022, we approved only the fiscal year 2022 performance targets. As a result, only these portions of the
performance-based restricted stock unit awards (covering 42% of the performance-based restricted stock units for Mr. Arora,
Golechha, Klarich and Zuk and 61% of the performance-based restricted stock units for Mr. Jenkins) have a reportable grant
date fair value under ASC Topic 718 and are included in this table. The remaining performance-based restricted stock units do
not have a reportable grant date fair value under ASC Topic 718 and are not included in this table. The assumptions used in
calculating the grant date fair value of the restricted stock units reported in this column are set forth in the notes to our audited
consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022. For more
information, see footnote 3 to the Fiscal 2022 Grants of Plan Based Awards Table. Note that the amounts reported in this column
do not correspond to the actual economic value that may be received by our Named Executive Officers from their restricted stock
units. The value of the awards of performance-based restricted stock units at the grant date assuming that the highest level of
performance conditions will be achieved is $18,607,578 for Mr. Arora, $4,961,947 for Mr. Golechha, $19,689,043 for Mr. Jenkins,
$12,405,420 for Mr. Klarich, and $4,341,658 for Mr. Zuk.
(2) From November 1, 2021 to July 31, 2022, Mr. Arora elected to forgo his salary.
(3) Consists of life insurance premiums of $661, disability insurance premiums of $335, reimbursement of expenses related to
participation at certain Company events and nominal gift cards of $1,305, health insurance premiums paid by Company to
compensate for Mr. Arora’s forgoing his salary of $5,375, personal security costs of $965,653 based on the invoices provided
by the third party security company, and approximately $657,424 for costs related to personal usage of private aircraft and
$22,376 of taxes on imputed income paid by us due to him forgoing his salary related to personal usage of private aircraft. For
purposes of reporting the value of personal usage of private aircraft in this table, we use costs provided by the applicable charter
company, which include contracted hourly charges, and fuel charges. On occasion, guests of the Named Executive Officer also
may accompany him, at a de minimis incremental cost to the Company, on the private aircraft. For more information regarding
Mr. Arora’s overall security program, and personal usage of private aircraft, see the section entitled “Compensation Discussion and
Analysis-Perquisites and Other Benefits” above.
(4) Consists of life insurance premiums of $624, disability insurance premiums of $322, 401(k) plan matching contributions by our
Company of $1,000 and a relocation allowance of $250,000 in connection with Mr. Golechha’s relocation to the Bay Area.
(5) Mr. Jenkins was appointed our President effective August 9, 2021. The amounts reported in the Stock Awards column for fiscal
2022 include time-based restricted stock units and performance-based restricted stock units granted to him in connection with
his appointment as President.
(6) Consists of life insurance premiums of $661, disability insurance premiums of $335 and 401(k) plan matching contributions by our
Company of $1,000
(7) For fiscal 2022, Mr. Zuk’s base salary, non-equity incentive compensation and all other compensation was paid in Israeli currency.
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The amounts set forth in the table reflect the conversion from Israeli currency to U.S. dollars using an average exchange rate of
0.31 U.S. dollars for one Israeli new shekel for fiscal 2022.
(8) Consists of $2,476 for expenses related to attendance at certain Company events, and nominal gift cards, $867 for health insurance
contributions, $41,963 contributed for social security and pension benefits and $38,270 contributed for severance benefits under
Israeli government schemes.
CEO Pay Ratio
Under SEC rules, we are required to provide information regarding the relationship between the annual total
compensation of our Chief Executive Officer and the annual total compensation of our median employee. As
permitted by SEC rules, we used the same median employee for fiscal 2022 that we identified for fiscal 2020
because there have been no significant changes to our workforce or pay design for fiscal 2022 that we believe
would significantly change our Chief Executive Officer pay ratio results. For our last completed fiscal year, which
ended July 31, 2022:
• The median of the annual total compensation of all employees (other than Mr. Arora) of our company and
our consolidated subsidiaries in fiscal 2022 was approximately $268,463. This annual total compensation was
calculated in accordance with Item 402(c)(2)(x) of Regulation S-K, and reflects, among other things, salary, all
bonuses earned, 401(k) contribution matches, life and disability insurance premiums paid by the Company
and the aggregate “grant date fair value” of equity awards granted during fiscal 2022.
• Mr. Arora’s annual total compensation, as reported in the Fiscal 2022 Summary Compensation Table
included in this Proxy Statement, was $10,410,477.
• Based on the above, for fiscal 2022, the ratio of Mr. Arora’s annual total compensation to the median of the
annual total compensation of all employees was approximately 39 to 1.
This pay ratio is a reasonable estimate calculated in a manner consistent with Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based upon our reasonable judgment and assumptions. The SEC rules
do not specify a single methodology for identification of the median employee or calculation of the pay ratio, and
other companies may use assumptions and methodologies that are different from those used by us in calculating
their pay ratio. Accordingly, the pay ratio disclosed by other companies may not be comparable to our pay ratio as
disclosed above.
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Fiscal 2022 Grants of Plan-Based Awards
The following table presents information regarding the amount of equity awards granted to our Named Executive
Officers during our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
Grant
Date
—
8/20/21
—
8/20/21
—
8/20/21
8/20/21
—
8/20/21
Name
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk(5)
Date of
Board or
Committee
Action to
Grant the
Award
Estimated Future Payouts
Under Non-Equity Incentive
Plan Awards(1)
Estimated Future Payouts
Under Equity Incentive
Plan Awards(2)
Threshold
($)
Target
($)
Maximum
($)
Threshold
(#)
Target
(#)
Maximum
(#)
All Other
Stock Awards:
Number of
Shares of
Stock or Units
(#)(2)
Grant
Date Fair
Value of
Stock
Awards
($)(3)
— 450,000 1,000,000 1,650,000
—
— 270,000 600,000 990,000
—
—
—
—
—
8/17/21
8/17/21
—
—
—
18,989 50,636 151,908
—
40,509
—
5,064 13,503
—
—
—
—
—
—
7,007,348
—
1,868,557
— 337,500 750,000 1,237,500
—
—
— 247,500 550,000 907,500
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
8/15/21
8/17/21
8/17/21
—
—
—
—
—
—
28,866 65,189 160,204
—
12,659 33,758 101,274
—
—
—
—
76,542(4) 9,375,377
8,459,773
—
—
—
—
4,671,565
—
1,635,031
—
— 206,739 459,420 758,043
—
—
—
8/20/21
8/17/21
—
—
—
4,431 11,815
35,445
—
—
(1) Amounts in the “Estimated Future Payouts Under Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards” columns relate to target incentive
compensation opportunities under the fiscal 2022 cash incentive plan and assumes achievement at target levels for our corporate
performance measures. For achievement in excess of target, overperformance could be rewarded with a payout of up to 165% of
each NEO’s target. The actual amounts paid to our NEOs are set forth in the “Fiscal 2022 Summary Compensation Table” above
and the calculation of the actual amounts paid is discussed more fully in the section titled “Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation
Program—Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program Components—Annual Cash Incentive Compensation.”
(2) Represents performance-based restricted stock unit awards (“PSUs”) and restricted stock unit awards (“RSUs”) which were granted
under our Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (“2012 Plan”)(as adjusted for the three-for-one stock split effected in
the form of a stock dividend in September 2022, or the “Stock Split”)). The threshold is calculated as if the threshold of Company
performance measure and the lowest TSR multiplier was reached. The maximum is calculated assuming all maximum Company
performance targets were met and the relative TSR modifier was also at the maximum value. For more information, see the
section titled “Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program—Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program Components—Fiscal
2022 Equity Compensation.”
(3) The amounts reported in the Grant Date Fair Value of Stock Awards column represent the grant date fair value of the awards of
restricted stock units (including PSUs) granted in fiscal 2022, calculated in accordance with ASC Topic 718. The assumptions used
in calculating the grant date fair value of the PSUs and restricted stock unit awards reported in this column are set forth in the
notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended
July 31, 2022. The value of the PSUs is calculated using a Monte-Carlo simulation valuation performed as of the date of grant by
an independent third party. Because the grant date for a PSU occurs when performance targets are approved, and we approved
performance targets only with respect to fiscal year 2022, PSU values in this column include for Mr. Arora, Golechha, Klarich and
Zuk 42% and for Mr. Jenkins 61% of the PSUs. Note that the amounts reported in this column do not correspond to the actual
economic value that may be received by our NEOs from their performance-based restricted stock unit awards.
(4) Represents RSUs which were granted upon Mr. Jenkins’ hiring as President. Vests over a four-year period with forty percent (40%)
of the restricted stock units vesting on the one-year anniversary of the grant date; thirty percent (30%) of the restricted stock units
vesting quarterly during the second year; twenty percent (20%) of the restricted stock units vesting quarterly during the third year;
and ten percent (10%) of the restricted stock units vesting quarterly during the fourth year.
(5) The amounts set forth in the table for Mr. Zuk for estimated future payouts under Non-Equity Incentive Plan Awards reflect the
conversion from Israeli currency to U.S. dollars using an average exchange rate of 0.31 U.S. dollars for one Israeli new shekel for
fiscal 2022.
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Fiscal 2022 Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
The following table presents information regarding outstanding stock options and other equity awards held by our
Named Executive Officers as of July 31, 2022, as adjusted for the Stock Split.
Option
Awards—
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
Option
Awards—
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
Option
Awards—
Option
Exercise
Price ($)
Option
Awards—
Option
Expiration
Date
Stock
Awards—
Number
of Shares
or Units of
Stock That
Have Not
Vested
(#)
Stock
Awards—
Market Value
of Shares or
Units of Stock
That Have Not
Vested ($)(1)
Equity
Incentive
Plan Awards:
Number of
Unearned
Shares, Units
or Other Rights
That Have Not
Vested (#)
Equity
Incentive Plan
Awards: Market
or Payout Value
of Unearned
Shares, Units
or Other Rights
That Have Not
Vested ($)
Named Executive
Officer
Grant Date
Mr. Arora
—
8/20/21(2)
10/20/2020(3)
7/31/2019(4)
6/7/2018(5)
—
6/7/2018(6) 3,474,300
—
—
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins
Mr. Klarich
8/20/21(2)
3/20/2021(7)
12/20/2020(8)
8/20/21(2)
8/20/21(9)
8/20/21(2)
Mr. Zuk
8/20/21(2)
10/20/2020(10)
7/31/2019(11)
7/31/2019(4)
—
10/20/2018(12) 1,509,063
10/20/2020(13)
7/31/2019(11)
7/31/2019(4)
—
10/20/2018(12) 1,131,801
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
66.17 12/6/25
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
503,016
64.50 4/19/26
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
377,256
64.50 4/19/26
—
—
—
364,581
60,655,341
— 453,000 75,365,610
—
46,387
7,717,405
— 255,348 42,482,247
—
—
—
—
45,714
7,605,438
25,212
4,194,520
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
97,218
16,174,159
—
—
—
—
48,093
8,001,232
215,392
35,834,767
76,542 12,734,293
—
—
—
—
243,054
40,436,894
—
—
—
—
—
—
— 136,716 22,745,441
—
—
5,520
918,362
21,085
3,507,911
—
—
—
—
61,974 10,310,614
2,760
459,181
10,542
1,753,873
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
85,068
14,152,763
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1/21/2013(14)
45,000
—
18.45 1/20/23
(1) The market value of unvested or unearned shares is calculated by multiplying the number of unvested or unearned shares held by
the applicable NEO by the closing market price of our common stock on the Nasdaq on July 29, 2022 (the last trading day of our
fiscal year), which was $166.37 per share (as adjusted for the Stock Split).
(2) Represents PSUs which were granted under our 2012 Plan (as adjusted for the Stock Split). Values included in the Equity Incentive
Plan Awards: Number of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested and Equity Incentive Plan Awards: Market
or Payout Value of Unearned Shares, Units or Other Rights That Have Not Vested columns include the maximum values for
number of shares and market value (i.e., calculated assuming all maximum company performance targets were met and the
relative TSR modifier was also at the maximum value). For more information, see the section titled “Discussion of our Fiscal 2022
Executive Compensation Program—Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program Components—Equity Compensation.”
(3) Represents PSUs which were granted under our 2012 Plan. A specified performance metric having been achieved, the PSUs that
became eligible to vest will vest over a four-year period with 15% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year
two with the first vesting on January 20, 2022; 42.5% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year three; and
42.5% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year four, in each case subject to the executive’s continued
service through the applicable vesting date.
(4) After achievement of a specified performance metric, these PSUs vested as to one-third of the PSUs that became eligible to
vest on October 20, 2020, vested as to one-third of the PSUs that became eligible to vest on October 20, 2021 and will vest as to
one-third of the PSUs that became eligible to vest on October 20, 2022, in each case subject to the executive’s continued service
through the applicable vesting date.
(5) Vested as to 1/7th of the restricted stock units on June 7, 2019 and the remaining restricted stock units vest in equal increments
each quarter thereafter with full vesting occurring on June 7, 2025, in each case subject to the executive’s continued service
through the applicable vesting date.
(6) All shares subject to this PSO have vested due to the achievement of certain stock price targets and continued service. For more
information, see the section titled “Discussion of our Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program—Fiscal 2022 Executive
Compensation Program Components—Equity Compensation.”
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(7) A specified performance metric having been achieved, the PSUs that became eligible to vest will vest over a four-year period
with one fourth (1/4th) of such PSUs vesting on the one-year anniversary of the grant date; and one-sixteenth (1/16th) of such PSUs
vesting quarterly thereafter, in each case subject to the executive’s continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(8) Vests over a four-year period with one fourth (1/4th) of the restricted stock units vesting on the one-year anniversary of the grant
date; and one-sixteenth (1/16th) of the restricted stock units vesting quarterly thereafter, in each case subject to the executive’s
continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(9) Vests over a four-year period with forty percent (40%) of the restricted stock units vesting on the one-year anniversary of the
grant date; thirty percent (30%) of the restricted stock units vesting in equal quarterly increments during the second year; twenty
percent (20%) of the restricted stock units vesting in equal quarterly increments during the third year; and ten percent (10%) of
the restricted stock units vesting in equal quarterly increments during the fourth year, in each case subject to the executive’s
continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(10) A specified performance metric having been achieved, the PSUs that became eligible to vest will vest over a four-year period,
with 25% of such PSUs having vested on October 20, 2021; 25% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year
two; 25% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year three; and 25% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly
increments during year four, in each case subject to the executive’s continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(11) Vested as to 1/12th of the restricted stock units on January 20, 2020 and the remaining restricted stock units vest in equal
increments each quarter thereafter with full vesting occurring on October 20, 2022, in each case subject to the executive’s
continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(12) All shares subject to this PSO became eligible to vest due to the achievement of certain stock price targets. Three-fourths (3/4th)
of the shares subject to this PSO have vested and one-fourth (1/4th) of the shares subject to this PSO will vest on October 20, 2022,
subject to the executive’s continued service through such vesting date.
(13) A specified performance metric having been achieved, the PSUs that became eligible to vest will vest over a four-year period with
20% of such PSUs vesting during year two with the first vest on January 20, 2022; 40% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly
increments during year three; and 40% of such PSUs vesting in equal quarterly increments during year four, in each case subject
to the executive’s continued service through the applicable vesting date.
(14) All shares subject to this option have vested.
Fiscal 2022 Option Exercises and Stock Vested
The following table presents information regarding the exercise of stock options and the vesting of stock awards by
our NEOs during our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
Named Executive Officer
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk
Option Awards—
Number of Shares
Acquired on Exercise
(#)
Option
Awards—Value
Realized on
Exercise ($)
Stock Awards—
Number of Shares
Acquired on Vesting
(#)
Stock Awards—
Value Realized on
Vesting ($)(1)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
311,385
35,907
—
155,832
38,361
54,039,670
6,520,699
—
27,461,433
6,815,090
(1) Based on the market price of our Company’s Common Stock on the vesting date, multiplied by the number of shares vested (as
adjusted for the Stock Split).
We did not sponsor any defined benefit pension or other actuarial plan for our NEOs during our fiscal year ended
July 31, 2022.
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
In May 2022, our Compensation and People Committee adopted a deferred compensation plan, which is a non-
qualified deferred compensation plan established in compliance with Section 409A of the Code. Participation in the
deferred compensation plan is voluntary and limited to U.S. employees of the Company and affiliates that are at the
Vice President level or above, as determined by the administrator of the deferred compensation plan, and includes
the Company’s executive officers, except Mr. Zuk who is not a U.S. employee. The plan allows eligible participants to
defer up to 50% of their annual base salary and up to 100% of their annual incentive cash payment and 100% equity
compensation. There were no executive contributions or Company contributions made during fiscal 2022.
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Executive Employment Agreements
We have entered into employment offer letters with each of our NEOs in connection with his or her commencement
of employment with us.
In December 2011, we entered into confirmatory new employment agreements with Messrs. Klarich and Zuk to
achieve consistency in the employment terms and conditions of our then-serving executive officers. In February 2022,
we entered into addendums to the offer letters of Messrs. Jenkins and Golechha to achieve consistency in the
employment terms and conditions of our then-serving executive officers.
Each of our NEOs is eligible to receive certain severance payments and/or benefits in connection with his or her
termination of employment under various circumstances, including following a change in control, pursuant to written
severance and change in control arrangements.
For a summary of the material terms and conditions of these arrangements, as well as an estimate of the potential
payments and/or benefits payable to our NEOs under these arrangements, see the description below and the section
titled “—Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control” below. The estimated potential severance
payments and/or benefits payable to each NEO in the event of termination of employment as of July 31, 2022,
pursuant to the arrangements under the employment agreements, are described below.
The actual amounts that would be paid or distributed to our NEOs as a result of one of the termination events
occurring in the future may be different than those presented below as many factors will affect the amount of any
payments and/or benefits upon a termination of employment. For example, some of the factors that could affect
the amounts payable include the NEO’s base salary and the market price of our common stock. Although we have
entered into written arrangements to provide severance payments and/or benefits to our NEOs in connection with a
termination of employment under particular circumstances, we or an acquirer may mutually agree with the NEOs on
severance terms that vary from those provided in these pre-existing arrangements. Finally, in addition to the amounts
presented below, each NEO would also be able to exercise any previously-vested stock options that he or she held. For
more information about the NEOs outstanding equity awards as of July 31, 2022, see the section titled “—Fiscal 2022
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End.”
Along with the severance payments and/or benefits described in an NEO’s individual severance and change in control
arrangement, they are eligible to receive any benefits accrued under our broad-based benefit plans, such as accrued
vacation pay, in accordance with those plans and policies.
Termination of Employment Unrelated to a Change in Control
M R . A R O R A
In the event of an involuntary termination of employment (a termination of employment by us without “cause”), at any
time before a “change in control” or more than 12 months following a “change in control,” provided that he executes
an appropriate release and waiver of claims, Mr. Arora will be entitled to receive:
• continued payment of his then-current base salary for a period of 12 months and reimbursement of 12 months of
COBRA premiums; and
• accelerated vesting of the time-based restricted stock units, investment restricted stock units and eligible option
shares for shares that would vest through the date 12 months after termination of employment.
TE RMINATI O N OF EMP LOYME NT— OTHER NAMED E XEC UTIVE OFFICER S
None of the remaining NEOs are eligible to receive any specific payments or benefits in the event of an involuntary
termination of employment unrelated to a change in control.
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Termination of Employment in Connection with a Change in Control
M R . A R O R A
In the event of an involuntary termination of employment (a termination of employment by us or our successor
without “cause or a termination of employment for “good reason”) within 12 months following a “change in control,”
provided that he executes an appropriate release and waiver of claims, Mr. Arora will be entitled to receive:
• a lump sum payment equal to his then-current annual base salary;
• 100% of his incentive compensation for that fiscal year;
• reimbursement of 12 months of COBRA premiums;
• accelerated vesting of each of his awards of time-based restricted stock units or investment restricted stock units
as to the greater of: (x) 50% of the then-unvested portion of such award or (y) the portion of such award that would
vest through the date 24 months after termination of employment; and
• accelerated vesting of 100% of his eligible option shares subject to the performance option.
M E S S R S . G O L E C H H A , J E N K I N S , K L A R I C H , A N D Z U K
In the event of an involuntary termination of employment (a termination of employment by us without “cause” or
a termination of employment for “good reason”) within 12 months following a “change in control,” provided that
the executive officer executes an appropriate release and waiver of claims, provided that they each execute an
appropriate release and waiver of claims, Messrs. Golechha, Jenkins, Klarich and Zuk will each be entitled to receive:
• a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months of his base salary as in effect as of the date of termination;
• a lump sum cash payment equal to 100% of his target incentive payment for that fiscal year;
• a lump sum cash payment equal to the amount payable for premiums for continued COBRA benefits for a period
of 12 months (except Mr. Zuk); and
• accelerated vesting of each of his then outstanding time-based equity awards, as to (i) in the cases of Messrs.
Golechha and Jenkins, 12 months’ vesting of such award, or (ii) in the cases of Messrs. Klarich and Zuk, the greater of
12 months’ vesting of such award and 50% of the then-unvested portion of such award.
A P P L I C A B L E D E F I N I T I O N S
Generally, for purposes of the foregoing provisions, a “change in control” means:
• the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets;
• any sale or exchange of our capital stock by stockholders in a transaction or series of related transactions where
more than 50% of the outstanding voting power of our company is acquired by a person or entity or group of
related persons or entities;
• any reorganization, consolidation, or merger of our company where our outstanding voting securities immediately
before the transaction represent or are converted into less than 50% of the outstanding voting power of the
surviving entity (or its parent organization) immediately after the transaction; or
• the consummation of the acquisition of 51% or more of our outstanding stock pursuant to a tender offer validly
made under any state or federal law (other than a tender offer by us).
Generally, for purposes of the foregoing provisions, “cause” is limited to:
• conviction of any felony or any crime involving moral turpitude or dishonesty;
• participation in intentional fraud or an act of willful dishonesty against us;
• willful breach of our policies that materially harms us;
•
intentional damage of a substantial amount of our property;
• willful and material breach of the NEO’s employment offer letter, employment agreement or his employee
invention assignment and confidentiality agreement; or
• a willful failure or refusal in a material respect to follow the lawful, reasonable policies or directions of us as
specified by our board of directors or Chief Executive Officer after being provided with notice of such failure, which
failure is not remedied within 30 days after receipt of written notice from us.
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Generally, for purposes of the foregoing provisions, “good reason” means a resignation within 12 months following the
occurrence, without the Named Executive Officer’s written consent, of one or more of the following:
• there is a material reduction in the NEO’s authority, status, obligations, or responsibilities;
• there is a reduction in the NEO’s total annual compensation of more than 10% unless such reduction is no greater
(in percentage terms) than compensation reductions imposed on substantially all of our employees pursuant to a
directive of our board of directors;
• any failure by us to pay the NEO’s base salary; or
• the relocation of the principal place of our business to a location that is more than a specified number of miles
further away from the NEO’s home than our current location.
A resignation for “good reason” will not be deemed to have occurred unless the NEO gives us written notice of one of
the above conditions within 90 days of its occurrence, and we fail to remedy the condition within 30 days of receipt of
such notice.
Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control
Termination of Employment Unrelated to a Change in Control
Named Executive Officer
Mr. Arora
Salary
Continuation
($)
1,000,000
Value of Accelerated
Equity
Awards ($)
Target
Annual Cash
Bonus
($)
Restricted
Stock and
Restricted
Stock
Units(1)
Options
Value of
Continued
Health Care
Coverage
Premiums
($)
Total ($)
— 52,130,209
—
31,394 53,161,603
(1) The amounts reported in the table reflect the aggregate market value of the unvested shares of our common stock underlying
outstanding RSUs and PSUs which remain subject to time-based vesting only. The aggregate market value is computed by
multiplying (i) the number of unvested shares of our common stock, subject to outstanding RSUs and PSUs which remain subject
to time-based vesting only on July 31, 2022, that would become vested by (ii) $166.37 (the closing market price of our common
stock on the Nasdaq on July 29, 2022, the last trading day in the fiscal year ended July 31, 2022 (as adjusted for the Stock Split)).
Termination of Employment in Connection with a Change in Control
Value of Accelerated Equity
Awards ($)
Salary
Continuation
($)
Target
Annual Cash
Bonus
($)
Restricted
Stock and
Restricted
Stock Units(1)
Options(2)
Value of
Continued
Health Care
Coverage
Premiums
($)
Total ($)
1,000,000
600,000
750,000
550,000
459,420
—
1,000,000 102,381,602
—
4,444,076
15,960,539
—
15,798,993 51,240,580
7,368,361 38,429,824
600,000
750,000
550,000
459,420
31,394 104,412,996
5,675,470
31,394
17,491,933
31,394
68,170,967
31,394
46,717,025
—
Named Executive Officer
Mr. Arora
Mr. Golechha
Mr. Jenkins
Mr. Klarich
Mr. Zuk
(1) The amounts reported in this column reflect the aggregate market value of the unvested shares of our common stock underlying
outstanding RSUs and PSUs which remain subject to time-based vesting only. The aggregate market value is computed by
multiplying (i) the number of unvested shares of our common stock subject to outstanding RSUs and PSUs which remain subject
to time-based vesting only on July 31, 2022, that would become vested by (ii) $166.37 (the closing market price of our common
stock on the Nasdaq on July 29, 2022, the last trading day in the fiscal year ended July 31, 2022 (as adjusted for the Stock Split)).
(2) The amounts reported in this column reflect the accelerated vesting of outstanding performance stock options valued at the
closing stock price on July 29, 2022 of $166.37 minus the exercise price of the options.
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Executive Officers
The following table identifies certain information about our executive officers as of October 14, 2022. Officers are
appointed by our board of directors to hold office until their successors are elected and qualified.
Name
Nikesh Arora
Dipak Golechha
William “BJ” Jenkins
Lee Klarich
Nir Zuk
Age
54
48
56
47
51
Position(s)
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
President
Chief Product Officer
Chief Technology Officer and Director
Nikesh Arora. For a brief biography of Mr. Arora, please see “Proposal No. 1 - Election of Directors - Directors -
Continuing Directors.”
Dipak Golechha has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2021. Mr. Golechha joined the Company
in December 2020 as Senior Vice President, Finance. Prior to joining the Company, from August 2020 until
December 2020, Mr. Golechha served as senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting
firm. From December 2016 to April 2020, Mr. Golechha was President and Chief Executive Officer of Excelligence
Learning Corporation, a tech-enabled platform company in early childhood education. From August 2014 through
July 2016, Mr. Golechha served as the chief financial officer of NBTY Inc., also known as The Nature’s Bounty
Company, a manufacturer of vitamins, minerals and health supplements. During 2014, Mr. Golechha served as
the chief financial officer of Chobani, a yogurt company. Prior to Chobani, Mr. Golechha worked at The Procter &
Gamble Company, an American multinational consumer goods corporation, for 18 years, most recently serving as
chief financial officer / chief operating officer of the Global Feminine Care / Adult Care Division from August 2012 to
December 2013. Mr. Golechha holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from St. John’s College, Cambridge
University in Economics.
William “BJ” Jenkins has served as our President since August 2021. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Jenkins
served as President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, Inc., a computer security and data storage company, from
November 2012 through July 2021. Prior to this position, Mr. Jenkins held multiple business unit and sales and
marketing leadership roles at EMC Corporation, a provider of enterprise storage systems, software, and networks.
Mr. Jenkins holds an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Lee Klarich has served as our Chief Product Officer since August 2017. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Klarich served as
our Executive Vice President of Product Management, a role he held since November 2015. From November 2012 to
November 2015, Mr. Klarich served as our Senior Vice President, Product Management and our Vice President, Product
Management from May 2006 to November 2012. Prior to joining us, Mr. Klarich held various positions at NetScreen
Technologies, Juniper Networks, Excite@Home, and Packard Bell-NEC. Mr. Klarich holds a B.S. in Engineering from
Cornell University.
Nir Zuk. For a brief biography of Mr. Zuk, please see “Proposal No. 1 - Election of Directors - Directors - Continuing
Directors.”
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Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table provides information as of July 31, 2022 (as adjusted for the Stock Split), with respect to the shares
of our common stock that may be issued under our existing equity compensation plans.
(a) Number of Securities
to be Issued Upon
Exercise of Outstanding
Options, Warrants and
Rights
(b) Weighted Average
Exercise Price of
Outstanding Options,
Warrants and Rights ($)(2)
(c) Number of Securities
Remaining Available for
Future Issuance Under
Equity Compensation
Plans (Excluding
Securities Reflected in
Column (a))
25,307,469
$64.59
28,482,339
576,387
25,883,856
—
—
28,482,339
Plan Category
Equity compensation plans
approved by stockholders (1)
Equity compensation plans not
approved by stockholders
Total
(1) Includes the following plans: the 2012 Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“2012 ESPP”).
Our 2012 ESPP provides that on the first day of each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2014 the number of shares authorized
for issuance under the 2012 ESPP is automatically increased by a number equal to the lesser of (i) 6,000,000 shares of common
stock, (ii) one percent (1.0%) of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding on such date, or (iii) an amount
determined by our board of directors or a duly authorized committee of our board of directors.
(2) The weighted average exercise price does not take into account outstanding restricted stock, PSUs or RSUs, which have no
exercise price.
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Equity Incentive Plan
PR OP OS AL NO. 4
Amendment to Our 2021 Equity
Incentive Plan
We are asking our stockholders to approve an amendment to our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2021 Plan”)
to increase the number of shares of our common stock (“Shares”) reserved for issuance under the 2021 Plan by
5,985,000 Shares. Other than this increase, no changes have been made to the 2021 Plan. All Share numbers in this
Proposal No. 4 have been adjusted for our Stock Split.
Why Should Stockholders Vote to Approve the
Amendment to the 2021 Plan?
The Amendment to the 2021 Plan Will Allow Us to Continue
Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent
Our Board believes that our success depends on the ability to attract and retain the best available personnel for
positions of substantial responsibility and that the ability to grant equity awards is crucial to recruiting and retaining
the services of these individuals. In addition, our Board believes that equity awards provide additional incentive to our
employees, directors and consultants and promote our success. If stockholders do not approve the amendment to
the 2021 Plan at the Annual Meeting, we may be unable to continue granting equity awards as needed, which could
prevent us from successfully attracting and retaining the highly skilled talent we need.
A Reasonable Number of Shares Will Be Added to the
2021 Plan
If our stockholders approve the amendment to the 2021 Plan, 5,985,000 Shares will be added to the 2021 Plan. We
anticipate these Shares will be enough to meet our expected needs for the next one to two years.
• Number of Shares Remaining under the 2021 Plan. As of October 14, 2022, 10,428,915 Shares remained available for
issuance under the 2021 Plan.
• Overhang. As of October 14, 2022, outstanding equity awards under our 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2012 Plan”)
and the 2021 Plan covered 27,705,573 Shares, which represented approximately 9% of our outstanding Shares as of
that date.
• Historical Grant Practices. In fiscal 2020, 2021 and 2022, we granted equity awards (excluding RSUs assumed in
acquisitions) covering 11.4 million, 14.1 million and 6.6 million Shares, respectively, for approximately 32.1 million
equity awards over that three-year period.
• Forecasted Grants. To determine how long the Shares to be added to the 2021 Plan will enable us to make grants of
equity awards, our Compensation and People Committee and our Board reviewed a forecast that considered these
factors: (i) the remaining number of Shares available for future grants under the 2021 Plan and (ii) forecasted future
grants, with the future grant numbers determined based on assumptions about stock price and the competitive
dollar value to be delivered to the grant recipient. Because we generally determine the size of equity awards to be
granted based on the value of the award, if the stock price used to determine the number of Shares subject to an
award differs significantly from the stock price assumed in the forecast (which was $167 to $200 per share), our
actual Share usage will deviate significantly from our forecasted Share usage. For example, if our stock price used
to determine the number of Shares subject to an award is lower than the stock price assumed in the forecast, we
would need a larger number of Shares than anticipated to deliver the same intended value to participants.
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We Have Used our Equity Plans Responsibly
We recognize the dilutive impact of our equity compensation on our stockholders and continuously strive to balance
this concern with the competition for talent. In the process it used to determine the number of Shares to be added
to the 2021 Plan, our Compensation and People Committee and Board reviewed analyses prepared by Meridian
Compensation Partners, independent compensation consultant, which included analysis of the burn rate and
overhang metrics discussed below. If approved, the Shares added to the 2021 Plan would represent approximately
2% of our 300,395,286 outstanding Shares as of October 14, 2022. Our Board believes the potential dilution to
stockholders is reasonable and sustainable to meet our business goals.
Gross burn rate can be used by some to assess a company’s use of equity compensation. Gross burn rate is defined
as the number of shares underlying equity awards granted in a given fiscal year (excluding any RSUs assumed in
acquisitions) divided by the number of shares of weighted average common stock outstanding (“CSO”).
Potential actual dilution to stockholders is often measured by analyzing the net burn rate. Net burn rate is defined
as (i) the number of shares underlying equity awards granted in a given fiscal year (excluding any RSUs assumed in
acquisitions) minus shares subject to outstanding equity awards forfeited during the year and returned to the plan
divided by (ii) CSO. This measure indicates the rate at which we actually create potential future stockholder dilution.
We have managed our net burn rate to 2.0% in fiscal 2020, 3.7% in fiscal 2021, and 1.0% in fiscal 2022. Our burn rates
are lower in fiscal 2022 primarily due to stock price appreciation.
The following table shows our gross and net burn rate over the past three fiscal years and the average CSO of those
three years.
in millions
Fiscal 2020
Fiscal 2021
Fiscal 2022
Average
Performance-based stock options (“PSOs”) granted
PSOs earned
Restricted Stock Units (“RSUs”) granted(1)
Performance-based restricted stock units
(“PSUs”) granted(2)
PSUs earned
Total awards granted(3)
Weighted average common stock outstanding
Gross Burn Rate
Forfeitures of Options
Forfeitures of PSOs
Forfeitures of RSUs and PSUs
Net Burn Rate
0
0
10.2
1.2
0.3
11.4
290.7
3.9%
0
2.7
3.0
2.0%
0.6
1.2
11.1
2.4
0.3
14.1
289.2
4.9%
0
0.6
2.7
3.7%
0
5.6
5.7
0.9
1.2
6.6
295.5
2.2%
0
0.3
3.3
1.0%
0.2
2.3
9.0
1.5
0.6
10.7
291.8
4.0%
0
1.2
3.0
2.2%
(1) Excludes RSUs assumed in acquisitions.
(2) For PSUs, shares granted represent the aggregate maximum number of shares that may be earned and issued with respect to
these awards over their full terms.
(3) Includes RSUs granted, PSOs granted and PSUs granted.
The 2021 Plan Includes Compensation and Governance
Best Practices
The 2021 Plan includes provisions considered best practices for compensation and corporate governance purposes.
These provisions protect our stockholders’ interests:
• Administration. The 2021 Plan is administered by our Compensation and People Committee, which consists
entirely of independent non-employee directors.
• Repricing is Not Allowed without Stockholder Approval. The 2021 Plan does not permit awards to be repriced or
exchanged for other awards unless stockholders approve the repricing or exchange.
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• No Single-Trigger Vesting Acceleration upon a Change in Control for Employees and Consultants. Awards under
the 2021 Plan will be treated in a change in control (as defined in the 2021 Plan) in the manner determined by the
administrator, and except for awards granted to our non-employee directors for their service as non-employee
directors, the terms of the 2021 Plan provide for no automatic vesting of awards upon a change in control unless the
award is not assumed or substituted.
• Limited transferability. Awards under the 2021 Plan generally may not be sold, assigned, hypothecated, transferred,
or disposed of in any manner, unless otherwise approved by the administrator (on such terms as the administrator
deems appropriate) or required by applicable laws.
• No Tax Gross-ups. The 2021 Plan does not provide for any tax gross-ups.
• Forfeiture Events. Each award under the 2021 Plan and any other incentive compensation paid to a participant
is subject to our clawback policy that was in effect when the 2021 Plan was originally adopted and any clawback
policy that we establish or amend to comply with applicable laws, and the administrator may require a participant
to forfeit, return, or reimburse all or a portion of the award or other compensation and any amounts paid under the
award or other compensation to comply with such clawback policy or applicable laws.
• Reasonable Annual Limits on Non-Employee Director Compensation. The 2021 Plan sets limits as to the total
compensation that non-employee directors may receive (for service as a non-employee director) during each
fiscal year.
• No Dividends on Unvested Awards. No dividends or other distributions may be paid with respect to any Shares
underlying the unvested portion of an award.
Our executive officers and directors have an interest in the approval of the amendment to the 2021 Plan because they
are eligible to receive equity awards under the 2021 Plan.
Required Vote
The approval of an amendment of our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the
shares of our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the virtual Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon
to be approved. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” with respect to this proposal. Abstentions are considered
votes present and entitled to vote on this proposal, and thus will have the same effect as votes “against” this proposal.
Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal.
Recommendation of the Board
The Board recommends that you vote “FOR” the approval of the amendment to the 2021
Equity Incentive Plan and the number of shares reserved for issuance under the 2021 Plan.
Summary of the 2021 Plan
The following paragraphs summarize the principal features of the 2021 Plan, as amended, and its operation. However,
this summary is not a complete description of the provisions of the 2021 Plan and is qualified in its entirety by the
specific language of the 2021 Plan. A copy of the 2021 Plan is provided as Appendix B to this proxy statement.
Purpose of the 2021 Plan
The purpose of the 2021 Plan is to attract and retain the best available personnel for positions of substantial
responsibility, provide additional incentive to employees, directors, and consultants, and promote the success of our
business. These incentives can be provided through the grant of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted
stock, restricted stock units, performance units, and performance shares.
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Shares Available for Issuance
Subject to the adjustment provisions in the 2021 Plan, the number of Shares reserved for issuance under the 2021
Plan is equal to (a) 19,185,000 new Shares plus (b) any Shares subject to awards previously granted under the 2012
Plan that, on or after the date our stockholders initially approve the 2021 Plan, expire or otherwise terminate without
having been exercised or issued in full, are tendered to or withheld by us for payment of an exercise price or for
tax withholding obligations, or that are forfeited to or repurchased by us due to failure to vest, with the maximum
number of shares to be added under the foregoing clause equal to 31,740,063 Shares. If we substitute equity awards
for equity awards of acquired entities in connection with mergers, reorganizations, separations, or other transactions
as described in the 2021 Plan, the grant of such substituted awards will not decrease the number of Shares available
for issuance under the 2021 Plan. Shares may be authorized, but unissued, or reacquired common stock.
If an award granted under the 2021 Plan expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full
or is forfeited to or repurchased by us due to failure to vest, then the expired, unexercised, forfeited, or repurchased
Shares subject to that award will become available for future grant or sale under the 2021 Plan. If an award of stock
appreciation rights is exercised, the gross number of Shares underlying the portion of a stock appreciation right
that is exercised will cease to be available under the 2021 Plan. Shares actually issued under the 2021 Plan under any
award will not be returned to the 2021 Plan and will not become available for future grant or sale under the 2021 Plan;
provided, however, that if Shares issued under awards of restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance shares or
performance units are repurchased by us or are forfeited to us due to failure to vest, such Shares will become available
for future grant under the 2021 Plan. Shares used to pay the exercise price of an award or to satisfy tax withholding
obligations related to an award will not become available for future grant or sale under the 2021 Plan. If an award is
paid in cash rather than Shares, such payment will not reduce the number of Shares available for issuance under the
2021 Plan.
In the event of certain dividends or other distributions (whether in the form of cash, Shares, other securities, or
other property), recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-
off, combination, repurchase or exchange of Shares or other securities or other change in the corporate structure
affecting our Shares, the 2021 Plan administrator, in order to prevent diminution or enlargement of the benefits or
potential benefits intended to be made available under the 2021 Plan, will adjust the number and class of shares that
may be delivered under the 2021 Plan, and/or the number, class and price of shares of stock subject to outstanding
awards, and the award grant limitations discussed above.
During the term of the 2021 Plan, we will at all times reserve and keep available a number of Shares sufficient to
satisfy the requirements of the 2021 Plan.
Limitations
The 2021 Plan also provides that no non-employee director may be paid compensation for service as a non-employee
director that, in the aggregate, exceeds $2,000,000 for any fiscal year of ours, increased to $4,000,000 for the
non-employee director for our fiscal year in which he or she joins our Board as a non-employee director. For these
purposes, compensation includes equity awards (including any awards issued under the 2021 Plan), with the value
of such equity awards measured based on their grant date fair value (determined under U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles), and any other compensation (such as cash retainers or fees) for director service. Any award
granted to a participant while he or she was an employee or a consultant (other than a non-employee director) will
not count for this limitation.
Administration
Our Board, any committee of individuals satisfying applicable laws appointed by our Board, or any duly authorized
committee of our Board acts as the “administrator” of the 2021 Plan. Different administrators may administer the 2021
Plan with respect to different groups of service providers. Our Board has designated our Compensation and People
Committee as an administrator of the 2021 Plan. To make grants to certain officers and key employees, the members
of the committee must qualify as “non-employee directors” under Rule 16b-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
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Subject to the terms of the 2021 Plan, the administrator has the authority to make any determinations and perform
any actions that it deems necessary or advisable to administer the 2021 Plan, such as the authority to: determine the
fair market value of a Share, select the service providers who will receive awards; determine the number of Shares
covered by each award and the terms of each award; approve forms of award agreements for use with the 2021 Plan;
interpret, modify or amend each award (subject to the repricing restrictions of the 2021 Plan), including to accelerate
vesting or waive forfeiture restrictions; interpret the 2021 Plan; and delegate ministerial duties to any of our employees.
The administrator may allow a participant to defer the receipt of payment of cash or delivery of Shares otherwise
due to such participant. The administrator may make rules and regulations relating to the 2021 Plan, including rules,
regulations, and sub-plans to facilitate compliance with applicable non-U.S. laws, easing the administration of the
2021 Plan, and/or take advantage of tax-favorable treatment of awards granted to service providers outside the U.S.,
and may make all other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for administering the 2021 Plan.
Eligibility
All types of awards, other than incentive stock options, may be granted to our non-employee directors and to
employees and consultants of ours or any parent or subsidiary corporation of ours. Incentive stock options may be
granted only to employees of ours or any parent or subsidiary corporation of ours. As of July 31, 2022, we and our
parent and subsidiary corporations had approximately 12,561 employees (including three employee directors), nine
non-employee directors, and approximately 11 consultants.
Stock Options
An option gives a participant the right to purchase a specified number of Shares for a fixed exercise price during a
specified period. Each option granted under the 2021 Plan will be evidenced by an award agreement specifying the
number of Shares subject to the option and the other terms of the option, consistent with the 2021 Plan.
The exercise price per Share of each option may not be less than the fair market value of a Share on the date of
grant (except, in the case of a nonstatutory stock option, as otherwise required by applicable laws). However, any
incentive stock option granted to a person who at the time of grant owns stock representing more than 10% of the
total combined voting power of all classes of our stock or any parent or subsidiary corporation of ours (a “ten percent
stockholder”) must have an exercise price per Share equal to at least 110% of the fair market value of a Share on the
date of grant. The aggregate fair market value of the Shares (determined on the grant date) covered by incentive
stock options which first become exercisable by any participant during any calendar year also may not exceed
$100,000. For this purpose, the fair market value of a Share is generally the closing sales price of our stock, as reported
on the primary stock exchange on which it is traded. On October 14, 2022, the closing price of a Share on Nasdaq
was $154.83.
Options will be exercisable at such times or under such conditions as determined by the administrator and set forth
in the award agreement. When a participant’s service ends, the unvested portion of the participant’s option generally
expires. The vested portion of the option will remain exercisable for the period following the end of the participant’s
service that was determined by the administrator and specified in the participant’s award agreement, and if no such
period was specified in the award agreement, the vested portion of the option will remain exercisable for: (i) 3 months
following the end of the participant’s service provider status for reasons other than death or disability or (ii) 12 months
following the end of the participant’s service provider status due to death or disability. In addition, a participant’s
award agreement may provide for an extension of the post-service exercise period if the participant’s service ends for
reasons other than his or her death or disability and the exercise of the option following the termination of service
would result in liability under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act or would violate the registration requirements under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
The term of an option will be specified in the award agreement, but the term of an incentive stock option may not be
more than ten years (or five years for an incentive stock option granted to a ten percent stockholder).
The administrator will determine the acceptable form(s) of consideration for exercising an option. An option will be
deemed exercised when we receive the notice of exercise and full payment for the Shares to be exercised, together
with any amounts necessary to satisfy withholding obligations for tax-related items. At any time after the grant of an
option, the administrator has the discretion to accelerate the time at which the option will vest or become exercisable.
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Stock Appreciation Rights
A stock appreciation right gives a participant the right to receive the appreciation in the value of a Share between the
date an award is granted and the date it is exercised. Upon exercise of a stock appreciation right, the holder of the
award will be entitled to receive an amount determined as the product of: (i) the difference between the fair market
value of a Share on the date of exercise and the exercise price per Share and (ii) the number of Shares covered by the
exercised portion of the stock appreciation right. We may pay that amount in cash, Shares, or a combination of both.
Each stock appreciation right granted under the 2021 Plan will be evidenced by an award agreement specifying the
exercise price and the other terms of the award.
The exercise price per Share of each stock appreciation right may not be less than the fair market value of a Share on
the date of grant, unless otherwise required by applicable laws.
Stock appreciation rights will be exercisable at such times or under such conditions as determined by the
administrator and set forth in the award agreement. The terms relating to the period of exercise of stock appreciation
rights following the termination of a participant’s service are similar to those for options described above. At any time
after the grant of a stock appreciation right, the administrator has the discretion to accelerate the time at which the
stock appreciation right will vest or become exercisable.
Restricted Stock Awards
Awards of restricted stock are rights to acquire or purchase Shares that vest under the terms established by the
administrator in its sole discretion. Unless the administrator provides otherwise, participants holding Shares of
restricted stock will have voting rights with respect to such Shares without regard to vesting. After an award of
restricted stock has been granted, the administrator has the discretion to reduce or waive any restrictions and to
accelerate the time at which any restrictions will lapse or be removed.
Restricted Stock Units
A restricted stock unit represent a right to receive cash or Shares if the performance goals or other vesting criteria set
by the administrator are achieved or the restricted stock unit otherwise vests. Each award of restricted stock units
granted under the 2021 Plan will be evidenced by an award agreement specifying the number of Shares subject to
the award and other terms of the award.
The administrator may set vesting conditions based upon the achievement of company-wide, divisional, business unit
or individual goals (such as continued employment or service), applicable U.S. or non-U.S. federal or state securities
laws, or any other basis determined by the administrator, in its discretion.
After an award of restricted stock units has been granted, the administrator has the discretion to reduce or waive any
restrictions or vesting criteria that must be met to receive a payout or to accelerate the time at which any restrictions
will lapse or be removed. A participant will forfeit any unearned restricted stock units on the date specified in the
participant’s award agreement. The administrator in its sole discretion may pay earned restricted stock units in cash,
Shares, or a combination of both.
Performance Units and Performance Shares
Performance units and performance shares are awards that will result in a payment to a participant only if
performance goals established by the administrator are achieved or the awards otherwise vest. Performance units will
have an initial value established by the administrator on or before the date of grant. Each performance share will have
an initial value equal to the fair market value of a Share on the grant date. Performance units and performance shares
will result in a payment to a participant only if the performance goals or other vesting criteria set by the administrator
are achieved or the awards otherwise vest.
Each award of performance units or performance shares granted under the 2021 Plan will be evidenced by an award
agreement specifying the performance period and other terms of the award. The administrator may set vesting
criteria based upon the achievement of company-wide, divisional, business unit or individual goals (such as continued
employment or service), applicable U.S. or non-U.S. federal or state securities laws, or any other basis determined by
the administrator, in its discretion.
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After an award of performance units or performance shares has been granted, the administrator has the discretion
to accelerate, reduce or waive any performance objectives or other vesting provisions for such performance units or
performance shares.
The administrator has the discretion to pay earned performance units or performance shares in the form of cash,
Shares (which will have an aggregate fair market value equal to the earned performance units or performance shares
at the close of the performance period), or a combination of both.
A participant will forfeit any performance units or performance shares not earned and not vested as of the date
specified in the participant’s award agreement.
Transferability of Awards
Unless otherwise specified by the administrator or required by applicable laws, awards are not transferable other than
by will or by the laws of descent or distribution. The administrator may permit an award to be transferred (i) under a
domestic relations order, official marital settlement agreement, or other divorce or separation agreement, or (ii) to
the extent permitted by Form S-8 under the Securities Act and any other applicable laws. Any individual or entity
to whom an award is transferred will be subject to all of the terms and conditions applicable to the participant who
transferred the award, including the terms and conditions in the 2021 Plan and the award agreement. If an award is
unvested, then the service of the participant will continue to determine whether the award will vest and when it will
terminate.
Dissolution or Liquidation
In the event of our proposed dissolution or liquidation, the administrator will notify each participant as soon as
practicable prior to the effective date of such proposed transaction. An award will terminate immediately prior to
consummation of such proposed action to the extent the award has not been previously exercised.
Merger or Change in Control
The 2021 Plan provides that, in the event of a merger or change in control, each award will be treated as the
administrator determines without a participant’s consent. The administrator will not be required to treat all awards¸
all awards held by a participant, all awards of the same type, or all portions of awards the same in the transaction.
If the successor corporation does not assume or substitute for the award (or portion thereof), the participant will vest
in and may exercise all of the participant’s outstanding options and stock appreciation rights (or portion thereof)
that is not assumed or substituted for, all restrictions on restricted stock and restricted stock units will lapse. With
respect to awards with performance-based vesting that are not assumed or substituted for, all performance goals or
other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at 100% of target levels, and all other terms met, in each case, unless
specifically provided otherwise under the applicable award agreement. In addition, if an option or stock appreciation
right (or its applicable portion) is not assumed or substituted for, the administrator will notify the participant in
writing or electronically that the option or stock appreciation right will be exercisable for a period of time determined
by the administrator, in its sole discretion, and the option or stock appreciation right (or its applicable portion) will
terminate upon the expiration of such period.
For awards granted to each of our non-employee directors, in the event of a change in control, (i) the non-employee
director will fully vest in and have the right to exercise all of his or her outstanding options and stock appreciation
rights, (ii) all restrictions on the non-employee director’s restricted stock and restricted stock units will lapse, and (iii)
with respect to the non-employee director’s awards with performance-based vesting, all performance goals or other
vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at target levels and all other terms and conditions will be deemed met,
unless specifically provided otherwise under the applicable award agreement.
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Forfeiture Events
Each award under the 2021 Plan and any other compensation paid or payable to a participant (including, but not
limited to, equity awards issued outside of the 2021 Plan) will be subject to any clawback policy of ours, and the
administrator also may specify in an award agreement that the participant’s rights, payments, and benefits regarding
an award will be subject to reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, recoupment, reimbursement, or reacquisition upon the
occurrence of certain specified events. An award will be subject to the Company’s clawback policy in effect when the
award is granted and any other clawback policy of ours as established and/or amended to comply with applicable
laws (such as under the listing standards of any national securities exchange or association on which our securities
are listed or as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act). The administrator may
require a participant to forfeit, return, or reimburse all or a portion of the award and any amounts paid under the
award to comply with such clawback policy or applicable laws.
No recovery of compensation under a clawback policy or otherwise will constitute an event that triggers or
contributes to any right of a participant to resign for “good reason” or “constructive termination” (or similar term)
under any agreement with us or any of our parent or subsidiary corporations, unless the 2021 Plan provisions
described in the prior paragraph specifically are mentioned and waived in an award agreement or other document.
Termination or Amendment
The administrator may amend, alter, suspend, or terminate the 2021 Plan at any time, provided that no amendment
may be made without stockholder approval to the extent approval is necessary to comply with any applicable
laws. No amendment, alteration, suspension, or termination may materially impair the rights of any participant
with respect to his or her outstanding awards unless mutually agreed otherwise between the participant and the
administrator. The 2021 Plan will continue until terminated by the administrator, but no incentive stock option may be
granted after the tenth anniversary of the date the 2021 Plan was originally adopted by our Board.
Notwithstanding the prior paragraph, the Administrator may amend the terms of any one or more awards without
an affected participant’s consent even if it does materially impair the participant’s rights, subject to the limitations
of applicable laws, if any, if such amendment is done (i) in a manner expressly permitted under the 2021 Plan; (ii) to
maintain the qualified status of the award as an incentive stock option under Section 422 of the Code; (iii) to change
the terms of an incentive stock option, if such change results in impairment of the award only because it impairs the
qualified status of the award as an incentive stock option under Section 422 of the Code; (iv) to clarify the manner of
exemption from, or to bring the award into compliance with, Section 409A of the Code; or (v) to comply with other
applicable laws.
Summary of U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences
The following summary is intended only as a general guide to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of
participation in the 2021 Plan. The summary is based on existing U.S. laws and regulations, and there can be no
assurance that those laws and regulations will not change. The summary is not complete and does not discuss the
tax consequences upon a participant’s death, or the income tax laws of any municipality, state, or non-U.S. country
in which a participant may reside. Tax consequences for any particular participant may vary based on individual
circumstances.
Incentive Stock Options
A participant recognizes no taxable income for regular income tax purposes because of the grant or exercise of an
option that qualifies as incentive stock option under Section 422 of the Code. If a participant exercises the option
and then later sells or otherwise disposes of the Shares acquired through the exercise the option after both the two-
year anniversary of the date the option was granted and the one-year anniversary of the exercise, the participant will
recognize a capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the sale price of the Shares and the exercise price.
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However, if the participant disposes of such Shares either on or before the two-year anniversary of the date of grant or
on or before the one-year anniversary of the date of exercise (a “disqualifying disposition”), any gain up to the excess
of the fair market value of the Shares on the date of exercise over the exercise price generally will be taxed as ordinary
income, unless the Shares are disposed of in a transaction in which the participant would not recognize a loss (such as
a gift). Any gain in excess of that amount will be a capital gain. If a loss is recognized, there will be no ordinary income,
and such loss will be a capital loss.
For purposes of the alternative minimum tax, the difference between the option exercise price and the fair market
value of the Shares on the exercise date is treated as an adjustment item in computing the participant’s alternative
minimum taxable income in the year of exercise. In addition, special alternative minimum tax rules may apply to
certain subsequent disqualifying dispositions of the Shares or provide certain basis adjustments or tax credits.
Nonstatutory Stock Options
A participant generally recognizes no taxable income as the result of the grant of a nonstatutory stock option.
However, upon exercising the option with respect to any Shares, the participant normally recognizes ordinary income
equal to the amount that the fair market value of such Shares on such date exceeds the exercise price for such
Shares. If the participant is an employee, such ordinary income generally is subject to withholding of income and
employment taxes. Upon the sale of the Shares acquired by exercising a nonstatutory stock option, any gain or loss
(based on the difference between the sale price and the fair market value on the exercise date) will be taxed as capital
gain or loss.
Stock Appreciation Rights
A participant generally recognizes no taxable income as the result of the grant of a stock appreciation right. However,
upon exercising the stock appreciation right with respect to any Shares, the participant normally recognizes ordinary
income equal to the amount that the fair market value of such Shares on such date exceeds the exercise price for
such Shares. If the participant is an employee, such ordinary income generally is subject to withholding of income
and employment taxes. Upon the sale of the Shares acquired by exercising a stock appreciation right, any gain or loss
(based on the difference between the sale price and the fair market value on the exercise date) will be taxed as capital
gain or loss.
Restricted Stock Awards
A participant acquiring Shares of restricted stock generally will recognize ordinary income equal to the amount that
the fair market value of the Shares on the vesting date exceeds the purchase price paid by the participant for such
Shares (if any). If the participant is an employee, such ordinary income generally is subject to withholding of income
and employment taxes. The participant may elect, under Section 83(b) of the Code, to accelerate the ordinary income
tax event to the date of acquisition by filing an election with the Internal Revenue Service no later than thirty days
after the date the Shares are acquired. Upon the sale of Shares acquired under a restricted stock award, any gain or
loss, based on the difference between the sale price and the fair market value on the date the ordinary income tax
event occurs, will be taxed as capital gain or loss.
Restricted Stock Unit Awards
There are no immediate tax consequences of receiving an award of restricted stock units. A participant who is
awarded restricted stock units generally will have to recognize ordinary income equal to the fair market value of
Shares issued to such participant at the end of the applicable vesting period or, if later, the settlement date elected
by the administrator or a participant. If the participant is an employee, such ordinary income generally is subject to
withholding of income and employment taxes. Any additional gain or loss recognized upon any later disposition of
any Shares received would be capital gain or loss.
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Performance Shares and Performance Unit Awards
A participant generally will recognize no income upon the grant of a performance share or a performance unit award.
Upon the settlement of such awards, participants normally will recognize ordinary income in the year of receipt in
an amount equal to the cash received and the fair market value of any cash or unrestricted Shares received. If the
participant is an employee, such ordinary income generally is subject to withholding of income and employment
taxes. Upon the sale of any Shares received, any gain or loss, based on the difference between the sale price and the
fair market value on the date the ordinary income tax event occurs, will be taxed as capital gain or loss.
Section 409A
Section 409A provides certain requirements for non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements with respect to
an individual’s deferral and distribution elections and permissible distribution events. Awards granted under the 2021
Plan with a deferral feature will be subject to the requirements of Section 409A. If an award is subject to and fails to
satisfy the requirements of Section 409A, the recipient of that award may recognize ordinary income on the amounts
deferred under the award, when vested, which may be before the compensation is actually or constructively received.
Also, if an award subject to Section 409A violates Section 409A’s provisions, Section 409A imposes an additional 20%
federal income tax on compensation recognized as ordinary income and potentially penalties and interest on such
deferred compensation.
Tax Effect for Us
We generally will be entitled to a tax deduction in connection with an award under the 2021 Plan equal to the
ordinary income realized by a participant when the participant recognizes such income (for example, the exercise of
a nonstatutory stock option or the disqualifying disposition of Shares acquired through the exercise of an incentive
stock option) except to the extent such deduction is limited by applicable provisions of the Code. Special rules limit
the deductibility of compensation paid to our chief executive officer and other “covered employees” as determined
under Section 162(m) and applicable guidance. Under Section 162(m), the annual compensation paid to any of these
specified executives will be deductible only to the extent that it does not exceed $1,000,000.
THE SUMMARY ABOVE IS ONLY A SUMMARY OF THE EFFECT OF U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAXATION ON PARTICIPANTS
AND US WITH RESPECT TO AWARDS UNDER THE 2021 PLAN. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE COMPLETE AND MAY
NOT DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYMENT OR OTHER TAX REQUIREMENTS, THE TAX CONSEQUENCES OF A
PARTICIPANT’S DEATH, OR THE PROVISIONS OF THE INCOME TAX LAWS OF ANY MUNICIPALITY, STATE, OR NON-U.S.
COUNTRY IN WHICH THE PARTICIPANT MAY RESIDE.
Number of Awards Granted to Employees, Consultants,
and Directors
The number of awards that an employee, director, or consultant may receive under the 2021 Plan is in the discretion
of the administrator and therefore cannot be determined in advance. The following table sets forth: (i) time-based
restricted stock units (“RSUs”), and performance-based restricted stock units (“PSUs”) granted under the 2012 Plan
and the 2021 Plan during fiscal 2022 to each of our named executive officers; our executive officers, as a group; our
directors who are not executive officers, as a group; and all of our employees who are not executive officers, as a group;
and (ii) the aggregate grant date fair value of such RSUs and PSUs.
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Name of Individual or Group
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board
Dipak Golechha
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
William “BJ” Jenkins
President
Lee Klarich
Chief Product Officer
Nir Zuk
Chief Technology Officer
All executive officers, as a group
All directors who are not executive officers, as a group
All employees who are not executive officers, as a group
Number of
Shares Subject
to RSUs and
PSUs Granted(1)
Dollar Value of
Shares Subject
to RSUs and
PSUs Granted(1)
50,636(2)
13,503(2)
$
$
7,007,348
1,868,557
141,731(3)
$ 17,835,150
33,758(2)
$
4,671,565
11,815(2)
251,433
12,990(4)
5,986,680
$
1,635,031
$ 33,017,651
2,219,125
$
$987,175,002
(1) The amounts reported represent the grant date fair value of the PSUs and the RSUs granted in fiscal 2022, calculated in
accordance with ASC Topic 718. The assumptions used in calculating the grant date fair value of the PSUs and the RSUs reported
in this column are set forth in the notes to our audited consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022. The value of the PSUs is calculated using a Monte-Carlo simulation valuation
performed as of the date of grant by an independent third party. With respect to the performance-based restricted stock units, in
fiscal year 2022, we approved only the fiscal year 2022 performance targets. As a result, only these portions of the performance-
based restricted stock unit awards (covering 42% of the performance-based restricted stock units for Messrs. Arora, Golechha,
Klarich and Zuk and 61% of the performance-based restricted stock units for Mr. Jenkins) have a reportable grant date fair value
under ASC Topic 718 and are included in this table. The remaining performance-based restricted stock units do not have a
reportable grant date fair value under ASC Topic 718 and are not included in this table. In addition, the target number of shares
subject to PSUs granted in fiscal 2022, which have a reportable grant date fair value under ASC Topic 718, are shown in this table.
(2) Consists of PSUs only.
(3) Consists of 76,542 RSUs and 65,189 PSUs.
(4) Consists of RSUs only.
Additional Equity Plan Information
The following table provides certain additional information regarding our equity compensation plans, excluding the
Employee Stock Purchase Plan:
Total Stock Options (including PSOs) Outstanding
Weighted-Average Exercise Price of Stock Options Outstanding
Weighted-Average Remaining Duration of Stock Options Outstanding
Total Restricted Stock Units (including PSUs) Outstanding
Total Shares Available for Grant under the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and
the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan(1)
As of 10/14/2022
8,017,260
$64.59 per share
2.95 years
19,688,313
10,629,453
(1) Shares available for grant under the 2012 Equity Incentive Plan are limited to performance-based restricted stock units which
do not yet have approved performance targets established. These performance-based restricted stock units do not yet have a
reportable grant date fair value under ASC Topic 718.
For more information regarding our equity compensation plans, including the Employee Stock Purchase Plan, please
see “Equity Compensation Plan Information.”
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Security Ownership of Certain
Beneficial Owners and Management
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of
September 30, 2022 for:
• each of our directors and nominees for director;
• each of our NEOs;
• all of our current directors and executive officers as a group; and
• each person or group, who beneficially owned more than 5% of our common stock.
We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC, and the
information is not necessarily indicative of beneficial ownership for any other purpose. Except as indicated by the
footnotes below, we believe, based on information furnished to us, that the persons and entities named in the table
below have sole voting and sole investment power with respect to all shares of common stock that they beneficially
owned, subject to applicable community property laws.
Applicable percentage ownership is based on 300,395,166 shares of our common stock outstanding at September 30,
2022. In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and the percentage
ownership of such person, we deemed to be outstanding all shares of common stock subject to options held by the
person that are currently exercisable or exercisable (or issuable upon vesting of restricted stock units or performance
stock unit awards) within 60 days of September 30, 2022. However, we did not deem such shares outstanding for the
purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.
Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each beneficial owner listed in the table below is c/o Palo Alto Networks,
Inc., 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, California 95054. The information provided in the table below is based on our
records, information filed with the SEC and information provided to us, except where otherwise noted. All shares
reported have been adjusted for the Stock Split.
5% Stockholders:
The Vanguard Group(1)
BlackRock, Inc.(2)
Named Executive Officers and Directors:
Nikesh Arora(3)
Mark D. McLaughlin(4)
William “BJ” Jenkins(5)
Dipak Golechha(6)
Lee Klarich(7)
Nir Zuk(8)
Aparna Bawa(9)
Asheem Chandna(10)
John M. Donovan(11)
Carl Eschenbach(6)
Helene D. Gayle(12)
James J. Goetz(13)
Rt Hon Sir John Key(6)
Mary Pat McCarthy(6)
Lorraine Twohill(6)
All current directors and executive officers as a group (15 Persons)(14)
Number of
Shares
Percent of
Shares
Outstanding
25,699,323
17,107,173
4,197,196
242,235
70,095
60,024
2,586,043
3,749,580
714
346,119
139,737
21,849
4,335
504,777
15,240
41,268
16,146
8.6%
5.7%
1.4%
*
*
*
*
1.2%
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
11,995,358
3.9%
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* Represents beneficial ownership of less than one percent (1%).
(1) According to a Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 10, 2022, The Vanguard Group, Inc. (“Vanguard”), as investment
advisor, has sole voting power with respect to none of the reported shares, shared voting power with respect to 280,020 of the
reported shares, sole dispositive power with respect to 25,063,716 of the reported shares and shared dispositive power with
respect to 635,607 of the reported shares. The address of Vanguard is 100 Vanguard Blvd., Malvern, PA 19355.
(2) According to a Schedule 13G/A filed with the SEC on February 3, 2022, BlackRock, Inc. (“BlackRock”) has sole voting power with
respect to 15,340,071 of the reported shares, and sole dispositive power with respect to 17,107,173 of the reported shares. The
address of BlackRock is 55 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10055.
(3) Consists of (i) 641,364 shares held of record by Mr. Arora, (ii) 16,005 shares held of record by Bacchey Investments L.P., of which
Bacchey Management LLC (the “LLC”) is the General Partner, Mr. Arora is the manager of the LLC and the sole member of the LLC
is the Aurora Trust, for which Mr. Arora serves as a trustee, (iii) 65,527 shares issuable upon the vesting of performance stock unit
awards within 60 days of September 30, 2022 and (iv) 3,474,300 PSOs exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2022.
(4) Consists of (i) 128,529 shares held of record by Mr. McLaughlin and (ii) 113,706 shares held of record by the Mark McLaughlin
Revocable Living Trust.
(5) Consists of (i) 16,263 shares held of record by Mr. Jenkins and (ii) 53,832 shares issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units
and performance stock unit awards within 60 days of September 30, 2022.
(6) Consists of shares held of record by the director or officer.
(7) Consists of (i) 532,167 shares held of record by Mr. Klarich, (ii) 41,797 shares that are issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock
units and performance stock unit awards within 60 days of September 30, 2022 and (iii) 2,012,079 PSOs exercisable within 60 days
of September 30, 2022.
(8) Consists of (i) 1,903,665 shares held of record by Mr. Zuk, (ii) 274,914 shares held by the Cliff Family Trusts, for which Mr. Zuk serves
as a trustee, (iii) 45,000 shares that are issuable pursuant to stock options exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2022, (iv)
16,944 shares that are issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units and performance stock unit awards within 60 days of
September 30, 2022 and (v) 1,509,057 PSOs exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2022.
(9) Consists of 714 shares issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units within 60 days of September 30, 2022.
(10) Consists of (i) 34,023 shares held of record by Mr. Chandna and (ii) 312,096 shares held of record by the Chandna Family Revocable
Trust DTD 4/13/98.
(11) Consists of (i) 81,273 shares held of record by Mr. Donovan and (ii) 58,464 shares held of record by SRJ Norway Partners LP, for
which Mr. Donovan serves as the general partner.
(12) Consists of (i) 3,612 shares held of record by Dr. Gayle and (ii) 723 shares issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units within
60 days of September 30, 2022.
(13) Consists of (i) 460,935 shares held of record by Mr. Goetz and (ii) 43,842 shares held of record by the Goetz Children’s Trust
4/24/1998.
(14) Consists of (i) 4,775,385 shares beneficially owned by the current directors and executive officers, (ii) 45,000 shares issuable
pursuant to stock options exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2022; (iii) 179,537 shares issuable upon the vesting
of restricted stock units and performance stock unit awards within 60 days of September 30, 2022 and (iv) 6,995,436 PSOs
exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2022.
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Related Person Transactions
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has adopted a written policy and procedures for the review, approval
and ratification, if necessary, of the transactions among the Company and its directors, executive officers and their
related interests.
We have entered into employment arrangements with our executive officers. Pursuant to Mr. McLaughlin’s offer letter
dated May 31, 2018, in fiscal 2022, he received an annual salary of $500,000 and received benefits available to other
employees. See also the section titled “Discussion of our Fiscal 2022 Executive Compensation Program—Executive
Employment Agreements.”
We have also entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and executive officers. The indemnification
agreements and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws require us
to indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.
Ms. Twohill, one of our independent directors, is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Google. Since the beginning of
our last fiscal year through September 30, 2022, we sold an aggregate of approximately $34.5 million of our products
and services to Google and Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Inc. in arm’s length transactions, on terms generally
available to third parties under the same or similar circumstances. We also listed our products and services on the
Google marketplace. Sales to third parties of our products and services from these listings totaled approximately
$220.6 million, for which the fee payable by us to Google totaled approximately $6.3 million. We have purchased an
aggregate of approximately $228.0 million of Google products and services, all in arm’s length transactions. Ms. Bawa,
who joined our board in May 2021 is the COO and interim Chief Legal Officer of Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
(“Zoom”). Since the beginning of our last fiscal year through September 30, 2022, both directly and through our
channel partners, we have sold an aggregate of approximately $0.5 million of products and services to Zoom and
have purchased an aggregate of $2.7 million of Zoom products and services, all in arm’s length transactions.
None of the foregoing transactions is material to Mmes. Bawa or Twohill. Additionally, none of Mmes. Bawa or Twohill
take part in discussion of transactions with us and (a) Google for Ms. Twohill, or (b) Zoom for Ms. Bawa, when such
transactions are reviewed by our Audit Committee or Board. All transactions with Google and Zoom are subject to our
related person transactions review process and policy, as further described below.
Policies and Procedures for Related Person Transactions
Our Audit Committee has the primary responsibility for reviewing and approving or ratifying transactions with
related persons.
We have a formal written policy providing that any transactions in which the aggregate amount exceeds or may be
expected to exceed $120,000 between us and a related person (defined as an executive officer, director, nominee for
election as director, beneficial owner of more than 5% of any class of our capital stock, any member of the immediate
family of any of the foregoing persons, and any firm, corporation or other entity in which any of the foregoing persons
is employed, is a general partner or principal or in a similar position, or in which such person has a 5% or greater
beneficial ownership interest) are reviewed and approved or ratified quarterly by our Audit Committee. In approving
or rejecting any such proposal, our Audit Committee is to consider the relevant facts and circumstances available and
deemed relevant to our Audit Committee, including, whether the transaction is on terms generally available to an
unaffiliated third party under the same or similar circumstances, and the extent of the related person’s interest in the
transaction. In addition, it is our policy that directors interested in a related person transaction will recuse themselves
from any discussion or vote on a related person transaction in which they may have an interest.
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Why are you holding a virtual meeting and how can
stockholders attend?
We have adopted a virtual meeting format for our Annual Meeting this year to protect our stockholders and
employees in light of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In addition, a virtual meeting format will provide
a consistent experience to all stockholders regardless of geographic location and enhance stockholder access and
engagement. To participate in our virtual Annual Meeting, including to vote, ask questions and to view the list
of registered stockholders as of the record date during the meeting, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/
PANW2022 with your 16-digit control number included on the accompanying proxy card, or in the instructions that
accompanied your proxy materials. If you did not receive a 16-digit control number, please reach out to your broker for
instructions. If you are not a stockholder or do not have a control number, you may still access the meeting as a guest,
but you will not be able to submit questions or vote at the meeting.
How can I ask questions during the Annual Meeting?
The virtual format allows stockholders to communicate with us during the Annual Meeting. Stockholder
questions may be submitted in the field provided in the web portal prior to or during the Annual Meeting for
consideration. Detailed guidelines for submitting written questions during the Annual Meeting are available at
http://www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/PANW2022. You can submit questions in advance of the Annual Meeting
by visiting www.proxyvote.com. The chairperson of the meeting will review the questions and determine whether the
questions are relevant to the subject matter of the meeting and otherwise appropriate for answering at the meeting.
We reserve the right to edit profanity or other inappropriate language and to exclude questions regarding topics that
are not pertinent to meeting matters or our business, or are otherwise not appropriate for answering at the meeting.
If we receive substantially similar questions, we may group such questions together and provide a single response to
avoid repetition.
Who is entitled to vote?
Only holders of our common stock as of the close of business on October 14, 2022 (the “Record Date”), are entitled
to vote at the Annual Meeting. As of the Record Date, 300,395,286 shares of our common stock were outstanding
and entitled to vote. For each proposal at the Annual Meeting, each stockholder will be entitled to one vote for each
share of our common stock held by them on the Record Date. Stockholders may not cumulate votes in the election
of directors.
Registered Stockholders of Record. If shares of our common stock are registered directly in your name with our
transfer agent, you are considered the stockholder of record with respect to those shares, and the proxy materials
were provided to you directly by us. As the stockholder of record, you have the right to grant your voting proxy directly
to the individuals listed on the accompanying proxy card, or to vote online, by telephone or virtually at the virtual
Annual Meeting as described above. Throughout this proxy statement, we refer to these registered stockholders as
“stockholders of record.”
Street Name Stockholders. If shares of our common stock are held on your behalf in a brokerage account or by a bank
or other nominee, you are considered to be the beneficial owner of shares that are held in “street name,” and the
proxy materials were forwarded to you by your broker, bank or other nominee, who is considered the stockholder of
record with respect to those shares. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other
nominee as to how to vote your shares. Beneficial owners are also invited to participate in and vote online at the
Annual Meeting; however, since a beneficial owner is not the stockholder of record, you may not vote your shares of
our common stock virtually at the virtual Annual Meeting unless you follow your broker’s procedures for obtaining
a legal proxy. If you request a printed copy of our proxy materials by mail, your broker, bank or other nominee will
provide a voting instruction form for you to use. Throughout this proxy statement, we refer to stockholders who hold
their shares through a broker, bank or other nominee as “street name stockholders.”
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How do I vote?
If you are a stockholder of record, there are four ways to vote:
• by Internet, prior to the virtual Annual Meeting at http://www.proxyvote.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
(have your proxy card in hand when you visit the website);
• by toll-free telephone at 1-800-690-6903 until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, on December 12, 2022 (have your
proxy card in hand when you call);
• by completing and mailing the accompanying proxy card in the envelope provided so it is received prior to the
Annual Meeting or
• by attending and voting during the virtual Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/
PANW2022. Please have your 16-digit control number to join the virtual Annual Meeting.
Even if you plan to attend the virtual Annual Meeting, we recommend that you also vote by Internet, telephone, or
returning a proxy card so that your vote will be counted if you later decide not to attend the virtual Annual Meeting.
If you are a street name stockholder, you will receive voting instructions from your broker, bank or other nominee. You
must follow the voting instructions provided by your broker, bank or other nominee in order to direct your broker,
bank or other nominee on how to vote your shares. Street name stockholders should generally be able to vote by
returning a voting instruction form, or by telephone or on the Internet. However, the availability of telephone and
Internet voting will depend on the voting process of your broker, bank or other nominee. As discussed above, if you are
a street name stockholder, you may not vote your shares online at the virtual Annual Meeting unless you obtain a legal
proxy from your broker, bank, or other nominee.
Can I change my vote or revoke my proxy?
Yes. If you are a stockholder of record, you can change your vote or revoke your proxy any time before the Annual
Meeting by:
• entering a new vote by Internet or by telephone on a later date;
• completing and returning a later-dated proxy card;
• sending a written notice of revocation to the Corporate Secretary of Palo Alto Networks, at Palo Alto Networks, Inc.,
3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054; or
• attending and voting online during the virtual Annual Meeting by visiting www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/
PANW2022. Please have your 16-digit control number to join the Annual Meeting.
If you are a street name stockholder, your broker, bank or other nominee can provide you with instructions on how to
change your vote or revoke your proxy.
How many votes are needed for approval of each proposal?
• Proposal No. 1: Each director nominee will be elected by a vote of the majority of the votes cast. A majority of
the votes cast means the number of votes cast “For” such nominee’s election exceeds the number of votes cast
“Against” that nominee. An affirmative vote of a majority means the number of votes cast “for” such nominee’s
election exceeds the number of votes cast “against” that nominee. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” on each
of the nominees for election as a director. Broker non-votes and abstentions will have no effect on the outcome of
this proposal.
• Proposal No. 2: The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public
accounting firm for our fiscal year ending July 31, 2023 requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of
our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the virtual Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon to be
approved. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” with respect to this proposal. Abstentions are considered votes
present and entitled to vote on this proposal, and thus will have the same effect as a vote “against” this proposal.
Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal.
• Proposal No. 3: The approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of our named executive officers requires
the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the virtual
Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon to be approved. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” with
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respect to this proposal. Abstentions are considered votes present and entitled to vote on this proposal, and thus
will have the same effect as votes “against” this proposal. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of
this proposal. Although the advisory vote is non-binding, our board of directors values our stockholders’ opinions.
The Compensation and People Committee will review the results of the vote and, consistent with our record of
stockholder responsiveness, consider stockholders’ concerns and take into account the outcome of the vote when
considering future decisions concerning our executive compensation program.
• Proposal No. 4: The approval of an amendment of our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan requires the affirmative vote of a
majority of the shares of our common stock present virtually or by proxy at the virtual Annual Meeting and entitled
to vote thereon to be approved. You may vote “for,” “against,” or “abstain” with respect to this proposal. Abstentions
are considered votes present and entitled to vote on this proposal, and thus will have the same effect as votes
“against” this proposal. Broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of this proposal.
What is the effect of giving a proxy?
Proxies are solicited by and on behalf of our Board. The persons named in the proxy have been designated as proxies
by our Board. When a proxy card is properly dated, executed and returned, the shares represented by such proxies will
be voted at the virtual Annual Meeting in accordance with the instruction of the stockholder. If a proxy card is signed,
but no specific instructions are given, the shares represented by such proxy card will be voted in accordance with the
recommendations of our board of directors, as described above. If any matters not described in this proxy statement
are properly presented at the Annual Meeting, the proxy holders will use their own judgment to determine how to
vote the shares subject to proxies. If the Annual Meeting is adjourned, the proxy holders can vote your shares subject
to proxies when the Annual Meeting is rescheduled, unless you have properly revoked your proxy instructions, as
described above.
What is a quorum?
A quorum is the minimum number of shares required to be present for the virtual Annual Meeting to be properly
held under our amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law. The presence, virtually or by proxy, of a majority of
all issued and outstanding shares of our common stock entitled to vote at the virtual Annual Meeting will constitute
a quorum at the virtual Annual Meeting. A proxy submitted by a stockholder may indicate that all or a portion of the
shares represented by the proxy are not being voted (“stockholder withholding”) with respect to a particular matter.
Similarly, a broker may not be permitted to vote shares held in street name on a particular matter in the absence of
instructions from the beneficial owner of such shares (“broker non-vote”). See the question below titled “How may my
broker, bank or other nominee vote my shares if I fail to timely provide voting instructions?” The shares of our common
stock subject to a proxy that are not being voted on a particular matter because of either stockholder withholding or
a broker non-vote will count for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum. Abstentions are also counted in
the determination of a quorum.
Where can I find the voting results of the Annual Meeting?
We will announce preliminary voting results at the Annual Meeting. We will also disclose voting results on a Current
Report on Form 8-K that we will file with the SEC within four business days after the Annual Meeting. If final voting
results are not available to us in time to file a Current Report on Form 8-K within four business days after the Annual
Meeting, we will file a Current Report on Form 8-K to publish preliminary voting results and will provide the final
voting results in an amendment to the Current Report on Form 8-K as soon as they become available.
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How are proxies solicited for the Annual Meeting?
Our Board is soliciting proxies for use at the Annual Meeting. All expenses associated with this solicitation will be
borne by us. We will reimburse brokers, banks or other nominees for reasonable expenses that they incur in sending
our proxy materials to you if a broker, bank or other nominee holds your shares of our common stock. In addition
to using the internet, our directors, officers and employees may solicit proxies in person and by mail, telephone,
facsimile, or electronic transmission, for which they will not receive any additional compensation. We have retained
Georgeson LLC to assist us in soliciting proxies for a fee of approximately $37,000, plus reasonable out-of-pocket
expenses incurred in the process of soliciting proxies.
How may my broker, bank or other nominee vote my shares if I fail
to timely provide voting instructions?
Brokerage firms, banks or other nominees holding shares of our common stock in street name for beneficial owners
are generally required to vote such shares in the manner directed by the beneficial owner. In the absence of timely
directions, your broker, bank or other nominee will have discretion to vote your shares on our sole “routine” matter, the
proposal to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for our
fiscal year ending July 31, 2023. Your broker will not have discretion to vote on any other proposals, which are “non-
routine” matters, absent direction from you.
I share an address with another stockholder, and we received
only one paper copy of the proxy materials. How may I obtain an
additional copy of the proxy materials?
We have adopted a procedure called “householding,” which the SEC has approved. Under this procedure, we deliver
a single copy of our proxy materials to multiple stockholders who share the same address unless we receive contrary
instructions from one or more of the stockholders sharing the same address. This procedure reduces our printing
costs, mailing costs, and fees. Stockholders who participate in householding will continue to be able to access and
receive separate copies of our proxy materials. Upon written or oral request, we will deliver promptly separate copies
of our proxy materials, to any stockholder at a shared address which we delivered a single copy of any of these
materials. To receive a separate copy, or, if a stockholder is receiving multiple copies, to request that we only send a
single copy of our proxy materials, stockholders may contact us at our principal executive address: Palo Alto Networks,
Inc., Attention: Investor Relations, 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, California 95054 or Tel: (408) 753-4000.
Stockholders who hold shares of our common stock in street name may contact their brokerage firm, bank, broker-
dealer or other similar organization to request information about householding.
What is the deadline to propose actions for consideration at next
year’s annual meeting of stockholders or to nominate individuals to
serve as directors?
S TO C K H O L D E R P R O P O S A L S
Stockholders may present proper proposals for inclusion in our proxy statement and for consideration at the next
annual meeting of stockholders pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”) by submitting their proposals in writing to our Corporate Secretary in a timely manner. For a Rule
14a-8 stockholder proposal to be considered for inclusion in our proxy statement for our 2023 annual meeting of
stockholders, our Corporate Secretary must receive the written proposal at our principal executive offices not later
than July 6, 2023. In addition, stockholder proposals must comply with the requirements of Rule 14a-8 under the
Exchange Act regarding the inclusion of stockholder proposals in Company-sponsored proxy materials. Stockholder
proposals should be addressed to:
Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Attention: Corporate Secretary, 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, California 95054.
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Our amended and restated bylaws also establish an advance notice procedure for stockholders who wish to present
a proposal before an annual meeting of stockholders but do not intend for the proposal to be included in our proxy
statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8. Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the only business that may be
conducted at an annual meeting is business that is (i) specified in our proxy materials with respect to such annual
meeting, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by or at the direction of our board of directors,
or (iii) properly brought before the annual meeting by a stockholder of record entitled to vote at the annual meeting
who has delivered timely written notice to our Corporate Secretary, which notice must contain the information
specified in our amended and restated bylaws. To be timely for our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders, our
Corporate Secretary must receive the proper written notice at our principal executive offices:
• not earlier than the close of business on August 15, 2023; and
• not later than the close of business on September 14, 2023.
In the event that we hold our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders more than 30 days before or more than 60 days
after the one-year anniversary of the Annual Meeting, then notice of a stockholder proposal that is not intended to be
included in our proxy statement must be received no earlier than the close of business on the 120th day before such
annual meeting and no later than the close of business on the later of the following two dates:
• the 90th day prior to such annual meeting; or
• the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first made.
If a stockholder who has notified us of his, her or its intention to present a proposal at an annual meeting does not
appear to present his, her or its proposal at such annual meeting, we are not required to present the proposal for a
vote at such annual meeting.
D I R E C TO R N O M I N AT I O N S
Stockholders may propose director candidates for consideration by our ESG and Nominating Committee. Any
such recommendations should include the nominee’s name and qualifications for membership on our Board of
Directors and should be directed to our Corporate Secretary at the address set forth above. For additional information
regarding stockholder recommendations for director candidates, see the section titled “Identification and Evaluation
of Director Nominees—Stockholder Recommendations for Nominations to the Board of Directors” beginning on
page 56 of this proxy statement.
In addition, our amended and restated bylaws permit stockholders to nominate directors for election at an annual
meeting of stockholders. To nominate a director, the stockholder must provide the information required by our
amended and restated bylaws, which includes the information required by Rule 14a-19 of the Exchange Act. In
addition, the stockholder must give timely notice to our Secretary in accordance with our amended and restated
bylaws, which, in general, require that the notice be received at the address set forth above within the time periods
described above under the section titled “Stockholder Proposals” for stockholder proposals that are not intended to
be included in a proxy statement.
Furthermore, our amended and restated bylaws permit stockholders or a group of stockholders that wish to
nominate one or more directors through proxy access for inclusion in our proxy statement. To nominate a director
using this process, the stockholder must provide the information required by the proxy access provision of our
amended and restated bylaws. In addition, the stockholder must give timely notice to our Corporate Secretary in
accordance with our amended and restated bylaws, which, in general, require that the notice be received by our
Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices:
• not earlier than the close of business on June 6, 2023; and
• not later than the close of business on July 6, 2023.
AVA I L A B I L I T Y O F B Y L AWS
A copy of our amended and restated bylaws may be obtained by accessing our public filings on the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. You may also contact our Corporate Secretary at our principal executive offices for a copy of the relevant
bylaw provisions regarding the requirements for making stockholder proposals and nominating director candidates.
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Other Matters
Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires the Company’s officers and directors and persons who beneficially own
more than 10% of the Company’s common stock (collectively, “Reporting Persons”) to file reports of beneficial
ownership and changes in beneficial ownership with the SEC. Based solely on our review of filed reports or written
representations from certain Reporting Persons relating to fiscal 2022, the Company believes that all reports were
filed on a timely basis.
Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Report and SEC Filings
Our financial statements for our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, are included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K,
which we will make available to stockholders at the same time as this proxy statement. This proxy statement and our
annual report are posted on our website at www.paloaltonetworks.com and are available from the SEC at its website
at www. sec.gov. You may also obtain a copy of our annual report without charge by sending a written request to
Investor Relations, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., 3000 Tannery Way, Santa Clara, California 95054.
* * *
The board of directors does not know of any other matters to be presented at the Annual Meeting. If any additional
matters are properly presented at the Annual Meeting, the persons named in the enclosed proxy card will have
discretion to vote the shares of our common stock they represent in accordance with their own judgment on such
matters.
It is important that your shares of our common stock be represented at the Annual Meeting, regardless of the number
of shares that you hold. You are, therefore, urged to vote by telephone or by using the Internet as instructed on the
enclosed proxy card or execute and return, at your earliest convenience, the enclosed proxy card in the envelope that
has also been provided.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Santa Clara, California
November 3, 2022
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Calculation of Normalized Billings and Organic
Operating Margin
CALCUL ATION OF NORMALIZED BILLINGS
(in millions):
Billings
Total Revenue
Add: Change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired revenue
Total billings
Less: billings from acquired entities(1)
Normalized billings
(1) Consists of billings from the entities acquired in fiscal 2022.
FY’22
$5,501.5
1,970.0
7,471.5
(0.0)
$7,471.5
CALCUL ATION OF ORGANIC OPERATING INCOME AND ORGANIC OPERATING MARGIN
$ In millions
Organic Operating Income and Operating Margin:
GAAP operating loss
Share-based compensation-related charges
Acquisition-related costs(1)
Amortization expense of acquired intangible assets
Litigation-related charges(2)
Restructuring and other costs
Non-GAAP operating income and operating margin
Operating loss from acquired entities(3)
Incremental bonus payout(4)
Organic operating income and operating margin
FY’22
$
%
($188.8)
-3.4 %
1,072.0 19.5 %
0.1 %
2.3 %
0.1 %
0.4 %
$1,042.8 19.0 %
5.5
125.8
7.1
21.2
2.8
53.8
0.0 %
1.0 %
$1,099.4 20.0 %
(1) Consists of acquisition transaction costs, share-based compensation related to the cash settlement of certain equity awards, and
costs to terminate certain employment, operating lease, and other contracts of the acquired companies.
(2) Consists of the amortization of intellectual property licenses and covenant not to sue.
(3) Consists of operating loss from the entities acquired in fiscal 2022.
(4) Consists of bonus payout in excess of 100% of the target cash incentive of the 2022 Incentive Compensation Plan.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Other
Key Metrics
Palo Alto Networks has provided in this Proxy Statement financial information that has not been prepared in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (GAAP). The Company uses these non-
GAAP financial measures and other key metrics internally to set targets for employee compensation programs.
Non-GAAP Operating Margin. Palo Alto Networks defines non-GAAP operating margin as operating margin plus
share-based compensation-related charges, including share-based payroll tax expense, acquisition-related costs,
amortization expense of acquired intangible assets, litigation-related charges, including legal settlements, along with
certain non-recurring expenses. The Company believes that excluding these items from non-GAAP operating margin
provides management and investors with greater visibility into the underlying performance of the Company’s core
business operating results, meaning its operating performance excluding these items and, from time to time, other
discrete charges that are infrequent in nature, over multiple periods.
Organic operating margin. Palo Alto Networks defines organic operating margin as non-GAAP operating margin,
excluding the effects of acquisitions and dispositions and bonus payout in excess of 100% of the target cash incentive
under the 2022 Cash Incentive Compensation Plan.
Billings. Palo Alto Networks defines billings as total revenue plus the change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired
deferred revenue, during the period. The Company considers billings to be a key metric used by management to
manage the Company’s business and believes billings provides investors with an important indicator of the health
and visibility of the Company’s business because it includes subscription and support revenue, which is recognized
ratably over the contractual service period, and product revenue, which is recognized at the time of shipment,
provided that all other conditions for revenue recognition have been met. The Company considers billings to be
a useful metric for management and investors, particularly if sales of subscriptions continue to increase and the
Company experiences strong renewal rates for subscriptions and support.
Normalized billings. Palo Alto Networks defines normalized billings as billings defined above, less billings from
entities acquired in fiscal 2022.
Next-Gen Security ARR is annualized allocated revenue of all active contracts as of the final day of the reporting
period for Prisma and Cortex offerings inclusive of the VM-Series and related services, and certain cloud-delivered
security services.
Investors are cautioned that there are a number of limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial
measures and key metrics as analytical tools. In particular, the billings metric reported by the Company includes
amounts that have not yet been recognized as revenue. Furthermore, these non-GAAP financial measures are not
based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP.
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Amended and Restated 2021 Equity
Incentive Plan
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
2021 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
(As amended and restated, subject to, and contingent upon, stockholder approval at the
2022 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders)
1. Purpose of the Plan. The purpose of this Plan is to:
• to attract and retain the best available personnel for positions of substantial responsibility,
• to provide additional incentive to Employees, Directors and Consultants, and
• to promote the success of the Company’s business.
The Plan permits the grant of Incentive Stock Options, Nonstatutory Stock Options, Restricted Stock, Restricted
Stock Units, Stock Appreciation Rights, Performance Units and Performance Shares.
2. Definitions. The following definitions are used in this Plan:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
“Administrator” means the Board or any of its Committees as will be administering the Plan, in
accordance with Section 4 of the Plan.
“Applicable Laws” means the legal and regulatory requirements relating to the administration of equity-
based awards and issuance of shares of Common Stock, including under U.S. state corporate laws,
U.S. federal and state securities laws, the Code, any stock exchange or quotation system on which the
Common Stock is listed or quoted and the applicable laws of any non-U.S. country or jurisdiction where
Awards are, or will be, granted under the Plan. Reference to a specific section of an Applicable Law or
regulation related to that section shall include such section or regulation, any valid regulation or other
official guidance issued under that section, and any comparable provision of any future legislation or
regulation amending, supplementing or superseding that section or regulation.
“Award” means, individually or collectively, a grant under the Plan of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights,
Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Units or Performance Shares.
“Award Agreement” means the written or electronic agreement between the Company and Participant
setting forth the terms and provisions applicable to an Award granted under the Plan. The Award
Agreement is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan.
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
“Change in Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
(i)
(ii)
Change in Ownership of the Company. A change in the ownership of the Company which occurs
on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group (“Person”), acquires
ownership of the stock of the Company that, together with the stock held by such Person,
constitutes more than 50% of the total voting power of the stock of the Company; provided,
however, that for purposes of this subsection, if any one Person is already considered to own more
than 50% of the total voting power of the stock of the Company, the acquisition of additional stock
by such Person will not be considered a Change in Control; or
Change in Effective Control of the Company. A change in the effective control of the Company
which occurs on the date that a majority of members of the Board is replaced during any 12-month
period by Directors whose appointment or election is not endorsed by a majority of the members
of the Board prior to the date of the appointment or election. For purposes of this subsection (ii),
if any Person is considered to be in effective control of the Company, the acquisition of additional
control of the Company by the same Person will not be considered a Change in Control; or
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(iii)
Change in Ownership of a Substantial Portion of the Company’s Assets. A change in the ownership
of a substantial portion of the Company’s assets which occurs on the date that any Person acquires
(or has acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by
such Person) assets from the Company that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more
than 50% of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets of the Company immediately prior
to such acquisition or acquisitions; provided, however, that for purposes of this subsection (iii), the
following will not constitute a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the Company’s
assets: (A) a transfer to an entity that is controlled by the Company’s stockholders immediately
after the transfer, or (B) a transfer of assets by the Company to: (1) a stockholder of the Company
(immediately before the asset transfer) in exchange for or with respect to the Company’s stock, (2)
an entity, 50% or more of the total value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly,
by the Company, (3) a Person, that owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total value or
voting power of all the outstanding stock of the Company, or (4) an entity, at least 50% of the total
value or voting power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by a Person described in subsection
(iii)(B)(3). For purposes of this subsection (iii), gross fair market value means the value of the assets
of the Company, or the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without regard to any
liabilities associated with such assets.
For purposes of this definition, persons will be considered to be acting as a group if they are owners of a corporation that
enters into a merger, consolidation, purchase or acquisition of stock, or similar business transaction with the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed a Change in Control unless the transaction
qualifies as a change in control event within the meaning of Section 409A. Further and for the avoidance of doubt,
a transaction will not constitute a Change in Control if: (x) its primary purpose is to change the jurisdiction of the
Company’s incorporation, or (y) its primary purpose is to create a holding company that will be owned in substantially
the same proportions by the persons who held the Company’s securities immediately before such transaction.
(g)
(h)
(i)
(j)
(k)
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Committee” means a committee of Directors or of other individuals satisfying Applicable Laws appointed
by the Board, or a duly authorized committee of the Board, in accordance with Section 4 hereof.
“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company.
“Company” means Palo Alto Networks, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor thereto.
“Consultant” means any person, including an advisor, engaged by the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary
of the Company to render bona fide services to such entity, provided the services (i) are not in connection
with the offer or sale of securities in a capital-raising transaction, and (ii) do not directly promote or
maintain a market for the Company’s securities, in each case, within the meaning used with respect to
Form S-8 promulgated under the Securities Act, and provided, further, that a Consultant will include only
those persons to whom the issuance of Shares may be registered under Form S-8 promulgated under
the Securities Act.
(l)
“Director” means a member of the Board.
(m)
(n)
(o)
(p)
“Disability” means total and permanent disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code, provided
that in the case of Awards other than Incentive Stock Options, the Administrator in its discretion may
determine whether a permanent and total disability exists in accordance with uniform and non-
discriminatory standards adopted by the Administrator from time to time.
“Employee” means any person, including Officers and Inside Directors, providing services as an employee
to the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary of the Company. Neither service as a Director nor payment of
a director’s fee by the Company will be sufficient to constitute “employment” by the Company.
“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
“Exchange Program” means a program under which (i) outstanding Awards are surrendered or cancelled
in exchange for awards of the same type (which may have higher or lower exercise prices and different
terms), awards of a different type, and/or cash, (ii) Participants would have the opportunity to transfer
any outstanding Awards to a financial institution or other person or entity selected by the Administrator,
and/or (iii) the exercise price of an outstanding Award is reduced. As described in Section 4(i), the
Administrator may not institute an Exchange Program.
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(q)
“Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of Common Stock determined as follows:
(i)
(ii)
If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or a national market system,
including without limitation Nasdaq Global Select Market, Nasdaq Global Market or Nasdaq
Capital Market of Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange, its Fair Market Value will
be the closing sales price for such stock (or, the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted
on such exchange or system on the day of determination, as reported by such source as the
Administrator deems reliable;
If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but selling prices are
not reported, the Fair Market Value of a Share will be the mean between the high bid and low
asked prices for the Common Stock on the day of determination (or the closing bid, if no sales
were reported), as reported by such source as the Administrator deems reliable; or
(iii)
In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value will be
determined in good faith by the Administrator.
If the Fair Market Value is to be determined under subsection (i) or (ii) above and the determination date
for the Fair Market Value occurs on a day other than a Trading Day, the Fair Market Value will be the price
as determined under subsection (i) or (ii) above, as applicable, on the immediately preceding Trading
Day, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator. In addition, for purposes of determining the
fair market value of shares for any reason other than the determination of the exercise price of Options
or Stock Appreciation Rights, fair market value will be determined by the Administrator in a manner
compliant with Applicable Laws and applied consistently for such purpose. Note that the determination
of fair market value for purposes of withholding Tax-Related Items may be made in the Administrator’s
sole discretion subject to Applicable Laws and is not required to be consistent with the determination of
Fair Market Value for other purposes.
“Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company.
“Incentive Stock Option” means an Option that is intended to qualify, and actually qualifies, as an incentive
stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Inside Director” means a Director who is an Employee.
“Nonstatutory Stock Option” means an Option that by its terms does not qualify or is not intended to
qualify as an Incentive Stock Option.
“Officer” means a person who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
(r)
(s)
(t)
(u)
(v)
(w)
“Option” means a stock option granted pursuant to the Plan.
(x)
(y)
“Outside Director” means a Director who is not an Employee.
“Parent” means a “parent corporation” of the Company, whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in
Section 424(e) of the Code.
(z)
“Participant” means the holder of an outstanding Award.
(aa)
(bb)
(cc)
“Performance Share” means an Award denominated in Shares which may be earned in whole or in part
upon attainment of performance goals or other vesting criteria as the Administrator may determine
pursuant to Section 10.
“Performance Unit” means an Award denominated in Shares or cash, which may be earned in whole or in
part upon attainment of performance goals or other vesting criteria as the Administrator may determine
and which may be settled for cash, Shares or other securities or a combination of the foregoing pursuant
to Section 10.
“Period of Restriction” means the period (if any) during which the transfer of Shares of Restricted Stock
are subject to restrictions and therefore, the Shares are subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Such
restrictions may be based on the passage of time, the achievement of target levels of performance, or the
occurrence of other events as determined by the Administrator.
(dd)
“Plan” means this Palo Alto Networks, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.
(ee)
“Restricted Stock” means Shares issued pursuant to a Restricted Stock award under Section 7 of the Plan,
or issued pursuant to the early exercise of an Option.
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(ff)
“Restricted Stock Unit” means a bookkeeping entry representing an amount equal to the Fair Market
Value of one Share, granted pursuant to Section 8. Each Restricted Stock Unit represents an unfunded
and unsecured obligation of the Company.
(gg)
“Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in effect when
discretion is being exercised with respect to the Plan.
(hh)
“Section 16(b)” means Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
(ii)
(jj)
“Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code.
“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
(kk)
“Service Provider” means an Employee, Director or Consultant.
(ll)
“Share” means a share of the Common Stock, as adjusted in accordance with Section 14 of the Plan.
(mm) “Stock Appreciation Right” means an Award, granted alone or in connection with an Option, that
pursuant to Section 9 is designated as a Stock Appreciation Right.
(nn)
(oo)
(pp)
“Subsidiary” means a “subsidiary corporation” of the Company whether now or hereafter existing, as
defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.
“Substituted Award” means an Award granted in substitution for an equity award of an acquired entity in
connection with a merger, reorganization, separation, or other transaction to which Section 424(a) of the
Code applies.
“Tax-Related Items” means any U.S. and non–U.S. federal, state, or local taxes (including, without
limitation, income tax, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefits tax, payment on account and any
other tax-related items) related to a Participant’s participation in the Plan and legally applicable or
deemed applicable to the Participant, or have been transferred to the Participant.
(qq)
“Trading Day” means a day that the primary stock exchange, national market system, or other trading
platform, as applicable, upon which the Common Stock is listed is open for trading.
3. Stock Subject to the Plan.
(a)
(b)
Stock Subject to the Plan. Subject to the provisions of Section 14 of the Plan, the maximum aggregate
number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan is (i) 19,185,000 Shares, plus (ii) any Shares subject
to awards granted under the Company’s 2012 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, that, on or after the
date stockholders initially approve the Plan, expire or otherwise terminate without having been exercised
or issued in full, are tendered to or withheld by the Company for payment of an exercise price or for tax
withholding obligations, or are forfeited to or repurchased by the Company due to failure to vest, with
the maximum number of Shares to be added to the Plan pursuant to clause (ii) equal to 31,740,063
Shares. In addition, Shares may become available for issuance under the Plan pursuant to Section 3(b).
The Shares may be authorized, but unissued, or reacquired Common Stock. If the Committee grants
Substituted Awards in substitution for equity awards outstanding under a plan maintained by an entity
acquired by or consolidated with the Company, the grant of those Substituted Awards will not decrease
the number of Shares available for issuance under the Plan.
Lapsed Awards. If an Award expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full,
or, with respect to Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Units or Performance Shares,
is forfeited to or repurchased by the Company due to failure to vest, then the unpurchased Shares (or
for Awards other than Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, the forfeited or repurchased Shares) that
were subject thereto will become available for future grant or sale under the Plan (unless the Plan has
terminated). With respect to Stock Appreciation Rights, the gross number of Shares underlying the
portion of a Stock Appreciation Right that is exercised will cease to be available under the Plan. Shares
that actually have been issued under the Plan under any Award will not be returned to the Plan and
will not become available for future distribution under the Plan; provided, however, that if Shares issued
pursuant to Awards of Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Shares or Performance
Units are repurchased by the Company or are forfeited to the Company due to failure to vest, such Shares
will become available for future grant under the Plan. Shares used to pay the exercise price or purchase
price of an Award or to satisfy the tax withholding obligations related to an Award will not become
available for future grant or sale under the Plan. To the extent an Award under the Plan is paid out in
cash rather than Shares, such cash payment will not reduce the number of Shares available for issuance
under the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing and, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 14, the
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maximum number of Shares that may be issued upon the exercise of Incentive Stock Options will equal
the aggregate Share number stated in Section 3(a), plus, to the extent allowable under Section 422 of
the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, any Shares that become available for
issuance under the Plan pursuant to this Section 3(b).
(c)
Share Reserve. The Company, at all times during the term of this Plan, will reserve and keep available
such number of Shares as will be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Plan.
4. Administration of the Plan.
(a)
Procedure.
(i)
(ii)
General. The Plan will be administered by (A) the Board or (B) a Committee constituted to satisfy
Applicable Laws. The Board or Committee will be the Administrator. Different Administrators may
administer the Plan with respect to different groups of Service Providers. The Board may retain the
authority to concurrently administer the Plan with a Committee and may, at any time, revoke the
delegation of some or all authority previously delegated.
Rule 16b-3. To the extent desirable to qualify transactions hereunder as exempt under Rule 16b-
3, the transactions contemplated hereunder will be structured to satisfy the requirements for
exemption under Rule 16b-3.
(b)
Powers of the Administrator. Subject to the Plan, any limitations on delegations specified by the Board,
and any requirements imposed by Applicable Laws, the Administrator will have the authority, in its sole
discretion, to make any determinations and perform any actions deemed necessary or advisable to
administer the Plan including to:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
determine the Fair Market Value;
select the Service Providers to whom Awards may be granted hereunder;
determine the number of Shares to be covered by each Award granted hereunder;
approve forms of Award Agreements for use under the Plan;
determine the terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, of any Award
granted hereunder. The terms and conditions include, but are not limited to, the exercise price, the
time or times when Awards may be exercised (which may be based on performance criteria), any
vesting acceleration or waiver of forfeiture restrictions, and any restriction or limitation regarding
any Award or the Shares relating to an Award;
establish, amend and rescind rules and regulations and adopt sub-plans relating to the Plan,
including rules, regulations, and sub-plans for the purposes of facilitating compliance with non-
U.S. laws, easing the administration of the Plan and/or taking advantage of tax-favorable treatment
for Awards granted to Service Providers outside the U.S.;
(vii)
interpret the Plan and make any decision necessary to administer the Plan;
(viii)
interpret, modify or amend each Award (subject to Section 17(c) of the Plan), including without
limitation the discretionary authority to extend the post-termination exercisability period of Awards;
(ix)
(x)
allow Participants to satisfy tax withholding obligations in a manner prescribed in Section 15 of the
Plan;
authorize any person to execute on behalf of the Company any instrument required to effect the
grant of an Award previously granted by the Administrator;
(xi)
delegate ministerial duties to any of the Company’s employees;
(xii)
temporarily suspend the exercisability of an Award if the Administrator deems such suspension to
be necessary or appropriate for administrative purposes;
(xiii) allow a Participant to defer the receipt of the payment of cash or the delivery of Shares that
otherwise would be due to the Participant under an Award; and
(xiv) make all other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for administering the Plan.
(c)
Grant Date. The grant date of an Award (“Grant Date”) will be the date that the Administrator makes
the determination granting such Award or may be a later date if such later date is designated by the
Administrator on the date of the determination or under an automatic grant policy. Notice of the
determination will be provided to each Participant within a reasonable time after the Grant Date.
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(d) Waiver. The Administrator may waive any terms, conditions or restrictions.
(e)
(f)
(g)
Fractional Shares. Except as otherwise provided by the Administrator, any fractional Shares that
result from the adjustment of Awards will be cancelled. Any fractional Shares that result from vesting
percentages will be accumulated and vested on the date that an accumulated full Share is vested.
Electronic Delivery. The Company may deliver by e-mail or other electronic means (including posting
on a website maintained by the Company or its agent) all documents relating to the Plan or any Award
and all other documents that the Company is required to deliver to its security holders (including
prospectuses, annual reports and proxy statements).
Choice of Law; Choice of Forum. The Plan, all Awards and all determinations made and actions taken
under the Plan, to the extent not otherwise governed by the laws of the United States, will be governed
by the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law. For purposes
of litigating any dispute that arises under this Plan, a Participant’s acceptance of an Award is his or
her consent to the jurisdiction of the State of Delaware, and agreement that any such litigation will be
conducted in Delaware Court of Chancery, or the federal courts for the United States for the District of
Delaware, and no other courts, regardless of where a Participant’s services are performed.
(h)
Effect of Administrator’s Decision. The Administrator’s decisions, determinations and interpretations will
be final and binding on all Participants and any other holders of Awards and will be given the maximum
deference permitted by Applicable Laws.
(i)
Exchange Program. The Administrator may not institute an Exchange Program.
5. Eligibility. Nonstatutory Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units,
Performance Shares and Performance Units may be granted to Service Providers. Incentive Stock Options may be
granted only to Employees.
6. Stock Options.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Grant of Options. Subject to the terms and provisions of the Plan, the Administrator, at any time and from
time to time, may grant Options to Service Providers in such amounts as the Administrator determines in
its sole discretion.
Stock Option Agreement. Each Option will be evidenced by an Award Agreement that will specify the
exercise price, the number of Shares subject to the Option, the exercise restrictions, if any, applicable to
the Option, and such other terms and conditions as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion.
Limitations. Each Option will be designated in the Award Agreement as either an Incentive Stock Option
or a Nonstatutory Stock Option. However, notwithstanding such designation, to the extent that the
aggregate Fair Market Value of the Shares with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable
for the first time by the Participant during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any
Parent or Subsidiary) exceeds $100,000, such Options will be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options. For
purposes of this Section 6(c), Incentive Stock Options will be taken into account in the order in which
they were granted. The Fair Market Value of the Shares will be determined as of the time the Option with
respect to such Shares is granted.
Term of Option. The term of each Option will be stated in the Award Agreement. In the case of an
Incentive Stock Option, the term will be 10 years from the Grant Date or such shorter term as may
be provided in the Award Agreement. Moreover, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option granted to
a Participant who, at the time the Incentive Stock Option is granted, owns stock representing more
than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Parent or
Subsidiary, the term of the Incentive Stock Option will be 5 years from the Grant Date or such shorter
term as may be provided in the Award Agreement.
(e)
Option Exercise Price and Consideration.
(i)
Exercise Price. The per share exercise price for the Shares to be issued pursuant to exercise of an
Option will be determined by the Administrator, subject to the following:
(1)
In the case of an Incentive Stock Option
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(A)
(B)
granted to an Employee who, at the time the Incentive Stock Option is granted, owns
stock representing more than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock of the
Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, the per Share exercise price will be no less than
110% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the Grant Date.
granted to any Employee other than an Employee described in paragraph (A)
immediately above, the per Share exercise price will be no less than 100% of the Fair
Market Value per Share on the Grant Date.
In the case of a Nonstatutory Stock Option, the per Share exercise price will be determined
by the Administrator and may no less than 100% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the
Grant Date unless otherwise required by Applicable Laws.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Options may be granted with a per Share exercise price
of less than 100% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the Grant Date pursuant to a
transaction described in, and in a manner consistent with, Section 424(a) of the Code.
(2)
(3)
(ii) Waiting Period and Exercise Dates. At the time an Option is granted, the Administrator will fix the
period within which the Option may be exercised and will determine any conditions that must be
satisfied before the Option may be exercised.
(iii)
Form of Consideration. The Administrator will determine the acceptable form of consideration for
exercising an Option, including the method of payment. In the case of an Incentive Stock Option,
the Administrator will determine the acceptable form of consideration at the time of grant. Such
consideration may consist entirely of: (1) cash; (2) check or wire transfer; (3) promissory note, to the
extent permitted by Applicable Laws; (4) other Shares, provided that such Shares have a fair market
value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate exercise price of the Shares as to which such
Option will be exercised and provided that accepting such Shares will not result in any adverse
accounting consequences to the Company, as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion;
(5) consideration received by the Company under a broker-assisted (or other) cashless exercise
program (whether through a broker or otherwise) implemented by the Company in connection
with the Plan; (6) net exercise, under which Shares are withheld from otherwise deliverable Shares
that has been approved by the Board or a Committee; (7) such other consideration and method
of payment for the issuance of Shares to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws; or (8) any
combination of the foregoing methods of payment.
(f)
Exercise of Option.
(i)
Procedure for Exercise; Rights as a Stockholder. Any Option granted hereunder will be exercisable
according to the terms of the Plan and at such times and under such conditions as determined by
the Administrator and set forth in the Award Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any
time after the grant of an Option, the Administrator, in its sole discretion, may accelerate the time
at which the Option will vest or become exercisable. An Option may not be exercised for a fraction
of a Share.
An Option will be deemed exercised when the Company receives: (i) notice of exercise (in
accordance with the procedures that the Administrator may specify from time to time) from the
person entitled to exercise the Option, and (ii) full payment for the Shares with respect to which
the Option is exercised (together with any amounts necessary to satisfy withholding obligations
for Tax-Related Items). Full payment may consist of any consideration and method of payment
authorized by the Administrator and permitted by the Award Agreement and the Plan. Shares
issued upon exercise of an Option will be issued in the name of the Participant or, if requested
by the Participant and approved by the Administrator, in the name of the Participant and his or
her spouse. Until the Shares are issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of
the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company), no right to vote or receive
dividends or any other rights as a stockholder will exist with respect to the Shares subject to an
Option, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Company will issue (or cause to be issued)
such Shares promptly after the Option is exercised. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or
other right for which the record date is prior to the date the Shares are issued, except as provided
in Section 14 of the Plan.
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(ii)
Exercising an Option in any manner will decrease the number of Shares thereafter available, both
for purposes of the Plan and for sale under the Option, by the number of Shares as to which the
Option is exercised.
Termination of Relationship as a Service Provider. If a Participant ceases to be a Service Provider,
other than upon the cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status as the result of the
Participant’s death or Disability, the Participant may exercise his or her Option within such period
of time as is specified in the Award Agreement to the extent that the Option is vested on the date
of cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status (but in no event later than the expiration of
the term of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in
the Award Agreement, the Option will remain exercisable for 3 months following cessation of the
Participant’s Service Provider status. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator, if on the date
of cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status the Participant is not vested as to his or her
entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will revert to the Plan. If,
after cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status, the Participant does not exercise his or
her Option within the time specified in the Award Agreement or herein, the Option will terminate,
and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.
(iii) Disability of Participant. If a Participant ceases to be a Service Provider as a result of the
Participant’s Disability, the Participant may exercise his or her Option within such period of time
as is specified in the Award Agreement to the extent the Option is vested on the date of cessation
of the Participant’s Service Provider status (but in no event later than the expiration of the term
of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in the
Award Agreement, the Option will remain exercisable for 12 months following cessation of the
Participant’s Service Provider status. Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator, if on the date
of cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status the Participant is not vested as to his or her
entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will revert to the Plan. If,
after cessation of the Participant’s Service Provider status, the Participant does not exercise his or
her Option within the time specified in the Award Agreement or herein, the Option will terminate,
and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.
(iv) Death of Participant. If a Participant dies while a Service Provider, the Option may be exercised
following the Participant’s death within such period of time as is specified in the Award Agreement
to the extent that the Option is vested on the date of death (but in no event may the Option be
exercised later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Award Agreement),
by the Participant’s designated beneficiary, provided the Administrator has permitted the
designation of a beneficiary and provided such beneficiary has been designated prior to the
Participant’s death in a form acceptable to the Administrator. If the Administrator has not permitted
the designation of a beneficiary or if no such beneficiary has been designated by the Participant,
then such Option may be exercised by the personal representative of the Participant’s estate or by
the person(s) to whom the Option is transferred pursuant to the Participant’s will or in accordance
with the laws of descent and distribution. In the absence of a specified time in the Award Agreement,
the Option will remain exercisable for 12 months following the Participant’s death. Unless otherwise
provided by the Administrator, if at the time of death, the Participant is not vested as to his or her
entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option will immediately revert
to the Plan. If the Option is not so exercised within the time specified in the Award Agreement or
herein, the Option will terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option will revert to the Plan.
(v)
Tolling Expiration. A Participant’s Award Agreement may also provide that:
(1)
(2)
if the exercise of the Option following the cessation of the Participant’s status as a Service
Provider (other than upon the Participant’s death or Disability) would result in liability under
Section 16(b), then the Option will terminate on the earlier of (A) the expiration of the term
of the Option set forth in the Award Agreement, or (B) the 10th day after the last date on
which such exercise would result in liability under Section 16(b); or
if the exercise of the Option following the cessation of the Participant’s status as a Service
Provider (other than upon the Participant’s death or Disability) would be prohibited at any
time solely because the issuance of Shares would violate the registration requirements
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7. Restricted Stock.
under the Securities Act, then the Option will terminate on the earlier of (A) the expiration of
the term of the Option or (B) the expiration of a period of 30 days after the cessation of the
Participant’s status as a Service Provider during which the exercise of the Option would not
be in violation of such registration requirements.
(a)
(b)
(c)
Grant of Restricted Stock. Subject to the terms and provisions of the Plan, the Administrator, at any time
and from time to time, may grant Shares of Restricted Stock to Service Providers in such amounts as the
Administrator determines in its sole discretion.
Restricted Stock Agreement. Each Award of Restricted Stock will be evidenced by an Award Agreement
that will specify any Period of Restriction, the number of Shares granted, and such other terms and
conditions as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion. Unless the Administrator determines
otherwise, the Company as escrow agent will hold Shares of Restricted Stock until the restrictions on
such Shares have lapsed.
Transferability. Except as provided in this Section 7 of the Award Agreement, Shares of Restricted Stock
may not be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated until the end of
any applicable Period of Restriction.
(d) Other Restrictions. The Administrator, in its sole discretion, may impose such other restrictions on Shares
of Restricted Stock as it may deem advisable or appropriate.
(e)
(f)
(g)
Removal of Restrictions. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7, Shares of Restricted Stock covered
by each Restricted Stock grant made under the Plan will be released from escrow as soon as practicable
after the last day of any applicable Period of Restriction or at such other time as the Administrator may
determine. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the grant of an Option, the Administrator, in
its sole discretion, may accelerate the time at which any restrictions will lapse or be removed.
Voting Rights. During any applicable Period of Restriction, Service Providers holding Shares of Restricted
Stock granted hereunder may exercise full voting rights with respect to those Shares, unless the
Administrator determines otherwise.
Return of Restricted Stock to Company. On the date set forth in the Award Agreement, the Restricted
Stock for which restrictions have not lapsed will revert to the Company and again will become available
for grant under the Plan.
8. Restricted Stock Units.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Grant. Restricted Stock Units may be granted at any time and from time to time as determined by the
Administrator. After the Administrator determines that it will grant Restricted Stock Units under the Plan,
it will advise the Participant in an Award Agreement of the terms, conditions, and restrictions related to
the grant, including the number of Restricted Stock Units.
Restricted Stock Unit Agreement. Each Award of Restricted Stock Units will be evidenced by an Award
Agreement that will specify vesting criteria, the number of Restricted Stock Units granted, and such
other terms and conditions as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion.
Vesting Criteria and Other Terms. The Administrator will set vesting criteria in its discretion, which,
depending on the extent to which the criteria are met, will determine the number of Restricted Stock
Units that will be paid out to the Participant. The Administrator may set vesting criteria based upon the
achievement of Company-wide, divisional, business unit, or individual goals (including, but not limited to,
continued employment or service), applicable U.S. or non-U.S. federal or state securities laws or any other
basis determined by the Administrator in its discretion.
Earning Restricted Stock Units. Upon meeting the applicable vesting criteria, the Participant will be
entitled to receive a payout as determined by the Administrator. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any
time after the grant of Restricted Stock Units, the Administrator, in its sole discretion, may reduce or
waive any vesting criteria that must be met to receive a payout.
Form and Timing of Payment. Payment of earned Restricted Stock Units will be made as soon as
practicable after the date(s) determined by the Administrator and set forth in the Award Agreement. The
Administrator, in its sole discretion, may settle earned Restricted Stock Units only in cash, Shares, or a
combination of both.
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(f)
Cancellation. On the date set forth in the Award Agreement, all unearned Restricted Stock Units will be
forfeited to the Company.
9. Stock Appreciation Rights.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Grant of Stock Appreciation Rights. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, a Stock Appreciation
Right may be granted to Service Providers at any time and from time to time as will be determined by
the Administrator, in its sole discretion.
Stock Appreciation Right Agreement. Each Stock Appreciation Right grant will be evidenced by an
Award Agreement that will specify the exercise price, the term of the Stock Appreciation Right, the
conditions of exercise, and such other terms and conditions as the Administrator determines in its sole
discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the grant of a Stock Appreciation Right, the
Administrator, in its sole discretion, may accelerate the time at which the Stock Appreciation Right will
vest or become exercisable.
Number of Shares. The Administrator will have complete discretion to determine the number of Stock
Appreciation Rights granted to any Service Provider.
Exercise Price and Other Terms. The per share exercise price for the Shares to be issued pursuant to
exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right will be determined by the Administrator and will be no less than
100% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the Grant Date. Otherwise, the Administrator, subject to the
provisions of the Plan, will have complete discretion to determine the terms and conditions of Stock
Appreciation Rights granted under the Plan.
Expiration of Stock Appreciation Rights. A Stock Appreciation Right granted under the Plan will expire
upon the date as determined by the Administrator, in its sole discretion, and set forth in the Award
Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the tolling and expiration rules of Section 6(f) relating to
exercise also will apply to Stock Appreciation Rights.
(f)
Payment of Stock Appreciation Right Amount. Upon exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right, a Participant
will be entitled to receive payment from the Company in an amount determined as the product of:
(i)
The difference between the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of exercise over the exercise
price; and
(ii)
The number of Shares with respect to which the Stock Appreciation Right is exercised.
At the discretion of the Administrator, the payment upon exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right may be
in cash, in Shares of equivalent value, or in some combination of both.
10. Performance Units and Performance Shares.
(a)
(b)
(c)
Grant of Performance Units/Shares. Performance Units and Performance Shares may be granted to
Service Providers at any time and from time to time, as will be determined by the Administrator, in
its sole discretion. The Administrator will have complete discretion in determining the number of
Performance Units and Performance Shares granted to each Participant.
Value of Performance Units/Shares. Each Performance Unit will have an initial value that is established by
the Administrator on or before the Grant Date. Each Performance Share will have an initial value equal to
the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Grant Date.
Performance Objectives and Other Terms. The Administrator will set performance objectives or other
vesting provisions (including, without limitation, continued status as a Service Provider) in its discretion
which, depending on the extent to which they are met, will determine the number or value of
Performance Units/Shares that will be paid out to the Service Providers. The time period during which
the performance objectives or other vesting provisions must be met will be called the “Performance
Period.” Each Award of Performance Units/Shares will be evidenced by an Award Agreement that will
specify the Performance Period, and such other terms and conditions as the Administrator determines
in its sole discretion. The Administrator may set performance objectives based upon the achievement
of Company-wide, divisional, business unit or individual goals (including, but not limited to, continued
employment or service), applicable U.S. or non-U.S. federal or state securities laws, or any other basis
determined by the Administrator in its discretion.
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(d)
(e)
(f)
Earning of Performance Units/Shares. After the applicable Performance Period has ended, the holder
of Performance Units/Shares will be entitled to receive a payout of the number of Performance Units/
Shares earned by the Participant over the Performance Period, to be determined as a function of
the extent to which the corresponding performance objectives or other vesting provisions have been
achieved. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the grant of a Performance Unit/Share, the
Administrator, in its sole discretion, may reduce or waive any performance objectives or other vesting
provisions for such Performance Unit/Share.
Form and Timing of Payment of Performance Units/Shares. Payment of earned Performance Units/
Shares will be made as soon as practicable after the expiration of the applicable Performance Period.
The Administrator, in its sole discretion, may pay earned Performance Units/Shares in the form of cash, in
Shares (which have an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the value of the earned Performance Units/
Shares at the close of the applicable Performance Period) or in a combination thereof.
Cancellation of Performance Units/Shares. On the date set forth in the Award Agreement, all unearned or
unvested Performance Units/Shares will be forfeited to the Company, and again will be available for grant
under the Plan.
11. Award Limitations.
(a)
Outside Director Award Limitations. No Outside Director may be paid compensation for service as an
Outside Director that, in the aggregate, exceeds $2,000,000, increased to $4,000,000 for such Outside
Director for the Fiscal Year in which he or she joins the Board as an Outside Director. Compensation
includes equity awards, including any Awards issued under this Plan, the value of which will be based on
their grant date fair value determined in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles
and any other compensation (including without limitation any cash retainers or fees). Any Awards or
other compensation paid or provided to an individual for his or her services as an Employee, or for his
or her services as a Consultant (other than as an Outside Director), will not count for purposes of the
limitation under this Section 11(a).
(b)
Dividends and Other Distributions. No dividends or other distributions shall be paid with respect to any
Shares underlying any unvested portion of an Award.
12. Leaves of Absence/Transfer Between Locations. Unless the Administrator provides otherwise or Applicable Laws
require otherwise, vesting of Awards will be suspended during any unpaid leave of absence. A Participant will
not cease to be an Employee in the case of (i) any leave of absence approved by the Company or the Participant’s
employer or (ii) transfers between locations of the Company or between the Company, its Parent, or any of its
Subsidiaries. For purposes of Incentive Stock Options, no such leave may exceed 3 months, unless reemployment
upon expiration of such leave is guaranteed by statute or contract. If reemployment upon expiration of a leave of
absence approved by the Company or the Participant’s employer is not so guaranteed, then 6 months following
the 1st day of such leave any Incentive Stock Option held by the Participant will cease to be treated as an Incentive
Stock Option and will be treated for tax purposes as a Nonstatutory Stock Option.
13. Transferability of Awards.
(a)
(b)
(c)
General Rule. Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, or otherwise required by Applicable
Laws, an Award may not be sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, transferred, or disposed of in any
manner other than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised, during the
lifetime of the Participant, only by the Participant. If the Administrator makes an Award transferable,
the Award will be limited by any additional terms and conditions imposed by the Administrator. Any
unauthorized transfer of an Award will be void.
Domestic Relations Orders. If approved by the Administrator, an Award may be transferred pursuant
to the terms of a domestic relations order, official marital settlement agreement or other divorce or
separation instrument as permitted by Treasury Regulations Section 1.421-1(b)(2). An Incentive Stock
Option may be deemed to be a Nonstatutory Stock Option as a result of such transfer.
Limited Transfers for the Benefit of Family Members. The Administrator may permit an Award or Share
issued under this Plan to be assigned or transferred subject to the applicable limitations, set forth in the
General Instructions to Form S-8 Registration Statement under the Securities Act, if applicable, and any
other Applicable Laws. For the avoidance of doubt, during the lifetime of the Participant, no Award may
be assigned or transferred to a third-party financial institution.
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(d)
Permitted Transferees. Any individual or entity to whom an Award is transferred will be subject to all of
the terms and conditions applicable to the Participant who transferred the Award, including the terms
and conditions in this Plan and the Award Agreement. If an Award is unvested, then the service of the
Participant will continue to determine whether the Award will vest and when it will terminate.
14. Adjustments; Dissolution or Liquidation; Merger or Change in Control; Death.
(a)
Adjustments. In the event that any extraordinary dividend or other extraordinary distribution (whether
in the form of cash, Shares, other securities, or other property), recapitalization, stock split, reverse stock
split, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, combination, reclassification, repurchase, or
exchange of Shares or other securities of the Company, or other change in the corporate structure of the
Company affecting the Shares occurs (other than any ordinary dividends or other ordinary distributions),
the Administrator, in order to prevent diminution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits
intended to be made available under the Plan, will adjust the number and class of shares of stock that
may be delivered under the Plan and/or the number, class, and price of shares of stock covered by each
outstanding Award, and the numerical Share limits in Section 3 of the Plan.
(b)
Dissolution or Liquidation. In the event of a proposed dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the
Administrator will notify each Participant as soon as practicable prior to the effective date of such
proposed transaction. To the extent it has not been previously exercised, an Award will terminate
immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed action.
(c) Merger or Change in Control. In the event of a merger of the Company with or into another corporation
or other entity or a Change in Control, each outstanding Award will be treated as the Administrator
determines (subject to the provisions of the following paragraph) without a Participant’s consent,
including, without limitation, that each Award be assumed or an equivalent option or right substituted
by the successor corporation or its Parent. The Administrator will not be obligated to treat all Awards, all
Awards held by a Participant, all Awards of the same type, or all portions of Awards, similarly.
In the event that the successor corporation does not assume or substitute for the Award (or portion
thereof), the Participant will fully vest in and have the right to exercise the Participant’s outstanding
Option and Stock Appreciation Right (or portion thereof) that is not assumed or substituted for,
including Shares as to which such Award would not otherwise be vested or exercisable, all restrictions
on Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Shares and Performance Units (or portions
thereof) not assumed or substituted for will lapse, and, with respect to such Awards with performance-
based vesting (or portions thereof) not assumed or substituted for, all performance goals or other vesting
criteria will be deemed achieved at 100% of target levels and all other terms and conditions met, in each
case, unless specifically provided otherwise under the applicable Award Agreement or other written
agreement between the Participant and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Parents, as applicable.
In addition, if an Option or Stock Appreciation Right (or portion thereof) is not assumed or substituted for
in the event of a merger or Change in Control, the Administrator will notify the Participant in writing or
electronically that such Option or Stock Appreciation Right (or its applicable portion) will be exercisable
for a period of time determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, and the Option or Stock
Appreciation Right (or its applicable portion) will terminate upon the expiration of such period.
For the purposes of this Section 14(c), an Award will be considered assumed if, following the merger
or Change in Control, the Award confers the right to purchase or receive, for each Share subject to the
Award immediately prior to the merger or Change in Control, the consideration (whether stock, cash,
or other securities or property) received in the merger or Change in Control by holders of Common
Stock for each Share held on the effective date of the transaction (and if holders were offered a choice
of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding
Shares); provided, however, that if such consideration received in the merger or Change in Control is
not solely common stock of the successor corporation or its Parent, the Administrator may, with the
consent of the successor corporation, provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise of
an Option or Stock Appreciation Right or upon the payout of a Restricted Stock Unit, Performance Unit
or Performance Share, for each Share subject to such Award, to be solely common stock of the successor
corporation or its Parent equal in fair market value to the per share consideration received by holders of
Common Stock in the merger or Change in Control.
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Notwithstanding anything in this Section 14(c) to the contrary, and unless otherwise provided in an
Award Agreement or other written agreement between the Participant and the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or Parents, as applicable, an Award that vests, is earned or paid-out upon the satisfaction of
one or more performance goals will not be considered assumed if the Company or its successor modifies
any of such performance goals without the Participant’s consent; provided, however, a modification to
such performance goals only to reflect the successor corporation’s post-Change in Control corporate
structure will not be deemed to invalidate an otherwise valid Award assumption.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 14(c) to the contrary, if a payment under an Award Agreement
is subject to Section 409A and if the change in control definition contained in the Award Agreement or
other written agreement related to the Award does not comply with the definition of “change in control”
for purposes of a distribution under Section 409A, then any payment of an amount that otherwise
is accelerated under this Section will be delayed until the earliest time that such payment would be
permissible under Section 409A without triggering any penalties applicable under Section 409A.
(d) Outside Director Awards. With respect to Awards granted to Outside Directors for their service as Outside
Directors, in the event of a Change in Control, such Participants will fully vest in and have the right
to exercise Options and/or Stock Appreciation Rights as to all of the Shares underlying such Awards,
including those Shares which would not be vested or exercisable, all restrictions on such Participants’
Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units will lapse, and, with respect to such Participants’ Awards
with performance-based vesting, all performance goals or other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved
at 100% of target levels and all other terms and conditions met, unless specifically provided otherwise
under the applicable Award Agreements or other written agreements between the Participants and the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Parents, as applicable.
15. Tax Matters.
(a) Withholding Requirements. Prior to the delivery of any Shares or cash pursuant to an Award (or exercise
thereof) or such earlier time as any withholding obligations for Tax-Related Items are due, the Company
(or any of its Subsidiaries, Parents or affiliates employing or retaining the services of a Participant, as
applicable) will have the power and the right to deduct or withhold, or require a Participant to remit to
the Company (or any of its Subsidiaries, Parents or affiliates, as applicable), an amount sufficient to satisfy
any Tax-Related Items required to be withheld with respect to such Award (or exercise thereof).
(b) Withholding Arrangements. The Administrator, in its sole discretion and pursuant to such procedures as it
may specify from time to time, may permit a Participant to satisfy such withholding obligation for Tax-
Related Items, in whole or in part by (without limitation) (i) paying cash, check or other cash equivalents,
(ii) electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable Shares having a fair market value equal
to the minimum statutory amount applicable in a Participant’s jurisdiction or such greater amount as
the Administrator may determine (including up to a maximum statutory amount) if such amount would
not have adverse accounting consequences, as the Administrator determines in its sole discretion, (iii)
delivering to the Company already-owned Shares having a fair market value equal to the minimum
statutory amount applicable in a Participant’s jurisdiction or such greater amount as the Administrator
may determine (including up to a maximum statutory amount), in each case, provided the delivery of such
Shares will not result in any adverse accounting consequences, as the Administrator determines in its sole
discretion, (iv) selling a sufficient number of Shares otherwise deliverable to the Participant through such
means as the Administrator may determine in its sole discretion (whether through a broker or otherwise) to
cover the amount of the withholding obligation for Tax-Related Items, (v) having the Company or a Parent
or Subsidiary withhold from wages or any other cash amount due or to become due to the Participant and
payable by the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, (vi) any other method of withholding determined by
the Administrator, or (vii) any combination of the foregoing methods of payment. The withholding amount
will be deemed to include any amount which the Administrator agrees may be withheld at the time the
election is made, not to exceed the amount determined by using the maximum statutory rates applicable
in a Participant’s jurisdiction with respect to the Award on the date that the amount of Tax-Related Items
to be withheld is to be determined or such greater amount as the Administrator may determine if such
amount would not have adverse accounting consequences, as the Administrator determines in its sole
discretion. The fair market value of the Shares to be withheld or delivered will be determined as of the date
that the amount of Tax-Related Items to be withheld is calculated.
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(c)
Compliance With Section 409A. Awards will be designed and operated in such a manner that they are
either exempt from the application of, or comply with, the requirements of Section 409A such that the
grant, payment, settlement or deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable
under Section 409A, except as otherwise determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator. The
Plan and each Award Agreement under the Plan is intended to meet the requirements of Section 409A
and will be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent, except as otherwise determined
in the sole discretion of the Administrator. To the extent that an Award or payment, or the settlement
or deferral thereof, is subject to Section 409A the Award will be granted, paid, settled or deferred in a
manner that will meet the requirements of Section 409A, such that the grant, payment, settlement or
deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable under Section 409A. In no event
will the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Parents have any obligation or liability under the terms
of this Plan to reimburse, indemnify, or hold harmless any Participant or any other person in respect of
Awards, for any taxes, interest or penalties imposed, or other costs incurred, as a result of Section 409A.
16. Miscellaneous.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Stockholder Approval and Term of Plan. The Plan will become effective upon its approval by the
Company’s stockholders within 12 months after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board. Such
stockholder approval will be obtained in the manner and to the degree required under Applicable Laws.
The Plan will continue in effect until terminated earlier under Section 17 of the Plan, but no Incentive
Stock Options may be granted after 10 years from the date the Plan is adopted by the Board.
Legal Compliance. Shares will not be issued pursuant an Award unless the exercise or vesting of such
Award and the issuance and delivery of such Shares will comply with Applicable Laws and will be further
subject to the approval of counsel for the Company with respect to such compliance.
Investment Representations. As a condition to the exercise or vesting of an Award, the Company
may require the person exercising or vesting in such Award to represent and warrant at the time of
any such exercise or vesting that the Shares are being acquired only for investment and without any
present intention to sell or distribute such Shares if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, such a
representation is required.
Inability to Obtain Authority. If the Company determines it to be impossible or impracticable to obtain
authority from any regulatory body having jurisdiction or to complete or comply with the requirements
of any registration or other qualification of the Shares under any U.S. state or federal law or non-U.S. law
or under the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock exchange
on which Shares of the same class are then listed, or any other governmental or regulatory body, which
authority, registration, qualification or rule compliance is deemed by the Company’s counsel to be
necessary or advisable for the issuance and sale of any Shares hereunder, the Company will be relieved
of any liability in respect of the failure to issue or sell such Shares as to which such requisite authority,
registration, qualification or rule compliance will not have been obtained.
No Effect on Employment or Service. Neither the Plan nor any Award will confer upon a Participant any
right with respect to continuing the Participant’s relationship as a Service Provider, nor interfere in any
way with the Participant’s right or the right of the Company and its Subsidiaries or Parents, as applicable,
to terminate such relationship at any time, with or without cause, to the extent permitted by Applicable
Laws.
Forfeiture Events. The Administrator may specify in an Award Agreement that the Participant’s rights,
payments, and benefits with respect to an Award will be subject to reduction, cancellation, forfeiture,
recoupment, reimbursement, or reacquisition upon the occurrence of certain specified events, in
addition to any otherwise applicable vesting or performance conditions of an Award. Notwithstanding
any provisions to the contrary under this Plan, an Award and any other compensation paid or payable
to a Participant (including, but not limited to, equity awards issued outside of this Plan) (such
compensation, “Other Compensation”) will be subject to the Company’s clawback policy in effect as
of the adoption of this Plan, and will be subject to any other clawback policy of the Company as may
be established and/or amended from time to time to comply with Applicable Laws (including without
limitation pursuant to the listing standards of any national securities exchange or association on which
the Company’s securities are listed or as may be required by the U.S. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
and Consumer Protection Act) (the “Clawback Policy”). The Administrator may require a Participant to
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forfeit, return or reimburse the Company all or a portion of the Award or Other Compensation and any
amounts paid thereunder pursuant to the terms of the Clawback Policy or as necessary or appropriate to
comply with Applicable Laws. Unless this subsection (f) specifically is mentioned and waived in an Award
Agreement or other document, no recovery of compensation under a Clawback Policy or otherwise will
constitute an event that triggers or contributes to any right of a Participant to resign for “good reason”
or “constructive termination” (or similar term) under any agreement with the Company or any Parent or
Subsidiary.
17. Amendment and Termination of the Plan.
(a)
(b)
(c)
Amendment and Termination. The Administrator, at any time, may amend, alter, suspend or terminate
the Plan.
Stockholder Approval. The Company will obtain stockholder approval of any Plan amendment to the
extent necessary and desirable to comply with Applicable Laws.
Consent of Participants Generally Required. Subject to Section 17(d) below, no amendment, alteration,
suspension or termination of the Plan or an Award under it will materially impair the rights of any
Participant, unless mutually agreed otherwise between the Participant and the Administrator, which
agreement must be in writing and signed by the Participant and the Company. Termination of the Plan
will not affect the Administrator’s ability to exercise the powers granted to it regarding Awards granted
under the Plan prior to such termination.
(d)
Exceptions to Consent Requirement.
(i)
(ii)
A Participant’s rights will not be deemed to have been impaired by any amendment, alteration,
suspension or termination if the Administrator, in its sole discretion, determines that the
amendment, alteration, suspension or termination taken as a whole, does not materially impair
the Participant’s rights, and
Subject to the limitations of Applicable Laws, if any, the Administrator may amend the terms of
any one or more Awards without the affected Participant’s consent even if it does materially impair
the Participant’s right if such amendment is done
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
in a manner expressly permitted under the Plan;
to maintain the qualified status of the Award as an Incentive Stock Option under Section
422 of the Code;
to change the terms of an Incentive Stock Option, if such change results in impairment of
the Award only because it impairs the qualified status of the Award as an Incentive Stock
Option under Section 422 of the Code;
to clarify the manner of exemption from, or to bring the Award into compliance with,
Section 409A; or
(5)
to comply with other Applicable Laws.
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
_____________________
FORM 10-K
_____________________
(Mark One)
☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended July 31, 2022
or
☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
Commission File Number 001-35594
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
20-2530195
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
3000 Tannery Way
Santa Clara, California 95054
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(408) 753-4000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, $0.0001 par value per share
PANW
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
(Nasdaq Global Select Market)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
No ☐
No ☒
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
Yes ☒
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.
Yes ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports),
and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted
pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller
reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller
reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
☒
☐
Accelerated filer
☐
Smaller reporting company ☐
Emerging growth company ☐
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for
complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness
of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered
public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
The aggregate market value of voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $49,978,456,856 as of January 31, 2022, the
last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter (based on the closing sales price for the common
stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on such date). Shares of common stock held by each executive officer and director have
been excluded in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive
determination for other purposes.
On August 22, 2022, 99,737,936 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $0.0001 par value, were outstanding.
Portions of the information called for by Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is hereby incorporated by reference from the
definitive proxy statement for the registrant’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, which will be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the registrant’s fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item 1.
Business
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Properties
Legal Proceedings
Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
Item 5.
Item 6.
Item 7.
Item 8.
Item 9.
Securities
[Reserved]
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item 9B. Other Information
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions That Prevent Inspections
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Item 14.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Item 15.
Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
Signatures
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PART II
PART III
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness
of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered
public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☒
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
The aggregate market value of voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $49,978,456,856 as of January 31, 2022, the
last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter (based on the closing sales price for the common
stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on such date). Shares of common stock held by each executive officer and director have
been excluded in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive
determination for other purposes.
On August 22, 2022, 99,737,936 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $0.0001 par value, were outstanding.
Portions of the information called for by Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is hereby incorporated by reference from the
definitive proxy statement for the registrant’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, which will be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission not later than 120 days after the registrant’s fiscal year ended July 31, 2022.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I
PART II
Item 1.
Business
Item 1A. Risk Factors
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Properties
Legal Proceedings
Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
Item 5.
Item 6.
Item 7.
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity
Securities
[Reserved]
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 8.
Item 9.
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Item 9B. Other Information
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions That Prevent Inspections
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers, and Corporate Governance
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
PART III
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Item 14.
Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Item 15.
Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
Signatures
PART IV
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These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including those described in
“Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Moreover, we operate in a very
competitive and rapidly changing environment, and new risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to
predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of
factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of
Form 10-K may not occur, and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-
looking statements. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking
statements, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such
forward-looking statements.
PART I
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the sections entitled “Business,” “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion
these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this Annual Report on
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The words “believe,” “may,”
“will,” “potentially,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “expect,” and similar
expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:
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the effects of supply chain challenges and the global chip and component shortages and other factors affecting the
manufacture, delivery and cost of certain of our products;
expectations regarding drivers of and factors affecting growth in our business;
the performance advantages of our products and subscription and support offerings and the potential benefits to our
customers;
statements regarding trends in billings, our mix of product and subscription and support revenue, cost of revenue, gross
margin, cash flows, operating expenses, including future share-based compensation expense, income taxes, investment
plans and liquidity;
our ability to and expectation that we will continue to grow our installed end-customer base;
expected recurring revenues resulting from expected growth in our installed base and increased adoption of our products
and cloud-based subscription services;
our expectations regarding future investments in research and development, customer support, in our employees and in
our sales force, including expectations regarding growth in our sales headcount;
our ability to develop or acquire new product, subscription, and support offerings, improve our existing product,
subscription, and support offerings, and increase the value of our product, subscription, and support offerings, including
through deployment of new capabilities via security applications developed by third parties;
our expectation that we will continue to expand internationally;
our expectation that we will continue to renew existing contracts and increase sales to our existing customer base;
expectations regarding our revenues, including the seasonality and cyclicality from quarter to quarter;
expected impact of the adoption of certain recent accounting pronouncements and the anticipated timing of adopting such
standards;
our expectation that we will expand our facilities or add new facilities as we add employees and enter new geographic
markets and expectations related to charges incurred in connection with exiting our former headquarter facilities;
our expectations regarding the future results of our People Strategy;
our expectation that we will increase our customer financing activities;
the sufficiency of our cash flow from operations with existing cash, cash equivalents and investments to meet our cash
needs for the foreseeable future;
our expectations regarding the impact of the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate upon our liquidity or financial position;
future investments in product development, subscriptions, or technologies, and any related delays in the development or
release of new product and subscription offerings;
our ability to successfully acquire and integrate companies and assets;
expectations and intentions with respect to the products and technologies that we acquire and introduce;
the timing and amount of capital expenditures and share repurchases;
our expectations regarding the impacts on our business, the business of our customers, suppliers and partners, and the
economy as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures; and
other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business strategies.
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These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, including those described in
“Risk Factors” included in Part I, Item 1A and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Moreover, we operate in a very
competitive and rapidly changing environment, and new risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to
predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of
factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of
these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this Annual Report on
Form 10-K may not occur, and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-
looking statements. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking
statements, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such
forward-looking statements.
PART I
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the sections entitled “Business,” “Risk Factors,” and “Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The words “believe,” “may,”
“will,” “potentially,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “expect,” and similar
expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following:
•
the effects of supply chain challenges and the global chip and component shortages and other factors affecting the
manufacture, delivery and cost of certain of our products;
expectations regarding drivers of and factors affecting growth in our business;
the performance advantages of our products and subscription and support offerings and the potential benefits to our
customers;
plans and liquidity;
statements regarding trends in billings, our mix of product and subscription and support revenue, cost of revenue, gross
margin, cash flows, operating expenses, including future share-based compensation expense, income taxes, investment
our ability to and expectation that we will continue to grow our installed end-customer base;
expected recurring revenues resulting from expected growth in our installed base and increased adoption of our products
and cloud-based subscription services;
our expectations regarding future investments in research and development, customer support, in our employees and in
our sales force, including expectations regarding growth in our sales headcount;
•
our ability to develop or acquire new product, subscription, and support offerings, improve our existing product,
subscription, and support offerings, and increase the value of our product, subscription, and support offerings, including
through deployment of new capabilities via security applications developed by third parties;
our expectation that we will continue to expand internationally;
our expectation that we will continue to renew existing contracts and increase sales to our existing customer base;
expectations regarding our revenues, including the seasonality and cyclicality from quarter to quarter;
expected impact of the adoption of certain recent accounting pronouncements and the anticipated timing of adopting such
standards;
our expectation that we will expand our facilities or add new facilities as we add employees and enter new geographic
markets and expectations related to charges incurred in connection with exiting our former headquarter facilities;
our expectations regarding the future results of our People Strategy;
our expectation that we will increase our customer financing activities;
the sufficiency of our cash flow from operations with existing cash, cash equivalents and investments to meet our cash
needs for the foreseeable future;
our expectations regarding the impact of the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate upon our liquidity or financial position;
future investments in product development, subscriptions, or technologies, and any related delays in the development or
release of new product and subscription offerings;
our ability to successfully acquire and integrate companies and assets;
expectations and intentions with respect to the products and technologies that we acquire and introduce;
the timing and amount of capital expenditures and share repurchases;
our expectations regarding the impacts on our business, the business of our customers, suppliers and partners, and the
economy as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and related public health measures; and
other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition and prospects, and business strategies.
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ITEM 1.
BUSINESS
General
Product, Subscription, and Support
Our products are available in the form of the product, subscription, and support offerings described below.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is a global cybersecurity provider with a vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure
Products
than the one before. We were incorporated in 2005 and are headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
We empower enterprises, organizations, service providers, and government entities to protect themselves against today’s most
sophisticated cyber threats. Our cybersecurity platforms and services help secure enterprise users, networks, clouds, and endpoints by
delivering comprehensive cybersecurity backed by industry leading artificial intelligence and automation. We are a leading provider of
zero trust solutions, starting with next-generation zero trust network access to secure today’s remote hybrid workforces and extending
to securing all users, applications and infrastructure with zero trust principles. Our security solutions are designed to reduce customers’
total cost of ownership by improving operational efficiency and eliminating the need for siloed point products. Our company focuses
on delivering value in five fundamental areas:
Network Security:
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Our network security platform, which includes our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls, available in a number of
form factors, including physical, virtual, and containerized appliances, as well as a cloud-delivered service, has been
recognized as a leader in the industry. Our network security platform also includes our Cloud-Delivered Security Services,
such as Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire®, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT Security,
GlobalProtect™, SD-WAN, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (“Enterprise DLP”), AIOps, SaaS Security API, and SaaS
Security Inline. Through these add-on security services, our customers are able to secure their content, applications, users,
and devices across our network security platform as well as the Prisma® and Cortex® product lines. Panorama™, our
network security management solution, available as hardware or virtual machine, can centrally manage our network
security platform irrespective of form factor, location, or scale.
Secure Access Service Edge:
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Prisma Access is our next-generation Zero Trust Network Access (“ZTNA”) platform that provides secure network access
for all employees with unified policy management and continuous threat inspection. We have recently introduced
ZTNA 2.0, which addresses major shortcomings in the first-generation ZTNA products in the industry (which we refer to
as ZTNA 1.0). Prisma Access delivers granular least-privileged access along with continuous trust verification and
security inspection, and protects security for all applications and data across the enterprise infrastructure. Prisma Access,
when combined with Prisma SD-WAN, provides a comprehensive single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (“SASE”)
offering that is used to secure remote workforces and enable the cloud-delivered branch.
Cloud Security:
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We enable cloud native security through our Prisma Cloud platform. As a comprehensive Cloud Native Application
Protection Platform (“CNAPP”), Prisma Cloud secures hybrid and multi-cloud environments for applications, data, and
the entire cloud native technology stack across the full development lifecycle; from code to runtime. For inline network
security on multi and hybrid-cloud environments, we also offer our VM-Series and CN-Series Firewall offerings.
Security Operations:
•
We deliver the next generation of endpoint security, security analytics and security automation solutions through our
Cortex portfolio. These include our industry-leading extended detection and response platform Cortex XDR® to prevent,
detect, and respond to complex cybersecurity attacks, Cortex XSOAR® for security orchestration, automation, and
response (“SOAR”), Cortex Xpanse® for attack surface management (“ASM”), and Cortex Data Lake allowing our
customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-rich data across endpoints, networks, and clouds. These
products are delivered as software subscriptions or SaaS subscriptions.
Threat Intelligence and Security Consulting (Unit 42):
•
We enable security teams with up-to-date threat intelligence and deep cybersecurity expertise before, during and after
attacks through our Unit 42 threat research and security consulting team. Unit 42 offers incident response, risk
management, board advisory, and proactive cybersecurity assessment services.
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Firewall Appliances and Software. Our ML-Powered Next Generation Firewalls embed machine learning in the core of the
firewall and employ inline deep learning in the cloud, empowering our customers to stop zero-day threats in real time, see and secure
their entire enterprise including IoT, and reduce errors with automatic policy recommendations. All of our firewall appliances and
software incorporate our PAN-OS® operating system and come with the same rich set of features ensuring consistent operation across
our entire product line. The content, applications, users, and devices—the elements that run a business—become integral components
of an enterprise’s security policy via our Content-ID™, App-ID™, User-ID™, and Device-ID technology. In addition to these
components, key features include site-to-site virtual private network (“VPN”), remote access Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) VPN, and
Quality-of-Service (“QoS”). Our appliances and software are designed for different performance requirements throughout an
organization and are classified based on throughput, ranging from our PA-410, which is designed for small organizations and branch
offices, to our top-of-the-line PA-7080, which is designed for large-scale data centers and service provider use. Our firewall appliances
come in a physical form factor, a containerized form factor, called CN-Series, as well as a virtual form factor, called VM-Series, that is
available for virtualization and cloud environments from companies such as VMware, Inc. (“VMware”), Microsoft Corporation
(“Microsoft”), Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”), and Google, Inc. (“Google”), and in Kernel-based Virtual Machine
(“KVM”)/OpenStack environments. We also offer Cloud NGFW, a managed next-generation firewall (“NGFW”) offering, to secure
customers’ applications on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”).
Panorama. Panorama is our centralized security management solution for global control of all of our firewall appliances and
software deployed on a customer’s network, as well as in their instances in public or private cloud environments. Panorama can be
deployed as a virtual appliance or a physical appliance. Panorama is used for centralized policy management, device management,
software licensing and updates, centralized logging and reporting, and log storage. Panorama controls the security, network address
translation (“NAT”), QoS, policy-based forwarding, decryption, application override, captive portal, and distributed denial of
service/denial of service (“DDoS/DoS”) protection aspects of the appliances, software, virtual and containerized systems under
management. Panorama centrally manages device software and associated updates, including SSL-VPN clients, SD-WAN, dynamic
content updates, and software licenses. Panorama offers network security monitoring through the ability to view logs and run reports
from all managed appliances and software in one location without the need to forward the logs and reliably expands log storage for
long-term event investigation and analysis.
Virtual System Upgrades. Virtual System Upgrades are available as extensions to the Virtual System capacity that ships with
our physical appliances. Virtual Systems provide a mechanism to support multiple distinct security policies and administrative access
for tenants on the same hardware device, which is applicable to our large enterprise and service provider customers.
Subscriptions
We offer a number of subscriptions as part of our portfolio. Of these subscription offerings, cloud-delivered security services
like Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT Security, SaaS Security
Inline, GlobalProtect, SD-WAN, Enterprise DLP and AIOps are sold as options to our firewall appliances and software, whereas
Prisma Cloud, Prisma Access, Prisma SD-WAN, SaaS Security API, Cortex XDR, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex Xpanse and Cortex Data
Lake are sold on a per-user, per-endpoint, or capacity-based basis. Our subscription offerings include:
Cloud-delivered Security Services:
•
Threat Prevention. This cloud-delivered security service provides intrusion detection and prevention capabilities and
blocks vulnerability exploits, viruses, spyware, buffer overflows, denial-of-service attacks, and port scans from
compromising and damaging enterprise information resources. It includes mechanisms such as protocol decoder-based
analysis, protocol anomaly-based protection, stateful pattern matching, statistical anomaly detection, heuristic-based
analysis, custom vulnerability and spyware “phone home” signatures, and workflows to manage popular open-source
signature formats to extend our leading coverage.
•
Advanced Threat Prevention. This cloud-delivered security service builds on all of the capabilities of Threat Prevention,
adding the industry’s first Inline Deep Learning protection engine for Command-and-Control (“C2”). It delivers real-time
detection and prevention of unknown, evasive, and targeted C2 communications over HTTP, unknown-TCP, unknown-
UDP and encrypted over SSL. Advanced Threat Prevention is the first offering to protect patient zero from unknown
command and control in real-time.
ITEM 1.
BUSINESS
General
Product, Subscription, and Support
Our products are available in the form of the product, subscription, and support offerings described below.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is a global cybersecurity provider with a vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure
Products
than the one before. We were incorporated in 2005 and are headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
We empower enterprises, organizations, service providers, and government entities to protect themselves against today’s most
sophisticated cyber threats. Our cybersecurity platforms and services help secure enterprise users, networks, clouds, and endpoints by
delivering comprehensive cybersecurity backed by industry leading artificial intelligence and automation. We are a leading provider of
zero trust solutions, starting with next-generation zero trust network access to secure today’s remote hybrid workforces and extending
to securing all users, applications and infrastructure with zero trust principles. Our security solutions are designed to reduce customers’
total cost of ownership by improving operational efficiency and eliminating the need for siloed point products. Our company focuses
on delivering value in five fundamental areas:
Network Security:
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Our network security platform, which includes our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls, available in a number of
form factors, including physical, virtual, and containerized appliances, as well as a cloud-delivered service, has been
recognized as a leader in the industry. Our network security platform also includes our Cloud-Delivered Security Services,
such as Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire®, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT Security,
GlobalProtect™, SD-WAN, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (“Enterprise DLP”), AIOps, SaaS Security API, and SaaS
Security Inline. Through these add-on security services, our customers are able to secure their content, applications, users,
and devices across our network security platform as well as the Prisma® and Cortex® product lines. Panorama™, our
network security management solution, available as hardware or virtual machine, can centrally manage our network
security platform irrespective of form factor, location, or scale.
Secure Access Service Edge:
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Prisma Access is our next-generation Zero Trust Network Access (“ZTNA”) platform that provides secure network access
for all employees with unified policy management and continuous threat inspection. We have recently introduced
ZTNA 2.0, which addresses major shortcomings in the first-generation ZTNA products in the industry (which we refer to
as ZTNA 1.0). Prisma Access delivers granular least-privileged access along with continuous trust verification and
security inspection, and protects security for all applications and data across the enterprise infrastructure. Prisma Access,
when combined with Prisma SD-WAN, provides a comprehensive single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (“SASE”)
offering that is used to secure remote workforces and enable the cloud-delivered branch.
Cloud Security:
Security Operations:
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We enable cloud native security through our Prisma Cloud platform. As a comprehensive Cloud Native Application
Protection Platform (“CNAPP”), Prisma Cloud secures hybrid and multi-cloud environments for applications, data, and
the entire cloud native technology stack across the full development lifecycle; from code to runtime. For inline network
security on multi and hybrid-cloud environments, we also offer our VM-Series and CN-Series Firewall offerings.
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We deliver the next generation of endpoint security, security analytics and security automation solutions through our
Cortex portfolio. These include our industry-leading extended detection and response platform Cortex XDR® to prevent,
detect, and respond to complex cybersecurity attacks, Cortex XSOAR® for security orchestration, automation, and
response (“SOAR”), Cortex Xpanse® for attack surface management (“ASM”), and Cortex Data Lake allowing our
customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-rich data across endpoints, networks, and clouds. These
products are delivered as software subscriptions or SaaS subscriptions.
Threat Intelligence and Security Consulting (Unit 42):
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We enable security teams with up-to-date threat intelligence and deep cybersecurity expertise before, during and after
attacks through our Unit 42 threat research and security consulting team. Unit 42 offers incident response, risk
management, board advisory, and proactive cybersecurity assessment services.
Firewall Appliances and Software. Our ML-Powered Next Generation Firewalls embed machine learning in the core of the
firewall and employ inline deep learning in the cloud, empowering our customers to stop zero-day threats in real time, see and secure
their entire enterprise including IoT, and reduce errors with automatic policy recommendations. All of our firewall appliances and
software incorporate our PAN-OS® operating system and come with the same rich set of features ensuring consistent operation across
our entire product line. The content, applications, users, and devices—the elements that run a business—become integral components
of an enterprise’s security policy via our Content-ID™, App-ID™, User-ID™, and Device-ID technology. In addition to these
components, key features include site-to-site virtual private network (“VPN”), remote access Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) VPN, and
Quality-of-Service (“QoS”). Our appliances and software are designed for different performance requirements throughout an
organization and are classified based on throughput, ranging from our PA-410, which is designed for small organizations and branch
offices, to our top-of-the-line PA-7080, which is designed for large-scale data centers and service provider use. Our firewall appliances
come in a physical form factor, a containerized form factor, called CN-Series, as well as a virtual form factor, called VM-Series, that is
available for virtualization and cloud environments from companies such as VMware, Inc. (“VMware”), Microsoft Corporation
(“Microsoft”), Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”), and Google, Inc. (“Google”), and in Kernel-based Virtual Machine
(“KVM”)/OpenStack environments. We also offer Cloud NGFW, a managed next-generation firewall (“NGFW”) offering, to secure
customers’ applications on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”).
Panorama. Panorama is our centralized security management solution for global control of all of our firewall appliances and
software deployed on a customer’s network, as well as in their instances in public or private cloud environments. Panorama can be
deployed as a virtual appliance or a physical appliance. Panorama is used for centralized policy management, device management,
software licensing and updates, centralized logging and reporting, and log storage. Panorama controls the security, network address
translation (“NAT”), QoS, policy-based forwarding, decryption, application override, captive portal, and distributed denial of
service/denial of service (“DDoS/DoS”) protection aspects of the appliances, software, virtual and containerized systems under
management. Panorama centrally manages device software and associated updates, including SSL-VPN clients, SD-WAN, dynamic
content updates, and software licenses. Panorama offers network security monitoring through the ability to view logs and run reports
from all managed appliances and software in one location without the need to forward the logs and reliably expands log storage for
long-term event investigation and analysis.
Virtual System Upgrades. Virtual System Upgrades are available as extensions to the Virtual System capacity that ships with
our physical appliances. Virtual Systems provide a mechanism to support multiple distinct security policies and administrative access
for tenants on the same hardware device, which is applicable to our large enterprise and service provider customers.
Subscriptions
We offer a number of subscriptions as part of our portfolio. Of these subscription offerings, cloud-delivered security services
like Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT Security, SaaS Security
Inline, GlobalProtect, SD-WAN, Enterprise DLP and AIOps are sold as options to our firewall appliances and software, whereas
Prisma Cloud, Prisma Access, Prisma SD-WAN, SaaS Security API, Cortex XDR, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex Xpanse and Cortex Data
Lake are sold on a per-user, per-endpoint, or capacity-based basis. Our subscription offerings include:
Cloud-delivered Security Services:
•
•
Threat Prevention. This cloud-delivered security service provides intrusion detection and prevention capabilities and
blocks vulnerability exploits, viruses, spyware, buffer overflows, denial-of-service attacks, and port scans from
compromising and damaging enterprise information resources. It includes mechanisms such as protocol decoder-based
analysis, protocol anomaly-based protection, stateful pattern matching, statistical anomaly detection, heuristic-based
analysis, custom vulnerability and spyware “phone home” signatures, and workflows to manage popular open-source
signature formats to extend our leading coverage.
Advanced Threat Prevention. This cloud-delivered security service builds on all of the capabilities of Threat Prevention,
adding the industry’s first Inline Deep Learning protection engine for Command-and-Control (“C2”). It delivers real-time
detection and prevention of unknown, evasive, and targeted C2 communications over HTTP, unknown-TCP, unknown-
UDP and encrypted over SSL. Advanced Threat Prevention is the first offering to protect patient zero from unknown
command and control in real-time.
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WildFire. This cloud-delivered security service (which can also be delivered as an appliance) provides protection against
targeted malware and advanced persistent threats and provides a near real-time analysis engine for detecting previously
unseen malware while resisting attacker evasion techniques. The core component of this subscription goes beyond
traditional sandbox environments and can operate on an end-customers’ local environment, private cloud or our public
cloud. WildFire combines dynamic and static analysis, recursive analysis, and a custom-built analysis environment with
network traffic profiling and fileless attack detection to discover even the most sophisticated and evasive threats. A
machine learning module derived from the cloud sandbox environment is now delivered inline on the ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewalls to identify the majority of unknown threats without cloud connectivity. Once identified, whether in
the cloud or inline, preventive measures are automatically generated and delivered in seconds or less across networks,
clouds, endpoints, or wherever WildFire-enabled sensors are deployed. By providing this as a cloud-based subscription,
all of our end-customers benefit from malware found on any of our end-customers’ networks.
Advanced URL Filtering. This cloud-delivered security service offers the industry’s first Inline Deep Learning powered
web protection engine. It delivers real-time detection and prevention of unknown, evasive, and targeted web-based threats
such as phishing, malware, and command-and-control. While many vendors use machine learning to categorize web
content or prevent malware downloads, Advanced URL Filtering is the industry’s first inline web protection engine
capable of detecting never-before-seen web-based threats and preventing them in real-time. In addition, it includes a
cloud-based URL filtering database which consists of millions of URLs across many categories and is designed to analyze
web traffic and prevent web-based threats such as phishing, malware, and command-and-control.
DNS Security. This cloud-delivered security service uses machine learning to proactively block malicious domains and
stops attacks in progress. Unlike other solutions, it does not require endpoint routing configurations to be maintained and
therefore cannot be bypassed. It allows firewalls access to DNS signatures that are generated using advanced predictive
analysis, machine learning, and malicious domain data from a growing threat intelligence sharing community of which we
are a part. Expanded categorization of DNS traffic and comprehensive analytics allow deep insights into threats,
empowering security personnel with the context to optimize their security posture. It offers comprehensive DNS attack
coverage and includes industry-first protections against multiple emerging DNS-based network attacks.
IoT Security. IoT Security is a cloud-delivered security service on our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls with
backward compatibility to older versions of PAN-OS. Using machine learning and our App-ID technology, it can
accurately identify and classify various IoT and operational technology (“OT”) devices, including never-been-seen-before
devices, mission critical OT devices and unmanaged legacy systems. It uses machine learning to baseline normal
behavior, identify anomalous activity, assess risk, and provide policy recommendations to allow trusted behavior with a
new Device-ID policy construct on our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls. Our existing subscription-based security
services have also been enhanced with IoT context to prevent threats on various devices, including IoT and OT devices.
SaaS Security API. SaaS Security API (formerly Prisma SaaS) is a multi-mode, cloud access security broker service that
helps govern sanctioned SaaS application usage across all users and helps prevent breaches and non-compliance.
Specifically, the service enables the discovery and classification of data stored across the supported SaaS applications,
protects sensitive data from accidental exposure, identifies and protects against known and unknown malware, and
performs user activity monitoring to identify potential misuse or data exfiltration. It delivers complete visibility and
granular enforcement across all user, folder, and file activity within sanctioned SaaS applications, and can be combined
with SaaS Security Inline for a complete integrated cloud access security broker (“CASB”).
SaaS Security Inline. SaaS Security Inline is a recent cloud-delivered security service on our ML-Powered Next
Generation Firewalls that adds an inline service to automatically gain visibility and control over the tens of thousands of
known and new sanctioned, unsanctioned and tolerated SaaS applications in use within organizations today. It provides
enterprise data protection and compliance across all SaaS applications and prevents cloud threats in real time with best-in-
class security. The solution is easy to deploy being natively integrated on our range of ML-Powered Next-Generation
Firewalls, eliminating the architectural complexity of traditional CASB products, while offering low total cost of
ownership. It can be combined with SaaS Security API as a complete integrated CASB.
GlobalProtect. This appliance-based subscription provides protection for users of both traditional laptop and mobile
devices. It expands the boundaries of the end-users’ physical network, effectively establishing a logical perimeter that
encompasses remote laptop and mobile device users irrespective of their location. When a remote user logs into the
device, GlobalProtect automatically determines the closest gateway available to the roaming device and establishes a
secure connection. Regardless of the operating systems, laptops, tablets and phones will stay connected to the corporate
network when they are on a network of any kind and, as a result, are protected as if they never left the corporate campus.
GlobalProtect ensures that the same secure application enablement policies that protect users at the corporate site are
enforced for all users, independent of their location.
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SD-WAN. Our SD-WAN subscription is integrated with PAN-OS, so that our end-customers can get the security features
of our PAN-OS ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall together with SD-WAN functionality. The SD-WAN overlay
supports dynamic, intelligent path selection based on the applications, services and conditions of the links that each
application or service is allowed to use, allowing applications to be prioritized based on criteria such as whether the
application is mission-critical, latency-sensitive, or meets certain health criteria.
•
Enterprise DLP. This cloud-delivered security service provides consistent, reliable protection of sensitive data, such as
personally identifiable information (“PII”) and intellectual property, for all traffic types, applications, and users. Native
integration with our products makes it simple to deploy, and advanced machine learning minimizes management
complexity. Enterprise DLP allows organizations to consistently discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data,
wherever it may reside. It helps minimize the risk of a data breach both on-premises and in the cloud—such as in
Office/Microsoft 365™, Salesforce®, and Box—and assists in meeting stringent data privacy and compliance regulations,
including GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others.
•
AIOps for NGFW: AIOps for NGFW is a new cloud-delivered security service available on ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewalls and Panorama that run on PAN‑OS 10.0 and above, and is available in both free and licensed
premium versions. AIOps for NGFW redefines firewall operational experience by empowering security teams to
proactively strengthen security posture and resolve firewall disruptions. AIOps for NGFW provides continuous best
practice recommendations powered by machine learning (“ML”) based on industry standards, security policy context, and
advanced telemetry data collected from all Palo Alto Networks® firewalls to improve security posture. It also intelligently
predicts firewall health, performance, and capacity problems up to seven days in advance and provides actionable insights
to resolve the predicted disruptions.
Cloud Security:
•
Prisma Cloud. Prisma Cloud is a comprehensive CNAPP, securing both cloud native and lift-and-shift applications across
hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. With broad security and compliance coverage and a flexible agentless, as well as
agent-based, architecture, Prisma Cloud protects cloud-native applications spanning hosts, containers, serverless
architectures and other platform as a service (“PaaS”) offerings across cloud platforms. It dynamically discovers public
cloud resources as they are deployed and correlates cloud data services (resource configurations, flow logs, audit logs,
host and container logs, etc.) to provide timely security and compliance insights for cloud applications. The platform uses
machine learning to profile user, workload, and application behaviors to identify and prevent advanced threats.
For security and development and operations teams, Prisma Cloud removes the impedance mismatch between security
and cloud-driven agility by integrating with continuous integration and continuous development (“CI/CD”) tool chains to
provide full lifecycle vulnerability management, compliance, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and runtime defense. With a
comprehensive library of compliance frameworks, it vastly simplifies the task of maintaining compliance. Prisma Cloud
accomplishes this through deep context-sharing that spans infrastructure, PaaS, users, development platforms, data, and
application workloads. Seamless integration with security orchestration tools ensures rapid remediation of vulnerabilities
and security issues.
Prisma Cloud delivers cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection platform, cloud network security,
cloud code security, and cloud identity security capabilities that provide continuous visibility and protection across an
organization’s hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
Secure Access Service Edge:
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Prisma Access. Prisma Access is a cloud-delivered security offering that helps organizations deliver consistent security to
remote networks and mobile users. Located in more than 100 locations around the world, Prisma Access consistently
inspects all traffic across all ports and provides bidirectional networking to enable branch-to-branch and branch-to-
headquarter traffic. Prisma Access consolidates more point-products into a single converged cloud-delivered offering than
any competing solution, transforming network security and allowing organizations to enable secure hybrid workforces.
Unlike competing solutions, only Prisma Access protects all application traffic with complete, best-in-class security while
ensuring an exceptional user experience with industry-leading service-level agreements (“SLA”s).
•
Prisma SD-WAN. Our Prisma SD-WAN solution is a next-generation SD-WAN solution that makes the secure cloud-
delivered branch possible. Prisma SD-WAN enables organizations to replace traditional Multiprotocol Label Switching
(“MPLS”) based WAN architectures with affordable broadband and internet transport types that promote improved
bandwidth availability, redundancy and performance at a reduced cost. Prisma SD-WAN leverages real-time application
performance SLAs and visibility to control and intelligently steer application traffic to deliver an exceptional user
experience. Unlike legacy SD-WAN solutions that introduce cost and complexity, our Prisma SD-WAN ensures an
excellent user experience with application-defined policies and simplifies network and security operations using machine
learning and automation.
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WildFire. This cloud-delivered security service (which can also be delivered as an appliance) provides protection against
targeted malware and advanced persistent threats and provides a near real-time analysis engine for detecting previously
unseen malware while resisting attacker evasion techniques. The core component of this subscription goes beyond
traditional sandbox environments and can operate on an end-customers’ local environment, private cloud or our public
cloud. WildFire combines dynamic and static analysis, recursive analysis, and a custom-built analysis environment with
network traffic profiling and fileless attack detection to discover even the most sophisticated and evasive threats. A
machine learning module derived from the cloud sandbox environment is now delivered inline on the ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewalls to identify the majority of unknown threats without cloud connectivity. Once identified, whether in
the cloud or inline, preventive measures are automatically generated and delivered in seconds or less across networks,
clouds, endpoints, or wherever WildFire-enabled sensors are deployed. By providing this as a cloud-based subscription,
all of our end-customers benefit from malware found on any of our end-customers’ networks.
•
Advanced URL Filtering. This cloud-delivered security service offers the industry’s first Inline Deep Learning powered
web protection engine. It delivers real-time detection and prevention of unknown, evasive, and targeted web-based threats
such as phishing, malware, and command-and-control. While many vendors use machine learning to categorize web
content or prevent malware downloads, Advanced URL Filtering is the industry’s first inline web protection engine
capable of detecting never-before-seen web-based threats and preventing them in real-time. In addition, it includes a
cloud-based URL filtering database which consists of millions of URLs across many categories and is designed to analyze
web traffic and prevent web-based threats such as phishing, malware, and command-and-control.
•
DNS Security. This cloud-delivered security service uses machine learning to proactively block malicious domains and
stops attacks in progress. Unlike other solutions, it does not require endpoint routing configurations to be maintained and
therefore cannot be bypassed. It allows firewalls access to DNS signatures that are generated using advanced predictive
analysis, machine learning, and malicious domain data from a growing threat intelligence sharing community of which we
•
IoT Security. IoT Security is a cloud-delivered security service on our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls with
backward compatibility to older versions of PAN-OS. Using machine learning and our App-ID technology, it can
accurately identify and classify various IoT and operational technology (“OT”) devices, including never-been-seen-before
devices, mission critical OT devices and unmanaged legacy systems. It uses machine learning to baseline normal
behavior, identify anomalous activity, assess risk, and provide policy recommendations to allow trusted behavior with a
new Device-ID policy construct on our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls. Our existing subscription-based security
services have also been enhanced with IoT context to prevent threats on various devices, including IoT and OT devices.
•
SaaS Security API. SaaS Security API (formerly Prisma SaaS) is a multi-mode, cloud access security broker service that
helps govern sanctioned SaaS application usage across all users and helps prevent breaches and non-compliance.
Specifically, the service enables the discovery and classification of data stored across the supported SaaS applications,
protects sensitive data from accidental exposure, identifies and protects against known and unknown malware, and
performs user activity monitoring to identify potential misuse or data exfiltration. It delivers complete visibility and
granular enforcement across all user, folder, and file activity within sanctioned SaaS applications, and can be combined
with SaaS Security Inline for a complete integrated cloud access security broker (“CASB”).
Generation Firewalls that adds an inline service to automatically gain visibility and control over the tens of thousands of
known and new sanctioned, unsanctioned and tolerated SaaS applications in use within organizations today. It provides
enterprise data protection and compliance across all SaaS applications and prevents cloud threats in real time with best-in-
class security. The solution is easy to deploy being natively integrated on our range of ML-Powered Next-Generation
Firewalls, eliminating the architectural complexity of traditional CASB products, while offering low total cost of
ownership. It can be combined with SaaS Security API as a complete integrated CASB.
•
GlobalProtect. This appliance-based subscription provides protection for users of both traditional laptop and mobile
devices. It expands the boundaries of the end-users’ physical network, effectively establishing a logical perimeter that
encompasses remote laptop and mobile device users irrespective of their location. When a remote user logs into the
device, GlobalProtect automatically determines the closest gateway available to the roaming device and establishes a
secure connection. Regardless of the operating systems, laptops, tablets and phones will stay connected to the corporate
network when they are on a network of any kind and, as a result, are protected as if they never left the corporate campus.
GlobalProtect ensures that the same secure application enablement policies that protect users at the corporate site are
enforced for all users, independent of their location.
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SD-WAN. Our SD-WAN subscription is integrated with PAN-OS, so that our end-customers can get the security features
of our PAN-OS ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall together with SD-WAN functionality. The SD-WAN overlay
supports dynamic, intelligent path selection based on the applications, services and conditions of the links that each
application or service is allowed to use, allowing applications to be prioritized based on criteria such as whether the
application is mission-critical, latency-sensitive, or meets certain health criteria.
Enterprise DLP. This cloud-delivered security service provides consistent, reliable protection of sensitive data, such as
personally identifiable information (“PII”) and intellectual property, for all traffic types, applications, and users. Native
integration with our products makes it simple to deploy, and advanced machine learning minimizes management
complexity. Enterprise DLP allows organizations to consistently discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data,
wherever it may reside. It helps minimize the risk of a data breach both on-premises and in the cloud—such as in
Office/Microsoft 365™, Salesforce®, and Box—and assists in meeting stringent data privacy and compliance regulations,
including GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and others.
AIOps for NGFW: AIOps for NGFW is a new cloud-delivered security service available on ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewalls and Panorama that run on PAN‑OS 10.0 and above, and is available in both free and licensed
premium versions. AIOps for NGFW redefines firewall operational experience by empowering security teams to
proactively strengthen security posture and resolve firewall disruptions. AIOps for NGFW provides continuous best
practice recommendations powered by machine learning (“ML”) based on industry standards, security policy context, and
advanced telemetry data collected from all Palo Alto Networks® firewalls to improve security posture. It also intelligently
predicts firewall health, performance, and capacity problems up to seven days in advance and provides actionable insights
to resolve the predicted disruptions.
Cloud Security:
are a part. Expanded categorization of DNS traffic and comprehensive analytics allow deep insights into threats,
•
empowering security personnel with the context to optimize their security posture. It offers comprehensive DNS attack
coverage and includes industry-first protections against multiple emerging DNS-based network attacks.
Prisma Cloud. Prisma Cloud is a comprehensive CNAPP, securing both cloud native and lift-and-shift applications across
hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. With broad security and compliance coverage and a flexible agentless, as well as
agent-based, architecture, Prisma Cloud protects cloud-native applications spanning hosts, containers, serverless
architectures and other platform as a service (“PaaS”) offerings across cloud platforms. It dynamically discovers public
cloud resources as they are deployed and correlates cloud data services (resource configurations, flow logs, audit logs,
host and container logs, etc.) to provide timely security and compliance insights for cloud applications. The platform uses
machine learning to profile user, workload, and application behaviors to identify and prevent advanced threats.
For security and development and operations teams, Prisma Cloud removes the impedance mismatch between security
and cloud-driven agility by integrating with continuous integration and continuous development (“CI/CD”) tool chains to
provide full lifecycle vulnerability management, compliance, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and runtime defense. With a
comprehensive library of compliance frameworks, it vastly simplifies the task of maintaining compliance. Prisma Cloud
accomplishes this through deep context-sharing that spans infrastructure, PaaS, users, development platforms, data, and
application workloads. Seamless integration with security orchestration tools ensures rapid remediation of vulnerabilities
and security issues.
Prisma Cloud delivers cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection platform, cloud network security,
cloud code security, and cloud identity security capabilities that provide continuous visibility and protection across an
organization’s hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure.
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SaaS Security Inline. SaaS Security Inline is a recent cloud-delivered security service on our ML-Powered Next
Secure Access Service Edge:
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Prisma Access. Prisma Access is a cloud-delivered security offering that helps organizations deliver consistent security to
remote networks and mobile users. Located in more than 100 locations around the world, Prisma Access consistently
inspects all traffic across all ports and provides bidirectional networking to enable branch-to-branch and branch-to-
headquarter traffic. Prisma Access consolidates more point-products into a single converged cloud-delivered offering than
any competing solution, transforming network security and allowing organizations to enable secure hybrid workforces.
Unlike competing solutions, only Prisma Access protects all application traffic with complete, best-in-class security while
ensuring an exceptional user experience with industry-leading service-level agreements (“SLA”s).
Prisma SD-WAN. Our Prisma SD-WAN solution is a next-generation SD-WAN solution that makes the secure cloud-
delivered branch possible. Prisma SD-WAN enables organizations to replace traditional Multiprotocol Label Switching
(“MPLS”) based WAN architectures with affordable broadband and internet transport types that promote improved
bandwidth availability, redundancy and performance at a reduced cost. Prisma SD-WAN leverages real-time application
performance SLAs and visibility to control and intelligently steer application traffic to deliver an exceptional user
experience. Unlike legacy SD-WAN solutions that introduce cost and complexity, our Prisma SD-WAN ensures an
excellent user experience with application-defined policies and simplifies network and security operations using machine
learning and automation.
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Cortex XDR. This cloud-based subscription enables organizations to collect telemetry from endpoint, network, identity
and cloud data sources and apply advanced analytics and machine learning across all data, to quickly find and stop
targeted attacks, insider abuse, and compromised endpoints. Cortex XDR has two product tiers: XDR Prevent and XDR
Pro. XDR Prevent delivers enterprise-class endpoint security focused on preventing attacks. XDR Pro extends endpoint
detection and response (“EDR”) to include cross-data analytics, including network, cloud and identity data. These
capabilities build on each other such that a customer can start with XDR Prevent, then upgrade to XDR Pro for endpoints
or XDR Pro for cross-data analytics. Going beyond EDR, Cortex XDR detects the most complex threats using analytics
across key data sources and reveals the root cause, which can significantly reduce investigation time as compared to
siloed tools and manual processes.
Cortex XSOAR. Available as a cloud-based subscription or an on-premises appliance, Cortex XSOAR is a comprehensive
SOAR offering that unifies playbook automation, case management, real-time collaboration, and threat intelligence
management to serve security teams across the incident lifecycle. With Cortex XSOAR, security teams can standardize
processes, automate repeatable tasks and manage incidents across their security product stack to improve response time
and analyst productivity. It learns from the real-life analyst interactions and past investigations to help SOC teams with
analyst assignment suggestions, playbook enhancements, and best next steps for investigations. Many of our customers
see significantly faster SOC response times and a significant reduction in SOC alerts which require human intervention.
Cortex Xpanse. This cloud-based subscription provides attack surface management, which is the ability for an
organization to identify what an attacker would see amongst all of its sanctioned and unsanctioned Internet-facing assets.
In addition, Cortex Xpanse detects risky or out-of-policy communications between Internet-connected assets that can be
exploited for data breaches or ransomware attacks. Cortex Xpanse continuously identifies Internet assets, risky services or
misconfigurations in third parties to help secure a supply chain or identify risks for mergers and acquisitions due
diligence. Finally, compliance teams use Cortex Xpanse to improve their audit processes and stay in compliance by
assessing their access controls against regulatory frameworks.
Cortex Data Lake. This cloud-based subscription allows our customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-
rich network security data. This includes a collection of enhanced network logs generated by our security offerings,
including those of our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls and Prisma Access subscription, eliminating the need to
plan for local data storage.
Support
Customer Support. Global customer support helps our customers achieve their security outcomes with services and support
capabilities covering the customer's entire journey with Palo Alto Networks. This post-sales, global organization advances our
customers’ security maturity, supporting them when, where, and how they need it. We offer Standard Support, Premium Support, Four-
Hour Premium Support and Platinum Support to our end-customers and channel partners. Our channel partners that operate a Palo
Alto Networks Authorized Support Center (“ASC”) typically deliver level-one and level-two support. We provide level-three support
24 hours a day, seven days a week through regional support centers that are located worldwide. We also offer a service offering called
Focused Services that includes Customer Success Managers (“CSM”) to provide support for end-customers with unique or complex
support requirements. We offer our end-customers ongoing support for hardware, software and certain cloud offerings in order to
receive ongoing security updates, PAN-OS upgrades, bug fixes, and repair. End-customers typically purchase these services for a one-
year or longer term at the time of the initial product sale and typically renew for successive one-year or longer periods. Additionally,
we provide expedited replacement for any defective hardware. We use a third-party logistics provider to manage our worldwide
deployment of spare appliances and other accessories.
Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Security Consulting. Unit 42 brings together world-renowned threat researchers,
incident responders and security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization that is passionate about
helping clients proactively manage cyber risk. We help security leaders assess and test their security controls, transform their security
strategy with a threat-informed approach and respond to incidents rapidly. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat
research that enables security teams to understand adversary intent and attribution, while enhancing protections offered by our
products and services to stop advanced attacks. Our security consultants serve as trusted partners with state-of-the-art cyber risk
expertise and incident response capabilities, helping customers focus on their business before, during, and after a breach.
Professional Services. Professional services are primarily delivered directly by Palo Alto Networks and through a global
network of authorized channel partners to our end-customers and include on-location and remote, hands-on experts who plan, design,
and deploy effective security solutions tailored to our end-customers’ specific requirements. These services include architecture design
and planning, implementation, configuration, and firewall migrations for all our products including Prisma and Cortex deployments.
Customers can also purchase on-going technical experts to be part of customer’s security teams to aid in the implementation and
operation of their Palo Alto Networks capabilities. Our education services include certifications, as well as free online technical
courses and in-classroom training, which are primarily delivered through our authorized training partners.
Research and Development
Our research and development efforts are focused on developing new hardware and software and on enhancing and improving
our existing product and subscription offerings. We believe that hardware and software are both critical to expanding our leadership in
the enterprise security industry. Our engineering team has deep networking, endpoint, and security expertise and works closely with
end-customers to identify their current and future needs. In addition to our focus on hardware and software, our research and
development team is focused on research into applications and threats, which allows us to respond to the rapidly changing application
and threat landscape. We supplement our own research and development efforts with technologies and products that we license from
third parties. We test our products thoroughly to certify and ensure interoperability with third-party hardware and software products.
We believe that innovation and timely development of new features and products is essential to meeting the needs of our end-
customers and improving our competitive position. During fiscal 2022, we introduced several new offerings, including: Prisma
Cloud 3.0, Prisma Access 3.0, AIOps for NGFW, PAN-OS 10.2, and Cloud NGFW for AWS. Additionally, we acquired productive
investments that fit well within our long-term strategy.
We plan to continue to significantly invest in our research and development efforts as we evolve and extend the capabilities of
our portfolio.
Intellectual Property
Our industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents and frequent claims and related litigation regarding
patent and other intellectual property rights. In particular, leading companies in the enterprise security industry have extensive patent
portfolios and are regularly involved in both offensive and defensive litigation. We continue to grow our patent portfolio and own
intellectual property and related intellectual property rights around the world that relate to our products, services, research and
development, and other activities, and our success depends in part upon our ability to protect our core technology and intellectual
property. We file patent applications to protect our intellectual property and believe that the duration of our issued patents is sufficient
when considering the expected lives of our products.
We actively seek to protect our global intellectual property rights and to deter unauthorized use of our intellectual property by
controlling access to and use of our proprietary software and other confidential information through the use of internal and external
controls, including contractual protections with employees, contractors, end-customers and partners, and our software is protected by
U.S. and international copyright laws. Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights, our rights may not be successfully
asserted in the future or may be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. In addition, the laws of various foreign countries where our
offerings are distributed may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as laws in the United States. See “Risk
Factors-Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business,” “Risk Factors-Our proprietary
rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our products or subscriptions without
compensating us,” and “Legal Proceedings” below for additional information.
Government Regulation
We are subject to numerous U.S. federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations covering a wide variety of subject matters.
Like other companies in the technology industry, we face scrutiny from both U.S. and foreign governments with respect to our
compliance with laws and regulations. Our compliance with these laws and regulations may be onerous and could, individually or in
the aggregate, increase our cost of doing business, impact our competitive position relative to our peers, and/or otherwise have an
adverse impact on our business, reputation, financial condition, and operating results. For additional information about government
regulation applicable to our business, see Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K.
Competition
We operate in the intensely competitive enterprise security industry that is characterized by constant change and innovation.
Changes in the application, threat, and technology landscape result in evolving customer requirements for the protection from threats
and the safe enablement of applications. Our main competitors fall into five categories:
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large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), or those that
have acquired, or may acquire, large network and endpoint security vendors and have the technical and financial resources
to bring competitive solutions to the market;
independent security vendors, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Fortinet, Inc.
(“Fortinet”), and Zscaler, Inc. (“Zscaler”), that offer a mix of network and endpoint security products;
startups and single-vertical vendors that offer independent or emerging solutions across various areas of security;
public cloud vendors and startups that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public and hybrid cloud); and
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Security Operations:
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Cortex XDR. This cloud-based subscription enables organizations to collect telemetry from endpoint, network, identity
and cloud data sources and apply advanced analytics and machine learning across all data, to quickly find and stop
targeted attacks, insider abuse, and compromised endpoints. Cortex XDR has two product tiers: XDR Prevent and XDR
Pro. XDR Prevent delivers enterprise-class endpoint security focused on preventing attacks. XDR Pro extends endpoint
detection and response (“EDR”) to include cross-data analytics, including network, cloud and identity data. These
capabilities build on each other such that a customer can start with XDR Prevent, then upgrade to XDR Pro for endpoints
or XDR Pro for cross-data analytics. Going beyond EDR, Cortex XDR detects the most complex threats using analytics
across key data sources and reveals the root cause, which can significantly reduce investigation time as compared to
siloed tools and manual processes.
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Cortex XSOAR. Available as a cloud-based subscription or an on-premises appliance, Cortex XSOAR is a comprehensive
SOAR offering that unifies playbook automation, case management, real-time collaboration, and threat intelligence
management to serve security teams across the incident lifecycle. With Cortex XSOAR, security teams can standardize
processes, automate repeatable tasks and manage incidents across their security product stack to improve response time
and analyst productivity. It learns from the real-life analyst interactions and past investigations to help SOC teams with
analyst assignment suggestions, playbook enhancements, and best next steps for investigations. Many of our customers
see significantly faster SOC response times and a significant reduction in SOC alerts which require human intervention.
•
Cortex Xpanse. This cloud-based subscription provides attack surface management, which is the ability for an
organization to identify what an attacker would see amongst all of its sanctioned and unsanctioned Internet-facing assets.
In addition, Cortex Xpanse detects risky or out-of-policy communications between Internet-connected assets that can be
exploited for data breaches or ransomware attacks. Cortex Xpanse continuously identifies Internet assets, risky services or
misconfigurations in third parties to help secure a supply chain or identify risks for mergers and acquisitions due
diligence. Finally, compliance teams use Cortex Xpanse to improve their audit processes and stay in compliance by
assessing their access controls against regulatory frameworks.
•
Cortex Data Lake. This cloud-based subscription allows our customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-
rich network security data. This includes a collection of enhanced network logs generated by our security offerings,
including those of our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls and Prisma Access subscription, eliminating the need to
plan for local data storage.
Support
Customer Support. Global customer support helps our customers achieve their security outcomes with services and support
capabilities covering the customer's entire journey with Palo Alto Networks. This post-sales, global organization advances our
customers’ security maturity, supporting them when, where, and how they need it. We offer Standard Support, Premium Support, Four-
Hour Premium Support and Platinum Support to our end-customers and channel partners. Our channel partners that operate a Palo
Alto Networks Authorized Support Center (“ASC”) typically deliver level-one and level-two support. We provide level-three support
24 hours a day, seven days a week through regional support centers that are located worldwide. We also offer a service offering called
Research and Development
Our research and development efforts are focused on developing new hardware and software and on enhancing and improving
our existing product and subscription offerings. We believe that hardware and software are both critical to expanding our leadership in
the enterprise security industry. Our engineering team has deep networking, endpoint, and security expertise and works closely with
end-customers to identify their current and future needs. In addition to our focus on hardware and software, our research and
development team is focused on research into applications and threats, which allows us to respond to the rapidly changing application
and threat landscape. We supplement our own research and development efforts with technologies and products that we license from
third parties. We test our products thoroughly to certify and ensure interoperability with third-party hardware and software products.
We believe that innovation and timely development of new features and products is essential to meeting the needs of our end-
customers and improving our competitive position. During fiscal 2022, we introduced several new offerings, including: Prisma
Cloud 3.0, Prisma Access 3.0, AIOps for NGFW, PAN-OS 10.2, and Cloud NGFW for AWS. Additionally, we acquired productive
investments that fit well within our long-term strategy.
We plan to continue to significantly invest in our research and development efforts as we evolve and extend the capabilities of
our portfolio.
Intellectual Property
Our industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents and frequent claims and related litigation regarding
patent and other intellectual property rights. In particular, leading companies in the enterprise security industry have extensive patent
portfolios and are regularly involved in both offensive and defensive litigation. We continue to grow our patent portfolio and own
intellectual property and related intellectual property rights around the world that relate to our products, services, research and
development, and other activities, and our success depends in part upon our ability to protect our core technology and intellectual
property. We file patent applications to protect our intellectual property and believe that the duration of our issued patents is sufficient
when considering the expected lives of our products.
We actively seek to protect our global intellectual property rights and to deter unauthorized use of our intellectual property by
controlling access to and use of our proprietary software and other confidential information through the use of internal and external
controls, including contractual protections with employees, contractors, end-customers and partners, and our software is protected by
U.S. and international copyright laws. Despite our efforts to protect our intellectual property rights, our rights may not be successfully
asserted in the future or may be invalidated, circumvented or challenged. In addition, the laws of various foreign countries where our
offerings are distributed may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as laws in the United States. See “Risk
Factors-Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business,” “Risk Factors-Our proprietary
rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our products or subscriptions without
compensating us,” and “Legal Proceedings” below for additional information.
Government Regulation
Focused Services that includes Customer Success Managers (“CSM”) to provide support for end-customers with unique or complex
We are subject to numerous U.S. federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations covering a wide variety of subject matters.
support requirements. We offer our end-customers ongoing support for hardware, software and certain cloud offerings in order to
receive ongoing security updates, PAN-OS upgrades, bug fixes, and repair. End-customers typically purchase these services for a one-
year or longer term at the time of the initial product sale and typically renew for successive one-year or longer periods. Additionally,
we provide expedited replacement for any defective hardware. We use a third-party logistics provider to manage our worldwide
deployment of spare appliances and other accessories.
Like other companies in the technology industry, we face scrutiny from both U.S. and foreign governments with respect to our
compliance with laws and regulations. Our compliance with these laws and regulations may be onerous and could, individually or in
the aggregate, increase our cost of doing business, impact our competitive position relative to our peers, and/or otherwise have an
adverse impact on our business, reputation, financial condition, and operating results. For additional information about government
regulation applicable to our business, see Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K.
Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Security Consulting. Unit 42 brings together world-renowned threat researchers,
incident responders and security consultants to create an intelligence-driven, response-ready organization that is passionate about
Competition
helping clients proactively manage cyber risk. We help security leaders assess and test their security controls, transform their security
We operate in the intensely competitive enterprise security industry that is characterized by constant change and innovation.
strategy with a threat-informed approach and respond to incidents rapidly. The Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team provides threat
research that enables security teams to understand adversary intent and attribution, while enhancing protections offered by our
products and services to stop advanced attacks. Our security consultants serve as trusted partners with state-of-the-art cyber risk
expertise and incident response capabilities, helping customers focus on their business before, during, and after a breach.
Professional Services. Professional services are primarily delivered directly by Palo Alto Networks and through a global
network of authorized channel partners to our end-customers and include on-location and remote, hands-on experts who plan, design,
and deploy effective security solutions tailored to our end-customers’ specific requirements. These services include architecture design
and planning, implementation, configuration, and firewall migrations for all our products including Prisma and Cortex deployments.
Customers can also purchase on-going technical experts to be part of customer’s security teams to aid in the implementation and
operation of their Palo Alto Networks capabilities. Our education services include certifications, as well as free online technical
courses and in-classroom training, which are primarily delivered through our authorized training partners.
Changes in the application, threat, and technology landscape result in evolving customer requirements for the protection from threats
and the safe enablement of applications. Our main competitors fall into five categories:
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large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), or those that
have acquired, or may acquire, large network and endpoint security vendors and have the technical and financial resources
to bring competitive solutions to the market;
independent security vendors, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Fortinet, Inc.
(“Fortinet”), and Zscaler, Inc. (“Zscaler”), that offer a mix of network and endpoint security products;
startups and single-vertical vendors that offer independent or emerging solutions across various areas of security;
public cloud vendors and startups that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public and hybrid cloud); and
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large and small companies, such as Crowdstrike, Inc. (“Crowdstrike”), that offer solutions for security operations and
endpoint security.
As our market grows, it will attract more highly specialized vendors, as well as larger vendors that may continue to acquire or
bundle their products more effectively.
The principal competitive factors in our market include:
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product features, reliability, performance, and effectiveness;
product line breadth, diversity, and applicability;
product extensibility and ability to integrate with other technology infrastructures;
price and total cost of ownership;
adherence to industry standards and certifications;
strength of sales and marketing efforts; and
brand awareness and reputation.
We believe we generally compete favorably with our competitors on the basis of these factors as a result of the features and
performance of our portfolio, the ease of integration of our products with technological infrastructures, and the relatively low total cost
of ownership of our products. However, many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical, and other resources,
greater name recognition, larger sales and marketing budgets, broader distribution, more diversified product lines, and larger and more
mature intellectual property portfolios.
Manufacturing
Sales, Marketing, Services and Support
Marketing. Our marketing is focused on building our brand reputation and the market awareness of our portfolio and driving
pipeline and end-customer demand. Our marketing team consists primarily of product marketing, brand, demand generation, field
marketing, digital marketing, communications, analyst relations and marketing analytics functions. Marketing activities include
pipeline development through demand generation, social media and advertising programs, managing the corporate website and partner
portal, trade shows and conferences, analyst relationships, customer advocacy, and customer awareness. Every year we organize
multiple signature events, such as our end-customer conference “Ignite” and focused conferences such as “Cortex Symphony” and
“SASE Converge.” We also publish threat intelligence research such as the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report and the Unit 42 IoT Threat
Report, which are based on data from our global threat intelligence team, Unit 42. These activities and tools benefit both our direct and
indirect channels and are available at no cost to our channel partners.
Backlog. Orders for subscription and support offerings for multiple years are generally billed upfront upon fulfillment and are
included in deferred revenue. Contract amounts that are not recorded in deferred revenue or revenue are considered backlog. We
expect backlog related to subscription and support offerings will change from period to period for various reasons, including the
timing and duration of customer orders and varying billing cycles of those orders. Products are billed upon shipment. The majority of
our product revenue comes from orders that are received and shipped in the same quarter. However, insufficient supply and inventory
may delay our hardware product shipments. As such, we do not believe that our product backlog at any particular time is necessarily
indicative of our future operating results.
Seasonality. Our business is affected by seasonal fluctuations in customer spending patterns. We have begun to see seasonal
patterns in our business, which we expect to become more pronounced as we continue to grow, with our strongest sequential revenue
growth generally occurring in our fiscal second and fourth quarters.
We outsource the manufacturing of our products to various manufacturing partners, which include our electronics
manufacturing services provider (“EMS provider”) and original design manufacturers. This approach allows us to reduce our costs as
Customers. Our end-customers are predominantly medium to large enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Our
it reduces our manufacturing overhead and inventory and also allows us to adjust more quickly to changing end-customer demand.
end-customers operate in a variety of industries, including education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare,
Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. Our end-customers deploy our portfolio of products for a
variety of security functions across a variety of deployment scenarios. Typical deployment scenarios include the enterprise perimeter,
the enterprise data center, and the distributed enterprise perimeter. Our end-customer deployments typically involve at least one pair of
our products along with one or more of our subscriptions, depending on size, security needs and requirements, and network
complexity. No single end-customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue in fiscal 2022, 2021, or 2020.
Our EMS provider is Flextronics International, Ltd. (“Flex”), who assembles our products using design specifications, quality
assurance programs, and standards that we establish, and procures components and assembles our products based on our demand
forecasts. These forecasts represent our estimates of future demand for our products based upon historical trends and analysis from our
sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions.
The component parts within our products are either sourced by our manufacturing partners or by us from various component
suppliers. Our manufacturing and supply contracts, generally, do not guarantee a certain level of supply or fixed pricing, which
Distribution. We primarily sell our products and subscription and support offerings to end-customers through our channel
increases our exposure to supply shortages or price increases.
partners utilizing a two-tier, indirect fulfillment model whereby we sell our products and subscription and support offerings to our
distributors, which, in turn, sell to our resellers, which then sell to our end-customers. Sales are generally subject to our standard, non-
exclusive distributor agreement, which provides for an initial term of one year, one-year renewal terms, termination by us with 30 to
90 days written notice prior to the renewal date, and payment to us from the channel partner within 30 to 45 calendar days of the date
we issue an invoice for such sales. For fiscal 2022, 53.6% of our total revenue was derived from sales to three distributors.
We also sell our VM-Series virtual firewalls directly to end-customers through Amazon’s AWS Marketplace, Microsoft’s Azure
Marketplace, and Google’s Cloud Platform Marketplace under a usage-based licensing model.
Sales. Our sales organization is responsible for large-account acquisition and overall market development, which includes the
management of the relationships with our channel partners, working with our channel partners in winning and supporting end-
customers through a direct-touch approach, and acting as the liaison between our end-customers and our marketing and product
development organizations. We expect to continue to grow our sales headcount to expand our reach in all key growth sectors.
Our sales organization is supported by sales engineers with responsibility for pre-sales technical support, solutions engineering
for our end-customers, and technical training for our channel partners.
Channel Program. Our NextWave Channel Partner program is focused on building in-depth relationships with solutions-
oriented distributors and resellers that have strong security expertise. The program rewards these partners based on a number of
attainment goals, as well as provides them access to marketing funds, technical and sales training, and support. To promote optimal
productivity, we operate a formal accreditation program for our channel partners’ sales and technical professionals. As of July 31,
2022, we had more than 6,700 channel partners.
Global Customer Success. Our Global Customer Success (“GCS”) organization is responsible for delivering professional,
serving diverse populations, to provide career pathways for early-in-career candidates. We also encourage current employees to
educational and support services directly to our channel partners and to end-customers. We leverage the capabilities of our channel
partners and train them in the delivery of professional, educational and support services to enable these services to be locally
delivered. We believe that a broad range of support services is essential to the successful customer deployment and ongoing support of
our products, and we have hired support engineers with proven experience to provide those services.
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Human Capital
We believe our ongoing success depends on our employees. Development and investment in our people is central to who we
are, and will continue to be so. With a global workforce of 12,561 as of July 31, 2022, we take our People Strategy and FLEXWORK
philosophy seriously and care for our employees. This is a critical element of our overall company strategy. Our People Strategy is a
comprehensive approach to source, hire, onboard, integrate, develop, engage and reward employees.
FLEXWORK. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while prioritizing the health and safety of our employees, we have learned
how to collaborate in a distributed hybrid work reality and to create opportunities for employees to maintain a sense of belonging and
focus on well-being. In the future, we aim to continue to disrupt the nature of work. Our philosophy is simple: place our employees at
the center of their working life by providing employees flexibility, personalization, and choice regarding how they work, the benefits
they choose, the way they consume learning and, where possible, where and when they work. We believe that the more our employees
have choice and demonstrate mutual trust and respect, the more engaged they will be.
FLEXWORK adds even more opportunity to scale our efforts to improve Inclusion and Diversity (“I&D”). It further enables us
to recognize each individual as unique, with their own priorities and needs, and gives the employee greater agency to personalize their
decisions and utilize our programs and initiatives to meet those interests and desires.
Source & Hire. Sourcing and hiring diverse talent and enabling them to create and execute is central to our comprehensive
approach to talent acquisition, which we refer to as “The Way We Hire.” Our talent acquisition team utilizes a number of methods to
find subject experts in their respective fields, including the use of a variety of channels that focus on reaching underrepresented
talents. Our university relations team partners with hundreds of academic institutions, including colleges and universities that focus on
provide qualified referrals, and to utilize our internal mobility program to grow their careers. We equip hiring managers with training
so that they are made aware of potential unconscious biases and interview for the values and competencies that we believe enhance
our culture. We have diverse interview panels to deliver a quality interview experience to a diverse slate of candidates.
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large and small companies, such as Crowdstrike, Inc. (“Crowdstrike”), that offer solutions for security operations and
Marketing. Our marketing is focused on building our brand reputation and the market awareness of our portfolio and driving
endpoint security.
bundle their products more effectively.
As our market grows, it will attract more highly specialized vendors, as well as larger vendors that may continue to acquire or
The principal competitive factors in our market include:
product features, reliability, performance, and effectiveness;
product line breadth, diversity, and applicability;
product extensibility and ability to integrate with other technology infrastructures;
price and total cost of ownership;
adherence to industry standards and certifications;
strength of sales and marketing efforts; and
brand awareness and reputation.
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pipeline and end-customer demand. Our marketing team consists primarily of product marketing, brand, demand generation, field
marketing, digital marketing, communications, analyst relations and marketing analytics functions. Marketing activities include
pipeline development through demand generation, social media and advertising programs, managing the corporate website and partner
portal, trade shows and conferences, analyst relationships, customer advocacy, and customer awareness. Every year we organize
multiple signature events, such as our end-customer conference “Ignite” and focused conferences such as “Cortex Symphony” and
“SASE Converge.” We also publish threat intelligence research such as the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report and the Unit 42 IoT Threat
Report, which are based on data from our global threat intelligence team, Unit 42. These activities and tools benefit both our direct and
indirect channels and are available at no cost to our channel partners.
Backlog. Orders for subscription and support offerings for multiple years are generally billed upfront upon fulfillment and are
included in deferred revenue. Contract amounts that are not recorded in deferred revenue or revenue are considered backlog. We
expect backlog related to subscription and support offerings will change from period to period for various reasons, including the
timing and duration of customer orders and varying billing cycles of those orders. Products are billed upon shipment. The majority of
our product revenue comes from orders that are received and shipped in the same quarter. However, insufficient supply and inventory
may delay our hardware product shipments. As such, we do not believe that our product backlog at any particular time is necessarily
indicative of our future operating results.
We believe we generally compete favorably with our competitors on the basis of these factors as a result of the features and
Seasonality. Our business is affected by seasonal fluctuations in customer spending patterns. We have begun to see seasonal
patterns in our business, which we expect to become more pronounced as we continue to grow, with our strongest sequential revenue
growth generally occurring in our fiscal second and fourth quarters.
Manufacturing
We outsource the manufacturing of our products to various manufacturing partners, which include our electronics
manufacturing services provider (“EMS provider”) and original design manufacturers. This approach allows us to reduce our costs as
it reduces our manufacturing overhead and inventory and also allows us to adjust more quickly to changing end-customer demand.
Our EMS provider is Flextronics International, Ltd. (“Flex”), who assembles our products using design specifications, quality
assurance programs, and standards that we establish, and procures components and assembles our products based on our demand
forecasts. These forecasts represent our estimates of future demand for our products based upon historical trends and analysis from our
sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions.
The component parts within our products are either sourced by our manufacturing partners or by us from various component
suppliers. Our manufacturing and supply contracts, generally, do not guarantee a certain level of supply or fixed pricing, which
increases our exposure to supply shortages or price increases.
Human Capital
exclusive distributor agreement, which provides for an initial term of one year, one-year renewal terms, termination by us with 30 to
We believe our ongoing success depends on our employees. Development and investment in our people is central to who we
are, and will continue to be so. With a global workforce of 12,561 as of July 31, 2022, we take our People Strategy and FLEXWORK
philosophy seriously and care for our employees. This is a critical element of our overall company strategy. Our People Strategy is a
comprehensive approach to source, hire, onboard, integrate, develop, engage and reward employees.
FLEXWORK. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while prioritizing the health and safety of our employees, we have learned
how to collaborate in a distributed hybrid work reality and to create opportunities for employees to maintain a sense of belonging and
focus on well-being. In the future, we aim to continue to disrupt the nature of work. Our philosophy is simple: place our employees at
the center of their working life by providing employees flexibility, personalization, and choice regarding how they work, the benefits
they choose, the way they consume learning and, where possible, where and when they work. We believe that the more our employees
have choice and demonstrate mutual trust and respect, the more engaged they will be.
FLEXWORK adds even more opportunity to scale our efforts to improve Inclusion and Diversity (“I&D”). It further enables us
to recognize each individual as unique, with their own priorities and needs, and gives the employee greater agency to personalize their
decisions and utilize our programs and initiatives to meet those interests and desires.
Source & Hire. Sourcing and hiring diverse talent and enabling them to create and execute is central to our comprehensive
approach to talent acquisition, which we refer to as “The Way We Hire.” Our talent acquisition team utilizes a number of methods to
find subject experts in their respective fields, including the use of a variety of channels that focus on reaching underrepresented
talents. Our university relations team partners with hundreds of academic institutions, including colleges and universities that focus on
serving diverse populations, to provide career pathways for early-in-career candidates. We also encourage current employees to
provide qualified referrals, and to utilize our internal mobility program to grow their careers. We equip hiring managers with training
so that they are made aware of potential unconscious biases and interview for the values and competencies that we believe enhance
our culture. We have diverse interview panels to deliver a quality interview experience to a diverse slate of candidates.
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performance of our portfolio, the ease of integration of our products with technological infrastructures, and the relatively low total cost
of ownership of our products. However, many of our competitors have substantially greater financial, technical, and other resources,
greater name recognition, larger sales and marketing budgets, broader distribution, more diversified product lines, and larger and more
mature intellectual property portfolios.
Sales, Marketing, Services and Support
Customers. Our end-customers are predominantly medium to large enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Our
end-customers operate in a variety of industries, including education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare,
Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. Our end-customers deploy our portfolio of products for a
variety of security functions across a variety of deployment scenarios. Typical deployment scenarios include the enterprise perimeter,
the enterprise data center, and the distributed enterprise perimeter. Our end-customer deployments typically involve at least one pair of
our products along with one or more of our subscriptions, depending on size, security needs and requirements, and network
complexity. No single end-customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue in fiscal 2022, 2021, or 2020.
Distribution. We primarily sell our products and subscription and support offerings to end-customers through our channel
partners utilizing a two-tier, indirect fulfillment model whereby we sell our products and subscription and support offerings to our
distributors, which, in turn, sell to our resellers, which then sell to our end-customers. Sales are generally subject to our standard, non-
90 days written notice prior to the renewal date, and payment to us from the channel partner within 30 to 45 calendar days of the date
we issue an invoice for such sales. For fiscal 2022, 53.6% of our total revenue was derived from sales to three distributors.
We also sell our VM-Series virtual firewalls directly to end-customers through Amazon’s AWS Marketplace, Microsoft’s Azure
Marketplace, and Google’s Cloud Platform Marketplace under a usage-based licensing model.
Sales. Our sales organization is responsible for large-account acquisition and overall market development, which includes the
management of the relationships with our channel partners, working with our channel partners in winning and supporting end-
customers through a direct-touch approach, and acting as the liaison between our end-customers and our marketing and product
development organizations. We expect to continue to grow our sales headcount to expand our reach in all key growth sectors.
Our sales organization is supported by sales engineers with responsibility for pre-sales technical support, solutions engineering
for our end-customers, and technical training for our channel partners.
Channel Program. Our NextWave Channel Partner program is focused on building in-depth relationships with solutions-
oriented distributors and resellers that have strong security expertise. The program rewards these partners based on a number of
attainment goals, as well as provides them access to marketing funds, technical and sales training, and support. To promote optimal
productivity, we operate a formal accreditation program for our channel partners’ sales and technical professionals. As of July 31,
2022, we had more than 6,700 channel partners.
Global Customer Success. Our Global Customer Success (“GCS”) organization is responsible for delivering professional,
educational and support services directly to our channel partners and to end-customers. We leverage the capabilities of our channel
partners and train them in the delivery of professional, educational and support services to enable these services to be locally
delivered. We believe that a broad range of support services is essential to the successful customer deployment and ongoing support of
our products, and we have hired support engineers with proven experience to provide those services.
Onboard & Integrate. We believe that a positive onboarding experience is foundational to our employees thriving and therefore
Social. In addition to our FLEXWORK People Strategy described in the section titled “Human Capital” above, we prioritized
to rapid productivity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we built and utilized virtual learning platforms and employee communication
channels to provide new employees with inspirational, often personalized, onboarding experiences. Onboarding is a journey of
integration that extends through the first year at Palo Alto Networks for every employee. In addition, we have built specialist learning
tracks for interns and new graduates that have been recognized as best in class externally. As part of our merger and acquisition
strategy, we have also established a robust integration program with the goal to enable individuals joining our teams to feel part of our
culture at speed.
Develop & Motivate. FLEXLearn is our unique approach to personalized employee development. FLEXLearn is a learning
experience platform that provides employees with a path based on their needs, interests, style, and career journey. Through
FLEXLearn, employees have full agency to direct their growth at their pace and choosing. Development information about core
business elements, professional skill sets, working in a distributed hybrid environment, as well as required company-wide compliance
training, such as Code of Conduct, privacy and security, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, and anti-bribery training, is also
deployed through the FLEXLearn platform for all employees. In addition, FLEXLearn provides employees with events and activities
that motivate and spark critical thinking, on topics ranging from inclusion, to well-being and collaboration. On average, employees
had completed 16 hours of development through the FLEXLearn platform during fiscal 2022.
Engage & Reward. We conduct regular executive listening sessions and “pulse surveys” to better understand employee
engagement, sentiment, well-being, and the ability to transition to a distributed work model. Many of these sessions have informed our
holistic People Strategy, our FLEXWORK philosophy, I&D strategies, and Internal Mobility program.
Employee sentiment has continued to be highly positive. We continue to use insights from an anonymous global employee
engagement survey we conducted in 2021 to execute action plans that reinforce our culture of engagement. Our internal pulse surveys
and other feedback mechanisms, including insights from external employee sentiment sources and employer brand recognition,
indicate that employees have a strong sense of belonging, confidence in leadership, and an understanding of how their work
contributes to the Company’s goals.
In addition to a comprehensive compensation and diverse benefits program, we believe in an always-on feedback and rewards
philosophy. From recurring 1:1 sessions and quarterly performance feedback to use of our Cheers for Peers peer recognition program,
employees get continuous input about the value they bring to the organization.
Inclusion & Diversity. We are intentional about including diverse points of view, perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and
ideas in our decision-making processes. We deeply believe that true diversity exists when we have representation of all ethnicities,
genders, orientations and identities, and cultures in our workforce. Our I&D programs continue to advance those visions. The diversity
of our board of directors, with women representing 33% of our board as of July 31, 2022, is an example of that vision in action. We
have nine employee network groups (“ENG”s) which are employee-led groups that play a vital role in building understanding and
awareness. Over 26% of our global workforce was involved in at least one ENG as of July 31, 2022. Our ENGs are provided with a
budget to fund activities for their communities and to make charitable grants to organizations advancing their causes. We involve our
ENGs in listening sessions with executive teams and we work in partnership to develop our annual I&D plans, because we believe
involvement is critical. Our I&D philosophy is fully embedded in our talent acquisition, learning and development and rewards and
recognition programs.
Environmental, Social & Governance
We recognize our duty to address environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) practices. From our Climate Commitment and
our social impact programs to our Supplier Responsibility initiatives and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we value the
opportunity to have meaningful outcomes that reinforce our intention to respect our planet, uplift our communities and advance our
industry.
Environmental. We recognize climate change is a global crisis and are committed to doing our part to reduce environmental
impacts. Aligned to the Climate Commitments we declared in February 2021, we remain committed to utilizing 100% renewable
energy, reducing our greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and working across our value chain, and with coalitions, to achieve these
goals by 2030. During fiscal 2022, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of our global environmental footprint and developed
Science Based Targets aligned to a warming scenario of 1.5° Celsius. We joined The Climate Pledge during fiscal 2022 demonstrating
our eagerness to engage in coalitions to advocate for climate action. We are committed to being transparent about our progress over
time through annual reporting.
the health and safety of our employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the deployment of our Global Supplier Code of
Conduct, we continued to reach across our supply chain to communicate our expectations regarding labor standards, business practices
and workplace health and safety conditions. During fiscal 2022, we maintained our affiliate membership in the Responsible Business
Alliance and maintained our commitment to Supplier Diversity. We value our role as a good corporate citizen and in fiscal 2022
continued to execute our social impact programs. In addition to ongoing efforts to help colleagues and communities impacted by the
COVID-19 pandemic , we invested in education programs, scholarships, diversity and basic needs. We expanded our work to provide
cybersecurity curriculum to schools, universities and nonprofit organizations to help youth protect their digital way of life and to
prepare diverse adults for careers in cybersecurity. Employees continued to participate in our giving, matching and volunteer programs
to make impacts in their local communities.
Governance. Integrity is one of our core values. Our corporate behavior and leadership practices model ethical decision
making. Employees and suppliers are informed about our governance expectations through our Codes of Conduct, compliance training
programs and ongoing communications. Our board of directors is governed by Corporate Governance Guidelines, which are amended
from time to time to incorporate best practices in corporate governance. Reinforcing the importance of our ESG performance, the
charter of the ESG and Nominating Committee of the board of directors includes the primary oversight of ESG.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.paloaltonetworks.com, and our investor relations website is located at
investors.paloaltonetworks.com. Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K
and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), are available free of charge on the Investors portion of our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we
electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). We also provide a link to the
section of the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov that has all of our public filings, including Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, all amendments to those reports, our Proxy Statements, and other ownership-
related filings.
We also use our investor relations website as a channel of distribution for important company information. For example,
webcasts of our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the investment community are on our
investor relations website. Additionally, we announce investor information, including news and commentary about our business and
financial performance, SEC filings, notices of investor events, and our press and earnings releases, on our investor relations website.
Investors and others can receive notifications of new information posted on our investor relations website in real time by signing up
for email alerts and RSS feeds. Further corporate governance information, including our corporate governance guidelines, board
committee charters, and code of conduct, is also available on our investor relations website under the heading “Governance.” The
contents of our websites are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document
we file with the SEC, and any references to our websites are intended to be inactive textual references only. All trademarks, trade
names, or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Onboard & Integrate. We believe that a positive onboarding experience is foundational to our employees thriving and therefore
Social. In addition to our FLEXWORK People Strategy described in the section titled “Human Capital” above, we prioritized
to rapid productivity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we built and utilized virtual learning platforms and employee communication
channels to provide new employees with inspirational, often personalized, onboarding experiences. Onboarding is a journey of
integration that extends through the first year at Palo Alto Networks for every employee. In addition, we have built specialist learning
tracks for interns and new graduates that have been recognized as best in class externally. As part of our merger and acquisition
strategy, we have also established a robust integration program with the goal to enable individuals joining our teams to feel part of our
culture at speed.
Develop & Motivate. FLEXLearn is our unique approach to personalized employee development. FLEXLearn is a learning
experience platform that provides employees with a path based on their needs, interests, style, and career journey. Through
FLEXLearn, employees have full agency to direct their growth at their pace and choosing. Development information about core
business elements, professional skill sets, working in a distributed hybrid environment, as well as required company-wide compliance
training, such as Code of Conduct, privacy and security, anti-discrimination, anti-harassment, and anti-bribery training, is also
deployed through the FLEXLearn platform for all employees. In addition, FLEXLearn provides employees with events and activities
that motivate and spark critical thinking, on topics ranging from inclusion, to well-being and collaboration. On average, employees
had completed 16 hours of development through the FLEXLearn platform during fiscal 2022.
Engage & Reward. We conduct regular executive listening sessions and “pulse surveys” to better understand employee
engagement, sentiment, well-being, and the ability to transition to a distributed work model. Many of these sessions have informed our
holistic People Strategy, our FLEXWORK philosophy, I&D strategies, and Internal Mobility program.
Employee sentiment has continued to be highly positive. We continue to use insights from an anonymous global employee
engagement survey we conducted in 2021 to execute action plans that reinforce our culture of engagement. Our internal pulse surveys
and other feedback mechanisms, including insights from external employee sentiment sources and employer brand recognition,
indicate that employees have a strong sense of belonging, confidence in leadership, and an understanding of how their work
contributes to the Company’s goals.
In addition to a comprehensive compensation and diverse benefits program, we believe in an always-on feedback and rewards
philosophy. From recurring 1:1 sessions and quarterly performance feedback to use of our Cheers for Peers peer recognition program,
employees get continuous input about the value they bring to the organization.
Inclusion & Diversity. We are intentional about including diverse points of view, perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and
ideas in our decision-making processes. We deeply believe that true diversity exists when we have representation of all ethnicities,
genders, orientations and identities, and cultures in our workforce. Our I&D programs continue to advance those visions. The diversity
of our board of directors, with women representing 33% of our board as of July 31, 2022, is an example of that vision in action. We
have nine employee network groups (“ENG”s) which are employee-led groups that play a vital role in building understanding and
awareness. Over 26% of our global workforce was involved in at least one ENG as of July 31, 2022. Our ENGs are provided with a
budget to fund activities for their communities and to make charitable grants to organizations advancing their causes. We involve our
ENGs in listening sessions with executive teams and we work in partnership to develop our annual I&D plans, because we believe
involvement is critical. Our I&D philosophy is fully embedded in our talent acquisition, learning and development and rewards and
recognition programs.
Environmental, Social & Governance
We recognize our duty to address environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) practices. From our Climate Commitment and
our social impact programs to our Supplier Responsibility initiatives and Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we value the
opportunity to have meaningful outcomes that reinforce our intention to respect our planet, uplift our communities and advance our
industry.
Environmental. We recognize climate change is a global crisis and are committed to doing our part to reduce environmental
impacts. Aligned to the Climate Commitments we declared in February 2021, we remain committed to utilizing 100% renewable
energy, reducing our greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and working across our value chain, and with coalitions, to achieve these
goals by 2030. During fiscal 2022, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of our global environmental footprint and developed
Science Based Targets aligned to a warming scenario of 1.5° Celsius. We joined The Climate Pledge during fiscal 2022 demonstrating
our eagerness to engage in coalitions to advocate for climate action. We are committed to being transparent about our progress over
time through annual reporting.
the health and safety of our employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the deployment of our Global Supplier Code of
Conduct, we continued to reach across our supply chain to communicate our expectations regarding labor standards, business practices
and workplace health and safety conditions. During fiscal 2022, we maintained our affiliate membership in the Responsible Business
Alliance and maintained our commitment to Supplier Diversity. We value our role as a good corporate citizen and in fiscal 2022
continued to execute our social impact programs. In addition to ongoing efforts to help colleagues and communities impacted by the
COVID-19 pandemic , we invested in education programs, scholarships, diversity and basic needs. We expanded our work to provide
cybersecurity curriculum to schools, universities and nonprofit organizations to help youth protect their digital way of life and to
prepare diverse adults for careers in cybersecurity. Employees continued to participate in our giving, matching and volunteer programs
to make impacts in their local communities.
Governance. Integrity is one of our core values. Our corporate behavior and leadership practices model ethical decision
making. Employees and suppliers are informed about our governance expectations through our Codes of Conduct, compliance training
programs and ongoing communications. Our board of directors is governed by Corporate Governance Guidelines, which are amended
from time to time to incorporate best practices in corporate governance. Reinforcing the importance of our ESG performance, the
charter of the ESG and Nominating Committee of the board of directors includes the primary oversight of ESG.
Available Information
Our website is located at www.paloaltonetworks.com, and our investor relations website is located at
investors.paloaltonetworks.com. Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K
and amendments to reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the “Exchange Act”), are available free of charge on the Investors portion of our website as soon as reasonably practicable after we
electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). We also provide a link to the
section of the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov that has all of our public filings, including Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, all amendments to those reports, our Proxy Statements, and other ownership-
related filings.
We also use our investor relations website as a channel of distribution for important company information. For example,
webcasts of our earnings calls and certain events we participate in or host with members of the investment community are on our
investor relations website. Additionally, we announce investor information, including news and commentary about our business and
financial performance, SEC filings, notices of investor events, and our press and earnings releases, on our investor relations website.
Investors and others can receive notifications of new information posted on our investor relations website in real time by signing up
for email alerts and RSS feeds. Further corporate governance information, including our corporate governance guidelines, board
committee charters, and code of conduct, is also available on our investor relations website under the heading “Governance.” The
contents of our websites are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document
we file with the SEC, and any references to our websites are intended to be inactive textual references only. All trademarks, trade
names, or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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Our current research and development efforts may not produce successful products, subscriptions, or features that result in
significant revenue, cost savings or other benefits in the near future, if at all.
We may acquire other businesses, which could subject us to adverse claims or liabilities, require significant management
attention, disrupt our business, adversely affect our operating results, may not result in the expected benefits of such
acquisitions and may dilute stockholder value.
Because we depend on manufacturing partners to build and ship our products, we are susceptible to manufacturing and
logistics delays and pricing fluctuations that could prevent us from shipping customer orders on time, if at all, or on a
cost-effective basis, which may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
Managing the supply of our products and product components is complex. Insufficient supply and inventory would result
Because some of the key components in our products come from limited sources of supply, we are susceptible to supply
shortages or supply changes, which has disrupted or delayed our scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers,
increase our costs and may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
The sales prices of our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decrease, which may reduce our gross profits
and adversely impact our financial results.
We generate a significant amount of revenue from sales to distributors, resellers, and end-customers outside of the United
States, and we are therefore subject to a number of risks associated with international sales and operations.
We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial condition
and operating results.
We are exposed to the credit and liquidity risk of some of our channel partners and end-customers, and to credit exposure
in weakened markets, which could result in material losses.
A portion of our revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and
Our ability to sell our products and subscriptions is dependent on the quality of our technical support services and those of
our channel partners, and the failure to offer high-quality technical support services could have a material adverse effect
on our end-customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions, our sales, and our operating results.
Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business.
Our proprietary rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our
products or subscriptions without compensating us.
Our use of open source software in our products and subscriptions could negatively affect our ability to sell our products
and subscriptions and subject us to possible litigation.
We license technology from third parties, and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business.
ITEM 1A.
RISK FACTORS
Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties including those described below. The risks
and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we
currently believe are not material, also may become important factors that affect us. If any of the following risks or others not
specified below materialize, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially adversely affected, and the
market price of our common stock could decline. In addition, the impacts of COVID-19 and any worsening of the economic
environment may exacerbate the risks described below, any of which could have a material impact on us. This situation is changing
rapidly, and additional impacts may arise that we are not currently aware of.
RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
in lost sales opportunities or delayed revenue, while excess inventory would harm our gross margins.
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The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic could harm our business and results of operations.
Our business and operations have experienced growth in recent periods, and if we do not effectively manage any future
growth or are unable to improve our systems, processes, and controls, our operating results could be adversely affected.
Our operating results may vary significantly from period to period and be unpredictable, which could cause the market
price of our common stock to decline.
Our operating results may be adversely affected by unfavorable economic and market conditions and the uncertain
geopolitical environment.
Our revenue growth rate in recent periods may not be indicative of our future performance.
We have a history of losses, anticipate increasing our operating expenses in the future, and may not be able to achieve or
maintain profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis, which could cause our business, financial
condition, and operating results to suffer.
If we are unable to sell new and additional product, subscription, and support offerings to our end-customers, our future
revenue and operating results will be harmed.
risks.
We face intense competition in our market and we may lack sufficient financial or other resources to maintain or improve
our competitive position.
A network or data security incident may allow unauthorized access to our network or data, harm our reputation, create
additional liability and adversely impact our financial results.
Reliance on shipments at the end of the quarter could cause our revenue for the applicable period to fall below expected
levels.
Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our revenue.
If we are unable to hire, integrate, train, retain, and motivate qualified personnel and senior management, our business
could suffer.
If we are not successful in executing our strategy to increase sales of our products, subscriptions and support offerings to
new and existing enterprise end-customers, our operating results may suffer.
We rely on revenue from subscription and support offerings, and because we recognize revenue from subscription and
support over the term of the relevant service period, downturns or upturns in sales of these subscription and support
offerings are not immediately reflected in full in our operating results.
Defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our products, subscriptions, or support offerings, the failure of our products or
subscriptions to block a virus or prevent a security breach or incident, misuse of our products, or risks of product liability
claims could harm our reputation and adversely impact our operating results.
False detection of applications, viruses, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data patterns, or URL categories could adversely
affect our business.
We rely on our channel partners to sell substantially all of our products, including subscriptions and support, and if these
channel partners fail to perform, our ability to sell and distribute our products and subscriptions will be limited, and our
operating results will be harmed.
If we do not accurately predict, prepare for, and respond promptly to rapidly evolving technological and market
developments and successfully manage product and subscription introductions and transitions to meet changing end-
customer needs in the enterprise security industry, our competitive position and prospects will be harmed.
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Our current research and development efforts may not produce successful products, subscriptions, or features that result in
significant revenue, cost savings or other benefits in the near future, if at all.
We may acquire other businesses, which could subject us to adverse claims or liabilities, require significant management
attention, disrupt our business, adversely affect our operating results, may not result in the expected benefits of such
acquisitions and may dilute stockholder value.
Because we depend on manufacturing partners to build and ship our products, we are susceptible to manufacturing and
logistics delays and pricing fluctuations that could prevent us from shipping customer orders on time, if at all, or on a
cost-effective basis, which may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
Managing the supply of our products and product components is complex. Insufficient supply and inventory would result
in lost sales opportunities or delayed revenue, while excess inventory would harm our gross margins.
Because some of the key components in our products come from limited sources of supply, we are susceptible to supply
shortages or supply changes, which has disrupted or delayed our scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers,
increase our costs and may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
The sales prices of our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decrease, which may reduce our gross profits
and adversely impact our financial results.
We generate a significant amount of revenue from sales to distributors, resellers, and end-customers outside of the United
States, and we are therefore subject to a number of risks associated with international sales and operations.
We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial condition
and operating results.
We are exposed to the credit and liquidity risk of some of our channel partners and end-customers, and to credit exposure
in weakened markets, which could result in material losses.
A portion of our revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and
risks.
Our ability to sell our products and subscriptions is dependent on the quality of our technical support services and those of
our channel partners, and the failure to offer high-quality technical support services could have a material adverse effect
on our end-customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions, our sales, and our operating results.
Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business.
Our proprietary rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our
products or subscriptions without compensating us.
Our use of open source software in our products and subscriptions could negatively affect our ability to sell our products
and subscriptions and subject us to possible litigation.
We license technology from third parties, and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business.
ITEM 1A.
RISK FACTORS
Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties including those described below. The risks
and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we
currently believe are not material, also may become important factors that affect us. If any of the following risks or others not
specified below materialize, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially adversely affected, and the
market price of our common stock could decline. In addition, the impacts of COVID-19 and any worsening of the economic
environment may exacerbate the risks described below, any of which could have a material impact on us. This situation is changing
rapidly, and additional impacts may arise that we are not currently aware of.
RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:
The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic could harm our business and results of operations.
Our business and operations have experienced growth in recent periods, and if we do not effectively manage any future
growth or are unable to improve our systems, processes, and controls, our operating results could be adversely affected.
Our operating results may vary significantly from period to period and be unpredictable, which could cause the market
price of our common stock to decline.
geopolitical environment.
Our operating results may be adversely affected by unfavorable economic and market conditions and the uncertain
Our revenue growth rate in recent periods may not be indicative of our future performance.
We have a history of losses, anticipate increasing our operating expenses in the future, and may not be able to achieve or
maintain profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis, which could cause our business, financial
condition, and operating results to suffer.
revenue and operating results will be harmed.
our competitive position.
If we are unable to sell new and additional product, subscription, and support offerings to our end-customers, our future
We face intense competition in our market and we may lack sufficient financial or other resources to maintain or improve
A network or data security incident may allow unauthorized access to our network or data, harm our reputation, create
additional liability and adversely impact our financial results.
Reliance on shipments at the end of the quarter could cause our revenue for the applicable period to fall below expected
levels.
could suffer.
Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our revenue.
If we are unable to hire, integrate, train, retain, and motivate qualified personnel and senior management, our business
If we are not successful in executing our strategy to increase sales of our products, subscriptions and support offerings to
new and existing enterprise end-customers, our operating results may suffer.
We rely on revenue from subscription and support offerings, and because we recognize revenue from subscription and
support over the term of the relevant service period, downturns or upturns in sales of these subscription and support
offerings are not immediately reflected in full in our operating results.
Defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our products, subscriptions, or support offerings, the failure of our products or
subscriptions to block a virus or prevent a security breach or incident, misuse of our products, or risks of product liability
claims could harm our reputation and adversely impact our operating results.
False detection of applications, viruses, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data patterns, or URL categories could adversely
affect our business.
We rely on our channel partners to sell substantially all of our products, including subscriptions and support, and if these
channel partners fail to perform, our ability to sell and distribute our products and subscriptions will be limited, and our
operating results will be harmed.
If we do not accurately predict, prepare for, and respond promptly to rapidly evolving technological and market
developments and successfully manage product and subscription introductions and transitions to meet changing end-
customer needs in the enterprise security industry, our competitive position and prospects will be harmed.
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Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry
Our operating results may vary significantly from period to period and be unpredictable, which could cause the market price of our
The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic could harm our business and results of operations.
The novel strain of COVID-19 identified in late 2019 has spread globally, including within the United States, and has resulted
in government authorities implementing numerous measures to try to contain the virus, such as travel bans and restrictions,
quarantines, shelter in place orders, and shutdowns. This pandemic has negatively impacted and will likely continue to have a negative
impact on, worldwide economic activity and financial markets and has impacted, and will further impact, our workforce and
operations, the operations of our end-customers, and those of our respective channel partners, vendors and suppliers. In light of the
uncertain and rapidly evolving situation relating to the spread of this virus and various government restrictions and guidelines, we
have taken measures intended to mitigate the spread of the virus and minimize the risk to our employees, channel partners, end-
customers, and the communities in which we operate. Through our FLEXWORK program, our employees may choose to work from
home or in the office for a set number of days per week. Although we continue to monitor the situation and may adjust our current
policies as more information and public health guidance become available, including progress made through vaccinations, these
precautionary measures that we have adopted could negatively affect our customer success efforts, sales and marketing efforts, delay
and lengthen our sales cycles, and create operational or other challenges, any of which could harm our business and results of
operations. In addition, COVID-19 will likely continue to disrupt the operations of our end-customers and channel partners for an
indefinite period of time, including as a result of travel restrictions and/or business shutdowns, all of which could negatively impact
our business and results of operations, including cash flows.
The ongoing impact of COVID-19 is fluid and uncertain, but it has caused and may continue to cause various negative effects,
including an inability to meet with our existing or potential end-customers; our end-customers deciding to delay or abandon their
planned purchases; increased requests for delayed payment terms or product discounts by our end-customers and channel partners; us
delaying, canceling, or withdrawing from user and industry conferences and other marketing events, including some of our own; and
changes in the demand for our products, which has caused us to reprioritize our engineering and research and development efforts and
make changes to our original offering roadmap. We have also seen supply chain challenges increase significantly, including chip and
component shortages (in some cases, attributable to labor shortages), and at times we do not have sufficient inventory of certain of our
products to promptly meet customer demand. As a result, we have experienced at times extended delivery time and increased costs for
chips and components compared to historic levels; our demand generation activities, and our ability to close transactions with end-
customers and partners may be negatively impacted; our ability to provide 24x7 worldwide support and/or replacement parts to our
end-customers may be adversely affected; and it has been and, until the COVID-19 outbreak is contained and global economic activity
stabilizes, will continue to be more difficult for us to forecast our operating results.
More generally, the pandemic has not only significantly and adversely increased economic and demand uncertainty, but it has
caused a global economic slowdown, and continuing global economic uncertainty which could decrease technology spending and
adversely affect demand for our offerings and harm our business and results of operations.
Our business and operations have experienced growth in recent periods, and if we do not effectively manage any future growth or
are unable to improve our systems, processes, and controls, our operating results could be adversely affected.
We have experienced growth and increased demand for our products and subscriptions over the last few years. As a result, our
employee headcount has increased significantly, and we expect it to continue to grow over the next year. For example, from the end of
fiscal 2021 to the end of fiscal 2022, our headcount increased from 10,473 to 12,561 employees. In addition, as we have grown, our
number of end-customers has also increased significantly, and we have increasingly managed more complex deployments of our
products and subscriptions with larger end-customers. The growth and expansion of our business and product, subscription, and
support offerings places a significant strain on our management, operational, and financial resources. To manage any future growth
effectively, we must continue to improve and expand our information technology and financial infrastructure, our operating and
administrative systems and controls, and our ability to manage headcount, capital, and processes in an efficient manner, all of which
may be more difficult to accomplish the longer that our employees must work remotely from home.
We may not be able to successfully implement or scale improvements to our systems, processes, and controls in an efficient or
timely manner. In addition, our existing systems, processes, and controls may not prevent or detect all errors, omissions, or fraud. We
may also experience difficulties in managing improvements to our systems, processes, and controls or in connection with third-party
software licensed to help us with such improvements. Any future growth would add complexity to our organization and require
effective coordination throughout our organization. Failure to manage any future growth effectively could result in increased costs,
disrupt our existing end-customer relationships, reduce demand for or limit us to smaller deployments of our products, or harm our
business performance and operating results.
common stock to decline.
Our operating results, in particular, our revenues, gross margins, operating margins, and operating expenses, have historically
varied from period to period, and even though we have experienced growth, we expect variation to continue as a result of a number of
factors, many of which are outside of our control and may be difficult to predict, including:
our ability to attract and retain new end-customers or sell additional products and subscriptions to our existing end-
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the budgeting cycles, seasonal buying patterns, and purchasing practices of our end-customers;
changes in end-customer, distributor or reseller requirements, or market needs;
customers;
price competition;
the timing and success of new product and service introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the
competitive landscape of our industry, including consolidation among our competitors or end-customers and strategic
partnerships entered into by and between our competitors;
changes in the mix of our products, subscriptions, and support, including changes in multi-year subscriptions and support;
our ability to successfully and continuously expand our business domestically and internationally, particularly in the
current global economic slowdown and the escalation of military conflicts such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine;
changes in the growth rate of the enterprise security industry;
deferral of orders from end-customers in anticipation of new products or product enhancements announced by us or our
competitors;
the timing and costs related to the development or acquisition of technologies or businesses or strategic partnerships;
lack of synergy or the inability to realize expected synergies, resulting from acquisitions or strategic partnerships;
our inability to execute, complete, or integrate efficiently any acquisitions that we may undertake;
increased expenses, unforeseen liabilities, or write-downs and any impact on our operating results from any acquisitions
our ability to increase the size and productivity of our distribution channel;
our obligation to repay the aggregate principal amount of the Notes as holders exercise their conversion rights under the
we consummate;
Notes;
decisions by potential end-customers to purchase security solutions from larger, more established security vendors or from
their primary network equipment vendors;
changes in end-customer penetration or attach and renewal rates for our subscriptions;
timing of revenue recognition and revenue deferrals;
our ability to manage production and manufacturing related costs, global customer service organization costs, inventory
excess and obsolescence costs, and warranty costs, especially due to disruptions in our supply chain as a result of COVID-
19 and the global semiconductor chip and component shortage;
our ability to manage cloud hosting service costs and scale the cloud-based subscription offerings;
insolvency or credit difficulties confronting our end-customers, including due to the continuing effects of COVID-19 and
adversely affect their ability to purchase or pay for our products and subscription and support offerings in a timely manner
or at all, or confronting our key suppliers, including our sole source suppliers, which could disrupt our supply chain;
any disruption in our channel or termination of our relationships with important channel partners, including as a result of
consolidation among distributors and resellers of security solutions;
our inability to timely fulfill our end-customers’ orders due to supply chain delays or events that impact our manufacturers
or their suppliers, including due to the effects of COVID-19 and the global semiconductor chip and component shortage;
the cost and potential outcomes of litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our business;
seasonality or cyclical fluctuations in our markets;
future accounting pronouncements or changes in our accounting policies;
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Risks Related to Our Business and Our Industry
The ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic could harm our business and results of operations.
The novel strain of COVID-19 identified in late 2019 has spread globally, including within the United States, and has resulted
in government authorities implementing numerous measures to try to contain the virus, such as travel bans and restrictions,
quarantines, shelter in place orders, and shutdowns. This pandemic has negatively impacted and will likely continue to have a negative
impact on, worldwide economic activity and financial markets and has impacted, and will further impact, our workforce and
operations, the operations of our end-customers, and those of our respective channel partners, vendors and suppliers. In light of the
uncertain and rapidly evolving situation relating to the spread of this virus and various government restrictions and guidelines, we
have taken measures intended to mitigate the spread of the virus and minimize the risk to our employees, channel partners, end-
customers, and the communities in which we operate. Through our FLEXWORK program, our employees may choose to work from
home or in the office for a set number of days per week. Although we continue to monitor the situation and may adjust our current
policies as more information and public health guidance become available, including progress made through vaccinations, these
precautionary measures that we have adopted could negatively affect our customer success efforts, sales and marketing efforts, delay
and lengthen our sales cycles, and create operational or other challenges, any of which could harm our business and results of
operations. In addition, COVID-19 will likely continue to disrupt the operations of our end-customers and channel partners for an
indefinite period of time, including as a result of travel restrictions and/or business shutdowns, all of which could negatively impact
our business and results of operations, including cash flows.
The ongoing impact of COVID-19 is fluid and uncertain, but it has caused and may continue to cause various negative effects,
including an inability to meet with our existing or potential end-customers; our end-customers deciding to delay or abandon their
planned purchases; increased requests for delayed payment terms or product discounts by our end-customers and channel partners; us
delaying, canceling, or withdrawing from user and industry conferences and other marketing events, including some of our own; and
changes in the demand for our products, which has caused us to reprioritize our engineering and research and development efforts and
make changes to our original offering roadmap. We have also seen supply chain challenges increase significantly, including chip and
component shortages (in some cases, attributable to labor shortages), and at times we do not have sufficient inventory of certain of our
products to promptly meet customer demand. As a result, we have experienced at times extended delivery time and increased costs for
chips and components compared to historic levels; our demand generation activities, and our ability to close transactions with end-
customers and partners may be negatively impacted; our ability to provide 24x7 worldwide support and/or replacement parts to our
end-customers may be adversely affected; and it has been and, until the COVID-19 outbreak is contained and global economic activity
stabilizes, will continue to be more difficult for us to forecast our operating results.
More generally, the pandemic has not only significantly and adversely increased economic and demand uncertainty, but it has
caused a global economic slowdown, and continuing global economic uncertainty which could decrease technology spending and
adversely affect demand for our offerings and harm our business and results of operations.
Our business and operations have experienced growth in recent periods, and if we do not effectively manage any future growth or
are unable to improve our systems, processes, and controls, our operating results could be adversely affected.
We have experienced growth and increased demand for our products and subscriptions over the last few years. As a result, our
employee headcount has increased significantly, and we expect it to continue to grow over the next year. For example, from the end of
fiscal 2021 to the end of fiscal 2022, our headcount increased from 10,473 to 12,561 employees. In addition, as we have grown, our
number of end-customers has also increased significantly, and we have increasingly managed more complex deployments of our
products and subscriptions with larger end-customers. The growth and expansion of our business and product, subscription, and
support offerings places a significant strain on our management, operational, and financial resources. To manage any future growth
effectively, we must continue to improve and expand our information technology and financial infrastructure, our operating and
administrative systems and controls, and our ability to manage headcount, capital, and processes in an efficient manner, all of which
may be more difficult to accomplish the longer that our employees must work remotely from home.
We may not be able to successfully implement or scale improvements to our systems, processes, and controls in an efficient or
timely manner. In addition, our existing systems, processes, and controls may not prevent or detect all errors, omissions, or fraud. We
may also experience difficulties in managing improvements to our systems, processes, and controls or in connection with third-party
software licensed to help us with such improvements. Any future growth would add complexity to our organization and require
effective coordination throughout our organization. Failure to manage any future growth effectively could result in increased costs,
disrupt our existing end-customer relationships, reduce demand for or limit us to smaller deployments of our products, or harm our
business performance and operating results.
Our operating results may vary significantly from period to period and be unpredictable, which could cause the market price of our
common stock to decline.
Our operating results, in particular, our revenues, gross margins, operating margins, and operating expenses, have historically
varied from period to period, and even though we have experienced growth, we expect variation to continue as a result of a number of
factors, many of which are outside of our control and may be difficult to predict, including:
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our ability to attract and retain new end-customers or sell additional products and subscriptions to our existing end-
customers;
the budgeting cycles, seasonal buying patterns, and purchasing practices of our end-customers;
changes in end-customer, distributor or reseller requirements, or market needs;
price competition;
the timing and success of new product and service introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the
competitive landscape of our industry, including consolidation among our competitors or end-customers and strategic
partnerships entered into by and between our competitors;
changes in the mix of our products, subscriptions, and support, including changes in multi-year subscriptions and support;
our ability to successfully and continuously expand our business domestically and internationally, particularly in the
current global economic slowdown and the escalation of military conflicts such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine;
changes in the growth rate of the enterprise security industry;
deferral of orders from end-customers in anticipation of new products or product enhancements announced by us or our
competitors;
the timing and costs related to the development or acquisition of technologies or businesses or strategic partnerships;
lack of synergy or the inability to realize expected synergies, resulting from acquisitions or strategic partnerships;
our inability to execute, complete, or integrate efficiently any acquisitions that we may undertake;
increased expenses, unforeseen liabilities, or write-downs and any impact on our operating results from any acquisitions
we consummate;
our ability to increase the size and productivity of our distribution channel;
our obligation to repay the aggregate principal amount of the Notes as holders exercise their conversion rights under the
Notes;
decisions by potential end-customers to purchase security solutions from larger, more established security vendors or from
their primary network equipment vendors;
changes in end-customer penetration or attach and renewal rates for our subscriptions;
timing of revenue recognition and revenue deferrals;
our ability to manage production and manufacturing related costs, global customer service organization costs, inventory
excess and obsolescence costs, and warranty costs, especially due to disruptions in our supply chain as a result of COVID-
19 and the global semiconductor chip and component shortage;
our ability to manage cloud hosting service costs and scale the cloud-based subscription offerings;
insolvency or credit difficulties confronting our end-customers, including due to the continuing effects of COVID-19 and
adversely affect their ability to purchase or pay for our products and subscription and support offerings in a timely manner
or at all, or confronting our key suppliers, including our sole source suppliers, which could disrupt our supply chain;
any disruption in our channel or termination of our relationships with important channel partners, including as a result of
consolidation among distributors and resellers of security solutions;
our inability to timely fulfill our end-customers’ orders due to supply chain delays or events that impact our manufacturers
or their suppliers, including due to the effects of COVID-19 and the global semiconductor chip and component shortage;
the cost and potential outcomes of litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our business;
seasonality or cyclical fluctuations in our markets;
future accounting pronouncements or changes in our accounting policies;
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increases or decreases in our expenses caused by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, as an increasing amount
of our expenses is incurred and paid in currencies other than the U.S. dollar;
and operating results will be harmed.
If we are unable to sell new and additional product, subscription, and support offerings to our end-customers, our future revenue
political, economic and social instability caused by the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (“Brexit”),
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, continued hostilities in the Middle East, terrorist activities, any disruptions from COVID-19
and any disruption these events may cause to the broader global industrial economy; and
general macroeconomic conditions, both domestically and in our foreign markets that could impact some or all regions
where we operate, including inflation, and global economic uncertainty due to the continuing effects of COVID-19.
Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to expand the deployment of our portfolio with existing end-customers and
create demand for our new offerings, including cloud security, AI, and analytics offerings. This may require increasingly sophisticated
and costly sales efforts that may not result in additional sales. The rate at which our end-customers purchase additional products,
subscriptions, and support depends on a number of factors, including the perceived need for additional security products, including
subscription and support offerings, as well as general economic conditions. Further, existing end-customers have no contractual
obligation to and may not renew their subscription and support contracts after the completion of their initial contract period. Our end-
Any one of the factors above, or the cumulative effect of some of the factors referred to above, may result in significant
customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our
fluctuations in our financial and other operating results. This variability and unpredictability could result in our failure to meet our
revenue, margin, or other operating result expectations or those of securities analysts or investors for a particular period. If we fail to
meet or exceed such expectations for these or any other reasons, the market price of our common stock could fall substantially, and we
could face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
Our operating results may be adversely affected by unfavorable economic and market conditions and the uncertain geopolitical
environment.
We operate globally, and as a result, our business and revenues are impacted by global economic and geopolitical conditions.
The instability in the global credit markets, inflation, shortages and delays related to the global supply chain challenges, uncertainties
related to the timing of the lifting of governmental restrictions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the current economic challenges
in China, changes in public policies such as domestic and international regulations, taxes, increase in interest rates, fluctuations in
foreign currency exchange rates, or international trade agreements, international trade disputes, government shutdowns, geopolitical
turmoil and other disruptions to global and regional economies and markets continue to add uncertainty to global economic
conditions. Military actions or armed conflict, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and any related political or economic responses
and counter-responses, and uncertainty about or changes in government and trade relationships, policies and treaties could also lead to
worsening economic and market conditions and the geopolitical environment. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United
States, along with the European Union, has imposed restrictive sanctions on Russia, Russian entities, and Russian citizens (“Sanctions
on Russia”). We are subject to these governmental sanctions and export controls, which may subject us to liability if we are not in full
compliance with applicable laws. Any continued or further uncertainty, weakness or deterioration in economic and market conditions
or the geopolitical environment could have a material and adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of
operations, including reductions in sales of our products and subscriptions, longer sales cycles, reductions in subscription or contract
duration and value, slower adoption of new technologies, alterations in the spending patterns or priorities of current and prospective
customers (including delaying purchasing decisions), increased costs for the chips and components to manufacture our products and
increased price competition.
Our revenue growth rate in recent periods may not be indicative of our future performance.
We have experienced revenue growth rates of 29.3% and 24.9% in fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021, respectively. Our revenue for
any prior quarterly or annual period should not be relied upon as an indication of our future revenue or revenue growth for any future
period. If we are unable to maintain consistent or increasing revenue or revenue growth, the market price of our common stock could
be volatile, and it may be difficult for us to achieve and maintain profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis.
We have a history of losses, anticipate increasing our operating expenses in the future, and may not be able to achieve or maintain
profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis, which could cause our business, financial condition, and
operating results to suffer.
Other than fiscal 2012, we have incurred losses in all fiscal years since our inception. As a result, we had an accumulated deficit
of $1.7 billion as of July 31, 2022. We anticipate that our operating expenses will continue to increase in the foreseeable future as we
continue to grow our business. Our growth efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in
increasing our revenues sufficiently, or at all, to offset increasing expenses. Revenue growth may slow or revenue may decline for a
number of possible reasons, including the downturn in the global and U.S. economy due to COVID-19, slowing demand for our
products or subscriptions, increasing competition, a decrease in the growth of, or a demand shift in, our overall market, or a failure to
capitalize on growth opportunities. We have also entered into a substantial amount of capital commitments for operating lease
obligations and other purchase commitments. Any failure to increase our revenue as we grow our business could prevent us from
achieving or maintaining profitability or maintaining or increasing cash flow on a consistent basis or satisfying our capital
commitments. In addition, we may have difficulty achieving profitability under U.S. GAAP due to share-based compensation expense
and other non-cash charges. If we are unable to navigate these challenges as we encounter them, our business, financial condition, and
operating results may suffer.
subscriptions and our support offerings, the frequency and severity of subscription outages, our product uptime or latency, and the
pricing of our, or competing, subscriptions. Additionally, our end-customers may renew their subscription and support agreements for
shorter contract lengths or on other terms that are less economically beneficial to us. We also cannot be certain that our end-customers
will renew their subscription and support agreements. If our efforts to sell additional products and subscriptions to our end-customers
are not successful or our end-customers do not renew their subscription and support agreements or renew them on less favorable
terms, our revenues may grow more slowly than expected or decline.
We face intense competition in our market and we may lack sufficient financial or other resources to maintain or improve our
competitive position.
The industry for enterprise security products is intensely competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future from
established competitors and new market entrants. Our main competitors fall into five categories:
large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), or those that
have acquired, or may acquire, large network and endpoint security vendors and have the technical and financial resources
to bring competitive solutions to the market;
independent security vendors, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Fortinet, Inc.
(“Fortinet”), and Zscaler, Inc. (“Zscaler”), that offer a mix of network and endpoint security products;
startups and single-vertical vendors that offer independent or emerging solutions across various areas of security;
public cloud vendors and startups that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public and hybrid cloud); and
large and small companies, such as Crowdstrike, Inc. (“Crowdstrike”), that offer solutions for security operations and
Many of our existing competitors have, and some of our potential competitors could have, substantial competitive advantages
endpoint security.
such as:
greater name recognition and longer operating histories;
larger sales and marketing budgets and resources;
broader distribution and established relationships with distribution partners and end-customers;
greater customer support resources;
greater resources to make strategic acquisitions or enter into strategic partnerships;
lower levels of indebtedness;
lower labor and development costs;
newer or disruptive products or technologies;
larger and more mature intellectual property portfolios; and
substantially greater financial, technical, and other resources.
In addition, some of our larger competitors have substantially broader and more diverse product and services offerings, which
may make them less susceptible to downturns in a particular market and allow them to leverage their relationships based on other
products or incorporate functionality into existing products to gain business in a manner that discourages users from purchasing our
products and subscriptions, including through selling at zero or negative margins, offering concessions, product bundling, or a closed
technology offering. Many of our smaller competitors that specialize in providing protection from a single type of security threat are
often able to deliver these specialized security products to the market more quickly than we can.
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increases or decreases in our expenses caused by fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, as an increasing amount
of our expenses is incurred and paid in currencies other than the U.S. dollar;
If we are unable to sell new and additional product, subscription, and support offerings to our end-customers, our future revenue
and operating results will be harmed.
political, economic and social instability caused by the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (“Brexit”),
Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to expand the deployment of our portfolio with existing end-customers and
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, continued hostilities in the Middle East, terrorist activities, any disruptions from COVID-19
and any disruption these events may cause to the broader global industrial economy; and
general macroeconomic conditions, both domestically and in our foreign markets that could impact some or all regions
where we operate, including inflation, and global economic uncertainty due to the continuing effects of COVID-19.
Any one of the factors above, or the cumulative effect of some of the factors referred to above, may result in significant
fluctuations in our financial and other operating results. This variability and unpredictability could result in our failure to meet our
revenue, margin, or other operating result expectations or those of securities analysts or investors for a particular period. If we fail to
meet or exceed such expectations for these or any other reasons, the market price of our common stock could fall substantially, and we
could face costly lawsuits, including securities class action suits.
Our operating results may be adversely affected by unfavorable economic and market conditions and the uncertain geopolitical
environment.
We operate globally, and as a result, our business and revenues are impacted by global economic and geopolitical conditions.
The instability in the global credit markets, inflation, shortages and delays related to the global supply chain challenges, uncertainties
create demand for our new offerings, including cloud security, AI, and analytics offerings. This may require increasingly sophisticated
and costly sales efforts that may not result in additional sales. The rate at which our end-customers purchase additional products,
subscriptions, and support depends on a number of factors, including the perceived need for additional security products, including
subscription and support offerings, as well as general economic conditions. Further, existing end-customers have no contractual
obligation to and may not renew their subscription and support contracts after the completion of their initial contract period. Our end-
customers’ renewal rates may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including their level of satisfaction with our
subscriptions and our support offerings, the frequency and severity of subscription outages, our product uptime or latency, and the
pricing of our, or competing, subscriptions. Additionally, our end-customers may renew their subscription and support agreements for
shorter contract lengths or on other terms that are less economically beneficial to us. We also cannot be certain that our end-customers
will renew their subscription and support agreements. If our efforts to sell additional products and subscriptions to our end-customers
are not successful or our end-customers do not renew their subscription and support agreements or renew them on less favorable
terms, our revenues may grow more slowly than expected or decline.
We face intense competition in our market and we may lack sufficient financial or other resources to maintain or improve our
competitive position.
related to the timing of the lifting of governmental restrictions to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the current economic challenges
The industry for enterprise security products is intensely competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future from
in China, changes in public policies such as domestic and international regulations, taxes, increase in interest rates, fluctuations in
established competitors and new market entrants. Our main competitors fall into five categories:
increased price competition.
Many of our existing competitors have, and some of our potential competitors could have, substantial competitive advantages
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large companies that incorporate security features in their products, such as Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”), or those that
have acquired, or may acquire, large network and endpoint security vendors and have the technical and financial resources
to bring competitive solutions to the market;
independent security vendors, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (“Check Point”), Fortinet, Inc.
(“Fortinet”), and Zscaler, Inc. (“Zscaler”), that offer a mix of network and endpoint security products;
startups and single-vertical vendors that offer independent or emerging solutions across various areas of security;
public cloud vendors and startups that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public and hybrid cloud); and
large and small companies, such as Crowdstrike, Inc. (“Crowdstrike”), that offer solutions for security operations and
endpoint security.
such as:
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greater name recognition and longer operating histories;
larger sales and marketing budgets and resources;
broader distribution and established relationships with distribution partners and end-customers;
greater customer support resources;
greater resources to make strategic acquisitions or enter into strategic partnerships;
lower levels of indebtedness;
lower labor and development costs;
newer or disruptive products or technologies;
larger and more mature intellectual property portfolios; and
substantially greater financial, technical, and other resources.
In addition, some of our larger competitors have substantially broader and more diverse product and services offerings, which
may make them less susceptible to downturns in a particular market and allow them to leverage their relationships based on other
products or incorporate functionality into existing products to gain business in a manner that discourages users from purchasing our
products and subscriptions, including through selling at zero or negative margins, offering concessions, product bundling, or a closed
technology offering. Many of our smaller competitors that specialize in providing protection from a single type of security threat are
often able to deliver these specialized security products to the market more quickly than we can.
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foreign currency exchange rates, or international trade agreements, international trade disputes, government shutdowns, geopolitical
turmoil and other disruptions to global and regional economies and markets continue to add uncertainty to global economic
conditions. Military actions or armed conflict, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and any related political or economic responses
and counter-responses, and uncertainty about or changes in government and trade relationships, policies and treaties could also lead to
worsening economic and market conditions and the geopolitical environment. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United
States, along with the European Union, has imposed restrictive sanctions on Russia, Russian entities, and Russian citizens (“Sanctions
on Russia”). We are subject to these governmental sanctions and export controls, which may subject us to liability if we are not in full
compliance with applicable laws. Any continued or further uncertainty, weakness or deterioration in economic and market conditions
or the geopolitical environment could have a material and adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of
operations, including reductions in sales of our products and subscriptions, longer sales cycles, reductions in subscription or contract
duration and value, slower adoption of new technologies, alterations in the spending patterns or priorities of current and prospective
customers (including delaying purchasing decisions), increased costs for the chips and components to manufacture our products and
Our revenue growth rate in recent periods may not be indicative of our future performance.
We have experienced revenue growth rates of 29.3% and 24.9% in fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021, respectively. Our revenue for
any prior quarterly or annual period should not be relied upon as an indication of our future revenue or revenue growth for any future
period. If we are unable to maintain consistent or increasing revenue or revenue growth, the market price of our common stock could
be volatile, and it may be difficult for us to achieve and maintain profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis.
We have a history of losses, anticipate increasing our operating expenses in the future, and may not be able to achieve or maintain
profitability or maintain or increase cash flow on a consistent basis, which could cause our business, financial condition, and
operating results to suffer.
Other than fiscal 2012, we have incurred losses in all fiscal years since our inception. As a result, we had an accumulated deficit
of $1.7 billion as of July 31, 2022. We anticipate that our operating expenses will continue to increase in the foreseeable future as we
continue to grow our business. Our growth efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in
increasing our revenues sufficiently, or at all, to offset increasing expenses. Revenue growth may slow or revenue may decline for a
number of possible reasons, including the downturn in the global and U.S. economy due to COVID-19, slowing demand for our
products or subscriptions, increasing competition, a decrease in the growth of, or a demand shift in, our overall market, or a failure to
capitalize on growth opportunities. We have also entered into a substantial amount of capital commitments for operating lease
obligations and other purchase commitments. Any failure to increase our revenue as we grow our business could prevent us from
achieving or maintaining profitability or maintaining or increasing cash flow on a consistent basis or satisfying our capital
commitments. In addition, we may have difficulty achieving profitability under U.S. GAAP due to share-based compensation expense
and other non-cash charges. If we are unable to navigate these challenges as we encounter them, our business, financial condition, and
operating results may suffer.
Organizations that use legacy products and services may believe that these products and services are sufficient to meet their
Reliance on shipments at the end of the quarter could cause our revenue for the applicable period to fall below expected levels.
security needs or that our offerings only serve the needs of a portion of the enterprise security industry. Accordingly, these
organizations may continue allocating their information technology budgets for legacy products and services and may not adopt our
security offerings. Further, many organizations have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to design and operate their
networks and have established deep relationships with other providers of networking and security products. As a result, these
organizations may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers rather than add or switch to a new supplier such as us, regardless of
product performance, features, or greater services offerings or may be more willing to incrementally add solutions to their existing
security infrastructure from existing suppliers than to replace it wholesale with our solutions.
Conditions in our market could change rapidly and significantly as a result of technological advancements, partnering or
acquisitions by our competitors, or continuing market consolidation. New start-up companies that innovate and large competitors that
are making significant investments in research and development may invent similar or superior products and technologies that
compete with our products and subscriptions. Some of our competitors have made or could make acquisitions of businesses that may
allow them to offer more directly competitive and comprehensive solutions than they had previously offered and adapt more quickly
to new technologies and end-customer needs. Our current and potential competitors may also establish cooperative relationships
among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their resources.
These competitive pressures in our market or our failure to compete effectively may result in price reductions, fewer orders,
reduced revenue and gross margins, and loss of market share. Any failure to meet and address these factors could seriously harm our
business and operating results.
As a result of end-customer buying patterns and the efforts of our sales force and channel partners to meet or exceed their sales
objectives, we have historically received a substantial portion of sales orders and generated a substantial portion of revenue during the
last few weeks of each fiscal quarter. If expected revenue at the end of any fiscal quarter is delayed for any reason, including the
failure of anticipated purchase orders to materialize (particularly for large enterprise end-customers with lengthy sales cycles), our
logistics partners’ inability to ship products prior to fiscal quarter-end to fulfill purchase orders received near the end of a fiscal quarter
(including due to the effects of COVID-19), our failure to manage inventory to meet demand, any failure of our systems related to
order review and processing, or any delays in shipments based on trade compliance requirements (including new compliance
requirements imposed by new or renegotiated trade agreements), revenue could fall below our expectations and the estimates of
analysts for that quarter, which could adversely impact our business and operating results and cause a decline in the market price of
our common stock.
Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our revenue.
We believe there are significant seasonal factors that may cause our second and fourth fiscal quarters to record greater revenue
sequentially than our first and third fiscal quarters. We believe that this seasonality results from a number of factors, including:
end-customers with a December 31 fiscal year-end choosing to spend remaining unused portions of their discretionary
budgets before their fiscal year-end, which potentially results in a positive impact on our revenue in our second fiscal
quarter;
A network or data security incident may allow unauthorized access to our network or data, harm our reputation, create additional
liability and adversely impact our financial results.
our sales compensation plans, which are typically structured around annual quotas and commission rate accelerators,
which potentially results in a positive impact on our revenue in our fourth fiscal quarter;
Increasingly, companies are subject to a wide variety of attacks on their networks on an ongoing basis. In addition to traditional
seasonal reductions in business activity during August in the United States, Europe and certain other regions, which
computer “hackers,” malicious code (such as viruses and worms), phishing attempts, employee theft or misuse, and denial of service
attacks, sophisticated nation-state and nation-state supported actors engage in intrusions and attacks (including advanced persistent
threat intrusions and supply chain attacks) and add to the risks to our internal networks, cloud-deployed enterprise and customer-
facing environments and the information they store and process. Incidences of cyberattacks and other cybersecurity breaches and
incidents have increased and are likely to continue to increase. We and our third-party service providers face security threats and
attacks from a variety of sources. Despite our efforts and processes to prevent breaches of our internal networks, systems and websites,
our data, corporate systems, our systems and security measures, as well as those of our third-party service providers, are still
vulnerable to computer viruses, break-ins, phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, or other types of attacks from outside parties, or
breaches due to employee error, malfeasance, a combination of these, or otherwise. We cannot guarantee that the measures we have
taken to protect our networks, systems and websites will provide adequate security. Furthermore, as a well-known provider of security
solutions, we may be a more attractive target for such attacks. The conflict in Ukraine and associated activities in Ukraine and Russia
may increase the risk of cyberattacks on various types of infrastructure and operations, and the United States government has warned
companies to be prepared for a significant increase in Russian cyberattacks in response to the Sanctions on Russia.
A security breach or incident or an attack against our service availability suffered by us, or our third-party service providers,
could impact our networks or networks secured by our products and subscriptions, creating system disruptions or slowdowns and
exploiting security vulnerabilities of our products, and the information stored or otherwise processed on our networks or those of our
third-party service providers could be accessed, publicly disclosed, altered, lost, stolen, rendered unavailable, or otherwise used or
processed without authorization, which could subject us to liability and cause us financial harm. Any actual or perceived breach of
security in our systems or networks, or any other actual or perceived data security incident we or our third-party service providers
suffer, could result in significant damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of channel partners, end-customers and sales, loss
of competitive advantages over our competitors, increased costs to remedy any problems and otherwise respond to any incident,
regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, demands, costly litigation, and other liability. In addition, we may incur significant
costs and operational consequences of investigating, remediating, eliminating and putting in place additional tools, devices, and other
measures designed to prevent actual or perceived security breaches and other security incidents, as well as the costs to comply with
any notification obligations resulting from any security incidents. While we maintain cybersecurity insurance, our insurance may be
insufficient to cover all liabilities incurred by these incidents, and any incidents may result in loss of, or increased costs of, our
cybersecurity insurance. Any of these negative outcomes could adversely impact the market perception of our products and
subscriptions and end-customer and investor confidence in our company and could seriously harm our business or operating results.
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suffer.
potentially results in a negative impact on our first fiscal quarter revenue; and
the timing of end-customer budget planning at the beginning of the calendar year, which can result in a delay in spending
at the beginning of the calendar year potentially resulting in a negative impact on our revenue in our third fiscal quarter.
As we continue to grow, seasonal or cyclical variations in our operations may become more pronounced, and our business,
operating results and financial position may be adversely affected.
If we are unable to hire, integrate, train, retain, and motivate qualified personnel and senior management, our business could
Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to continue to hire, integrate, train, and retain qualified and highly skilled
personnel. We are substantially dependent on the continued service of our existing engineering personnel because of the complexity of
our offerings. Additionally, any failure to hire, integrate, train, and adequately incentivize our sales personnel or the inability of our
recently hired sales personnel to effectively ramp to target productivity levels could negatively impact our growth and operating
margins. Competition for highly skilled personnel, particularly in engineering, is often intense, especially in the San Francisco Bay
Area, where we have a substantial presence and need for such personnel. Additionally, potential changes in U.S. immigration and
work authorization laws and regulations, including in reaction to COVID-19, may make it difficult to renew or obtain visas for any
highly skilled personnel that we have hired or are actively recruiting.
In addition, the industry in which we operate generally experiences high employee attrition. Although we have entered into
employment offer letters with our key personnel, these agreements have no specific duration and constitute at-will employment. We do
not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees. The loss of one or more of our key employees, and any
failure to have in place and execute an effective succession plan for key executives, could seriously harm our business. If we are
unable to hire, integrate, train, or retain the qualified and highly skilled personnel required to fulfill our current or future needs, our
business, financial condition, and operating results could be harmed.
Our future performance also depends on the continued services and continuing contributions of our senior management to
execute on our business plan and to identify and pursue new opportunities and product innovations. The loss of services of senior
management, the decrease in the effectiveness of such services due to working remotely from home, or the ineffective management of
any leadership transitions, especially within our sales organization, could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our
development and strategic objectives, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Further, we believe that a critical contributor to our success and our ability to retain highly skilled personnel has been our
corporate culture, which we believe fosters innovation, inclusion, teamwork, passion for end-customers, focus on execution, and the
facilitation of critical knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing. As we grow and change, we may find it difficult to maintain these
important aspects of our corporate culture. While we are taking steps to develop a more inclusive and diverse workforce, there is no
guarantee that we will be able to do so. Any failure to preserve our culture as we grow could limit our ability to innovate and could
negatively affect our ability to retain and recruit personnel, continue to perform at current levels or execute on our business strategy.
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Organizations that use legacy products and services may believe that these products and services are sufficient to meet their
Reliance on shipments at the end of the quarter could cause our revenue for the applicable period to fall below expected levels.
security needs or that our offerings only serve the needs of a portion of the enterprise security industry. Accordingly, these
organizations may continue allocating their information technology budgets for legacy products and services and may not adopt our
security offerings. Further, many organizations have invested substantial personnel and financial resources to design and operate their
networks and have established deep relationships with other providers of networking and security products. As a result, these
organizations may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers rather than add or switch to a new supplier such as us, regardless of
product performance, features, or greater services offerings or may be more willing to incrementally add solutions to their existing
security infrastructure from existing suppliers than to replace it wholesale with our solutions.
Conditions in our market could change rapidly and significantly as a result of technological advancements, partnering or
acquisitions by our competitors, or continuing market consolidation. New start-up companies that innovate and large competitors that
are making significant investments in research and development may invent similar or superior products and technologies that
compete with our products and subscriptions. Some of our competitors have made or could make acquisitions of businesses that may
allow them to offer more directly competitive and comprehensive solutions than they had previously offered and adapt more quickly
As a result of end-customer buying patterns and the efforts of our sales force and channel partners to meet or exceed their sales
objectives, we have historically received a substantial portion of sales orders and generated a substantial portion of revenue during the
last few weeks of each fiscal quarter. If expected revenue at the end of any fiscal quarter is delayed for any reason, including the
failure of anticipated purchase orders to materialize (particularly for large enterprise end-customers with lengthy sales cycles), our
logistics partners’ inability to ship products prior to fiscal quarter-end to fulfill purchase orders received near the end of a fiscal quarter
(including due to the effects of COVID-19), our failure to manage inventory to meet demand, any failure of our systems related to
order review and processing, or any delays in shipments based on trade compliance requirements (including new compliance
requirements imposed by new or renegotiated trade agreements), revenue could fall below our expectations and the estimates of
analysts for that quarter, which could adversely impact our business and operating results and cause a decline in the market price of
our common stock.
Seasonality may cause fluctuations in our revenue.
to new technologies and end-customer needs. Our current and potential competitors may also establish cooperative relationships
We believe there are significant seasonal factors that may cause our second and fourth fiscal quarters to record greater revenue
among themselves or with third parties that may further enhance their resources.
sequentially than our first and third fiscal quarters. We believe that this seasonality results from a number of factors, including:
These competitive pressures in our market or our failure to compete effectively may result in price reductions, fewer orders,
reduced revenue and gross margins, and loss of market share. Any failure to meet and address these factors could seriously harm our
business and operating results.
A network or data security incident may allow unauthorized access to our network or data, harm our reputation, create additional
liability and adversely impact our financial results.
Increasingly, companies are subject to a wide variety of attacks on their networks on an ongoing basis. In addition to traditional
computer “hackers,” malicious code (such as viruses and worms), phishing attempts, employee theft or misuse, and denial of service
attacks, sophisticated nation-state and nation-state supported actors engage in intrusions and attacks (including advanced persistent
threat intrusions and supply chain attacks) and add to the risks to our internal networks, cloud-deployed enterprise and customer-
facing environments and the information they store and process. Incidences of cyberattacks and other cybersecurity breaches and
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end-customers with a December 31 fiscal year-end choosing to spend remaining unused portions of their discretionary
budgets before their fiscal year-end, which potentially results in a positive impact on our revenue in our second fiscal
quarter;
our sales compensation plans, which are typically structured around annual quotas and commission rate accelerators,
which potentially results in a positive impact on our revenue in our fourth fiscal quarter;
seasonal reductions in business activity during August in the United States, Europe and certain other regions, which
potentially results in a negative impact on our first fiscal quarter revenue; and
the timing of end-customer budget planning at the beginning of the calendar year, which can result in a delay in spending
at the beginning of the calendar year potentially resulting in a negative impact on our revenue in our third fiscal quarter.
incidents have increased and are likely to continue to increase. We and our third-party service providers face security threats and
As we continue to grow, seasonal or cyclical variations in our operations may become more pronounced, and our business,
attacks from a variety of sources. Despite our efforts and processes to prevent breaches of our internal networks, systems and websites,
operating results and financial position may be adversely affected.
taken to protect our networks, systems and websites will provide adequate security. Furthermore, as a well-known provider of security
Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to continue to hire, integrate, train, and retain qualified and highly skilled
If we are unable to hire, integrate, train, retain, and motivate qualified personnel and senior management, our business could
suffer.
personnel. We are substantially dependent on the continued service of our existing engineering personnel because of the complexity of
our offerings. Additionally, any failure to hire, integrate, train, and adequately incentivize our sales personnel or the inability of our
recently hired sales personnel to effectively ramp to target productivity levels could negatively impact our growth and operating
margins. Competition for highly skilled personnel, particularly in engineering, is often intense, especially in the San Francisco Bay
Area, where we have a substantial presence and need for such personnel. Additionally, potential changes in U.S. immigration and
work authorization laws and regulations, including in reaction to COVID-19, may make it difficult to renew or obtain visas for any
highly skilled personnel that we have hired or are actively recruiting.
In addition, the industry in which we operate generally experiences high employee attrition. Although we have entered into
employment offer letters with our key personnel, these agreements have no specific duration and constitute at-will employment. We do
not maintain key person life insurance policies on any of our employees. The loss of one or more of our key employees, and any
failure to have in place and execute an effective succession plan for key executives, could seriously harm our business. If we are
unable to hire, integrate, train, or retain the qualified and highly skilled personnel required to fulfill our current or future needs, our
business, financial condition, and operating results could be harmed.
Our future performance also depends on the continued services and continuing contributions of our senior management to
execute on our business plan and to identify and pursue new opportunities and product innovations. The loss of services of senior
management, the decrease in the effectiveness of such services due to working remotely from home, or the ineffective management of
any leadership transitions, especially within our sales organization, could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our
development and strategic objectives, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Further, we believe that a critical contributor to our success and our ability to retain highly skilled personnel has been our
corporate culture, which we believe fosters innovation, inclusion, teamwork, passion for end-customers, focus on execution, and the
facilitation of critical knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing. As we grow and change, we may find it difficult to maintain these
important aspects of our corporate culture. While we are taking steps to develop a more inclusive and diverse workforce, there is no
guarantee that we will be able to do so. Any failure to preserve our culture as we grow could limit our ability to innovate and could
negatively affect our ability to retain and recruit personnel, continue to perform at current levels or execute on our business strategy.
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our data, corporate systems, our systems and security measures, as well as those of our third-party service providers, are still
vulnerable to computer viruses, break-ins, phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, or other types of attacks from outside parties, or
breaches due to employee error, malfeasance, a combination of these, or otherwise. We cannot guarantee that the measures we have
solutions, we may be a more attractive target for such attacks. The conflict in Ukraine and associated activities in Ukraine and Russia
may increase the risk of cyberattacks on various types of infrastructure and operations, and the United States government has warned
companies to be prepared for a significant increase in Russian cyberattacks in response to the Sanctions on Russia.
A security breach or incident or an attack against our service availability suffered by us, or our third-party service providers,
could impact our networks or networks secured by our products and subscriptions, creating system disruptions or slowdowns and
exploiting security vulnerabilities of our products, and the information stored or otherwise processed on our networks or those of our
third-party service providers could be accessed, publicly disclosed, altered, lost, stolen, rendered unavailable, or otherwise used or
processed without authorization, which could subject us to liability and cause us financial harm. Any actual or perceived breach of
security in our systems or networks, or any other actual or perceived data security incident we or our third-party service providers
suffer, could result in significant damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of channel partners, end-customers and sales, loss
of competitive advantages over our competitors, increased costs to remedy any problems and otherwise respond to any incident,
regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, demands, costly litigation, and other liability. In addition, we may incur significant
costs and operational consequences of investigating, remediating, eliminating and putting in place additional tools, devices, and other
measures designed to prevent actual or perceived security breaches and other security incidents, as well as the costs to comply with
any notification obligations resulting from any security incidents. While we maintain cybersecurity insurance, our insurance may be
insufficient to cover all liabilities incurred by these incidents, and any incidents may result in loss of, or increased costs of, our
cybersecurity insurance. Any of these negative outcomes could adversely impact the market perception of our products and
subscriptions and end-customer and investor confidence in our company and could seriously harm our business or operating results.
If we are not successful in executing our strategy to increase sales of our products, subscriptions and support offerings to new and
existing enterprise end-customers, our operating results may suffer.
Defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our products, subscriptions, or support offerings, the failure of our products or subscriptions
to block a virus or prevent a security breach or incident, misuse of our products, or risks of product liability claims could harm our
Our growth strategy is dependent, in part, upon increasing sales of our products, services, subscriptions and offerings to new
and existing medium and large enterprise end-customers. Sales to these end-customers involve risks that may not be present, or that
are present to a lesser extent, with sales to smaller entities. These risks include:
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competition from competitors, such as Cisco and Check Point, that traditionally target larger enterprises, service
providers, and government entities and that may have pre-existing relationships or purchase commitments from those end-
customers;
increased purchasing power and leverage held by large end-customers in negotiating contractual arrangements with us;
techniques and provide a solution in time to protect our end-customers’ networks. In addition, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
more stringent requirements in our worldwide support contracts, including stricter support response times and penalties
for any failure to meet support requirements; and
longer sales cycles, particularly during the current economic slowdown and in some cases over 12 months, and the
associated risk that substantial time and resources may be spent on a potential end-customer that elects not to purchase our
products and subscriptions.
In addition, product purchases by large enterprises are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals, and
unplanned administrative, processing, and other delays. Finally, large enterprises typically have longer implementation cycles, require
greater product functionality and scalability and a broader range of services, demand that vendors take on a larger share of risks,
sometimes require acceptance provisions that can lead to a delay in revenue recognition, and expect greater payment flexibility from
vendors. All of these factors can add further risk to business conducted with these end-customers. If we fail to realize an expected sale
from a large end-customer in a particular quarter or at all, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be materially
and adversely affected.
We rely on revenue from subscription and support offerings, and because we recognize revenue from subscription and support over
the term of the relevant service period, downturns or upturns in sales of these subscription and support offerings are not
immediately reflected in full in our operating results.
Subscription and support revenue accounts for a significant portion of our revenue, comprising 75.2% of total revenue in fiscal
2022, 73.7% of total revenue in fiscal 2021, and 68.8% of total revenue in fiscal 2020. Sales of new or renewal subscription and
support contracts may decline and fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including end-customers’ level of satisfaction with our
products and subscriptions (including newly integrated products and services), the prices of our products and subscriptions, the prices
of products and services offered by our competitors, and reductions in our end-customers’ spending levels. If our sales of new or
renewal subscription and support contracts decline, our total revenue and revenue growth rate may decline, and our business will
suffer. In addition, we recognize subscription and support revenue over the term of the relevant service period, which is typically one
to five years. As a result, much of the subscription and support revenue we report each fiscal quarter is the recognition of deferred
revenue from subscription and support contracts entered into during previous fiscal quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or
renewed subscription or support contracts in any one fiscal quarter will not be fully or immediately reflected in revenue in that fiscal
quarter but will negatively affect our revenue in future fiscal quarters. Also, it is difficult for us to rapidly increase our subscription
and support revenue through additional subscription and support sales in any period, as revenue from new and renewal subscription
and support contracts must be recognized over the applicable service period.
reputation and adversely impact our operating results.
Because our products and subscriptions are complex, they have contained and may contain design or manufacturing defects or
errors that are not detected until after their commercial release and deployment by our end-customers. For example, from time to time,
certain of our end-customers have reported defects in our products related to performance, scalability, and compatibility. Additionally,
defects may cause our products or subscriptions to be vulnerable to security attacks, cause them to fail to help secure networks, or
temporarily interrupt end-customers’ networking traffic. Because the techniques used by computer hackers to access or sabotage
networks change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these
there could be a significant increase in Russian cyberattacks against our customers, resulting in an increased risk of a security breach
of our end-customers’ systems. Furthermore, as a well-known provider of security solutions, our networks, products, including cloud-
based technology, and subscriptions could be targeted by attacks specifically designed to disrupt our business and harm our reputation.
In addition, defects or errors in our subscription updates or our products could result in a failure of our subscriptions to effectively
update end-customers’ hardware and cloud-based products. Our data centers and networks may experience technical failures and
downtime, may fail to distribute appropriate updates, or may fail to meet the increased requirements of a growing installed end-
customer base, any of which could temporarily or permanently expose our end-customers’ networks, leaving their networks
unprotected against the latest security threats. Moreover, our products must interoperate with our end-customers’ existing
infrastructure, which often have different specifications, utilize multiple protocol standards, deploy products from multiple vendors,
and contain multiple generations of products that have been added over time. As a result, when problems occur in a network, it may be
difficult to identify the sources of these problems.
The occurrence of any such problem in our products and subscriptions, whether real or perceived, could result in:
expenditure of significant financial and product development resources in efforts to analyze, correct, eliminate, or work-
around errors or defects or to address and eliminate vulnerabilities;
loss of existing or potential end-customers or channel partners;
delayed or lost revenue;
delay or failure to attain market acceptance;
an increase in warranty claims compared with our historical experience, or an increased cost of servicing warranty claims,
either of which would adversely affect our gross margins; and
litigation, regulatory inquiries, investigations, or other proceedings, each of which may be costly and harm our reputation.
Further, our products and subscriptions may be misused by end-customers or third parties that obtain access to our products and
subscriptions. For example, our products and subscriptions could be used to censor private access to certain information on the
Internet. Such use of our products and subscriptions for censorship could result in negative press coverage and negatively affect our
The limitation of liability provisions in our standard terms and conditions of sale may not fully or effectively protect us from
claims as a result of federal, state, or local laws or ordinances, or unfavorable judicial decisions in the United States or other countries.
The sale and support of our products and subscriptions also entails the risk of product liability claims. Although we may be
indemnified by our third-party manufacturers for product liability claims arising out of manufacturing defects, because we control the
design of our products and subscriptions, we may not be indemnified for product liability claims arising out of design defects. We
maintain insurance to protect against certain claims associated with the use of our products and subscriptions, but our insurance
coverage may not adequately cover any claim asserted against us. In addition, even claims that ultimately are unsuccessful could result
in our expenditure of funds in litigation, divert management’s time and other resources, and harm our reputation.
False detection of applications, viruses, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data patterns, or URL categories could adversely affect our
Our classifications of application type, virus, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data, or URL categories may falsely detect, report
and act on applications, content, or threats that do not actually exist. This risk is heightened by the inclusion of a “heuristics” feature in
our products and subscriptions, which attempts to identify applications and other threats not based on any known signatures but based
on characteristics or anomalies which indicate that a particular item may be a threat. These false positives may impair the perceived
reliability of our products and subscriptions and may therefore adversely impact market acceptance of our products and subscriptions.
If our products and subscriptions restrict important files or applications based on falsely identifying them as malware or some other
item that should be restricted, this could adversely affect end-customers’ systems and cause material system failures. Any such false
identification of important files or applications could result in damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of channel partners,
end-customers and sales, increased costs to remedy any problem, and costly litigation.
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are present to a lesser extent, with sales to smaller entities. These risks include:
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competition from competitors, such as Cisco and Check Point, that traditionally target larger enterprises, service
providers, and government entities and that may have pre-existing relationships or purchase commitments from those end-
customers;
increased purchasing power and leverage held by large end-customers in negotiating contractual arrangements with us;
more stringent requirements in our worldwide support contracts, including stricter support response times and penalties
for any failure to meet support requirements; and
longer sales cycles, particularly during the current economic slowdown and in some cases over 12 months, and the
associated risk that substantial time and resources may be spent on a potential end-customer that elects not to purchase our
products and subscriptions.
In addition, product purchases by large enterprises are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals, and
unplanned administrative, processing, and other delays. Finally, large enterprises typically have longer implementation cycles, require
greater product functionality and scalability and a broader range of services, demand that vendors take on a larger share of risks,
sometimes require acceptance provisions that can lead to a delay in revenue recognition, and expect greater payment flexibility from
vendors. All of these factors can add further risk to business conducted with these end-customers. If we fail to realize an expected sale
and adversely affected.
We rely on revenue from subscription and support offerings, and because we recognize revenue from subscription and support over
the term of the relevant service period, downturns or upturns in sales of these subscription and support offerings are not
immediately reflected in full in our operating results.
Subscription and support revenue accounts for a significant portion of our revenue, comprising 75.2% of total revenue in fiscal
2022, 73.7% of total revenue in fiscal 2021, and 68.8% of total revenue in fiscal 2020. Sales of new or renewal subscription and
support contracts may decline and fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including end-customers’ level of satisfaction with our
products and subscriptions (including newly integrated products and services), the prices of our products and subscriptions, the prices
of products and services offered by our competitors, and reductions in our end-customers’ spending levels. If our sales of new or
renewal subscription and support contracts decline, our total revenue and revenue growth rate may decline, and our business will
suffer. In addition, we recognize subscription and support revenue over the term of the relevant service period, which is typically one
to five years. As a result, much of the subscription and support revenue we report each fiscal quarter is the recognition of deferred
revenue from subscription and support contracts entered into during previous fiscal quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or
renewed subscription or support contracts in any one fiscal quarter will not be fully or immediately reflected in revenue in that fiscal
quarter but will negatively affect our revenue in future fiscal quarters. Also, it is difficult for us to rapidly increase our subscription
and support contracts must be recognized over the applicable service period.
If we are not successful in executing our strategy to increase sales of our products, subscriptions and support offerings to new and
existing enterprise end-customers, our operating results may suffer.
Our growth strategy is dependent, in part, upon increasing sales of our products, services, subscriptions and offerings to new
Defects, errors, or vulnerabilities in our products, subscriptions, or support offerings, the failure of our products or subscriptions
to block a virus or prevent a security breach or incident, misuse of our products, or risks of product liability claims could harm our
reputation and adversely impact our operating results.
and existing medium and large enterprise end-customers. Sales to these end-customers involve risks that may not be present, or that
Because our products and subscriptions are complex, they have contained and may contain design or manufacturing defects or
errors that are not detected until after their commercial release and deployment by our end-customers. For example, from time to time,
certain of our end-customers have reported defects in our products related to performance, scalability, and compatibility. Additionally,
defects may cause our products or subscriptions to be vulnerable to security attacks, cause them to fail to help secure networks, or
temporarily interrupt end-customers’ networking traffic. Because the techniques used by computer hackers to access or sabotage
networks change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these
techniques and provide a solution in time to protect our end-customers’ networks. In addition, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
there could be a significant increase in Russian cyberattacks against our customers, resulting in an increased risk of a security breach
of our end-customers’ systems. Furthermore, as a well-known provider of security solutions, our networks, products, including cloud-
based technology, and subscriptions could be targeted by attacks specifically designed to disrupt our business and harm our reputation.
In addition, defects or errors in our subscription updates or our products could result in a failure of our subscriptions to effectively
update end-customers’ hardware and cloud-based products. Our data centers and networks may experience technical failures and
downtime, may fail to distribute appropriate updates, or may fail to meet the increased requirements of a growing installed end-
customer base, any of which could temporarily or permanently expose our end-customers’ networks, leaving their networks
unprotected against the latest security threats. Moreover, our products must interoperate with our end-customers’ existing
infrastructure, which often have different specifications, utilize multiple protocol standards, deploy products from multiple vendors,
and contain multiple generations of products that have been added over time. As a result, when problems occur in a network, it may be
difficult to identify the sources of these problems.
from a large end-customer in a particular quarter or at all, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be materially
The occurrence of any such problem in our products and subscriptions, whether real or perceived, could result in:
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expenditure of significant financial and product development resources in efforts to analyze, correct, eliminate, or work-
around errors or defects or to address and eliminate vulnerabilities;
loss of existing or potential end-customers or channel partners;
delayed or lost revenue;
delay or failure to attain market acceptance;
an increase in warranty claims compared with our historical experience, or an increased cost of servicing warranty claims,
either of which would adversely affect our gross margins; and
litigation, regulatory inquiries, investigations, or other proceedings, each of which may be costly and harm our reputation.
Further, our products and subscriptions may be misused by end-customers or third parties that obtain access to our products and
subscriptions. For example, our products and subscriptions could be used to censor private access to certain information on the
Internet. Such use of our products and subscriptions for censorship could result in negative press coverage and negatively affect our
reputation.
and support revenue through additional subscription and support sales in any period, as revenue from new and renewal subscription
The limitation of liability provisions in our standard terms and conditions of sale may not fully or effectively protect us from
claims as a result of federal, state, or local laws or ordinances, or unfavorable judicial decisions in the United States or other countries.
The sale and support of our products and subscriptions also entails the risk of product liability claims. Although we may be
indemnified by our third-party manufacturers for product liability claims arising out of manufacturing defects, because we control the
design of our products and subscriptions, we may not be indemnified for product liability claims arising out of design defects. We
maintain insurance to protect against certain claims associated with the use of our products and subscriptions, but our insurance
coverage may not adequately cover any claim asserted against us. In addition, even claims that ultimately are unsuccessful could result
in our expenditure of funds in litigation, divert management’s time and other resources, and harm our reputation.
False detection of applications, viruses, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data patterns, or URL categories could adversely affect our
business.
Our classifications of application type, virus, spyware, vulnerability exploits, data, or URL categories may falsely detect, report
and act on applications, content, or threats that do not actually exist. This risk is heightened by the inclusion of a “heuristics” feature in
our products and subscriptions, which attempts to identify applications and other threats not based on any known signatures but based
on characteristics or anomalies which indicate that a particular item may be a threat. These false positives may impair the perceived
reliability of our products and subscriptions and may therefore adversely impact market acceptance of our products and subscriptions.
If our products and subscriptions restrict important files or applications based on falsely identifying them as malware or some other
item that should be restricted, this could adversely affect end-customers’ systems and cause material system failures. Any such false
identification of important files or applications could result in damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of channel partners,
end-customers and sales, increased costs to remedy any problem, and costly litigation.
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We rely on our channel partners to sell substantially all of our products, including subscriptions and support, and if these channel
partners fail to perform, our ability to sell and distribute our products and subscriptions will be limited, and our operating results
will be harmed.
Our current research and development efforts may not produce successful products, subscriptions, or features that result in
significant revenue, cost savings or other benefits in the near future, if at all.
Developing our products, subscriptions, features, and related enhancements is expensive. Our investments in research and
Substantially all of our revenue is generated by sales through our channel partners, including distributors and resellers. We
development may not result in significant design improvements, marketable products, subscriptions, or features, or may result in
provide our channel partners with specific training and programs to assist them in selling our products, including subscriptions and
support offerings, but there can be no assurance that these steps will be utilized or effective. In addition, our channel partners may be
unsuccessful in marketing, selling, and supporting our products and subscriptions. We may not be able to incentivize these channel
partners to sell our products and subscriptions to end-customers and, in particular, to large enterprises. These channel partners may
also have incentives to promote our competitors’ products and may devote more resources to the marketing, sales, and support of
competitive products. Our channel partners’ operations may also be negatively impacted by other effects COVID-19 is having on the
global economy, such as increased credit risk of end-customers and the uncertain credit markets. Our agreements with our channel
partners may generally be terminated for any reason by either party with advance notice prior to each annual renewal date. We cannot
be certain that we will retain these channel partners or that we will be able to secure additional or replacement channel partners. In
addition, any new channel partner requires extensive training and may take several months or more to achieve productivity. Our
channel partner sales structure could subject us to lawsuits, potential liability, and reputational harm if, for example, any of our
channel partners misrepresent the functionality of our products or subscriptions to end-customers or violate laws or our corporate
policies. If we fail to effectively manage our sales channels or channel partners, our ability to sell our products and subscriptions and
operating results will be harmed.
If we do not accurately predict, prepare for, and respond promptly to rapidly evolving technological and market developments and
successfully manage product and subscription introductions and transitions to meet changing end-customer needs in the enterprise
security industry, our competitive position and prospects will be harmed.
The enterprise security industry has grown quickly and is expected to continue to evolve rapidly. Moreover, many of our end-
customers operate in markets characterized by rapidly changing technologies and business plans, which require them to add numerous
network access points and adapt increasingly complex enterprise networks, incorporating a variety of hardware, software applications,
operating systems, and networking protocols. We must continually change our products and expand our business strategy in response
to changes in network infrastructure requirements, including the expanding use of cloud computing. For example, organizations are
moving portions of their data to be managed by third parties, primarily infrastructure, platform and application service providers, and
may rely on such providers’ internal security measures. While we have historically been successful in developing, acquiring, and
marketing new products and product enhancements that respond to technological change and evolving industry standards, we may not
be able to continue to do so, and there can be no assurance that our new or future offerings will be successful or will achieve
widespread market acceptance. If we fail to accurately predict end-customers’ changing needs and emerging technological trends in
the enterprise security industry, including in the areas of mobility, virtualization, cloud computing, and software defined networks
(“SDN”), our business could be harmed. In addition, COVID-19 and the resulting increase in customer demand for work-from-home
technologies and other technologies have caused us to reprioritize our engineering and R&D efforts and there can be no assurance that
any product enhancements or new features will be successful or address our end-customer needs.
products, subscriptions, or features that are more expensive than anticipated. Additionally, we may not achieve the cost savings or the
anticipated performance improvements we expect, and we may take longer to generate revenue, or generate less revenue, than we
anticipate. Our future plans include significant investments in research and development and related product and subscription
opportunities. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our research and development efforts
to maintain our competitive position. However, we may not receive significant revenue from these investments in the near future, if at
all, or these investments may not yield the expected benefits, either of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.
We may acquire other businesses, which could subject us to adverse claims or liabilities, require significant management attention,
disrupt our business, adversely affect our operating results, may not result in the expected benefits of such acquisitions and may
dilute stockholder value.
As part of our business strategy, we acquire and make investments in complementary companies, products, or technologies. The
identification of suitable acquisition candidates is difficult, and we may not be able to complete such acquisitions on favorable terms,
if at all. In addition, we may be subject to claims or liabilities assumed from an acquired company, product, or technology;
acquisitions we complete could be viewed negatively by our end-customers, investors, and securities analysts; and we may incur costs
and expenses necessary to address an acquired company’s failure to comply with laws and governmental rules and regulations.
Additionally, we may be subject to litigation or other claims in connection with the acquired company, including claims from
terminated employees, customers, former stockholders, or other third parties, which may differ from or be more significant than the
risks our business faces.
If we are unsuccessful at integrating past or future acquisitions in a timely manner, or the technologies and operations
associated with such acquisitions, into our company, our revenue and operating results could be adversely affected. Any integration
process may require significant time and resources, which may disrupt our ongoing business and divert management’s attention, and
we may not be able to manage the integration process successfully or in a timely manner. We may not successfully evaluate or utilize
the acquired technology or personnel, realize anticipated synergies from the acquisition, or accurately forecast the financial impact of
an acquisition transaction and integration of such acquisition, including accounting charges and any potential impairment of goodwill
and intangible assets recognized in connection with such acquisitions.
Our completed or future acquisitions may not ultimately strengthen our competitive position or achieve our goals and business
strategy. We may find that the acquired businesses, products, or technologies do not further our business strategy as we expected. Our
acquisitions may be viewed negatively by our customers, financial markets, or investors. We may experience difficulty integrating the
operations and personnel of the acquired business, and we may have difficulty retaining the key personnel of the acquired business.
We may have difficulty integrating the acquired technologies or products with our existing product lines and we may have difficulty
maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures, and policies across diverse or expanding geographic locations.
The technology in our portfolio is especially complex because it needs to effectively identify and respond to new and
increasingly sophisticated methods of attack, while minimizing the impact on network performance. Additionally, some of our new
features and related enhancements may require us to develop new hardware architectures that involve complex, expensive, and time-
consuming research and development processes. The development of our portfolio is difficult and the timetable for commercial release
and availability is uncertain as there can be long time periods between releases and availability of new features. If we experience
unanticipated delays in the availability of new products, features and subscriptions, and fail to meet customer expectations for such
availability, our competitive position and business prospects will be harmed.
We may have to pay cash, incur debt, or issue equity or equity-linked securities to pay for any future acquisitions, each of
which could adversely affect our financial condition or the market price of our common stock. Furthermore, the sale of equity or
issuance of equity-linked debt to finance any future acquisitions could result in dilution to our stockholders. See the risk factors
entitled “Our failure to raise additional capital or generate the significant capital necessary to expand our operations and invest in
new products and subscriptions could reduce our ability to compete and could harm our business.” and “The issuance of additional
stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans, the conversion of our Notes or exercise of the
related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.” The occurrence of any of these risks could harm our business,
Additionally, we must commit significant resources to developing new features and new cloud security, AI/analytics and other
offerings before knowing whether our investments will result in products, subscriptions, and features the market will accept. The
success of new features depends on several factors, including appropriate new product definition, differentiation of new products,
subscriptions, and features from those of our competitors, and market acceptance of these products, services and features. Moreover,
successful new product introduction and transition depends on a number of factors, including our ability to manage the risks
associated with new product production ramp-up issues, the availability of application software for new products, the effective
management of purchase commitments and inventory, the availability of products in appropriate quantities and costs to meet
anticipated demand, and the risk that new products may have quality or other defects or deficiencies, especially in the early stages of
introduction. There can be no assurance that we will successfully identify opportunities for new products and subscriptions, develop
and bring new products and subscriptions to market in a timely manner, or achieve market acceptance of our products and
subscriptions, including our product enhancement efforts in connection with COVID-19, or that products, subscriptions, and
technologies developed by others will not render our products, subscriptions, or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.
operating results, and financial condition.
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We rely on our channel partners to sell substantially all of our products, including subscriptions and support, and if these channel
partners fail to perform, our ability to sell and distribute our products and subscriptions will be limited, and our operating results
Our current research and development efforts may not produce successful products, subscriptions, or features that result in
significant revenue, cost savings or other benefits in the near future, if at all.
will be harmed.
Substantially all of our revenue is generated by sales through our channel partners, including distributors and resellers. We
provide our channel partners with specific training and programs to assist them in selling our products, including subscriptions and
support offerings, but there can be no assurance that these steps will be utilized or effective. In addition, our channel partners may be
unsuccessful in marketing, selling, and supporting our products and subscriptions. We may not be able to incentivize these channel
partners to sell our products and subscriptions to end-customers and, in particular, to large enterprises. These channel partners may
also have incentives to promote our competitors’ products and may devote more resources to the marketing, sales, and support of
competitive products. Our channel partners’ operations may also be negatively impacted by other effects COVID-19 is having on the
global economy, such as increased credit risk of end-customers and the uncertain credit markets. Our agreements with our channel
partners may generally be terminated for any reason by either party with advance notice prior to each annual renewal date. We cannot
be certain that we will retain these channel partners or that we will be able to secure additional or replacement channel partners. In
addition, any new channel partner requires extensive training and may take several months or more to achieve productivity. Our
channel partner sales structure could subject us to lawsuits, potential liability, and reputational harm if, for example, any of our
channel partners misrepresent the functionality of our products or subscriptions to end-customers or violate laws or our corporate
policies. If we fail to effectively manage our sales channels or channel partners, our ability to sell our products and subscriptions and
operating results will be harmed.
If we do not accurately predict, prepare for, and respond promptly to rapidly evolving technological and market developments and
successfully manage product and subscription introductions and transitions to meet changing end-customer needs in the enterprise
security industry, our competitive position and prospects will be harmed.
The enterprise security industry has grown quickly and is expected to continue to evolve rapidly. Moreover, many of our end-
customers operate in markets characterized by rapidly changing technologies and business plans, which require them to add numerous
network access points and adapt increasingly complex enterprise networks, incorporating a variety of hardware, software applications,
operating systems, and networking protocols. We must continually change our products and expand our business strategy in response
to changes in network infrastructure requirements, including the expanding use of cloud computing. For example, organizations are
moving portions of their data to be managed by third parties, primarily infrastructure, platform and application service providers, and
may rely on such providers’ internal security measures. While we have historically been successful in developing, acquiring, and
marketing new products and product enhancements that respond to technological change and evolving industry standards, we may not
be able to continue to do so, and there can be no assurance that our new or future offerings will be successful or will achieve
widespread market acceptance. If we fail to accurately predict end-customers’ changing needs and emerging technological trends in
the enterprise security industry, including in the areas of mobility, virtualization, cloud computing, and software defined networks
(“SDN”), our business could be harmed. In addition, COVID-19 and the resulting increase in customer demand for work-from-home
technologies and other technologies have caused us to reprioritize our engineering and R&D efforts and there can be no assurance that
any product enhancements or new features will be successful or address our end-customer needs.
The technology in our portfolio is especially complex because it needs to effectively identify and respond to new and
increasingly sophisticated methods of attack, while minimizing the impact on network performance. Additionally, some of our new
features and related enhancements may require us to develop new hardware architectures that involve complex, expensive, and time-
consuming research and development processes. The development of our portfolio is difficult and the timetable for commercial release
and availability is uncertain as there can be long time periods between releases and availability of new features. If we experience
unanticipated delays in the availability of new products, features and subscriptions, and fail to meet customer expectations for such
availability, our competitive position and business prospects will be harmed.
Additionally, we must commit significant resources to developing new features and new cloud security, AI/analytics and other
offerings before knowing whether our investments will result in products, subscriptions, and features the market will accept. The
success of new features depends on several factors, including appropriate new product definition, differentiation of new products,
subscriptions, and features from those of our competitors, and market acceptance of these products, services and features. Moreover,
successful new product introduction and transition depends on a number of factors, including our ability to manage the risks
associated with new product production ramp-up issues, the availability of application software for new products, the effective
management of purchase commitments and inventory, the availability of products in appropriate quantities and costs to meet
anticipated demand, and the risk that new products may have quality or other defects or deficiencies, especially in the early stages of
introduction. There can be no assurance that we will successfully identify opportunities for new products and subscriptions, develop
and bring new products and subscriptions to market in a timely manner, or achieve market acceptance of our products and
subscriptions, including our product enhancement efforts in connection with COVID-19, or that products, subscriptions, and
technologies developed by others will not render our products, subscriptions, or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive.
Developing our products, subscriptions, features, and related enhancements is expensive. Our investments in research and
development may not result in significant design improvements, marketable products, subscriptions, or features, or may result in
products, subscriptions, or features that are more expensive than anticipated. Additionally, we may not achieve the cost savings or the
anticipated performance improvements we expect, and we may take longer to generate revenue, or generate less revenue, than we
anticipate. Our future plans include significant investments in research and development and related product and subscription
opportunities. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our research and development efforts
to maintain our competitive position. However, we may not receive significant revenue from these investments in the near future, if at
all, or these investments may not yield the expected benefits, either of which could adversely affect our business and operating results.
We may acquire other businesses, which could subject us to adverse claims or liabilities, require significant management attention,
disrupt our business, adversely affect our operating results, may not result in the expected benefits of such acquisitions and may
dilute stockholder value.
As part of our business strategy, we acquire and make investments in complementary companies, products, or technologies. The
identification of suitable acquisition candidates is difficult, and we may not be able to complete such acquisitions on favorable terms,
if at all. In addition, we may be subject to claims or liabilities assumed from an acquired company, product, or technology;
acquisitions we complete could be viewed negatively by our end-customers, investors, and securities analysts; and we may incur costs
and expenses necessary to address an acquired company’s failure to comply with laws and governmental rules and regulations.
Additionally, we may be subject to litigation or other claims in connection with the acquired company, including claims from
terminated employees, customers, former stockholders, or other third parties, which may differ from or be more significant than the
risks our business faces.
If we are unsuccessful at integrating past or future acquisitions in a timely manner, or the technologies and operations
associated with such acquisitions, into our company, our revenue and operating results could be adversely affected. Any integration
process may require significant time and resources, which may disrupt our ongoing business and divert management’s attention, and
we may not be able to manage the integration process successfully or in a timely manner. We may not successfully evaluate or utilize
the acquired technology or personnel, realize anticipated synergies from the acquisition, or accurately forecast the financial impact of
an acquisition transaction and integration of such acquisition, including accounting charges and any potential impairment of goodwill
and intangible assets recognized in connection with such acquisitions.
Our completed or future acquisitions may not ultimately strengthen our competitive position or achieve our goals and business
strategy. We may find that the acquired businesses, products, or technologies do not further our business strategy as we expected. Our
acquisitions may be viewed negatively by our customers, financial markets, or investors. We may experience difficulty integrating the
operations and personnel of the acquired business, and we may have difficulty retaining the key personnel of the acquired business.
We may have difficulty integrating the acquired technologies or products with our existing product lines and we may have difficulty
maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures, and policies across diverse or expanding geographic locations.
We may have to pay cash, incur debt, or issue equity or equity-linked securities to pay for any future acquisitions, each of
which could adversely affect our financial condition or the market price of our common stock. Furthermore, the sale of equity or
issuance of equity-linked debt to finance any future acquisitions could result in dilution to our stockholders. See the risk factors
entitled “Our failure to raise additional capital or generate the significant capital necessary to expand our operations and invest in
new products and subscriptions could reduce our ability to compete and could harm our business.” and “The issuance of additional
stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans, the conversion of our Notes or exercise of the
related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.” The occurrence of any of these risks could harm our business,
operating results, and financial condition.
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Risks Related to our Supply Chain
Because we depend on manufacturing partners to build and ship our products, we are susceptible to manufacturing and logistics
delays and pricing fluctuations that could prevent us from shipping customer orders on time, if at all, or on a cost-effective basis,
which may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
We depend on manufacturing partners, primarily our electronics manufacturing service provider (“EMS provider”) Flex, to
manufacture our hardware product lines. Our reliance on these manufacturing partners reduces our control over the manufacturing
process and exposes us to risks, including reduced control over quality assurance, product costs, product supply, timing and
transportation risk. Our products are manufactured by our manufacturing partners at facilities located primarily in the United States.
Some of the components in our products are sourced either through Flex or directly by us from component suppliers outside the
United States. The portion of our products that are sourced outside the United States may subject us to additional logistical risks
(which may increase due to the global impact of COVID-19) or risks associated with complying with local rules and regulations in
foreign countries. Significant changes to existing international trade agreements could lead to sourcing or logistics disruption resulting
from import delays or the imposition of increased tariffs on our sourcing partners. For example, the United States and Chinese
governments have each enacted, and discussed additional, import tariffs. These tariffs, depending on their ultimate scope and how they
are implemented, could negatively impact our business by increasing our costs. For example, some components that we import for
final manufacturing in the United States have been impacted by these recent tariffs. As a result, our costs have increased and we have
raised, and may be required to further raise, prices on our hardware products. Each of these factors could severely impair our ability to
fulfill orders.
In addition, we are subject to requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
(the “Dodd-Frank Act”) to conduct due diligence, disclose, and report whether or not our products contain minerals originating from
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries, or conflict minerals. Although the SEC has provided guidance with
respect to a portion of the conflict minerals filing requirements that may somewhat reduce our reporting practices, we have incurred
and expect to incur additional costs to comply with these disclosure requirements, including costs related to determining the source of
any of the relevant minerals and metals used in our products. These requirements could adversely affect the sourcing, availability, and
pricing of minerals used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices or other components used in our products. We may also
encounter end-customers who require that all of the components of our products be certified as conflict free. If we are not able to meet
this requirement, such end-customers may choose not to purchase our products.
Our manufacturing partners typically fulfill our supply requirements on the basis of individual purchase orders. We do not have
long-term contracts with these manufacturers that guarantee capacity, the continuation of particular pricing terms, or the extension of
credit limits. Accordingly, they are not obligated to continue to fulfill our supply requirements and the prices we pay for
manufacturing services could be increased on short notice. Our contract with Flex permits them to terminate the agreement for their
convenience, subject to prior notice requirements. If we are required to change manufacturing partners, our ability to meet our
scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers could be adversely affected, which could cause the loss of sales to existing or
potential end-customers, delayed revenue or an increase in our costs which could adversely affect our gross margins. COVID-19 and
the global semiconductor shortage have in certain cases caused delays and challenges in obtaining components and inventory, as well
as increases to freight and shipping costs, and may result in a material adverse effect on our results of operations. Any production
interruptions for any reason, such as a natural disaster, epidemic or pandemic such as COVID-19, capacity shortages, or quality
problems at one of our manufacturing partners would negatively affect sales of our product lines manufactured by that manufacturing
partner and adversely affect our business and operating results.
Managing the supply of our products and product components is complex. Insufficient supply and inventory would result in lost
sales opportunities or delayed revenue, while excess inventory would harm our gross margins.
Our manufacturing partners procure components and build our products based on our forecasts, and we generally do not hold
inventory for a prolonged period of time. These forecasts are based on estimates of future demand for our products, which are in turn
based on historical trends and analyses from our sales and product management organizations, adjusted for overall market conditions.
COVID-19 has made forecasting more difficult and we may experience increased challenges to our supply chain due to the
unpredictability of the impacts of COVID-19. In order to reduce manufacturing lead times and plan for adequate component supply,
from time to time we may issue forecasts for components and products that are non-cancelable and non-returnable.
Our inventory management systems and related supply chain visibility tools may be inadequate to enable us to forecast
accurately and effectively manage supply of our products and product components. If we ultimately determine that we have excess
supply, we may have to reduce our prices and write-down inventory, which in turn could result in lower gross margins. If our actual
component usage and product demand are lower than the forecast we provide to our manufacturing partners, we accrue for losses on
manufacturing commitments in excess of forecasted demand. Alternatively, insufficient supply levels, including due to the recent
global shortage of semiconductors, may lead to shortages that result in delayed product revenue or loss of sales opportunities
altogether as potential end-customers turn to competitors’ products that are readily available. If we are unable to effectively manage
our supply and inventory, our operating results could be adversely affected.
Because some of the key components in our products come from limited sources of supply, we are susceptible to supply shortages
or supply changes, which has disrupted or delayed our scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers, increase our costs and
may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
Our products rely on key components, including integrated circuit components, which our manufacturing partners purchase on
our behalf from a limited number of component suppliers, including sole source providers. The manufacturing operations of some of
our component suppliers are geographically concentrated in Asia and elsewhere, which makes our supply chain vulnerable to regional
disruptions, such as natural disasters, fire, political instability, civil unrest, a power outage, or health risks, such as epidemics and
pandemics like COVID-19, and as a result have impaired, and could impair in the future, the volume of components that we are able
to obtain. Lead times for components have also been adversely impacted by factors outside of our control, including COVID-19 and
the recent global shortage of semiconductors. For example, we have experienced, and could continue to experience, increased
difficulties in obtaining a sufficient amount of materials in the semiconductor market, which could reduce our flexibility to react to
product mix changes and unforecasted orders. In addition, we have experienced increased costs because of these shortages.
Further, we do not have volume purchase contracts with any of our component suppliers, and they could cease selling to us at
any time. If we are unable to obtain a sufficient quantity of these components in a timely manner for any reason, sales of our products
could be delayed or halted, or we could be forced to expedite shipment of such components or our products at dramatically increased
costs. Our component suppliers also change their selling prices frequently in response to market trends, including industry-wide
increases in demand. Because we do not have, for the most part, volume purchase contracts with our component suppliers, we are
susceptible to price fluctuations related to raw materials and components and may not be able to adjust our prices accordingly.
Additionally, poor quality in any of the sole-sourced components in our products could result in lost sales or sales opportunities.
If we are unable to obtain a sufficient volume of the necessary components for our products on commercially reasonable terms
or the quality of the components do not meet our requirements, we could also be forced to redesign our products and qualify new
components from alternate component suppliers. The resulting stoppage or delay in selling our products and the expense of
redesigning our products would result in lost sales opportunities and damage to customer relationships, which would adversely affect
our business and operating results.
Risks Related to Sales of our Products, Subscriptions and Support Offerings
The sales prices of our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decrease, which may reduce our gross profits and
adversely impact our financial results.
The sales prices for our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decline for a variety of reasons, including
competitive pricing pressures, discounts, a change in our mix of products, subscriptions and support offerings, anticipation of the
introduction of new products, subscriptions or support offerings, or promotional programs or pricing pressures as a result of the
economic downturn resulting from COVID-19. Competition continues to increase in the market segments in which we participate, and
we expect competition to further increase in the future, thereby leading to increased pricing pressures. Larger competitors with more
diverse product and service offerings may reduce the price of products or subscriptions that compete with ours or may bundle them
with other products and subscriptions. Additionally, although we price our products, subscriptions and support offerings worldwide in
U.S. dollars, currency fluctuations in certain countries and regions may negatively impact actual prices that channel partners and end-
customers are willing to pay in those countries and regions. Furthermore, we anticipate that the sales prices and gross profits for our
products could decrease over product life cycles. We cannot guarantee that we will be successful in developing and introducing new
offerings with enhanced functionality on a timely basis, or that our products, subscriptions and support offerings, if introduced, will
enable us to maintain our prices and gross profits at levels that will allow us to achieve and maintain profitability.
We generate a significant amount of revenue from sales to distributors, resellers, and end-customers outside of the United States,
and we are therefore subject to a number of risks associated with international sales and operations.
We have a limited history of marketing, selling, and supporting our products, subscriptions and support offerings
internationally. We may experience difficulties in recruiting, training, managing, and retaining an international staff, and specifically
staff related to sales management and sales personnel. We also may not be able to maintain successful strategic distributor
relationships internationally or recruit additional companies to enter into strategic distributor relationships. Business practices in the
international markets that we serve may differ from those in the United States and may require us in the future to include terms other
than our standard terms related to payment, warranties, or performance obligations in end-customer contracts.
Additionally, our international sales and operations are subject to a number of risks, including the following:
political, economic and social uncertainty around the world, health risks such as epidemics and pandemics like COVID-
19, macroeconomic challenges in Europe, terrorist activities, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and continued hostilities in the
Middle East;
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the uncertainty of protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
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Risks Related to our Supply Chain
Because we depend on manufacturing partners to build and ship our products, we are susceptible to manufacturing and logistics
delays and pricing fluctuations that could prevent us from shipping customer orders on time, if at all, or on a cost-effective basis,
which may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
We depend on manufacturing partners, primarily our electronics manufacturing service provider (“EMS provider”) Flex, to
manufacture our hardware product lines. Our reliance on these manufacturing partners reduces our control over the manufacturing
process and exposes us to risks, including reduced control over quality assurance, product costs, product supply, timing and
transportation risk. Our products are manufactured by our manufacturing partners at facilities located primarily in the United States.
Some of the components in our products are sourced either through Flex or directly by us from component suppliers outside the
United States. The portion of our products that are sourced outside the United States may subject us to additional logistical risks
(which may increase due to the global impact of COVID-19) or risks associated with complying with local rules and regulations in
foreign countries. Significant changes to existing international trade agreements could lead to sourcing or logistics disruption resulting
Because some of the key components in our products come from limited sources of supply, we are susceptible to supply shortages
or supply changes, which has disrupted or delayed our scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers, increase our costs and
may result in the loss of sales and end-customers.
Our products rely on key components, including integrated circuit components, which our manufacturing partners purchase on
our behalf from a limited number of component suppliers, including sole source providers. The manufacturing operations of some of
our component suppliers are geographically concentrated in Asia and elsewhere, which makes our supply chain vulnerable to regional
disruptions, such as natural disasters, fire, political instability, civil unrest, a power outage, or health risks, such as epidemics and
pandemics like COVID-19, and as a result have impaired, and could impair in the future, the volume of components that we are able
to obtain. Lead times for components have also been adversely impacted by factors outside of our control, including COVID-19 and
the recent global shortage of semiconductors. For example, we have experienced, and could continue to experience, increased
difficulties in obtaining a sufficient amount of materials in the semiconductor market, which could reduce our flexibility to react to
product mix changes and unforecasted orders. In addition, we have experienced increased costs because of these shortages.
from import delays or the imposition of increased tariffs on our sourcing partners. For example, the United States and Chinese
Further, we do not have volume purchase contracts with any of our component suppliers, and they could cease selling to us at
governments have each enacted, and discussed additional, import tariffs. These tariffs, depending on their ultimate scope and how they
are implemented, could negatively impact our business by increasing our costs. For example, some components that we import for
final manufacturing in the United States have been impacted by these recent tariffs. As a result, our costs have increased and we have
raised, and may be required to further raise, prices on our hardware products. Each of these factors could severely impair our ability to
fulfill orders.
In addition, we are subject to requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010
any time. If we are unable to obtain a sufficient quantity of these components in a timely manner for any reason, sales of our products
could be delayed or halted, or we could be forced to expedite shipment of such components or our products at dramatically increased
costs. Our component suppliers also change their selling prices frequently in response to market trends, including industry-wide
increases in demand. Because we do not have, for the most part, volume purchase contracts with our component suppliers, we are
susceptible to price fluctuations related to raw materials and components and may not be able to adjust our prices accordingly.
Additionally, poor quality in any of the sole-sourced components in our products could result in lost sales or sales opportunities.
(the “Dodd-Frank Act”) to conduct due diligence, disclose, and report whether or not our products contain minerals originating from
If we are unable to obtain a sufficient volume of the necessary components for our products on commercially reasonable terms
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries, or conflict minerals. Although the SEC has provided guidance with
respect to a portion of the conflict minerals filing requirements that may somewhat reduce our reporting practices, we have incurred
and expect to incur additional costs to comply with these disclosure requirements, including costs related to determining the source of
any of the relevant minerals and metals used in our products. These requirements could adversely affect the sourcing, availability, and
pricing of minerals used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices or other components used in our products. We may also
encounter end-customers who require that all of the components of our products be certified as conflict free. If we are not able to meet
this requirement, such end-customers may choose not to purchase our products.
Our manufacturing partners typically fulfill our supply requirements on the basis of individual purchase orders. We do not have
long-term contracts with these manufacturers that guarantee capacity, the continuation of particular pricing terms, or the extension of
credit limits. Accordingly, they are not obligated to continue to fulfill our supply requirements and the prices we pay for
manufacturing services could be increased on short notice. Our contract with Flex permits them to terminate the agreement for their
convenience, subject to prior notice requirements. If we are required to change manufacturing partners, our ability to meet our
scheduled product deliveries to our end-customers could be adversely affected, which could cause the loss of sales to existing or
potential end-customers, delayed revenue or an increase in our costs which could adversely affect our gross margins. COVID-19 and
the global semiconductor shortage have in certain cases caused delays and challenges in obtaining components and inventory, as well
as increases to freight and shipping costs, and may result in a material adverse effect on our results of operations. Any production
interruptions for any reason, such as a natural disaster, epidemic or pandemic such as COVID-19, capacity shortages, or quality
problems at one of our manufacturing partners would negatively affect sales of our product lines manufactured by that manufacturing
partner and adversely affect our business and operating results.
Managing the supply of our products and product components is complex. Insufficient supply and inventory would result in lost
sales opportunities or delayed revenue, while excess inventory would harm our gross margins.
Our manufacturing partners procure components and build our products based on our forecasts, and we generally do not hold
or the quality of the components do not meet our requirements, we could also be forced to redesign our products and qualify new
components from alternate component suppliers. The resulting stoppage or delay in selling our products and the expense of
redesigning our products would result in lost sales opportunities and damage to customer relationships, which would adversely affect
our business and operating results.
Risks Related to Sales of our Products, Subscriptions and Support Offerings
The sales prices of our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decrease, which may reduce our gross profits and
adversely impact our financial results.
The sales prices for our products, subscriptions and support offerings may decline for a variety of reasons, including
competitive pricing pressures, discounts, a change in our mix of products, subscriptions and support offerings, anticipation of the
introduction of new products, subscriptions or support offerings, or promotional programs or pricing pressures as a result of the
economic downturn resulting from COVID-19. Competition continues to increase in the market segments in which we participate, and
we expect competition to further increase in the future, thereby leading to increased pricing pressures. Larger competitors with more
diverse product and service offerings may reduce the price of products or subscriptions that compete with ours or may bundle them
with other products and subscriptions. Additionally, although we price our products, subscriptions and support offerings worldwide in
U.S. dollars, currency fluctuations in certain countries and regions may negatively impact actual prices that channel partners and end-
customers are willing to pay in those countries and regions. Furthermore, we anticipate that the sales prices and gross profits for our
products could decrease over product life cycles. We cannot guarantee that we will be successful in developing and introducing new
offerings with enhanced functionality on a timely basis, or that our products, subscriptions and support offerings, if introduced, will
enable us to maintain our prices and gross profits at levels that will allow us to achieve and maintain profitability.
We generate a significant amount of revenue from sales to distributors, resellers, and end-customers outside of the United States,
and we are therefore subject to a number of risks associated with international sales and operations.
inventory for a prolonged period of time. These forecasts are based on estimates of future demand for our products, which are in turn
We have a limited history of marketing, selling, and supporting our products, subscriptions and support offerings
based on historical trends and analyses from our sales and product management organizations, adjusted for overall market conditions.
COVID-19 has made forecasting more difficult and we may experience increased challenges to our supply chain due to the
unpredictability of the impacts of COVID-19. In order to reduce manufacturing lead times and plan for adequate component supply,
from time to time we may issue forecasts for components and products that are non-cancelable and non-returnable.
Our inventory management systems and related supply chain visibility tools may be inadequate to enable us to forecast
internationally. We may experience difficulties in recruiting, training, managing, and retaining an international staff, and specifically
staff related to sales management and sales personnel. We also may not be able to maintain successful strategic distributor
relationships internationally or recruit additional companies to enter into strategic distributor relationships. Business practices in the
international markets that we serve may differ from those in the United States and may require us in the future to include terms other
than our standard terms related to payment, warranties, or performance obligations in end-customer contracts.
accurately and effectively manage supply of our products and product components. If we ultimately determine that we have excess
Additionally, our international sales and operations are subject to a number of risks, including the following:
supply, we may have to reduce our prices and write-down inventory, which in turn could result in lower gross margins. If our actual
component usage and product demand are lower than the forecast we provide to our manufacturing partners, we accrue for losses on
manufacturing commitments in excess of forecasted demand. Alternatively, insufficient supply levels, including due to the recent
global shortage of semiconductors, may lead to shortages that result in delayed product revenue or loss of sales opportunities
altogether as potential end-customers turn to competitors’ products that are readily available. If we are unable to effectively manage
our supply and inventory, our operating results could be adversely affected.
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political, economic and social uncertainty around the world, health risks such as epidemics and pandemics like COVID-
19, macroeconomic challenges in Europe, terrorist activities, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and continued hostilities in the
Middle East;
greater difficulty in enforcing contracts and accounts receivable collection and longer collection periods;
the uncertainty of protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;
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greater risk of unexpected changes in foreign and domestic regulatory practices, tariffs, and tax laws and treaties,
including regulatory and trade policy changes adopted by the current administration, such as the recently imposed
Sanctions on Russia, or foreign countries in response to regulatory changes adopted by the current administration;
risks associated with trade restrictions and foreign legal requirements, including the importation, certification, and
localization of our products required in foreign countries;
greater risk of a failure of foreign employees, channel partners, distributors, and resellers to comply with both U.S. and
foreign laws, including antitrust regulations, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K. Bribery Act, U.S. or foreign
sanctions regimes and export or import control laws, and any trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices, which non-
compliance could include increased costs;
heightened risk of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales
arrangements;
increased expenses incurred in establishing and maintaining office space and equipment for our international operations;
management communication and integration problems resulting from cultural and geographic dispersion; and
affected by a global economic downturn or periods of economic uncertainty. Although we have programs in place with our distributors
fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies in markets where we do business and related
impact on sales cycles.
These and other factors could harm our future international revenues and, consequently, materially impact our business,
operating results, and financial condition. The expansion of our existing international operations and entry into additional international
markets will require significant management attention and financial resources. Our failure to successfully manage our international
operations and the associated risks effectively could limit the future growth of our business.
Further, we are subject to risks associated with changes in economic and political conditions in countries in which we operate
or sell our products and subscriptions. For instance, Brexit creates an uncertain political and economic environment in the United
Kingdom (“U.K.”) and across European Union (“E.U.”) member states for the foreseeable future. On January 31, 2020 the U.K. left
the E.U. and the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement came into force on January 1, 2021. Our financial condition and operating
results may be impacted by such uncertainty with potential disruptions to our relationships with existing and future customers,
suppliers and employees all possibly having a material adverse impact on our business, prospects, financial condition and/or operating
results.
We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial condition and
operating results.
Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, substantially all of our revenue is not subject to
generate a sale. The substantial majority of our sales to date to government entities have been made indirectly through our channel
foreign currency risk. However, there has been, and may continue to be, significant volatility in global stock markets and foreign
currency exchange rates that result in the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies in which we conduct business.
The strengthening of the U.S. dollar increases the real cost of our products to our end-customers outside of the United States and may
lead to delays in the purchase of our products, subscriptions, and support, and the lengthening of our sales cycle. If the U.S. dollar
continues to strengthen, this could adversely affect our financial condition and operating results. In addition, increased international
sales in the future, including through our channel partners and other partnerships, may result in greater foreign currency denominated
sales, increasing our foreign currency risk.
Our operating expenses incurred outside the United States and denominated in foreign currencies are increasing and are subject
to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. If we are not able to successfully hedge against the risks associated
with foreign currency fluctuations, our financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected. We have entered into
forward contracts in an effort to reduce our foreign currency exchange exposure related to our foreign currency denominated
expenditures. As of July 31, 2022, the total notional amount of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts was $856.9 million.
For more information on our hedging transactions, refer to Note 6. Derivative Instruments in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K. The effectiveness of our existing hedging transactions and the availability and effectiveness of any hedging transactions
we may decide to enter into in the future may be limited and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exposure, which could
adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
We are exposed to the credit and liquidity risk of some of our channel partners and end-customers, and to credit exposure in
weakened markets, which could result in material losses.
Most of our sales are made on an open credit basis. Beyond our open credit arrangements, we have also experienced demands
for customer financing due to COVID-19 and our competitors’ offerings. The majority of these demands are currently facilitated by
leasing and other financing arrangements provided by our distributors and resellers. To respond to this demand, our customer
financing activities may increase in the future. We also provide financings to certain end-customers. We monitor customer payment
capability in granting such financing arrangements, seek to limit such open credit to amounts we believe the end-customers can pay
and maintain reserves we believe are adequate to cover exposure for doubtful accounts to mitigate credit risks of these end-customers.
However, there can be no assurance that these programs will be effective in reducing our credit risks.
We believe customer financing is a competitive factor in obtaining business. The loan financing arrangements provided by our
distributors and resellers may include not only financing the acquisition of our products and services but also providing additional
funds for other costs associated with network installation and integration of our products and services.
Our exposure to the credit risks relating to the financing activities described above may increase if our customers are adversely
and resellers that are designed to monitor and mitigate these risks, we cannot guarantee these programs will be effective in reducing
the credit risks, especially as we expand our business internationally. If we are unable to adequately control these risks, our business,
operating results, and financial condition could be harmed.
In the past, we have experienced non-material losses due to bankruptcies among customers. If these losses increase due to
COVID-19 or global economic conditions, they could harm our business and financial condition. A material portion of our sales is
derived through our distributors.
For fiscal 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our total revenue, and in the aggregate represented
53.6% of our total revenue. As of July 31, 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our gross accounts
receivable, and in the aggregate represented 47.7% of our gross accounts receivable.
Additionally, to the degree that turmoil in the credit markets makes it more difficult for some customers to obtain financing,
those customers’ ability to pay could be adversely impacted, which in turn could have a material adverse impact on our business,
operating results, and financial condition.
A portion of our revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and risks.
Sales to government entities are subject to a number of risks. Selling to government entities can be highly competitive,
expensive, and time-consuming, often requiring significant upfront time and expense without any assurance that these efforts will
partners. Government certification requirements for products and subscriptions like ours may change, thereby restricting our ability to
sell into the federal government sector until we have attained the revised certification. If our products and subscriptions are late in
achieving or fail to achieve compliance with these certifications and standards, or our competitors achieve compliance with these
certifications and standards, we may be disqualified from selling our products, subscriptions and support offerings to such
governmental entity, or be at a competitive disadvantage, which would harm our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Government demand and payment for our products, subscriptions and support offerings may be impacted by government shutdowns,
public sector budgetary cycles, contracting requirements, and funding authorizations, with funding reductions or delays adversely
affecting public sector demand for our products, subscriptions and support offerings. Government entities may have statutory,
contractual, or other legal rights to terminate contracts with our distributors and resellers for convenience or due to a default, and any
such termination may adversely impact our future operating results. Governments routinely investigate and audit government
contractors’ administrative processes, and any unfavorable audit could result in the government refusing to continue buying our
products, subscriptions and support offerings, a reduction of revenue, or fines or civil or criminal liability if the audit uncovers
improper or illegal activities, which could adversely impact our operating results in a material way. Additionally, the U.S. government
may require certain of the products that it purchases to be manufactured in the United States and other relatively high cost
manufacturing locations, and we may not manufacture all products in locations that meet such requirements, affecting our ability to
sell these products, subscriptions and support offerings to the U.S. government.
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greater risk of unexpected changes in foreign and domestic regulatory practices, tariffs, and tax laws and treaties,
including regulatory and trade policy changes adopted by the current administration, such as the recently imposed
Sanctions on Russia, or foreign countries in response to regulatory changes adopted by the current administration;
risks associated with trade restrictions and foreign legal requirements, including the importation, certification, and
localization of our products required in foreign countries;
greater risk of a failure of foreign employees, channel partners, distributors, and resellers to comply with both U.S. and
foreign laws, including antitrust regulations, the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.K. Bribery Act, U.S. or foreign
sanctions regimes and export or import control laws, and any trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices, which non-
compliance could include increased costs;
heightened risk of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales
arrangements;
increased expenses incurred in establishing and maintaining office space and equipment for our international operations;
management communication and integration problems resulting from cultural and geographic dispersion; and
fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies in markets where we do business and related
impact on sales cycles.
These and other factors could harm our future international revenues and, consequently, materially impact our business,
operating results, and financial condition. The expansion of our existing international operations and entry into additional international
markets will require significant management attention and financial resources. Our failure to successfully manage our international
operations and the associated risks effectively could limit the future growth of our business.
Further, we are subject to risks associated with changes in economic and political conditions in countries in which we operate
or sell our products and subscriptions. For instance, Brexit creates an uncertain political and economic environment in the United
Kingdom (“U.K.”) and across European Union (“E.U.”) member states for the foreseeable future. On January 31, 2020 the U.K. left
We are exposed to the credit and liquidity risk of some of our channel partners and end-customers, and to credit exposure in
weakened markets, which could result in material losses.
Most of our sales are made on an open credit basis. Beyond our open credit arrangements, we have also experienced demands
for customer financing due to COVID-19 and our competitors’ offerings. The majority of these demands are currently facilitated by
leasing and other financing arrangements provided by our distributors and resellers. To respond to this demand, our customer
financing activities may increase in the future. We also provide financings to certain end-customers. We monitor customer payment
capability in granting such financing arrangements, seek to limit such open credit to amounts we believe the end-customers can pay
and maintain reserves we believe are adequate to cover exposure for doubtful accounts to mitigate credit risks of these end-customers.
However, there can be no assurance that these programs will be effective in reducing our credit risks.
We believe customer financing is a competitive factor in obtaining business. The loan financing arrangements provided by our
distributors and resellers may include not only financing the acquisition of our products and services but also providing additional
funds for other costs associated with network installation and integration of our products and services.
Our exposure to the credit risks relating to the financing activities described above may increase if our customers are adversely
affected by a global economic downturn or periods of economic uncertainty. Although we have programs in place with our distributors
and resellers that are designed to monitor and mitigate these risks, we cannot guarantee these programs will be effective in reducing
the credit risks, especially as we expand our business internationally. If we are unable to adequately control these risks, our business,
operating results, and financial condition could be harmed.
In the past, we have experienced non-material losses due to bankruptcies among customers. If these losses increase due to
COVID-19 or global economic conditions, they could harm our business and financial condition. A material portion of our sales is
derived through our distributors.
For fiscal 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our total revenue, and in the aggregate represented
53.6% of our total revenue. As of July 31, 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our gross accounts
receivable, and in the aggregate represented 47.7% of our gross accounts receivable.
the E.U. and the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement came into force on January 1, 2021. Our financial condition and operating
Additionally, to the degree that turmoil in the credit markets makes it more difficult for some customers to obtain financing,
results may be impacted by such uncertainty with potential disruptions to our relationships with existing and future customers,
suppliers and employees all possibly having a material adverse impact on our business, prospects, financial condition and/or operating
those customers’ ability to pay could be adversely impacted, which in turn could have a material adverse impact on our business,
operating results, and financial condition.
results.
operating results.
We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial condition and
Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars, and therefore, substantially all of our revenue is not subject to
foreign currency risk. However, there has been, and may continue to be, significant volatility in global stock markets and foreign
currency exchange rates that result in the strengthening of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies in which we conduct business.
The strengthening of the U.S. dollar increases the real cost of our products to our end-customers outside of the United States and may
lead to delays in the purchase of our products, subscriptions, and support, and the lengthening of our sales cycle. If the U.S. dollar
continues to strengthen, this could adversely affect our financial condition and operating results. In addition, increased international
sales in the future, including through our channel partners and other partnerships, may result in greater foreign currency denominated
sales, increasing our foreign currency risk.
Our operating expenses incurred outside the United States and denominated in foreign currencies are increasing and are subject
to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates. If we are not able to successfully hedge against the risks associated
with foreign currency fluctuations, our financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected. We have entered into
forward contracts in an effort to reduce our foreign currency exchange exposure related to our foreign currency denominated
expenditures. As of July 31, 2022, the total notional amount of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts was $856.9 million.
For more information on our hedging transactions, refer to Note 6. Derivative Instruments in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K. The effectiveness of our existing hedging transactions and the availability and effectiveness of any hedging transactions
we may decide to enter into in the future may be limited and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exposure, which could
adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
A portion of our revenue is generated by sales to government entities, which are subject to a number of challenges and risks.
Sales to government entities are subject to a number of risks. Selling to government entities can be highly competitive,
expensive, and time-consuming, often requiring significant upfront time and expense without any assurance that these efforts will
generate a sale. The substantial majority of our sales to date to government entities have been made indirectly through our channel
partners. Government certification requirements for products and subscriptions like ours may change, thereby restricting our ability to
sell into the federal government sector until we have attained the revised certification. If our products and subscriptions are late in
achieving or fail to achieve compliance with these certifications and standards, or our competitors achieve compliance with these
certifications and standards, we may be disqualified from selling our products, subscriptions and support offerings to such
governmental entity, or be at a competitive disadvantage, which would harm our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Government demand and payment for our products, subscriptions and support offerings may be impacted by government shutdowns,
public sector budgetary cycles, contracting requirements, and funding authorizations, with funding reductions or delays adversely
affecting public sector demand for our products, subscriptions and support offerings. Government entities may have statutory,
contractual, or other legal rights to terminate contracts with our distributors and resellers for convenience or due to a default, and any
such termination may adversely impact our future operating results. Governments routinely investigate and audit government
contractors’ administrative processes, and any unfavorable audit could result in the government refusing to continue buying our
products, subscriptions and support offerings, a reduction of revenue, or fines or civil or criminal liability if the audit uncovers
improper or illegal activities, which could adversely impact our operating results in a material way. Additionally, the U.S. government
may require certain of the products that it purchases to be manufactured in the United States and other relatively high cost
manufacturing locations, and we may not manufacture all products in locations that meet such requirements, affecting our ability to
sell these products, subscriptions and support offerings to the U.S. government.
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Our ability to sell our products and subscriptions is dependent on the quality of our technical support services and those of our
channel partners, and the failure to offer high-quality technical support services could have a material adverse effect on our end-
customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions, our sales, and our operating results.
Our proprietary rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our products or
subscriptions without compensating us.
We rely and expect to continue to rely on a combination of confidentiality and license agreements with our employees,
After our products and subscriptions are deployed within our end-customers’ networks, our end-customers depend on our
consultants, and third parties with whom we have relationships, as well as trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret protection
technical support services, as well as the support of our channel partners, to resolve any issues relating to our products. Our channel
partners often provide similar technical support for third parties’ products and may therefore have fewer resources to dedicate to the
support of our products and subscriptions. If we or our channel partners do not effectively assist our end-customers in deploying our
products and subscriptions, succeed in helping our end-customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues, or provide effective
ongoing support, our ability to sell additional products and subscriptions to existing end-customers would be adversely affected and
our reputation with potential end-customers could be damaged. While we have been able to meet increased demand for support
services in fiscal 2022, failure to do so in the future could have a material adverse effect on our business.
Many larger enterprise, service provider, and government entity end-customers have more complex networks and require higher
levels of support than smaller end-customers. If we or our channel partners fail to meet the requirements of these larger end-
customers, it may be more difficult to execute on our strategy to increase our coverage with larger end-customers. Additionally, if our
channel partners do not effectively provide support to the satisfaction of our end-customers, we may be required to provide direct
support to such end-customers, which would require us to hire additional personnel and to invest in additional resources. It can take
several months to recruit, hire, and train qualified technical support employees. We may not be able to hire such resources fast enough
to keep up with unexpected demand, particularly if the sales of our products exceed our internal forecasts. As a result, our ability, and
the ability of our channel partners to provide adequate and timely support to our end-customers will be negatively impacted, and our
end-customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions will be adversely affected. Additionally, to the extent that we may
need to rely on our sales engineers to provide post-sales support while we are ramping our support resources, our sales productivity
will be negatively impacted, which would harm our revenues. Our failure or our channel partners’ failure to provide and maintain
high-quality support services could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing
Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business.
Companies in the enterprise security industry own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, and trade
secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of intellectual
property rights. In addition, non-practicing entities also frequently bring claims of infringement of intellectual property rights. Third
parties are asserting, have asserted and may in the future assert claims of infringement of intellectual property rights against us.
Third parties may also assert such claims against our end-customers or channel partners, whom our standard license and other
adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
agreements obligate us to indemnify against claims that our products and subscriptions infringe the intellectual property rights of third
parties. In addition, to the extent we hire personnel from competitors, we may be subject to allegations that they have been improperly
solicited, that they have divulged proprietary or other confidential information, or that their former employers own their inventions or
other work product. Furthermore, we may be unaware of the intellectual property rights of others that may cover some or all of our
technology, products, subscriptions and services. As we expand our footprint, both in our platforms, products, subscriptions and
services and geographically, more overlaps occur and we may face more infringement claims both in the United States and abroad.
While we have been increasing the size of our patent portfolio, our competitors and others may now and in the future have
significantly larger and more mature patent portfolios than we have. In addition, litigation has involved and will likely continue to
involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners who have no relevant product revenue and against whom our own
patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence or protection. In addition, we have not registered our trademarks in all of our
geographic markets and failure to secure those registrations could adversely affect our ability to enforce and defend our trademark
rights. Any claim of infringement by a third party, even those without merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs defending against
the claim, could distract our management from our business, and could require us to cease use of such intellectual property.
Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk
that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation. A successful claimant
could secure a judgment, or we may agree to a settlement that prevents us from distributing certain products or performing certain
services or that requires us to pay substantial damages, royalties, or other fees. Any of these events could seriously harm our business,
financial condition, and operating results.
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laws, to protect our proprietary rights. We have filed various applications for certain aspects of our intellectual property. Valid patents
may not issue from our pending applications, and the claims eventually allowed on any patents may not be sufficiently broad to
protect our technology or products and subscriptions. We cannot be certain that we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our
pending patent applications or that we were the first to file for patent protection, which could prevent our patent applications from
issuing as patents or invalidate our patents following issuance. Additionally, the process of obtaining patent protection is expensive
and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a
timely manner. Any issued patents may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, and any rights granted under these patents may
not actually provide adequate defensive protection or competitive advantages to us. Additional uncertainty may result from changes to
patent-related laws and court rulings in the United States and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may not be able to obtain adequate
patent protection or effectively enforce any issued patents.
Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or
subscriptions or obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. We generally enter into confidentiality or license agreements
with our employees, consultants, vendors, and end-customers, and generally limit access to and distribution of our proprietary
information. However, we cannot be certain that we have entered into such agreements with all parties who may have or have had
access to our confidential information or that the agreements we have entered into will not be breached. We cannot guarantee that any
of the measures we have taken will prevent misappropriation of our technology. Because we may be an attractive target for computer
hackers, we may have a greater risk of unauthorized access to, and misappropriation of, our proprietary information. In addition, the
laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as the laws of the United States, and many
foreign countries do not enforce these laws as diligently as government agencies and private parties in the United States. From time to
time, we may need to take legal action to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to
determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such
litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could negatively affect our business, operating results, and
financial condition. Attempts to enforce our rights against third parties could also provoke these third parties to assert their own
intellectual property or other rights against us or result in a holding that invalidates or narrows the scope of our rights, in whole or in
part. If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights (including aspects of our software and products protected other than by patent
rights), we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the additional expense, time, and effort
required to create the innovative products that have enabled us to be successful to date. Any of these events would have a material
Our use of open source software in our products and subscriptions could negatively affect our ability to sell our products and
subscriptions and subject us to possible litigation.
Our products and subscriptions contain software modules licensed to us by third-party authors under “open source” licenses.
Some open source licenses contain requirements that we make available applicable source code for modifications or derivative works
we create based upon the type of open source software we use. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a
certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the
public. This would allow our competitors to create similar products or subscriptions with lower development effort and time and
ultimately could result in a loss of product sales for us.
Although we monitor our use of open source software to avoid subjecting our products and subscriptions to conditions we do
not intend, the terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by United States courts, and there is a risk that these
licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our
products and subscriptions. From time to time, there have been claims against companies that distribute or use open source software in
their products and subscriptions, asserting that open source software infringes the claimants’ intellectual property rights. We could be
subject to suits by parties claiming infringement of intellectual property rights in what we believe to be licensed open source software.
If we are held to have breached the terms of an open source software license, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties
to continue offering our products and subscriptions on terms that are not economically feasible, to reengineer our products and
subscriptions, to discontinue the sale of our products and subscriptions if reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis,
or to make generally available, in source code form, our proprietary code, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating
results, and financial condition.
Our ability to sell our products and subscriptions is dependent on the quality of our technical support services and those of our
channel partners, and the failure to offer high-quality technical support services could have a material adverse effect on our end-
Our proprietary rights may be difficult to enforce or protect, which could enable others to copy or use aspects of our products or
subscriptions without compensating us.
customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions, our sales, and our operating results.
After our products and subscriptions are deployed within our end-customers’ networks, our end-customers depend on our
technical support services, as well as the support of our channel partners, to resolve any issues relating to our products. Our channel
partners often provide similar technical support for third parties’ products and may therefore have fewer resources to dedicate to the
support of our products and subscriptions. If we or our channel partners do not effectively assist our end-customers in deploying our
products and subscriptions, succeed in helping our end-customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues, or provide effective
ongoing support, our ability to sell additional products and subscriptions to existing end-customers would be adversely affected and
our reputation with potential end-customers could be damaged. While we have been able to meet increased demand for support
services in fiscal 2022, failure to do so in the future could have a material adverse effect on our business.
Many larger enterprise, service provider, and government entity end-customers have more complex networks and require higher
levels of support than smaller end-customers. If we or our channel partners fail to meet the requirements of these larger end-
customers, it may be more difficult to execute on our strategy to increase our coverage with larger end-customers. Additionally, if our
channel partners do not effectively provide support to the satisfaction of our end-customers, we may be required to provide direct
support to such end-customers, which would require us to hire additional personnel and to invest in additional resources. It can take
several months to recruit, hire, and train qualified technical support employees. We may not be able to hire such resources fast enough
to keep up with unexpected demand, particularly if the sales of our products exceed our internal forecasts. As a result, our ability, and
the ability of our channel partners to provide adequate and timely support to our end-customers will be negatively impacted, and our
end-customers’ satisfaction with our products and subscriptions will be adversely affected. Additionally, to the extent that we may
need to rely on our sales engineers to provide post-sales support while we are ramping our support resources, our sales productivity
will be negatively impacted, which would harm our revenues. Our failure or our channel partners’ failure to provide and maintain
high-quality support services could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing
Claims by others that we infringe their intellectual property rights could harm our business.
Companies in the enterprise security industry own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks, domain names, and trade
secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of intellectual
property rights. In addition, non-practicing entities also frequently bring claims of infringement of intellectual property rights. Third
parties are asserting, have asserted and may in the future assert claims of infringement of intellectual property rights against us.
Third parties may also assert such claims against our end-customers or channel partners, whom our standard license and other
agreements obligate us to indemnify against claims that our products and subscriptions infringe the intellectual property rights of third
parties. In addition, to the extent we hire personnel from competitors, we may be subject to allegations that they have been improperly
solicited, that they have divulged proprietary or other confidential information, or that their former employers own their inventions or
We rely and expect to continue to rely on a combination of confidentiality and license agreements with our employees,
consultants, and third parties with whom we have relationships, as well as trademark, copyright, patent, and trade secret protection
laws, to protect our proprietary rights. We have filed various applications for certain aspects of our intellectual property. Valid patents
may not issue from our pending applications, and the claims eventually allowed on any patents may not be sufficiently broad to
protect our technology or products and subscriptions. We cannot be certain that we were the first to make the inventions claimed in our
pending patent applications or that we were the first to file for patent protection, which could prevent our patent applications from
issuing as patents or invalidate our patents following issuance. Additionally, the process of obtaining patent protection is expensive
and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a
timely manner. Any issued patents may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, and any rights granted under these patents may
not actually provide adequate defensive protection or competitive advantages to us. Additional uncertainty may result from changes to
patent-related laws and court rulings in the United States and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may not be able to obtain adequate
patent protection or effectively enforce any issued patents.
Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy aspects of our products or
subscriptions or obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. We generally enter into confidentiality or license agreements
with our employees, consultants, vendors, and end-customers, and generally limit access to and distribution of our proprietary
information. However, we cannot be certain that we have entered into such agreements with all parties who may have or have had
access to our confidential information or that the agreements we have entered into will not be breached. We cannot guarantee that any
of the measures we have taken will prevent misappropriation of our technology. Because we may be an attractive target for computer
hackers, we may have a greater risk of unauthorized access to, and misappropriation of, our proprietary information. In addition, the
laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights to as great an extent as the laws of the United States, and many
foreign countries do not enforce these laws as diligently as government agencies and private parties in the United States. From time to
time, we may need to take legal action to enforce our patents and other intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, to
determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity. Such
litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could negatively affect our business, operating results, and
financial condition. Attempts to enforce our rights against third parties could also provoke these third parties to assert their own
intellectual property or other rights against us or result in a holding that invalidates or narrows the scope of our rights, in whole or in
part. If we are unable to protect our proprietary rights (including aspects of our software and products protected other than by patent
rights), we may find ourselves at a competitive disadvantage to others who need not incur the additional expense, time, and effort
required to create the innovative products that have enabled us to be successful to date. Any of these events would have a material
adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Our use of open source software in our products and subscriptions could negatively affect our ability to sell our products and
subscriptions and subject us to possible litigation.
other work product. Furthermore, we may be unaware of the intellectual property rights of others that may cover some or all of our
Our products and subscriptions contain software modules licensed to us by third-party authors under “open source” licenses.
technology, products, subscriptions and services. As we expand our footprint, both in our platforms, products, subscriptions and
services and geographically, more overlaps occur and we may face more infringement claims both in the United States and abroad.
While we have been increasing the size of our patent portfolio, our competitors and others may now and in the future have
significantly larger and more mature patent portfolios than we have. In addition, litigation has involved and will likely continue to
involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners who have no relevant product revenue and against whom our own
Some open source licenses contain requirements that we make available applicable source code for modifications or derivative works
we create based upon the type of open source software we use. If we combine our proprietary software with open source software in a
certain manner, we could, under certain open source licenses, be required to release the source code of our proprietary software to the
public. This would allow our competitors to create similar products or subscriptions with lower development effort and time and
ultimately could result in a loss of product sales for us.
patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence or protection. In addition, we have not registered our trademarks in all of our
Although we monitor our use of open source software to avoid subjecting our products and subscriptions to conditions we do
geographic markets and failure to secure those registrations could adversely affect our ability to enforce and defend our trademark
rights. Any claim of infringement by a third party, even those without merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs defending against
the claim, could distract our management from our business, and could require us to cease use of such intellectual property.
Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk
that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during this type of litigation. A successful claimant
could secure a judgment, or we may agree to a settlement that prevents us from distributing certain products or performing certain
services or that requires us to pay substantial damages, royalties, or other fees. Any of these events could seriously harm our business,
financial condition, and operating results.
not intend, the terms of many open source licenses have not been interpreted by United States courts, and there is a risk that these
licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our
products and subscriptions. From time to time, there have been claims against companies that distribute or use open source software in
their products and subscriptions, asserting that open source software infringes the claimants’ intellectual property rights. We could be
subject to suits by parties claiming infringement of intellectual property rights in what we believe to be licensed open source software.
If we are held to have breached the terms of an open source software license, we could be required to seek licenses from third parties
to continue offering our products and subscriptions on terms that are not economically feasible, to reengineer our products and
subscriptions, to discontinue the sale of our products and subscriptions if reengineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis,
or to make generally available, in source code form, our proprietary code, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating
results, and financial condition.
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In addition to risks related to license requirements, usage of open source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-
Following the withdrawal of the U.K. from the E.U. (i.e., Brexit), and the expiry of the Brexit transition period, which ended on
party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or assurance of title or controls on origin of
the software. In addition, many of the risks associated with usage of open source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances
of title, cannot be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business. We have established processes to
help alleviate these risks, including a review process for screening requests from our development organizations for the use of open
source software, but we cannot be sure that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our products and
subscriptions will be effective.
We license technology from third parties, and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business.
We incorporate technology that we license from third parties, including software, into our products and subscriptions. We
cannot be certain that our licensors are not infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties or that our licensors have
sufficient rights to the licensed intellectual property in all jurisdictions in which we may sell our products and subscriptions. In
addition, some licenses may be non-exclusive, and therefore our competitors may have access to the same technology licensed to us.
Some of our agreements with our licensors may be terminated for convenience by them. We may also be subject to additional fees or
be required to obtain new licenses if any of our licensors allege that we have not properly paid for such licenses or that we have
improperly used the technologies under such licenses, and such licenses may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we
are unable to continue to license any of this technology because of intellectual property infringement claims brought by third parties
against our licensors or against us, or claims against us by our licensors, or if we are unable to continue our license agreements or
enter into new licenses on commercially reasonable terms, our ability to develop and sell products and subscriptions containing such
technology would be severely limited, and our business could be harmed. Additionally, if we are unable to license necessary
technology from third parties, we may be forced to acquire or develop alternative technology, which we may be unable to do in a
commercially feasible manner or at all, and we may be required to use alternative technology of lower quality or performance
standards. This would limit and delay our ability to offer new or competitive products and subscriptions and increase our costs of
production. As a result, our margins, market share, and operating results could be significantly harmed.
Risks Related to Privacy and Data Protection
Our failure to adequately protect personal information could have a material adverse effect on our business.
A wide variety of provincial, state, national, and international laws and regulations apply to the collection, use, retention,
protection, disclosure, transfer, and other processing of personal data. These laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection
and security are evolving and being tested in courts and may result in ever-increasing regulatory and public scrutiny, as well as
escalating levels of enforcement and sanctions. Further, the interpretation and application of foreign laws and regulations in many
cases is uncertain, and our legal and regulatory obligations in foreign jurisdictions are subject to frequent and unexpected changes,
including the potential for various regulatory or other governmental bodies to enact new or additional laws or regulations, to issue
rulings that invalidate prior laws or regulations, or to increase penalties significantly.
For example, the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (“E.U. GDPR”), which became effective in May 2018, imposes
more stringent data protection requirements, provides for greater penalties for noncompliance than E.U. laws that previously applied
(up to the greater of €20 million or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover), and confers a private right of action on data subjects
and consumer associations to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities, seek judicial remedies and obtain compensation for
damages resulting from violations of the E.U. GDPR. The E.U. GDPR requires, among other things, that personal data only be
transferred outside of the E.U. to the United States and other jurisdictions that the European Commission has not yet recognized as
having “adequate” data protection laws (a “third country”), where a data transfer mechanism under the E.U. GDPR has been put in
place. Historically, we have relied on the E.U.-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield programs, and the use of model contractual clauses
approved by the E.U. Commission, to legitimize these transfers (also referred to as standard contractual clauses or SCCs). In July
2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union in its “Schrems II” decision invalidated the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield for purposes of
transfers to the U.S. and imposed a requirement for companies to carry out an assessment of the laws and practices governing access
to personal data in the third country to ensure an essentially equivalent level of data protection to that afforded in the E.U. Though we
no longer rely on the Privacy Shield programs and instead employ model contractual clauses for personal data transfers, the Schrems
II decision raises questions as to implications under European and UK law and adequate data protection in the United States. Among
other effects, we may experience additional costs associated with increased compliance burdens, putting in place any additional data
transfer mechanisms and new contract negotiations with third parties that aid in processing data on our behalf. We may experience
reluctance or refusal by current or prospective customers in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, and the U.K.
(collectively, “Europe”) to use our products, and we may find it necessary or desirable to make further changes to our handling of
personal data of residents of Europe. The regulatory environment applicable to the handling of European residents’ personal data, and
our actions taken in response, may cause us to assume additional liabilities or incur additional costs and could result in our business,
operating results and financial condition being harmed. Additionally, we and our customers may face risk of enforcement actions by
data protection authorities in Europe relating to personal data transfers to us and by us from Europe. Any such enforcement actions
could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources, distract management and technical personnel and negatively affect our
business, operating results, and financial condition.
December 31, 2020, the E.U. GDPR has been implemented in the U.K. (as the “U.K. GDPR”). The U.K. GDPR sits alongside the
U.K. Data Protection Act 2018, which implements certain derogations in the E.U. GDPR into English law. The requirements of the
U.K. GDPR, which are (at this time) largely aligned with those under the E.U. GDPR, may lead to similar compliance and operational
costs with potential fines of up to £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover.
In the United States, companies that do business in California are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”),
which requires, among other things, covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers, afford such consumers
certain rights regarding their personal information, and also affords a private right of action to individuals affected by a data breach, if
the breach was caused by a lack of reasonable security. The enforcement of the CCPA by the California Attorney General commenced
on July 1, 2020. The CCPA has been amended on multiple occasions and the California Attorney General has issued initial and revised
regulations that also govern the CCPA. It remains unclear how this legislation will be interpreted and enforced. The effects of the
CCPA potentially are significant, however, and may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies and to incur
substantial costs and expenses for compliance. Moreover, additional state privacy laws have been passed and will require potentially
substantial efforts to obtain compliance. This includes the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) which was approved by California
voters, and significantly modifies the CCPA. The U.S. federal government also is contemplating privacy legislation.
We may also from time to time be subject to, or face assertions that we are subject to, additional obligations relating to personal
data by contract or due to assertions that self-regulatory obligations or industry standards apply to our practices. Additionally, the
Federal Trade Commission and many state attorneys general are interpreting federal and state consumer protection laws to impose
standards for the online collection, use, dissemination, and security of data. Further, we may be or become subject to data localization
laws mandating that data collected in a foreign country be processed and stored within that country. Each of these privacy, security,
and data protection laws and regulations, and any other such changes or new laws or regulations, could impose significant limitations,
or require changes to our business model or practices or growth strategy, which may increase our compliance expenses and make our
business more costly or less efficient to conduct.
Our actual or perceived failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations or other obligations to which we are now or
which we may be subject relating to personal data, or to protect personal data from unauthorized acquisition, use or other processing,
could result in consequences such as enforcement actions and regulatory investigations against us, fines, public censure, claims for
damages by end-customers and other affected individuals, damage to our reputation and loss of goodwill (both in relation to existing
end-customers and prospective end-customers), any of which could have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial
performance, and business. Evolving and changing definitions of personal data and personal information, within the E.U., the United
States, and elsewhere, especially relating to classification of Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, machine identification, location data,
and other information, may limit or inhibit our ability to operate or expand our business, including limiting strategic partnerships that
may involve the sharing or uses of data, and may require significant expenditures and efforts in order to comply. Even the perception
of privacy, data protection or information security concerns, whether or not valid, may harm our reputation and inhibit adoption of our
products and subscriptions by current and future end-customers.
Risks Related to Operations Outside the United States
We face risks associated with having operations and employees located in Israel.
As a result of various of our acquisitions, including Cyber Secdo Ltd. (“Secdo”), PureSec Ltd. (“PureSec”) and Twistlock Ltd.
(“Twistlock”), we have offices and employees located in Israel. Accordingly, political, economic, and military conditions in Israel
directly affect our operations. The future of peace efforts between Israel and its Arab neighbors remains uncertain. The effects of
hostilities and violence on the Israeli economy and our operations in Israel are unclear, and we cannot predict the effect on us of
further increases in these hostilities or future armed conflict, political instability or violence in the region. Current or future tensions
and conflicts in the Middle East could adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
In addition, many of our employees in Israel are obligated to perform annual reserve duty in the Israeli military and are subject
to being called for active duty under emergency circumstances. We cannot predict the full impact of these conditions on us in the
future, particularly if emergency circumstances or an escalation in the political situation occurs. If many of our employees in Israel are
called for active duty for a significant period of time, our operations and our business could be disrupted and may not be able to
function at full capacity. Any disruption in our operations in Israel could adversely affect our business.
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In addition to risks related to license requirements, usage of open source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-
Following the withdrawal of the U.K. from the E.U. (i.e., Brexit), and the expiry of the Brexit transition period, which ended on
December 31, 2020, the E.U. GDPR has been implemented in the U.K. (as the “U.K. GDPR”). The U.K. GDPR sits alongside the
U.K. Data Protection Act 2018, which implements certain derogations in the E.U. GDPR into English law. The requirements of the
U.K. GDPR, which are (at this time) largely aligned with those under the E.U. GDPR, may lead to similar compliance and operational
costs with potential fines of up to £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover.
In the United States, companies that do business in California are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”),
which requires, among other things, covered companies to provide new disclosures to California consumers, afford such consumers
certain rights regarding their personal information, and also affords a private right of action to individuals affected by a data breach, if
the breach was caused by a lack of reasonable security. The enforcement of the CCPA by the California Attorney General commenced
on July 1, 2020. The CCPA has been amended on multiple occasions and the California Attorney General has issued initial and revised
regulations that also govern the CCPA. It remains unclear how this legislation will be interpreted and enforced. The effects of the
CCPA potentially are significant, however, and may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies and to incur
substantial costs and expenses for compliance. Moreover, additional state privacy laws have been passed and will require potentially
substantial efforts to obtain compliance. This includes the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) which was approved by California
voters, and significantly modifies the CCPA. The U.S. federal government also is contemplating privacy legislation.
are unable to continue to license any of this technology because of intellectual property infringement claims brought by third parties
We may also from time to time be subject to, or face assertions that we are subject to, additional obligations relating to personal
data by contract or due to assertions that self-regulatory obligations or industry standards apply to our practices. Additionally, the
Federal Trade Commission and many state attorneys general are interpreting federal and state consumer protection laws to impose
standards for the online collection, use, dissemination, and security of data. Further, we may be or become subject to data localization
laws mandating that data collected in a foreign country be processed and stored within that country. Each of these privacy, security,
and data protection laws and regulations, and any other such changes or new laws or regulations, could impose significant limitations,
or require changes to our business model or practices or growth strategy, which may increase our compliance expenses and make our
business more costly or less efficient to conduct.
Our actual or perceived failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations or other obligations to which we are now or
which we may be subject relating to personal data, or to protect personal data from unauthorized acquisition, use or other processing,
could result in consequences such as enforcement actions and regulatory investigations against us, fines, public censure, claims for
damages by end-customers and other affected individuals, damage to our reputation and loss of goodwill (both in relation to existing
end-customers and prospective end-customers), any of which could have a material adverse effect on our operations, financial
performance, and business. Evolving and changing definitions of personal data and personal information, within the E.U., the United
States, and elsewhere, especially relating to classification of Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, machine identification, location data,
and other information, may limit or inhibit our ability to operate or expand our business, including limiting strategic partnerships that
may involve the sharing or uses of data, and may require significant expenditures and efforts in order to comply. Even the perception
of privacy, data protection or information security concerns, whether or not valid, may harm our reputation and inhibit adoption of our
products and subscriptions by current and future end-customers.
more stringent data protection requirements, provides for greater penalties for noncompliance than E.U. laws that previously applied
Risks Related to Operations Outside the United States
We face risks associated with having operations and employees located in Israel.
As a result of various of our acquisitions, including Cyber Secdo Ltd. (“Secdo”), PureSec Ltd. (“PureSec”) and Twistlock Ltd.
(“Twistlock”), we have offices and employees located in Israel. Accordingly, political, economic, and military conditions in Israel
directly affect our operations. The future of peace efforts between Israel and its Arab neighbors remains uncertain. The effects of
hostilities and violence on the Israeli economy and our operations in Israel are unclear, and we cannot predict the effect on us of
further increases in these hostilities or future armed conflict, political instability or violence in the region. Current or future tensions
and conflicts in the Middle East could adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.
In addition, many of our employees in Israel are obligated to perform annual reserve duty in the Israeli military and are subject
to being called for active duty under emergency circumstances. We cannot predict the full impact of these conditions on us in the
future, particularly if emergency circumstances or an escalation in the political situation occurs. If many of our employees in Israel are
called for active duty for a significant period of time, our operations and our business could be disrupted and may not be able to
function at full capacity. Any disruption in our operations in Israel could adversely affect our business.
party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties or assurance of title or controls on origin of
the software. In addition, many of the risks associated with usage of open source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances
of title, cannot be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business. We have established processes to
help alleviate these risks, including a review process for screening requests from our development organizations for the use of open
source software, but we cannot be sure that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our products and
subscriptions will be effective.
We license technology from third parties, and our inability to maintain those licenses could harm our business.
We incorporate technology that we license from third parties, including software, into our products and subscriptions. We
cannot be certain that our licensors are not infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties or that our licensors have
sufficient rights to the licensed intellectual property in all jurisdictions in which we may sell our products and subscriptions. In
addition, some licenses may be non-exclusive, and therefore our competitors may have access to the same technology licensed to us.
Some of our agreements with our licensors may be terminated for convenience by them. We may also be subject to additional fees or
be required to obtain new licenses if any of our licensors allege that we have not properly paid for such licenses or that we have
improperly used the technologies under such licenses, and such licenses may not be available on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we
against our licensors or against us, or claims against us by our licensors, or if we are unable to continue our license agreements or
enter into new licenses on commercially reasonable terms, our ability to develop and sell products and subscriptions containing such
technology would be severely limited, and our business could be harmed. Additionally, if we are unable to license necessary
technology from third parties, we may be forced to acquire or develop alternative technology, which we may be unable to do in a
commercially feasible manner or at all, and we may be required to use alternative technology of lower quality or performance
standards. This would limit and delay our ability to offer new or competitive products and subscriptions and increase our costs of
production. As a result, our margins, market share, and operating results could be significantly harmed.
Risks Related to Privacy and Data Protection
Our failure to adequately protect personal information could have a material adverse effect on our business.
A wide variety of provincial, state, national, and international laws and regulations apply to the collection, use, retention,
protection, disclosure, transfer, and other processing of personal data. These laws and regulations relating to privacy, data protection
and security are evolving and being tested in courts and may result in ever-increasing regulatory and public scrutiny, as well as
escalating levels of enforcement and sanctions. Further, the interpretation and application of foreign laws and regulations in many
cases is uncertain, and our legal and regulatory obligations in foreign jurisdictions are subject to frequent and unexpected changes,
including the potential for various regulatory or other governmental bodies to enact new or additional laws or regulations, to issue
rulings that invalidate prior laws or regulations, or to increase penalties significantly.
For example, the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (“E.U. GDPR”), which became effective in May 2018, imposes
(up to the greater of €20 million or 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover), and confers a private right of action on data subjects
and consumer associations to lodge complaints with supervisory authorities, seek judicial remedies and obtain compensation for
damages resulting from violations of the E.U. GDPR. The E.U. GDPR requires, among other things, that personal data only be
transferred outside of the E.U. to the United States and other jurisdictions that the European Commission has not yet recognized as
having “adequate” data protection laws (a “third country”), where a data transfer mechanism under the E.U. GDPR has been put in
place. Historically, we have relied on the E.U.-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield programs, and the use of model contractual clauses
approved by the E.U. Commission, to legitimize these transfers (also referred to as standard contractual clauses or SCCs). In July
2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union in its “Schrems II” decision invalidated the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield for purposes of
transfers to the U.S. and imposed a requirement for companies to carry out an assessment of the laws and practices governing access
to personal data in the third country to ensure an essentially equivalent level of data protection to that afforded in the E.U. Though we
no longer rely on the Privacy Shield programs and instead employ model contractual clauses for personal data transfers, the Schrems
II decision raises questions as to implications under European and UK law and adequate data protection in the United States. Among
other effects, we may experience additional costs associated with increased compliance burdens, putting in place any additional data
transfer mechanisms and new contract negotiations with third parties that aid in processing data on our behalf. We may experience
reluctance or refusal by current or prospective customers in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, and the U.K.
(collectively, “Europe”) to use our products, and we may find it necessary or desirable to make further changes to our handling of
personal data of residents of Europe. The regulatory environment applicable to the handling of European residents’ personal data, and
our actions taken in response, may cause us to assume additional liabilities or incur additional costs and could result in our business,
operating results and financial condition being harmed. Additionally, we and our customers may face risk of enforcement actions by
data protection authorities in Europe relating to personal data transfers to us and by us from Europe. Any such enforcement actions
could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources, distract management and technical personnel and negatively affect our
business, operating results, and financial condition.
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We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in
international markets.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies are based on assumptions that change or prove to be
incorrect, our operating results could fall below our publicly announced guidance or the expectations of securities analysts and
Because we incorporate encryption technology into our products, certain of our products are subject to U.S. export controls and
may be exported outside the United States only with the required export license or through an export license exception. If we were to
fail to comply with U.S. export licensing requirements, U.S. customs regulations, U.S. economic sanctions, or other laws, we could be
subject to substantial civil and criminal penalties, including fines, incarceration for responsible employees and managers, and the
possible loss of export or import privileges. Obtaining the necessary export license for a particular sale may be time-consuming and
may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. Furthermore, U.S. export control laws and economic sanctions prohibit the
shipment of certain products to U.S. embargoed or sanctioned countries, governments, and persons. Even though we take precautions
to ensure that our channel partners comply with all relevant regulations, any failure by our channel partners to comply with such
regulations could have negative consequences for us, including reputational harm, government investigations, and penalties.
In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology, including through import permit and license
requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products or could limit our end-customers’ ability to
implement our products in those countries. Changes in our products or changes in export and import regulations may create delays in
the introduction of our products into international markets, prevent our end-customers with international operations from deploying
our products globally or, in some cases, prevent or delay the export or import of our products to certain countries, governments, or
persons altogether. Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions, such as the Sanctions on Russia, or related
legislation, shift in the enforcement or scope of existing regulations, or change in the countries, governments, persons, or technologies
targeted by such regulations, could result in decreased use of our products by, or in our decreased ability to export or sell our products
to, existing or potential end-customers with international operations. Any decreased use of our products or limitation on our ability to
export to or sell our products in international markets would likely adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating
results.
Tax, Accounting, Compliance and Regulatory Risks
We have a corporate structure aligned with the international nature of our business activities, and if we do not achieve increased
tax benefits as a result of our corporate structure, our financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.
We have reorganized our corporate structure and intercompany relationships to more closely align with the international nature
of our business activities. This corporate structure may allow us to reduce our overall effective tax rate through changes in how we use
our intellectual property, international procurement, and sales operations. This corporate structure may also allow us to obtain
financial and operational efficiencies. These efforts require us to incur expenses in the near term for which we may not realize related
benefits. If the structure is not accepted by the applicable tax authorities, if there are any changes in, or interpretations of, domestic
and international tax laws that negatively impact the structure, or if we do not operate our business consistent with the structure and
applicable tax provisions, we may fail to achieve the reduction in our overall effective tax rate and the other financial and operational
efficiencies that we anticipate as a result of the structure and our future financial condition and operating results may be negatively
impacted. In addition, we continue to evaluate our corporate structure in light of current and pending tax legislation, and any changes
to our corporate structure may require us to incur additional expenses and may impact our overall effective tax rate.
We may have exposure to greater than anticipated tax liabilities.
Our income tax obligations are based in part on our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements, including the manner
in which we develop, value, and use our intellectual property and the valuations of our intercompany transactions. The tax laws
applicable to our business, including the laws of the United States and other jurisdictions, are subject to interpretation and certain
jurisdictions may aggressively interpret their laws in an effort to raise additional tax revenue. The tax authorities of the jurisdictions in
which we operate may challenge our methodologies for valuing developed technology or intercompany arrangements, which could
increase our worldwide effective tax rate and harm our financial position and operating results. It is possible that tax authorities may
disagree with certain positions we have taken, and any adverse outcome of such a review or audit could have a negative effect on our
financial position and operating results. Further, the determination of our worldwide provision for or benefit from income taxes and
other tax liabilities requires significant judgment by management, and there are transactions where the ultimate tax determination is
uncertain. Although we believe that our estimates are reasonable, the ultimate tax outcome may differ from the amounts recorded on
our consolidated financial statements and may materially affect our financial results in the period or periods for which such
determination is made.
In addition, our future income tax obligations could be adversely affected by changes in, or interpretations of, tax laws in the
United States or in other jurisdictions in which we operate.
investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our common stock.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the amounts reported on our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates
on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of
which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and expenses that are not
readily apparent from other sources. For more information, refer to the section entitled “Critical Accounting Estimates” in
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K. In general, if our estimates, judgments or assumptions relating to our critical accounting policies change or if actual
circumstances differ from our estimates, judgments or assumptions, including uncertainty in the current economic environment due to
COVID-19, our operating results may be adversely affected and could fall below our publicly announced guidance or the expectations
of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our common stock.
Our reputation and/or business could be negatively impacted by ESG matters and/or our reporting of such matters.
There is an increasing focus from regulators, certain investors, and other stakeholders concerning environmental, social, and
governance (“ESG”) matters, both in the United States and internationally. We communicate certain ESG-related initiatives, goals,
and/or commitments regarding environmental matters, diversity, responsible sourcing and social investments, and other matters in our
annual ESG Report, on our website, in our filings with the SEC, and elsewhere. These initiatives, goals, or commitments could be
difficult to achieve and costly to implement. We could fail to achieve, or be perceived to fail to achieve, our ESG-related initiatives,
goals, or commitments. In addition, we could be criticized for the timing, scope or nature of these initiatives, goals, or commitments,
or for any revisions to them. To the extent that our required and voluntary disclosures about ESG matters increase, we could be
criticized for the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of such disclosures. Our actual or perceived failure to achieve our ESG-related
initiatives, goals, or commitments could negatively impact our reputation, result in ESG-focused investors not purchasing and holding
our stock, or otherwise materially harm our business.
Failure to comply with governmental laws and regulations could harm our business.
Our business is subject to regulation by various federal, state, local, and foreign governmental agencies, including agencies
responsible for monitoring and enforcing employment and labor laws, workplace safety, product safety, environmental laws, consumer
protection laws, privacy, data security, and data-protection laws, anti-bribery laws (including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
and the U.K. Anti-Bribery Act), import/export controls, federal securities laws, and tax laws and regulations. In certain jurisdictions,
these regulatory requirements may be more stringent than those in the United States. Noncompliance with applicable regulations or
requirements could subject us to investigations, sanctions, mandatory product recalls, enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits,
fines, damages, civil and criminal penalties, or injunctions. If any governmental sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any
possible civil or criminal litigation resulting from any alleged noncompliance, our business, operating results, and financial condition
could be materially adversely affected. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a significant diversion of
management’s attention and resources and an increase in professional fees. Enforcement actions, litigation, and sanctions could harm
our business, operating results, and financial condition.
If we fail to comply with environmental requirements, our business, financial condition, operating results, and reputation could be
adversely affected.
We are subject to various environmental laws and regulations including laws governing the hazardous material content of our
products and laws relating to the collection of and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. Examples of these laws and
regulations include the E.U. Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
(“RoHS”) and the E.U. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (“WEEE Directive”), as well as the implementing
legislation of the E.U. member states. Similar laws and regulations have been passed or are pending in China, South Korea, Norway,
and Japan and may be enacted in other regions, including in the United States, and we are, or may in the future be, subject to these
laws and regulations.
The E.U. RoHS and the similar laws of other jurisdictions limit the content of certain hazardous materials such as lead,
mercury, and cadmium in the manufacture of electrical equipment, including our products. Our current products comply with the E.U.
RoHS requirements. However, if there are changes to this or other laws (or their interpretation) or if new similar laws are passed in
other jurisdictions, we may be required to reengineer our products to use components compatible with these regulations. This
reengineering and component substitution could result in additional costs to us or disrupt our operations or logistics.
The WEEE Directive requires electronic goods producers to be responsible for the collection, recycling, and treatment of such
products. Changes in interpretation of the directive may cause us to incur costs or have additional regulatory requirements to meet in
the future in order to comply with this directive, or with any similar laws adopted in other jurisdictions.
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fail to comply with U.S. export licensing requirements, U.S. customs regulations, U.S. economic sanctions, or other laws, we could be
subject to substantial civil and criminal penalties, including fines, incarceration for responsible employees and managers, and the
possible loss of export or import privileges. Obtaining the necessary export license for a particular sale may be time-consuming and
may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. Furthermore, U.S. export control laws and economic sanctions prohibit the
shipment of certain products to U.S. embargoed or sanctioned countries, governments, and persons. Even though we take precautions
to ensure that our channel partners comply with all relevant regulations, any failure by our channel partners to comply with such
regulations could have negative consequences for us, including reputational harm, government investigations, and penalties.
In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology, including through import permit and license
requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products or could limit our end-customers’ ability to
the introduction of our products into international markets, prevent our end-customers with international operations from deploying
our products globally or, in some cases, prevent or delay the export or import of our products to certain countries, governments, or
persons altogether. Any change in export or import regulations, economic sanctions, such as the Sanctions on Russia, or related
legislation, shift in the enforcement or scope of existing regulations, or change in the countries, governments, persons, or technologies
targeted by such regulations, could result in decreased use of our products by, or in our decreased ability to export or sell our products
to, existing or potential end-customers with international operations. Any decreased use of our products or limitation on our ability to
export to or sell our products in international markets would likely adversely affect our business, financial condition, and operating
results.
Tax, Accounting, Compliance and Regulatory Risks
We have a corporate structure aligned with the international nature of our business activities, and if we do not achieve increased
tax benefits as a result of our corporate structure, our financial condition and operating results could be adversely affected.
We have reorganized our corporate structure and intercompany relationships to more closely align with the international nature
of our business activities. This corporate structure may allow us to reduce our overall effective tax rate through changes in how we use
our intellectual property, international procurement, and sales operations. This corporate structure may also allow us to obtain
financial and operational efficiencies. These efforts require us to incur expenses in the near term for which we may not realize related
benefits. If the structure is not accepted by the applicable tax authorities, if there are any changes in, or interpretations of, domestic
and international tax laws that negatively impact the structure, or if we do not operate our business consistent with the structure and
applicable tax provisions, we may fail to achieve the reduction in our overall effective tax rate and the other financial and operational
efficiencies that we anticipate as a result of the structure and our future financial condition and operating results may be negatively
impacted. In addition, we continue to evaluate our corporate structure in light of current and pending tax legislation, and any changes
to our corporate structure may require us to incur additional expenses and may impact our overall effective tax rate.
We may have exposure to greater than anticipated tax liabilities.
Our income tax obligations are based in part on our corporate structure and intercompany arrangements, including the manner
in which we develop, value, and use our intellectual property and the valuations of our intercompany transactions. The tax laws
applicable to our business, including the laws of the United States and other jurisdictions, are subject to interpretation and certain
jurisdictions may aggressively interpret their laws in an effort to raise additional tax revenue. The tax authorities of the jurisdictions in
which we operate may challenge our methodologies for valuing developed technology or intercompany arrangements, which could
increase our worldwide effective tax rate and harm our financial position and operating results. It is possible that tax authorities may
disagree with certain positions we have taken, and any adverse outcome of such a review or audit could have a negative effect on our
financial position and operating results. Further, the determination of our worldwide provision for or benefit from income taxes and
other tax liabilities requires significant judgment by management, and there are transactions where the ultimate tax determination is
uncertain. Although we believe that our estimates are reasonable, the ultimate tax outcome may differ from the amounts recorded on
our consolidated financial statements and may materially affect our financial results in the period or periods for which such
determination is made.
In addition, our future income tax obligations could be adversely affected by changes in, or interpretations of, tax laws in the
United States or in other jurisdictions in which we operate.
We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in
international markets.
Because we incorporate encryption technology into our products, certain of our products are subject to U.S. export controls and
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies are based on assumptions that change or prove to be
incorrect, our operating results could fall below our publicly announced guidance or the expectations of securities analysts and
investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our common stock.
may be exported outside the United States only with the required export license or through an export license exception. If we were to
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the amounts reported on our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We base our estimates
on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of
which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities, equity, revenue, and expenses that are not
readily apparent from other sources. For more information, refer to the section entitled “Critical Accounting Estimates” in
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of this Annual Report on
Form 10-K. In general, if our estimates, judgments or assumptions relating to our critical accounting policies change or if actual
circumstances differ from our estimates, judgments or assumptions, including uncertainty in the current economic environment due to
COVID-19, our operating results may be adversely affected and could fall below our publicly announced guidance or the expectations
of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our common stock.
implement our products in those countries. Changes in our products or changes in export and import regulations may create delays in
Our reputation and/or business could be negatively impacted by ESG matters and/or our reporting of such matters.
There is an increasing focus from regulators, certain investors, and other stakeholders concerning environmental, social, and
governance (“ESG”) matters, both in the United States and internationally. We communicate certain ESG-related initiatives, goals,
and/or commitments regarding environmental matters, diversity, responsible sourcing and social investments, and other matters in our
annual ESG Report, on our website, in our filings with the SEC, and elsewhere. These initiatives, goals, or commitments could be
difficult to achieve and costly to implement. We could fail to achieve, or be perceived to fail to achieve, our ESG-related initiatives,
goals, or commitments. In addition, we could be criticized for the timing, scope or nature of these initiatives, goals, or commitments,
or for any revisions to them. To the extent that our required and voluntary disclosures about ESG matters increase, we could be
criticized for the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of such disclosures. Our actual or perceived failure to achieve our ESG-related
initiatives, goals, or commitments could negatively impact our reputation, result in ESG-focused investors not purchasing and holding
our stock, or otherwise materially harm our business.
Failure to comply with governmental laws and regulations could harm our business.
Our business is subject to regulation by various federal, state, local, and foreign governmental agencies, including agencies
responsible for monitoring and enforcing employment and labor laws, workplace safety, product safety, environmental laws, consumer
protection laws, privacy, data security, and data-protection laws, anti-bribery laws (including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
and the U.K. Anti-Bribery Act), import/export controls, federal securities laws, and tax laws and regulations. In certain jurisdictions,
these regulatory requirements may be more stringent than those in the United States. Noncompliance with applicable regulations or
requirements could subject us to investigations, sanctions, mandatory product recalls, enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits,
fines, damages, civil and criminal penalties, or injunctions. If any governmental sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any
possible civil or criminal litigation resulting from any alleged noncompliance, our business, operating results, and financial condition
could be materially adversely affected. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a significant diversion of
management’s attention and resources and an increase in professional fees. Enforcement actions, litigation, and sanctions could harm
our business, operating results, and financial condition.
If we fail to comply with environmental requirements, our business, financial condition, operating results, and reputation could be
adversely affected.
We are subject to various environmental laws and regulations including laws governing the hazardous material content of our
products and laws relating to the collection of and recycling of electrical and electronic equipment. Examples of these laws and
regulations include the E.U. Restriction on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
(“RoHS”) and the E.U. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (“WEEE Directive”), as well as the implementing
legislation of the E.U. member states. Similar laws and regulations have been passed or are pending in China, South Korea, Norway,
and Japan and may be enacted in other regions, including in the United States, and we are, or may in the future be, subject to these
laws and regulations.
The E.U. RoHS and the similar laws of other jurisdictions limit the content of certain hazardous materials such as lead,
mercury, and cadmium in the manufacture of electrical equipment, including our products. Our current products comply with the E.U.
RoHS requirements. However, if there are changes to this or other laws (or their interpretation) or if new similar laws are passed in
other jurisdictions, we may be required to reengineer our products to use components compatible with these regulations. This
reengineering and component substitution could result in additional costs to us or disrupt our operations or logistics.
The WEEE Directive requires electronic goods producers to be responsible for the collection, recycling, and treatment of such
products. Changes in interpretation of the directive may cause us to incur costs or have additional regulatory requirements to meet in
the future in order to comply with this directive, or with any similar laws adopted in other jurisdictions.
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We are also subject to environmental laws and regulations governing the management of hazardous materials, which we use in
small quantities in our engineering labs. Our failure to comply with past, present, and future similar laws could result in reduced sales
of our products, substantial product inventory write-offs, reputational damage, penalties, and other sanctions, any of which could harm
our business and financial condition. We also expect that our products will be affected by new environmental laws and regulations on
an ongoing basis. To date, our expenditures for environmental compliance have not had a material impact on our operating results or
cash flows, and although we cannot predict the future impact of such laws or regulations, they will likely result in additional costs and
may increase penalties associated with violations or require us to change the content of our products or how they are manufactured,
which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Risks Related to Our Notes
We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to settle conversions of our Notes, repurchase our Notes upon a
fundamental change, or repay our Notes in cash at their maturity, and our future debt may contain limitations on our ability to pay
cash upon conversion or repurchase of our Notes.
In July 2018 we issued our 2023 Notes (the “2023 Notes”) and in June 2020 we issued our 2025 Notes (the “2025 Notes,”
together with the “2023 Notes,” the “Notes”). We will need to make cash payments (1) if holders of our Notes require us to repurchase
all or a portion of their Notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change (e.g., a change of control of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
before the maturity date, (2) upon conversion of our Notes, or (3) to repay our Notes in cash at their maturity, unless earlier converted
or repurchased. Effective August 1, 2022 through October 31, 2022, all of the 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes are convertible. If all of the
Noteholders decided to convert their Notes, we would be obligated to pay the $3.7 billion principal amount of the Notes in cash.
Under the terms of the Notes, we also have the option to settle the amount of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes in cash or shares of our common stock. If our cash provided by operating activities, together with our
existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, and existing sources of financing, are inadequate to satisfy these obligations, we will
need to obtain third-party financing, which may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms or at all, to meet these
payment obligations.
In addition, our ability to repurchase or to pay cash upon conversion of our Notes may be limited by law, regulatory authority or
significant cyberattacks;
agreements governing our future indebtedness. Our failure to repurchase our Notes at a time when the repurchase is required by the
applicable indenture governing such Notes or to pay cash upon conversion of such Notes as required by the applicable indenture
would constitute a default under the indenture. A default under the applicable indenture or the fundamental change itself could also
lead to a default under agreements governing our future indebtedness. If the payment of the related indebtedness were to be
accelerated after any applicable notice or grace periods, we may not have sufficient funds to repay the indebtedness and repurchase
our Notes or to pay cash upon conversion of our Notes.
We may still incur substantially more debt or take other actions that would diminish our ability to make payments on our Notes
when due.
We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional debt in the future, subject to the restrictions contained in our
debt instruments, some of which may be secured debt. We are not restricted under the terms of the indenture governing our Notes from
incurring additional debt, securing existing or future debt, recapitalizing our debt or taking a number of other actions that are not
limited by the terms of such indenture governing our Notes that could have the effect of diminishing our ability to make payments on
our Notes when due. While the terms of any future indebtedness we may incur could restrict our ability to incur additional
indebtedness, any such restrictions will indirectly benefit holders of our Notes only to the extent any such indebtedness or credit
facility is not repaid or does not mature while our Notes are outstanding.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock
Our actual operating results may differ significantly from our guidance.
From time to time, we have released, and may continue to release, guidance in our quarterly earnings releases, quarterly
earnings conference calls, or otherwise, regarding our future performance that represents our management’s estimates as of the date of
release. This guidance, which includes forward-looking statements, has been and will be based on projections prepared by our
management. These projections are not prepared with a view toward compliance with published guidelines of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, and neither our registered public accountants nor any other independent expert or outside party
compiles or examines the projections. Accordingly, no such person expresses any opinion or any other form of assurance with respect
to the projections.
Projections are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while presented with numerical specificity, are
inherently subject to significant business, economic, and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our
control, such as COVID-19, and are based upon specific assumptions with respect to future business decisions, some of which will
change. The rapidly evolving market in which we operate may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and our future
prospects, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. We intend to state possible outcomes as high and low ranges
which are intended to provide a sensitivity analysis as variables are changed. However, actual results will vary from our guidance and
the variations may be material. The principal reason that we release guidance is to provide a basis for our management to discuss our
business outlook as of the date of release with analysts and investors. We do not accept any responsibility for any projections or
reports published by any such persons. Investors are urged not to rely upon our guidance in making an investment decision regarding
our common stock.
Any failure to successfully implement our operating strategy or the occurrence of any of the events or circumstances set forth in
this “Risk Factors” section in this Annual Report on Form 10-K could result in our actual operating results being different from our
guidance, and the differences may be adverse and material.
The market price of our common stock historically has been volatile and the value of your investment could decline.
The market price of our common stock has been volatile since our initial public offering (“IPO”) in July 2012. The reported
high and low sales prices of our common stock during the last 12 months have ranged from $367.21 to $640.90 per share, as measured
through August 22, 2022. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate widely in response to various factors, some of which
are beyond our control. These factors include:
announcements of new products, subscriptions or technologies, commercial relationships, strategic partnerships,
acquisitions, or other events by us or our competitors;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
news announcements that affect investor perception of our industry, including reports related to the discovery of
significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of technology companies in general and of companies in our
industry;
fluctuations in the trading volume of our shares or the size of our public float;
actual or anticipated changes in our operating results or fluctuations in our operating results;
whether our operating results meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors;
actual or anticipated changes in the expectations of securities analysts or investors, whether as a result of our forward-
looking statements, our failure to meet such expectations or otherwise;
inaccurate or unfavorable research reports about our business and industry published by securities analysts or reduced
coverage of our company by securities analysts;
litigation involving us, our industry, or both;
actions instituted by activist shareholders or others;
regulatory developments in the United States, foreign countries or both;
major catastrophic events, such as COVID-19;
sales or repurchases of large blocks of our common stock or substantial future sales by our directors, executive officers,
employees and significant stockholders;
sales of our common stock by investors who view our Notes as a more attractive means of equity participation in us;
hedging or arbitrage trading activity involving our common stock as a result of the existence of our Notes;
departures of key personnel; or
economic uncertainty around the world.
The market price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results, or financial
condition and as a result of events that do not directly affect us. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a
company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. Securities litigation could result in
substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources from our business. This could have a material adverse effect on
our business, operating results, and financial condition.
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We are also subject to environmental laws and regulations governing the management of hazardous materials, which we use in
small quantities in our engineering labs. Our failure to comply with past, present, and future similar laws could result in reduced sales
of our products, substantial product inventory write-offs, reputational damage, penalties, and other sanctions, any of which could harm
our business and financial condition. We also expect that our products will be affected by new environmental laws and regulations on
an ongoing basis. To date, our expenditures for environmental compliance have not had a material impact on our operating results or
cash flows, and although we cannot predict the future impact of such laws or regulations, they will likely result in additional costs and
may increase penalties associated with violations or require us to change the content of our products or how they are manufactured,
which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Risks Related to Our Notes
We may not have the ability to raise the funds necessary to settle conversions of our Notes, repurchase our Notes upon a
fundamental change, or repay our Notes in cash at their maturity, and our future debt may contain limitations on our ability to pay
cash upon conversion or repurchase of our Notes.
In July 2018 we issued our 2023 Notes (the “2023 Notes”) and in June 2020 we issued our 2025 Notes (the “2025 Notes,”
together with the “2023 Notes,” the “Notes”). We will need to make cash payments (1) if holders of our Notes require us to repurchase
all or a portion of their Notes upon the occurrence of a fundamental change (e.g., a change of control of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.)
before the maturity date, (2) upon conversion of our Notes, or (3) to repay our Notes in cash at their maturity, unless earlier converted
or repurchased. Effective August 1, 2022 through October 31, 2022, all of the 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes are convertible. If all of the
Noteholders decided to convert their Notes, we would be obligated to pay the $3.7 billion principal amount of the Notes in cash.
Under the terms of the Notes, we also have the option to settle the amount of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes in cash or shares of our common stock. If our cash provided by operating activities, together with our
existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, and existing sources of financing, are inadequate to satisfy these obligations, we will
need to obtain third-party financing, which may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms or at all, to meet these
payment obligations.
In addition, our ability to repurchase or to pay cash upon conversion of our Notes may be limited by law, regulatory authority or
agreements governing our future indebtedness. Our failure to repurchase our Notes at a time when the repurchase is required by the
applicable indenture governing such Notes or to pay cash upon conversion of such Notes as required by the applicable indenture
would constitute a default under the indenture. A default under the applicable indenture or the fundamental change itself could also
lead to a default under agreements governing our future indebtedness. If the payment of the related indebtedness were to be
accelerated after any applicable notice or grace periods, we may not have sufficient funds to repay the indebtedness and repurchase
our Notes or to pay cash upon conversion of our Notes.
We may still incur substantially more debt or take other actions that would diminish our ability to make payments on our Notes
when due.
We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional debt in the future, subject to the restrictions contained in our
debt instruments, some of which may be secured debt. We are not restricted under the terms of the indenture governing our Notes from
incurring additional debt, securing existing or future debt, recapitalizing our debt or taking a number of other actions that are not
limited by the terms of such indenture governing our Notes that could have the effect of diminishing our ability to make payments on
our Notes when due. While the terms of any future indebtedness we may incur could restrict our ability to incur additional
indebtedness, any such restrictions will indirectly benefit holders of our Notes only to the extent any such indebtedness or credit
facility is not repaid or does not mature while our Notes are outstanding.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock
Our actual operating results may differ significantly from our guidance.
From time to time, we have released, and may continue to release, guidance in our quarterly earnings releases, quarterly
earnings conference calls, or otherwise, regarding our future performance that represents our management’s estimates as of the date of
release. This guidance, which includes forward-looking statements, has been and will be based on projections prepared by our
management. These projections are not prepared with a view toward compliance with published guidelines of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, and neither our registered public accountants nor any other independent expert or outside party
compiles or examines the projections. Accordingly, no such person expresses any opinion or any other form of assurance with respect
to the projections.
Projections are based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while presented with numerical specificity, are
inherently subject to significant business, economic, and competitive uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond our
control, such as COVID-19, and are based upon specific assumptions with respect to future business decisions, some of which will
change. The rapidly evolving market in which we operate may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and our future
prospects, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. We intend to state possible outcomes as high and low ranges
which are intended to provide a sensitivity analysis as variables are changed. However, actual results will vary from our guidance and
the variations may be material. The principal reason that we release guidance is to provide a basis for our management to discuss our
business outlook as of the date of release with analysts and investors. We do not accept any responsibility for any projections or
reports published by any such persons. Investors are urged not to rely upon our guidance in making an investment decision regarding
our common stock.
Any failure to successfully implement our operating strategy or the occurrence of any of the events or circumstances set forth in
this “Risk Factors” section in this Annual Report on Form 10-K could result in our actual operating results being different from our
guidance, and the differences may be adverse and material.
The market price of our common stock historically has been volatile and the value of your investment could decline.
The market price of our common stock has been volatile since our initial public offering (“IPO”) in July 2012. The reported
high and low sales prices of our common stock during the last 12 months have ranged from $367.21 to $640.90 per share, as measured
through August 22, 2022. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate widely in response to various factors, some of which
are beyond our control. These factors include:
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announcements of new products, subscriptions or technologies, commercial relationships, strategic partnerships,
acquisitions, or other events by us or our competitors;
price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market from time to time;
news announcements that affect investor perception of our industry, including reports related to the discovery of
significant cyberattacks;
significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of technology companies in general and of companies in our
industry;
fluctuations in the trading volume of our shares or the size of our public float;
actual or anticipated changes in our operating results or fluctuations in our operating results;
whether our operating results meet the expectations of securities analysts or investors;
actual or anticipated changes in the expectations of securities analysts or investors, whether as a result of our forward-
looking statements, our failure to meet such expectations or otherwise;
inaccurate or unfavorable research reports about our business and industry published by securities analysts or reduced
coverage of our company by securities analysts;
litigation involving us, our industry, or both;
actions instituted by activist shareholders or others;
regulatory developments in the United States, foreign countries or both;
major catastrophic events, such as COVID-19;
sales or repurchases of large blocks of our common stock or substantial future sales by our directors, executive officers,
employees and significant stockholders;
sales of our common stock by investors who view our Notes as a more attractive means of equity participation in us;
hedging or arbitrage trading activity involving our common stock as a result of the existence of our Notes;
departures of key personnel; or
economic uncertainty around the world.
The market price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results, or financial
condition and as a result of events that do not directly affect us. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a
company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. Securities litigation could result in
substantial costs and divert our management’s attention and resources from our business. This could have a material adverse effect on
our business, operating results, and financial condition.
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The convertible note hedge and warrant transactions may affect the value of our common stock.
specify that special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by the chairman of our board of directors, our
In connection with the sale of our 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes, we entered into convertible note hedge transactions (the “Note
Hedges”) with certain counterparties. In connection with each such sale of the Notes, we also entered into warrant transactions with
the counterparties pursuant to which we sold warrants (the “Warrants”) for the purchase of our common stock. The Note Hedges for
our 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to our common stock upon any conversion of
our Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of any such converted Notes.
The Warrants could separately have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds the
applicable strike price of the Warrants unless, subject to certain conditions, we elect to cash settle such Warrants.
The applicable counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding
various derivatives with respect to our common stock and/or purchasing or selling our common stock or other securities of ours in
secondary market transactions prior to the maturity of the outstanding Notes (and are likely to do so during any applicable observation
period related to a conversion of our Notes). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of our
common stock or our Notes, which could affect a note holder’s ability to convert its Notes and, to the extent the activity occurs during
any observation period related to a conversion of our Notes, it could affect the amount and value of the consideration that the note
holder will receive upon conversion of our Notes.
We do not make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any potential effect that the transactions
described above may have on the price of our Notes or our common stock. In addition, we do not make any representation that the
counterparties or their respective affiliates will engage in these transactions or that these transactions, once commenced, will not be
discontinued without notice.
The issuance of additional stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans, the conversion
of our Notes or exercise of the related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.
interruption by man-made problems such as terrorism.
Our business is subject to the risks of earthquakes, fire, power outages, floods, health risks and other catastrophic events, and to
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes us to issue up to 1.0 billion shares of common stock and up to
Both our corporate headquarters and the location where our products are manufactured are located in the San Francisco Bay
100.0 million shares of preferred stock with such rights and preferences as may be determined by our board of directors. Subject to
compliance with applicable rules and regulations, we may issue shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of our
common stock from time to time in connection with a financing, acquisition, investment, our stock incentive plans, the conversion of
our Notes, the settlement of our Warrants related to each such series of the Notes, or otherwise. Any such issuance could result in
substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
We cannot guarantee that our share repurchase program will be fully consummated, or that it will enhance shareholder value, and
share repurchases could affect the price of our common stock.
As of July 31, 2022, we had $85.0 million available under our share repurchase program which will expire on December 31,
2022. Such share repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued by the Company at any time without prior notice. Although
our board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program, we are not obligated to repurchase any specific dollar amount or to
acquire any specific number of shares under the program. The share repurchase program could affect the price of our common stock,
increase volatility and diminish our cash reserves. In addition, the program may be suspended or terminated at any time, which may
result in a decrease in the price of our common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our common stock. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the operation
and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the future. As a result, you may only receive a
return on your investment in our common stock if the market price of our common stock increases.
Our charter documents and Delaware law, as well as certain provisions contained in the indentures governing our Notes, could
discourage takeover attempts and lead to management entrenchment, which could also reduce the market price of our common
stock.
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of
delaying or preventing a change in control of our company or changes in our management. Our amended and restated certificate of
incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that:
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establish that our board of directors is divided into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III, with three-year staggered
terms;
authorize our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those
shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval;
provide our board of directors with the exclusive right to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our
board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director;
prohibit our stockholders from taking action by written consent;
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president, our secretary, or a majority vote of our board of directors;
require the affirmative vote of holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the
voting stock, voting together as a single class, to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of
incorporation relating to the issuance of preferred stock and management of our business or our amended and restated
bylaws;
authorize our board of directors to amend our bylaws by majority vote; and
establish advance notice procedures with which our stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of
directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting.
These provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by
making it more difficult for our stockholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the
members of management. In addition, as a Delaware corporation, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law. These provisions may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from
merging or combining with us for a certain period of time. Additionally, certain provisions contained in the indenture governing our
Notes could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us. The application of Section 203 or certain
provisions contained in the indenture governing our Notes also could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of
us. Any of these provisions could, under certain circumstances, depress the market price of our common stock.
General Risk Factors
Area, a region known for seismic activity. In addition, other natural disasters, such as fire or floods, a significant power outage,
telecommunications failure, terrorism, an armed conflict, cyberattacks, epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, or other geo-
political unrest could affect our supply chain, manufacturers, logistics providers, channel partners, or end-customers or the economy as
a whole and such disruption could impact our shipments and sales. These risks may be further increased if the disaster recovery plans
for us and our suppliers prove to be inadequate. To the extent that any of the above should result in delays or cancellations of customer
orders, the loss of customers, or the delay in the manufacture, deployment, or shipment of our products, our business, financial
condition, and operating results would be adversely affected.
Our failure to raise additional capital or generate the significant capital necessary to expand our operations and invest in new
products and subscriptions could reduce our ability to compete and could harm our business.
We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to respond to
business challenges, including the need to develop new features to enhance our portfolio, improve our operating infrastructure, or
acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure
additional funds. If we raise additional equity or equity-linked financing, our stockholders may experience significant dilution of their
ownership interests and the market price of our common stock could decline. Any conversion of the outstanding Notes into common
stock will dilute the ownership interests of existing stockholders to the extent we deliver shares upon conversion of such Notes. See
the risk factor entitled “The issuance of additional stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive
plans, the conversion of our Notes or exercise of the related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.” The holders of
our Notes have priority over holders of our common stock, and if we engage in future debt financings, the holders of such additional
debt would also have priority over the holders of our common stock. Current and future indebtedness may also contain terms that,
among other things, restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness. We may also be required to take other actions that would
otherwise be in the interests of the debt holders and would require us to maintain specified liquidity or other ratios, any of which could
harm our business, operating results, and financial condition. We may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to
us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to
continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired, and our business may
be adversely affected.
The convertible note hedge and warrant transactions may affect the value of our common stock.
In connection with the sale of our 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes, we entered into convertible note hedge transactions (the “Note
Hedges”) with certain counterparties. In connection with each such sale of the Notes, we also entered into warrant transactions with
the counterparties pursuant to which we sold warrants (the “Warrants”) for the purchase of our common stock. The Note Hedges for
our 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes are expected generally to reduce the potential dilution to our common stock upon any conversion of
our Notes and/or offset any cash payments we are required to make in excess of the principal amount of any such converted Notes.
The Warrants could separately have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock exceeds the
applicable strike price of the Warrants unless, subject to certain conditions, we elect to cash settle such Warrants.
The applicable counterparties or their respective affiliates may modify their hedge positions by entering into or unwinding
various derivatives with respect to our common stock and/or purchasing or selling our common stock or other securities of ours in
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specify that special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by the chairman of our board of directors, our
president, our secretary, or a majority vote of our board of directors;
require the affirmative vote of holders of at least 66 2/3% of the voting power of all of the then outstanding shares of the
voting stock, voting together as a single class, to amend the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of
incorporation relating to the issuance of preferred stock and management of our business or our amended and restated
bylaws;
authorize our board of directors to amend our bylaws by majority vote; and
establish advance notice procedures with which our stockholders must comply to nominate candidates to our board of
directors or to propose matters to be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting.
secondary market transactions prior to the maturity of the outstanding Notes (and are likely to do so during any applicable observation
These provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by
period related to a conversion of our Notes). This activity could also cause or avoid an increase or a decrease in the market price of our
common stock or our Notes, which could affect a note holder’s ability to convert its Notes and, to the extent the activity occurs during
any observation period related to a conversion of our Notes, it could affect the amount and value of the consideration that the note
holder will receive upon conversion of our Notes.
We do not make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any potential effect that the transactions
described above may have on the price of our Notes or our common stock. In addition, we do not make any representation that the
counterparties or their respective affiliates will engage in these transactions or that these transactions, once commenced, will not be
making it more difficult for our stockholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the
members of management. In addition, as a Delaware corporation, we are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation
Law. These provisions may prohibit large stockholders, in particular those owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock, from
merging or combining with us for a certain period of time. Additionally, certain provisions contained in the indenture governing our
Notes could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us. The application of Section 203 or certain
provisions contained in the indenture governing our Notes also could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of
us. Any of these provisions could, under certain circumstances, depress the market price of our common stock.
discontinued without notice.
General Risk Factors
The issuance of additional stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive plans, the conversion
of our Notes or exercise of the related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.
Our business is subject to the risks of earthquakes, fire, power outages, floods, health risks and other catastrophic events, and to
interruption by man-made problems such as terrorism.
Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes us to issue up to 1.0 billion shares of common stock and up to
Both our corporate headquarters and the location where our products are manufactured are located in the San Francisco Bay
100.0 million shares of preferred stock with such rights and preferences as may be determined by our board of directors. Subject to
compliance with applicable rules and regulations, we may issue shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of our
common stock from time to time in connection with a financing, acquisition, investment, our stock incentive plans, the conversion of
our Notes, the settlement of our Warrants related to each such series of the Notes, or otherwise. Any such issuance could result in
substantial dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
We cannot guarantee that our share repurchase program will be fully consummated, or that it will enhance shareholder value, and
share repurchases could affect the price of our common stock.
As of July 31, 2022, we had $85.0 million available under our share repurchase program which will expire on December 31,
2022. Such share repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued by the Company at any time without prior notice. Although
our board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program, we are not obligated to repurchase any specific dollar amount or to
acquire any specific number of shares under the program. The share repurchase program could affect the price of our common stock,
increase volatility and diminish our cash reserves. In addition, the program may be suspended or terminated at any time, which may
result in a decrease in the price of our common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any dividends on our common stock. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the operation
and expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the future. As a result, you may only receive a
return on your investment in our common stock if the market price of our common stock increases.
Our charter documents and Delaware law, as well as certain provisions contained in the indentures governing our Notes, could
discourage takeover attempts and lead to management entrenchment, which could also reduce the market price of our common
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of
delaying or preventing a change in control of our company or changes in our management. Our amended and restated certificate of
incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that:
establish that our board of directors is divided into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III, with three-year staggered
terms;
authorize our board of directors to issue shares of preferred stock and to determine the price and other terms of those
shares, including preferences and voting rights, without stockholder approval;
provide our board of directors with the exclusive right to elect a director to fill a vacancy created by the expansion of our
stock.
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board of directors or the resignation, death or removal of a director;
prohibit our stockholders from taking action by written consent;
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Area, a region known for seismic activity. In addition, other natural disasters, such as fire or floods, a significant power outage,
telecommunications failure, terrorism, an armed conflict, cyberattacks, epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, or other geo-
political unrest could affect our supply chain, manufacturers, logistics providers, channel partners, or end-customers or the economy as
a whole and such disruption could impact our shipments and sales. These risks may be further increased if the disaster recovery plans
for us and our suppliers prove to be inadequate. To the extent that any of the above should result in delays or cancellations of customer
orders, the loss of customers, or the delay in the manufacture, deployment, or shipment of our products, our business, financial
condition, and operating results would be adversely affected.
Our failure to raise additional capital or generate the significant capital necessary to expand our operations and invest in new
products and subscriptions could reduce our ability to compete and could harm our business.
We intend to continue to make investments to support our business growth and may require additional funds to respond to
business challenges, including the need to develop new features to enhance our portfolio, improve our operating infrastructure, or
acquire complementary businesses and technologies. Accordingly, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings to secure
additional funds. If we raise additional equity or equity-linked financing, our stockholders may experience significant dilution of their
ownership interests and the market price of our common stock could decline. Any conversion of the outstanding Notes into common
stock will dilute the ownership interests of existing stockholders to the extent we deliver shares upon conversion of such Notes. See
the risk factor entitled “The issuance of additional stock in connection with financings, acquisitions, investments, our stock incentive
plans, the conversion of our Notes or exercise of the related Warrants, or otherwise will dilute all other stockholders.” The holders of
our Notes have priority over holders of our common stock, and if we engage in future debt financings, the holders of such additional
debt would also have priority over the holders of our common stock. Current and future indebtedness may also contain terms that,
among other things, restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness. We may also be required to take other actions that would
otherwise be in the interests of the debt holders and would require us to maintain specified liquidity or other ratios, any of which could
harm our business, operating results, and financial condition. We may not be able to obtain additional financing on terms favorable to
us, if at all. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to
continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired, and our business may
be adversely affected.
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We are obligated to maintain proper and effective internal control over financial reporting. We may not complete our analysis of
our internal control over financial reporting in a timely manner, or this internal control may not be determined to be effective,
which may adversely affect investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.
While we were able to determine in our management’s report for fiscal 2022 that our internal control over financial reporting is
effective, as well as provide an unqualified attestation report from our independent registered public accounting firm to that effect, we
may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing, and any required remediation in a timely fashion, may be unable to assert that our
internal controls are effective, or our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to formally attest to the
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in the future. In the event that our chief executive officer, chief financial
officer, or independent registered public accounting firm determines in the future that our internal control over financial reporting is
not effective as defined under Section 404, we could be subject to one or more investigations or enforcement actions by state or
federal regulatory agencies, stockholder lawsuits or other adverse actions requiring us to incur defense costs, pay fines, settlements or
judgments and causing investor perceptions to be adversely affected and potentially resulting in a decline in the market price of our
stock.
ITEM 1B.
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Not applicable.
ITEM 2.
PROPERTIES
Our corporate headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, where we lease approximately 941,000 square feet of space
under three lease agreements that expire in July 2028, with options to extend the lease terms through July 2046. We also lease space
for personnel in Israel. In addition, we provide our cloud-based subscription offerings through data centers operated under co-location
arrangements in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Refer to Note 11. Leases in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K
for more information on our operating leases. Additionally, we own 10.4 acres of land adjacent to our headquarters in Santa Clara,
California, which we intend to develop to accommodate future expansion, the speed of which development has been slowed due to the
current environment.
We believe that our current facilities are adequate to meet our current needs. We intend to expand our facilities or add new
facilities as we add employees and enter new geographic markets, and we believe that suitable additional or alternative space will be
available as needed to accommodate ongoing operations and any such growth. However, we expect to incur additional expenses in
connection with such new or expanded facilities.
ITEM 3.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The information set forth under the “Litigation” subheading in Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies in Part II, Item 8 of
this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 4.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
ITEM 5.
MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
PART II
Our common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “PANW.”
Prior to October 22, 2021, our common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “PANW.”
As of August 22, 2022, there were 355 holders of record of our common stock. Because many of our shares of common stock
are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders
Market Information
Holders of Record
represented by these record holders.
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid, and do not anticipate declaring or paying in the foreseeable future, any cash dividends on our
capital stock. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of
directors, subject to applicable laws and will depend on then existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results,
contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
See Part III, Item 12 “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” of
this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information regarding securities authorized for issuance.
Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
During the three months ended July 31, 2022, we issued a total of 35,004 shares of our unregistered common stock pursuant to
post-closing obligations in connection with our previous acquisitions of The Crypsis Group, Gamma Networks, Inc., and Sinefa
Group, Inc. (the “Transactions”).
The Transactions did not involve any underwriters, any underwriting discounts or commissions, or any public offering. The
issuances of the securities pursuant to the Transactions were exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the “Act”) by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) of the Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
The following table summarizes stock repurchases during the three months ended July 31, 2022 (in millions, except per share
amounts):
Period
May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022(1)(2)
June 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022(1)(2)
July 1, 2022 to July 31, 2022(1)(2)
Total
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Total Number of
Shares Purchased
Average Price Paid
per Share
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs(1)
Approximate
Dollar Value of
Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the Plans or
Programs(1)
0.0 $
0.5 $
0.3 $
0.8 $
436.37
482.86
486.05
483.50
— $
0.5 $
0.3 $
0.8
450.0
196.3
85.0
(1)
On February 26, 2019, we announced that our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program, which is funded from
available working capital. In December 2020 and August 2021, we announced additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million increases to this
share repurchase program, respectively, bringing the total authorization to $2.4 billion, with $85.0 million remaining as of July 31, 2022. The
expiration date of this repurchase authorization was extended to December 31, 2022, and our repurchase program may be suspended or
discontinued at any time. Repurchases under our program are to be made at management’s discretion on the open market, through privately
negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a
(2)
Includes shares of restricted common stock delivered by certain employees upon vesting of equity awards to satisfy tax withholding
requirements. The number of shares delivered by these employees to satisfy tax withholding requirements during the period was not
combination of the foregoing.
significant.
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We are obligated to maintain proper and effective internal control over financial reporting. We may not complete our analysis of
our internal control over financial reporting in a timely manner, or this internal control may not be determined to be effective,
which may adversely affect investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.
ITEM 5.
MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND
ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
PART II
While we were able to determine in our management’s report for fiscal 2022 that our internal control over financial reporting is
effective, as well as provide an unqualified attestation report from our independent registered public accounting firm to that effect, we
Market Information
may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing, and any required remediation in a timely fashion, may be unable to assert that our
Our common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “PANW.”
internal controls are effective, or our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to formally attest to the
Prior to October 22, 2021, our common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) under the symbol “PANW.”
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in the future. In the event that our chief executive officer, chief financial
officer, or independent registered public accounting firm determines in the future that our internal control over financial reporting is
Holders of Record
not effective as defined under Section 404, we could be subject to one or more investigations or enforcement actions by state or
As of August 22, 2022, there were 355 holders of record of our common stock. Because many of our shares of common stock
federal regulatory agencies, stockholder lawsuits or other adverse actions requiring us to incur defense costs, pay fines, settlements or
judgments and causing investor perceptions to be adversely affected and potentially resulting in a decline in the market price of our
are held by brokers and other institutions on behalf of stockholders, we are unable to estimate the total number of stockholders
represented by these record holders.
stock.
ITEM 1B.
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Not applicable.
ITEM 2.
PROPERTIES
Dividend Policy
We have never declared or paid, and do not anticipate declaring or paying in the foreseeable future, any cash dividends on our
capital stock. Any future determination as to the declaration and payment of dividends, if any, will be at the discretion of our board of
directors, subject to applicable laws and will depend on then existing conditions, including our financial condition, operating results,
contractual restrictions, capital requirements, business prospects, and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant.
Our corporate headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California, where we lease approximately 941,000 square feet of space
under three lease agreements that expire in July 2028, with options to extend the lease terms through July 2046. We also lease space
Securities Authorized for Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans
for personnel in Israel. In addition, we provide our cloud-based subscription offerings through data centers operated under co-location
See Part III, Item 12 “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters” of
arrangements in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Refer to Note 11. Leases in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K
this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information regarding securities authorized for issuance.
for more information on our operating leases. Additionally, we own 10.4 acres of land adjacent to our headquarters in Santa Clara,
California, which we intend to develop to accommodate future expansion, the speed of which development has been slowed due to the
Recent Sales of Unregistered Equity Securities
current environment.
We believe that our current facilities are adequate to meet our current needs. We intend to expand our facilities or add new
facilities as we add employees and enter new geographic markets, and we believe that suitable additional or alternative space will be
available as needed to accommodate ongoing operations and any such growth. However, we expect to incur additional expenses in
The information set forth under the “Litigation” subheading in Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies in Part II, Item 8 of
connection with such new or expanded facilities.
ITEM 3.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 4.
MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.
During the three months ended July 31, 2022, we issued a total of 35,004 shares of our unregistered common stock pursuant to
post-closing obligations in connection with our previous acquisitions of The Crypsis Group, Gamma Networks, Inc., and Sinefa
Group, Inc. (the “Transactions”).
The Transactions did not involve any underwriters, any underwriting discounts or commissions, or any public offering. The
issuances of the securities pursuant to the Transactions were exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the “Act”) by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) of the Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder.
Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers
The following table summarizes stock repurchases during the three months ended July 31, 2022 (in millions, except per share
amounts):
Period
May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2022(1)(2)
June 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022(1)(2)
July 1, 2022 to July 31, 2022(1)(2)
Total
______________
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
Average Price Paid
per Share
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs(1)
Approximate
Dollar Value of
Shares that May
Yet Be Purchased
Under the Plans or
Programs(1)
0.0 $
0.5 $
0.3 $
0.8 $
436.37
482.86
486.05
483.50
— $
0.5 $
0.3 $
0.8
450.0
196.3
85.0
(1)
(2)
On February 26, 2019, we announced that our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program, which is funded from
available working capital. In December 2020 and August 2021, we announced additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million increases to this
share repurchase program, respectively, bringing the total authorization to $2.4 billion, with $85.0 million remaining as of July 31, 2022. The
expiration date of this repurchase authorization was extended to December 31, 2022, and our repurchase program may be suspended or
discontinued at any time. Repurchases under our program are to be made at management’s discretion on the open market, through privately
negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a
combination of the foregoing.
Includes shares of restricted common stock delivered by certain employees upon vesting of equity awards to satisfy tax withholding
requirements. The number of shares delivered by these employees to satisfy tax withholding requirements during the period was not
significant.
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Stock Price Performance Graph
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
This performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange Act”), or incorporated by reference into any filing of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Historically, we have compared the cumulative total return on our common stock with that of the NYSE Composite Index and
the NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index. As a result of the change in our listing from the NYSE to Nasdaq in October 2021, we have added the
Nasdaq 100 Index, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the Standard & Poor’s Information Technology Index to the indexes that we
have historically used.
This performance graph compares the cumulative total return on our common stock with that of the Nasdaq 100 Index, the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the Standard & Poor Information Technology Index, the NYSE Composite Index and the NYSE Arca
Tech 100 Index for the five years ended July 31, 2022. This performance graph assumes $100 was invested on July 31, 2017, in each
of the common stock of Palo Alto Networks, Inc., the Nasdaq 100 Index, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the Standard & Poor’s
Information Technology Index, the NYSE Composite Index, and the NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index, and assumes the reinvestment of any
dividends. The stock price performance on this performance graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
Company/Index
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Nasdaq 100 Index
S&P 500 Index
S&P Information Technology Index
NYSE Composite Index
NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index
ITEM 6.
[RESERVED]
7/31/2017
7/31/2018
7/31/2019
7/31/2020
7/31/2021
7/31/2022
$
$
$
$
$
$
100.00 $
100.00 $
100.00 $
100.00 $
100.00 $
100.00 $
150.45 $
122.99 $
114.01 $
126.83 $
108.32 $
124.87 $
171.91 $
133.48 $
120.65 $
144.57 $
109.18 $
134.35 $
194.20 $
185.46 $
132.42 $
198.12 $
104.16 $
155.18 $
302.82
254.41
177.92
274.74
138.73
215.23
$
$
$
$
$
$
378.74
220.19
167.20
257.30
128.08
187.52
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
OPERATIONS
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with
our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following
discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks
and uncertainties, which could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied by any forward-looking
statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this Annual
Report on Form 10-K, and in particular, the risks discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.
Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) is organized as
follows:
Overview. A discussion of our business and overall analysis of financial and other highlights in order to provide context
for the remainder of MD&A.
evaluate our performance.
Key Financial Metrics. A summary of our GAAP and non-GAAP key financial metrics, which management monitors to
Results of Operations. A discussion of the nature and trends in our financial results and an analysis of our financial results
comparing fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2021. For discussion and analysis related to our financial results comparing fiscal 2021 to
2020, refer to Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2021, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
September 3, 2021.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. An analysis of changes on our balance sheets and cash flows, and a discussion of our
financial condition and our ability to meet cash needs.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments. An overview of our contractual obligations, contingent liabilities,
commitments, and off-balance sheet arrangements outstanding as of July 31, 2022, including expected payment schedules.
Critical Accounting Estimates. A discussion of our accounting policies that require critical estimates, assumptions, and
judgments.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements. A discussion of expected impacts of impending accounting changes on financial
information to be reported in the future.
Overview
We empower enterprises, organizations, service providers, and government entities to protect themselves against today’s most
sophisticated cyber threats. Our cybersecurity platforms and services help secure enterprise users, networks, clouds, and endpoints by
delivering comprehensive cybersecurity backed by industry leading artificial intelligence and automation. We are a leading provider of
zero trust solutions that start with the next-generation of zero trust network access to secure remote workforces and extend into
securing all users, applications and infrastructure with zero trust principles. Our security solutions are designed to reduce customers’
total cost of ownership by improving operational efficiency and eliminating the need for siloed point products. Our company focuses
on delivering value in five fundamental areas:
Network Security:
•
Our network security platform, which includes our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls, available in a number of
form factors, including physical, virtual, and containerized appliances, as well as a cloud-delivered service, has been a
leader in the industry for ten consecutive years. Our network security platform also includes our Cloud-Delivered Security
Services, such as Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire®, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT
Security, GlobalProtect™, SD-WAN, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (“Enterprise DLP”), SaaS Security API and SaaS
Security Inline. Through these add-on security services, our customers are able to secure their content, applications, users,
and devices across our network security platform as well as the Prisma® and Cortex® product lines. Panorama™, our
network security management solution, available as hardware or virtual machine, can centrally manage our network
security platform irrespective of form factor, location, or scale.
Stock Price Performance Graph
This performance graph shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
ITEM 7.
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
amended (the “Exchange Act”), or incorporated by reference into any filing of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. under the Securities Act of
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with
1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Historically, we have compared the cumulative total return on our common stock with that of the NYSE Composite Index and
the NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index. As a result of the change in our listing from the NYSE to Nasdaq in October 2021, we have added the
Nasdaq 100 Index, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and the Standard & Poor’s Information Technology Index to the indexes that we
have historically used.
This performance graph compares the cumulative total return on our common stock with that of the Nasdaq 100 Index, the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the Standard & Poor Information Technology Index, the NYSE Composite Index and the NYSE Arca
Tech 100 Index for the five years ended July 31, 2022. This performance graph assumes $100 was invested on July 31, 2017, in each
of the common stock of Palo Alto Networks, Inc., the Nasdaq 100 Index, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the Standard & Poor’s
Information Technology Index, the NYSE Composite Index, and the NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index, and assumes the reinvestment of any
dividends. The stock price performance on this performance graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.
Company/Index
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Nasdaq 100 Index
S&P 500 Index
7/31/2017
7/31/2018
7/31/2019
7/31/2020
7/31/2021
7/31/2022
100.00 $
150.45 $
171.91 $
194.20 $
100.00 $
122.99 $
133.48 $
185.46 $
100.00 $
114.01 $
120.65 $
132.42 $
S&P Information Technology Index
100.00 $
126.83 $
144.57 $
198.12 $
NYSE Composite Index
NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index
100.00 $
108.32 $
109.18 $
104.16 $
100.00 $
124.87 $
134.35 $
155.18 $
302.82
254.41
177.92
274.74
138.73
215.23
$
$
$
$
$
$
378.74
220.19
167.20
257.30
128.08
187.52
$
$
$
$
$
$
ITEM 6.
[RESERVED]
our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The following
discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks
and uncertainties, which could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated or implied by any forward-looking
statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this Annual
Report on Form 10-K, and in particular, the risks discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A of this report.
Our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (“MD&A”) is organized as
follows:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Overview. A discussion of our business and overall analysis of financial and other highlights in order to provide context
for the remainder of MD&A.
Key Financial Metrics. A summary of our GAAP and non-GAAP key financial metrics, which management monitors to
evaluate our performance.
Results of Operations. A discussion of the nature and trends in our financial results and an analysis of our financial results
comparing fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2021. For discussion and analysis related to our financial results comparing fiscal 2021 to
2020, refer to Part II, Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2021, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
September 3, 2021.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. An analysis of changes on our balance sheets and cash flows, and a discussion of our
financial condition and our ability to meet cash needs.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments. An overview of our contractual obligations, contingent liabilities,
commitments, and off-balance sheet arrangements outstanding as of July 31, 2022, including expected payment schedules.
Critical Accounting Estimates. A discussion of our accounting policies that require critical estimates, assumptions, and
judgments.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements. A discussion of expected impacts of impending accounting changes on financial
information to be reported in the future.
Overview
We empower enterprises, organizations, service providers, and government entities to protect themselves against today’s most
sophisticated cyber threats. Our cybersecurity platforms and services help secure enterprise users, networks, clouds, and endpoints by
delivering comprehensive cybersecurity backed by industry leading artificial intelligence and automation. We are a leading provider of
zero trust solutions that start with the next-generation of zero trust network access to secure remote workforces and extend into
securing all users, applications and infrastructure with zero trust principles. Our security solutions are designed to reduce customers’
total cost of ownership by improving operational efficiency and eliminating the need for siloed point products. Our company focuses
on delivering value in five fundamental areas:
Network Security:
•
Our network security platform, which includes our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewalls, available in a number of
form factors, including physical, virtual, and containerized appliances, as well as a cloud-delivered service, has been a
leader in the industry for ten consecutive years. Our network security platform also includes our Cloud-Delivered Security
Services, such as Threat Prevention, Advanced Threat Prevention, WildFire®, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, IoT
Security, GlobalProtect™, SD-WAN, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (“Enterprise DLP”), SaaS Security API and SaaS
Security Inline. Through these add-on security services, our customers are able to secure their content, applications, users,
and devices across our network security platform as well as the Prisma® and Cortex® product lines. Panorama™, our
network security management solution, available as hardware or virtual machine, can centrally manage our network
security platform irrespective of form factor, location, or scale.
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We believe that the growth of our business and our short-term and long-term success are dependent upon many factors,
including our ability to extend our technology leadership, grow our base of end-customers, expand deployment of our portfolio and
support offerings within existing end-customers, and focus on end-customer satisfaction. To manage any future growth effectively, we
must continue to improve and expand our information technology and financial infrastructure, our operating and administrative
systems and controls, and our ability to manage headcount, capital, and processes in an efficient manner. While these areas present
significant opportunities for us, they also pose challenges and risks that we must successfully address in order to sustain the growth of
our business and improve our operating results. For additional information regarding the challenges and risks we face, see the “Risk
Factors” section in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Impact of COVID-19 and Other Macroeconomic Factors on Our Business
We are actively monitoring, evaluating, and responding to developments relating to COVID-19, which has resulted in and is
expected to continue to result in significant global, social, and business disruption. While we instituted a global work-from-home
policy beginning in March 2020, which has been modified to provide employees with the choice to work in our offices for a set
number of days per week or completely remotely, we did not experience significant disruption in our work operations during fiscal
2022. We will continue to actively monitor the situation, including progress made through vaccinations, and we will make further
changes to our business operations as may be required by federal, state, or local authorities or that we determine are in the best
interests of our employees, end-customers, partners, suppliers, and stockholders. Our focus remains on the safety of our employees,
and we strive to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate, in part, by providing technology to our
employees, end-customers, and partners to help them do their best work while working remotely.
COVID-19 has affected our end-customers’ spending and could lead them to delay or defer purchasing decisions, and lengthen
sales cycles and payment terms, which could materially adversely impact our business, results of operations, and overall financial
performance. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on our operational and financial performance will depend on developments,
including the duration and spread of the virus and its variants, impact on our end-customers’ spending, volume of sales and length of
our sales cycles, impact on our partners, suppliers, and employees, actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, and other
factors identified in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K. The global supply chain and the semiconductor industry are
experiencing significant challenges. We have seen supply chain challenges increase, including chip and component shortages, which
have, in certain cases, caused delays for us in acquiring chips, components and inventory and have resulted in increased costs as
compared to historic levels. While we incurred increased costs and experienced increased lead time for certain product deliveries to
our end-customers, we continue to work to minimize the effects from supply chain challenges.
In addition, our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic and geopolitical conditions. Worsening economic
conditions, including inflation, higher interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and other changes in economic conditions,
may adversely affect our financial performance.
Secure Access Service Edge:
•
Prisma Access is our next-generation Zero Trust Network Access (“ZTNA”) platform that provides secure network access
for all employees with unified policy management and continuous threat inspection. We have recently introduced ZTNA
2.0, which addresses major shortcomings in the first-generation ZTNA products in the industry (which we refer to as
ZTNA 1.0). Prisma Access delivers granular least-privileged access along with continuous trust verification and security
inspection and protects security for all applications and data across the enterprise infrastructure. Prisma Access, when
combined with Prisma SD-WAN, provides a comprehensive single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (“SASE”)
offering that is used to secure remote workforces and enable the cloud-delivered branch.
Cloud Security:
•
We enable cloud native security through our Prisma Cloud platform. As a comprehensive Cloud Native Application
Protection Platform (“CNAPP”), Prisma Cloud secures hybrid and multi-cloud environments for applications, data, and
the entire cloud native technology stack across the full development lifecycle; from code to runtime. For inline network
security on multi and hybrid-cloud environments, we also offer our VM-Series and CN-Series Firewall offerings.
Security Operations:
•
We deliver the next generation of endpoint security, security analytics and security automation solutions through our
Cortex portfolio. These include our industry-leading extended detection and response platform Cortex XDR® to prevent,
detect, and respond to complex cybersecurity attacks, Cortex XSOAR® for security orchestration, automation, and
response (“SOAR”), Cortex Xpanse® for attack surface management (“ASM”) and Cortex Data Lake allowing our
customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-rich data across endpoints, networks, and clouds. These
products are delivered as software or SaaS subscriptions.
Threat Intelligence and Security Consulting (Unit 42):
•
We enable security teams with up-to-date threat intelligence and deep cybersecurity expertise before, during and after
attacks through our Unit 42 threat research and security consulting team. Unit 42 offers incident response, risk
management, board advisory and proactive cybersecurity assessment services.
For fiscal 2022 and 2021, total revenue was $5.5 billion and $4.3 billion, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of
29.3%. Our growth reflects the increased adoption of our portfolio, which consists of product, subscriptions, and support. We believe
our portfolio will enable us to benefit from recurring revenues and new revenues as we continue to grow our end-customer base. As of
July 31, 2022, we had end-customers in over 180 countries. Our end-customers represent a broad range of industries, including
education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare, Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and
telecommunications, and include almost all of the Fortune 100 companies and a majority of the Global 2000 companies in the world.
We maintain a field sales force that works closely with our channel partners in developing sales opportunities. We primarily use a two-
tiered, indirect fulfillment model whereby we sell our products, subscriptions, and support to our distributors, which, in turn, sell to
our resellers, which then sell to our end-customers.
Our product revenue grew to $1.4 billion or 24.8% of total revenue for fiscal 2022, representing year-over-year growth of
21.7%. Product revenue is primarily generated from sales of our appliances, primarily our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall,
which is available in a number of form factors, including as physical, virtual, and containerized appliances. Our ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewall incorporates our PAN-OS operating system, which provides a consistent set of capabilities across our entire
network security product line. Our products are designed for different performance requirements throughout an organization, ranging
from our PA-410, which is designed for small organizations and remote or branch offices, to our top-of-the-line PA-7080, which is
designed for large-scale data centers and service provider use. The same firewall functionality that is delivered in our physical
appliances is also available in our VM-Series virtual firewalls, which secure virtualized and cloud-based computing environments, and
in our CN-Series container firewalls, which secure container environments and traffic.
Our subscription and support revenue grew to $4.1 billion or 75.2% of total revenue for fiscal 2022, representing year-over-year
growth of 32.0%. Our subscriptions provide our end-customers with near real-time access to the latest antivirus, intrusion prevention,
web filtering, modern malware prevention, data loss prevention, and cloud access security broker capabilities across the network,
endpoints, and the cloud. When end-customers purchase our physical, virtual, or container firewall appliances, or certain cloud
offerings, they typically purchase support in order to receive ongoing security updates, upgrades, bug fixes, and repairs. In addition to
the subscriptions purchased with these appliances, end-customers may also purchase other subscriptions on a per-user, per-endpoint, or
capacity-based basis. We also offer professional services, including incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services.
We continue to invest in innovation as we evolve and further extend the capabilities of our portfolio, as we believe that
innovation and timely development of new features and products are essential to meeting the needs of our end-customers and
improving our competitive position. During fiscal 2022, we introduced several new offerings, including: Prisma Cloud 3.0, Prisma
Access 3.0, AIOps for NGFW, PAN-OS 10.2, and Cloud NGFW for AWS.
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We believe that the growth of our business and our short-term and long-term success are dependent upon many factors,
including our ability to extend our technology leadership, grow our base of end-customers, expand deployment of our portfolio and
support offerings within existing end-customers, and focus on end-customer satisfaction. To manage any future growth effectively, we
must continue to improve and expand our information technology and financial infrastructure, our operating and administrative
systems and controls, and our ability to manage headcount, capital, and processes in an efficient manner. While these areas present
significant opportunities for us, they also pose challenges and risks that we must successfully address in order to sustain the growth of
our business and improve our operating results. For additional information regarding the challenges and risks we face, see the “Risk
Factors” section in Part I, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Impact of COVID-19 and Other Macroeconomic Factors on Our Business
We are actively monitoring, evaluating, and responding to developments relating to COVID-19, which has resulted in and is
expected to continue to result in significant global, social, and business disruption. While we instituted a global work-from-home
policy beginning in March 2020, which has been modified to provide employees with the choice to work in our offices for a set
number of days per week or completely remotely, we did not experience significant disruption in our work operations during fiscal
2022. We will continue to actively monitor the situation, including progress made through vaccinations, and we will make further
changes to our business operations as may be required by federal, state, or local authorities or that we determine are in the best
interests of our employees, end-customers, partners, suppliers, and stockholders. Our focus remains on the safety of our employees,
and we strive to protect the health and well-being of the communities in which we operate, in part, by providing technology to our
employees, end-customers, and partners to help them do their best work while working remotely.
COVID-19 has affected our end-customers’ spending and could lead them to delay or defer purchasing decisions, and lengthen
sales cycles and payment terms, which could materially adversely impact our business, results of operations, and overall financial
performance. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on our operational and financial performance will depend on developments,
including the duration and spread of the virus and its variants, impact on our end-customers’ spending, volume of sales and length of
our sales cycles, impact on our partners, suppliers, and employees, actions that may be taken by governmental authorities, and other
factors identified in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K. The global supply chain and the semiconductor industry are
experiencing significant challenges. We have seen supply chain challenges increase, including chip and component shortages, which
have, in certain cases, caused delays for us in acquiring chips, components and inventory and have resulted in increased costs as
compared to historic levels. While we incurred increased costs and experienced increased lead time for certain product deliveries to
our end-customers, we continue to work to minimize the effects from supply chain challenges.
In addition, our overall performance depends in part on worldwide economic and geopolitical conditions. Worsening economic
conditions, including inflation, higher interest rates, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and other changes in economic conditions,
may adversely affect our financial performance.
Secure Access Service Edge:
•
Prisma Access is our next-generation Zero Trust Network Access (“ZTNA”) platform that provides secure network access
for all employees with unified policy management and continuous threat inspection. We have recently introduced ZTNA
2.0, which addresses major shortcomings in the first-generation ZTNA products in the industry (which we refer to as
ZTNA 1.0). Prisma Access delivers granular least-privileged access along with continuous trust verification and security
inspection and protects security for all applications and data across the enterprise infrastructure. Prisma Access, when
combined with Prisma SD-WAN, provides a comprehensive single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (“SASE”)
offering that is used to secure remote workforces and enable the cloud-delivered branch.
Cloud Security:
Security Operations:
•
We enable cloud native security through our Prisma Cloud platform. As a comprehensive Cloud Native Application
Protection Platform (“CNAPP”), Prisma Cloud secures hybrid and multi-cloud environments for applications, data, and
the entire cloud native technology stack across the full development lifecycle; from code to runtime. For inline network
security on multi and hybrid-cloud environments, we also offer our VM-Series and CN-Series Firewall offerings.
•
We deliver the next generation of endpoint security, security analytics and security automation solutions through our
Cortex portfolio. These include our industry-leading extended detection and response platform Cortex XDR® to prevent,
detect, and respond to complex cybersecurity attacks, Cortex XSOAR® for security orchestration, automation, and
response (“SOAR”), Cortex Xpanse® for attack surface management (“ASM”) and Cortex Data Lake allowing our
customers to collect and analyze large amounts of context-rich data across endpoints, networks, and clouds. These
products are delivered as software or SaaS subscriptions.
Threat Intelligence and Security Consulting (Unit 42):
•
We enable security teams with up-to-date threat intelligence and deep cybersecurity expertise before, during and after
attacks through our Unit 42 threat research and security consulting team. Unit 42 offers incident response, risk
management, board advisory and proactive cybersecurity assessment services.
For fiscal 2022 and 2021, total revenue was $5.5 billion and $4.3 billion, respectively, representing year-over-year growth of
29.3%. Our growth reflects the increased adoption of our portfolio, which consists of product, subscriptions, and support. We believe
our portfolio will enable us to benefit from recurring revenues and new revenues as we continue to grow our end-customer base. As of
July 31, 2022, we had end-customers in over 180 countries. Our end-customers represent a broad range of industries, including
education, energy, financial services, government entities, healthcare, Internet and media, manufacturing, public sector, and
telecommunications, and include almost all of the Fortune 100 companies and a majority of the Global 2000 companies in the world.
We maintain a field sales force that works closely with our channel partners in developing sales opportunities. We primarily use a two-
tiered, indirect fulfillment model whereby we sell our products, subscriptions, and support to our distributors, which, in turn, sell to
our resellers, which then sell to our end-customers.
Our product revenue grew to $1.4 billion or 24.8% of total revenue for fiscal 2022, representing year-over-year growth of
21.7%. Product revenue is primarily generated from sales of our appliances, primarily our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall,
which is available in a number of form factors, including as physical, virtual, and containerized appliances. Our ML-Powered Next-
Generation Firewall incorporates our PAN-OS operating system, which provides a consistent set of capabilities across our entire
network security product line. Our products are designed for different performance requirements throughout an organization, ranging
from our PA-410, which is designed for small organizations and remote or branch offices, to our top-of-the-line PA-7080, which is
designed for large-scale data centers and service provider use. The same firewall functionality that is delivered in our physical
appliances is also available in our VM-Series virtual firewalls, which secure virtualized and cloud-based computing environments, and
in our CN-Series container firewalls, which secure container environments and traffic.
Our subscription and support revenue grew to $4.1 billion or 75.2% of total revenue for fiscal 2022, representing year-over-year
growth of 32.0%. Our subscriptions provide our end-customers with near real-time access to the latest antivirus, intrusion prevention,
web filtering, modern malware prevention, data loss prevention, and cloud access security broker capabilities across the network,
endpoints, and the cloud. When end-customers purchase our physical, virtual, or container firewall appliances, or certain cloud
offerings, they typically purchase support in order to receive ongoing security updates, upgrades, bug fixes, and repairs. In addition to
the subscriptions purchased with these appliances, end-customers may also purchase other subscriptions on a per-user, per-endpoint, or
capacity-based basis. We also offer professional services, including incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services.
We continue to invest in innovation as we evolve and further extend the capabilities of our portfolio, as we believe that
innovation and timely development of new features and products are essential to meeting the needs of our end-customers and
improving our competitive position. During fiscal 2022, we introduced several new offerings, including: Prisma Cloud 3.0, Prisma
Access 3.0, AIOps for NGFW, PAN-OS 10.2, and Cloud NGFW for AWS.
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Key Financial Metrics
We monitor the key financial metrics set forth in the tables below to help us evaluate growth trends, establish budgets, measure
the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts, and assess operational efficiencies. We discuss revenue, gross margin, and the
components of operating loss and margin below under “Results of Operations.”
Total deferred revenue .........................................................................................................$
Cash, cash equivalents, and investments..............................................................................$
July 31,
2022
2021
(in millions)
6,994.0 $
4,686.4 $
5,024.0
3,789.4
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Total revenue .................................................................................................................... $ 5,501.5
(dollars in millions)
$ 4,256.1
$ 3,408.4
Total revenue year-over-year percentage increase ...........................................................
Gross margin ....................................................................................................................
29.3 %
68.8 %
24.9 %
70.0 %
17.5 %
70.7 %
Operating loss .................................................................................................................. $
(188.8)
$
(304.1)
$
(179.0)
•
Cash Flow Provided by Operating Activities. We monitor cash flow provided by operating activities as a measure of our
overall business performance. Our cash flow provided by operating activities is driven in large part by sales of our
products and from up-front payments for subscription and support offerings. Monitoring cash flow provided by operating
activities enables us to analyze our financial performance without the non-cash effects of certain items such as
depreciation, amortization, and share-based compensation costs, thereby allowing us to better understand and manage the
cash needs of our business.
•
Free Cash Flow (non-GAAP). We define free cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, as cash provided by operating
activities less purchases of property, equipment, and other assets. We consider free cash flow to be a profitability and
liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by
the business after necessary capital expenditures. A limitation of the utility of free cash flow as a measure of our financial
performance and liquidity is that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance for the period. In
addition, it is important to note that other companies, including companies in our industry, may not use free cash flow,
may calculate free cash flow in a different manner than we do, or may use other financial measures to evaluate their
performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of free cash flow as a comparative measure. A reconciliation of free
cash flow to cash flow provided by operating activities, the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and
presented in accordance with GAAP, is provided below:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
Operating margin .............................................................................................................
(3.4) %
(7.1) %
(5.3) %
Free cash flow (non-GAAP):
Billings ............................................................................................................................. $ 7,471.5
$ 5,452.2
$ 4,301.7
Billings year-over-year percentage increase ....................................................................
37.0 %
26.7 %
23.3 %
Cash flow provided by operating activities ...................................................................... $ 1,984.7
$ 1,503.0
$ 1,035.7
Free cash flow (non-GAAP) ............................................................................................ $ 1,791.9
$ 1,387.0
$
821.3
Net cash provided by operating activities ................................................................ $
1,984.7 $
1,503.0 $
1,035.7
Less: purchases of property, equipment, and other assets ..........................................
192.8
116.0
Free cash flow (non-GAAP) ......................................................................................$
1,791.9 $
1,387.0 $
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ...................................................$
(933.4) $
(1,480.6) $
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities...................................................$
(806.6) $
(1,104.0) $
214.4
821.3
288.0
673.0
•
•
Deferred Revenue. Our deferred revenue primarily consists of amounts that have been invoiced but have not been
recognized as revenue as of the period end. The majority of our deferred revenue balance consists of subscription and
support revenue that is recognized ratably over the contractual service period. We monitor our deferred revenue balance
because it represents a significant portion of revenue to be recognized in future periods.
Billings. We define billings as total revenue plus the change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired deferred revenue,
during the period. We consider billings to be a key metric used by management to manage our business. We believe
billings provides investors with an important indicator of the health and visibility of our business because it includes
subscription and support revenue, which is recognized ratably over the contractual service period, and product revenue,
which is recognized at the time of shipment, provided that all other conditions for revenue recognition have been met. We
consider billings to be a useful metric for management and investors, particularly if we continue to experience increased
sales of subscriptions and strong renewal rates for subscription and support offerings, and as we monitor our near-term
cash flows. While we believe that billings provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and
evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management, it is important to note that other companies,
including companies in our industry, may not use billings, may calculate billings differently, may have different billing
frequencies, or may use other financial measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness
of billings as a comparative measure. We calculate billings in the following manner:
Billings:
Total revenue .............................................................................................................$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1 $
3,408.4
Add: change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired deferred revenue..................
1,970.0
1,196.1
893.3
Billings.......................................................................................................................$
7,471.5 $
5,452.2 $
4,301.7
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
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•
•
Cash Flow Provided by Operating Activities. We monitor cash flow provided by operating activities as a measure of our
overall business performance. Our cash flow provided by operating activities is driven in large part by sales of our
products and from up-front payments for subscription and support offerings. Monitoring cash flow provided by operating
activities enables us to analyze our financial performance without the non-cash effects of certain items such as
depreciation, amortization, and share-based compensation costs, thereby allowing us to better understand and manage the
cash needs of our business.
Free Cash Flow (non-GAAP). We define free cash flow, a non-GAAP financial measure, as cash provided by operating
activities less purchases of property, equipment, and other assets. We consider free cash flow to be a profitability and
liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by
the business after necessary capital expenditures. A limitation of the utility of free cash flow as a measure of our financial
performance and liquidity is that it does not represent the total increase or decrease in our cash balance for the period. In
addition, it is important to note that other companies, including companies in our industry, may not use free cash flow,
may calculate free cash flow in a different manner than we do, or may use other financial measures to evaluate their
performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness of free cash flow as a comparative measure. A reconciliation of free
cash flow to cash flow provided by operating activities, the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and
presented in accordance with GAAP, is provided below:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
Operating margin .............................................................................................................
(3.4) %
(7.1) %
(5.3) %
Free cash flow (non-GAAP):
Net cash provided by operating activities ................................................................ $
1,984.7 $
1,503.0 $
1,035.7
Less: purchases of property, equipment, and other assets ..........................................
192.8
116.0
Free cash flow (non-GAAP) ......................................................................................$
1,791.9 $
1,387.0 $
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ...................................................$
(933.4) $
(1,480.6) $
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities...................................................$
(806.6) $
(1,104.0) $
214.4
821.3
288.0
673.0
Key Financial Metrics
We monitor the key financial metrics set forth in the tables below to help us evaluate growth trends, establish budgets, measure
the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts, and assess operational efficiencies. We discuss revenue, gross margin, and the
components of operating loss and margin below under “Results of Operations.”
Total deferred revenue .........................................................................................................$
Cash, cash equivalents, and investments..............................................................................$
July 31,
2022
2021
(in millions)
6,994.0 $
4,686.4 $
5,024.0
3,789.4
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(dollars in millions)
Total revenue .................................................................................................................... $ 5,501.5
$ 4,256.1
$ 3,408.4
Total revenue year-over-year percentage increase ...........................................................
Gross margin ....................................................................................................................
29.3 %
68.8 %
24.9 %
70.0 %
17.5 %
70.7 %
Operating loss .................................................................................................................. $
(188.8)
$
(304.1)
$
(179.0)
Billings ............................................................................................................................. $ 7,471.5
$ 5,452.2
$ 4,301.7
Billings year-over-year percentage increase ....................................................................
37.0 %
26.7 %
23.3 %
Cash flow provided by operating activities ...................................................................... $ 1,984.7
$ 1,503.0
$ 1,035.7
Free cash flow (non-GAAP) ............................................................................................ $ 1,791.9
$ 1,387.0
$
821.3
•
•
Deferred Revenue. Our deferred revenue primarily consists of amounts that have been invoiced but have not been
recognized as revenue as of the period end. The majority of our deferred revenue balance consists of subscription and
support revenue that is recognized ratably over the contractual service period. We monitor our deferred revenue balance
because it represents a significant portion of revenue to be recognized in future periods.
Billings. We define billings as total revenue plus the change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired deferred revenue,
during the period. We consider billings to be a key metric used by management to manage our business. We believe
billings provides investors with an important indicator of the health and visibility of our business because it includes
subscription and support revenue, which is recognized ratably over the contractual service period, and product revenue,
which is recognized at the time of shipment, provided that all other conditions for revenue recognition have been met. We
consider billings to be a useful metric for management and investors, particularly if we continue to experience increased
sales of subscriptions and strong renewal rates for subscription and support offerings, and as we monitor our near-term
cash flows. While we believe that billings provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and
evaluating our operating results in the same manner as our management, it is important to note that other companies,
including companies in our industry, may not use billings, may calculate billings differently, may have different billing
frequencies, or may use other financial measures to evaluate their performance, all of which could reduce the usefulness
of billings as a comparative measure. We calculate billings in the following manner:
Billings:
Total revenue .............................................................................................................$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1 $
3,408.4
Add: change in total deferred revenue, net of acquired deferred revenue..................
1,970.0
1,196.1
893.3
Billings.......................................................................................................................$
7,471.5 $
5,452.2 $
4,301.7
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
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Results of Operations
Revenue
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our total revenue for
Our revenue consists of product revenue and subscription and support revenue. Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control
those periods based on our consolidated statements of operations data. The period to period comparison of results is not necessarily
indicative of results for future periods.
of the corresponding promised products and subscriptions and support to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we
expect to be entitled to in exchange for those products and subscriptions and support. We expect our revenue to vary from quarter to
Year Ended July 31,
quarter based on seasonal and cyclical factors.
2022
2021
2020
Amount
% of
Revenue
Amount
% of
Revenue
Amount
% of
Revenue
Product Revenue
(dollars in millions)
Revenue:
Product ........................................................................$ 1,363.1
24.8 % $ 1,120.3
26.3 % $ 1,064.2
Subscription and support ............................................ 4,138.4
75.2 % 3,135.8
73.7 % 2,344.2
31.2 %
68.8 %
license.
Total revenue
Cost of revenue:
5,501.5
100.0 % 4,256.1
100.0 % 3,408.4
100.0 %
Product ........................................................................
455.5
Subscription and support ............................................ 1,263.2
Total cost of revenue(1) ....................................................... 1,718.7
Total gross profit ................................................................ 3,782.8
8.3 %
22.9 %
308.5
966.4
31.2 % 1,274.9
7.2 %
22.8 %
30.0 %
294.4
705.1
999.5
68.8 % 2,981.2
70.0 % 2,408.9
Operating expenses:
Research and development ......................................... 1,417.7
25.8 % 1,140.4
26.8 %
768.1
Sales and marketing .................................................... 2,148.9
39.0 % 1,753.8
41.1 % 1,520.2
General and administrative .........................................
405.0
Total operating expenses(1) ................................................. 3,971.6
(188.8)
Operating loss ....................................................................
7.4 %
391.1
9.2 %
299.6
72.2 % 3,285.3
77.1 % 2,587.9
(3.4) %
(304.1)
(7.1) %
(179.0)
Interest expense..................................................................
(27.4)
(0.5) %
(163.3)
Other income, net ...............................................................
9.0
0.1 %
2.4
(3.8) %
0.0 %
(88.7)
35.9
Loss before income taxes ...................................................
(207.2)
(3.8) %
(465.0)
(10.9) %
(231.8)
Provision for income taxes.................................................
59.8
1.1 %
33.9
0.8 %
35.2
Net loss ..............................................................................$
(267.0)
(4.9) % $
(498.9)
(11.7) % $
(267.0)
8.6 %
20.7 %
29.3 %
70.7 %
22.5 %
44.7 %
8.8 %
76.0 %
(5.3) %
(2.6) %
1.1 %
(6.8) %
1.0 %
(7.8) %
______________
(1)
Includes share-based compensation as follows:
2022
Year Ended July 31,
2021
(in millions)
2020
Cost of product revenue .................................................................................$
9.3 $
6.2 $
Cost of subscription and support revenue ......................................................
Research and development..............................................................................
Sales and marketing ........................................................................................
General and administrative .............................................................................
110.2
471.1
304.7
118.1
93.0
428.9
269.9
128.9
Total share-based compensation ...............................................................$
1,013.4 $
926.9 $
5.7
77.7
274.6
214.5
92.0
664.5
Product revenue is derived from sales of our appliances, primarily our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall, which is
available in a number of form factors, including as physical, virtual, and containerized appliances. Product revenue also includes
revenue derived from software licenses of Panorama. Our appliances and software licenses include a broad set of built-in networking
and security features and functionalities. We recognize product revenue at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Product ......................................................$ 1,363.1 $ 1,120.3 $ 242.8
21.7 % $ 1,120.3 $ 1,064.2 $
56.1
5.3 %
Product revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased demand for our new generation of
products, which includes customer transition from our legacy products.
Subscription and Support Revenue
Subscription and support revenue is derived primarily from sales of our subscription and support offerings. Our contractual
subscription and support contracts are typically one to five years. We recognize revenue from subscriptions and support over time as
the services are performed. As a percentage of total revenue, we expect our subscription and support revenue to vary from quarter to
quarter and increase over the long term as we introduce new subscriptions, renew existing subscription and support contracts, and
expand our installed end-customer base.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Subscription ..............................................$ 2,539.0 $ 1,898.8 $ 640.2
33.7 % $ 1,898.8 $ 1,405.3 $ 493.5
Support ...................................................... 1,599.4
1,237.0
362.4
29.3 % 1,237.0
938.9
298.1
Total subscription and support ...........$ 4,138.4 $ 3,135.8 $ 1,002.6
32.0 % $ 3,135.8 $ 2,344.2 $ 791.6
35.1 %
31.7 %
33.8 %
Subscription and support revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 due to increased demand for our
subscription and support offerings from our end-customers. The mix between subscription revenue and support revenue will fluctuate
over time, depending on the introduction of new subscription offerings, renewals of support services, and our ability to increase sales
to new and existing end-customers.
Revenue by Geographic Theater
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Americas ...................................................$ 3,802.6 $ 2,937.5 $ 865.1
29.5 % $ 2,937.5 $ 2,318.0 $ 619.5
EMEA ....................................................... 1,055.8
APAC ........................................................
643.1
817.3
501.3
238.5
141.8
29.2 %
817.3
28.3 %
501.3
671.9
418.5
145.4
82.8
Total revenue ....................................$ 5,501.5 $ 4,256.1 $ 1,245.4
29.3 % $ 4,256.1 $ 3,408.4 $ 847.7
26.7 %
21.6 %
19.8 %
24.9 %
With respect to geographic theaters, the Americas contributed the largest portion of the year-over-year increases in revenue for
fiscal 2022 due to its larger and more established sales force compared to our other theaters. Revenue from Europe, the Middle East,
and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific and Japan (“APAC”) increased year-over-year for fiscal 2022 due to increasing investment in
global sales force in order to support our growth and innovation.
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2022
2021
2020
Amount
% of
Revenue
Amount
% of
Revenue
Amount
% of
Revenue
Year Ended July 31,
(dollars in millions)
Revenue:
Total revenue
Cost of revenue:
Operating expenses:
Product ........................................................................$ 1,363.1
24.8 % $ 1,120.3
26.3 % $ 1,064.2
Subscription and support ............................................ 4,138.4
75.2 % 3,135.8
73.7 % 2,344.2
5,501.5
100.0 % 4,256.1
100.0 % 3,408.4
100.0 %
Product ........................................................................
455.5
Subscription and support ............................................ 1,263.2
8.3 %
22.9 %
308.5
966.4
Total cost of revenue(1) ....................................................... 1,718.7
31.2 % 1,274.9
7.2 %
22.8 %
30.0 %
294.4
705.1
999.5
Total gross profit ................................................................ 3,782.8
68.8 % 2,981.2
70.0 % 2,408.9
Research and development ......................................... 1,417.7
25.8 % 1,140.4
26.8 %
768.1
Sales and marketing .................................................... 2,148.9
39.0 % 1,753.8
41.1 % 1,520.2
General and administrative .........................................
405.0
7.4 %
391.1
9.2 %
299.6
Total operating expenses(1) ................................................. 3,971.6
72.2 % 3,285.3
77.1 % 2,587.9
Operating loss ....................................................................
(188.8)
(3.4) %
(304.1)
(7.1) %
(179.0)
Interest expense..................................................................
(27.4)
(0.5) %
(163.3)
Other income, net ...............................................................
9.0
0.1 %
2.4
(3.8) %
0.0 %
(88.7)
35.9
Loss before income taxes ...................................................
(207.2)
(3.8) %
(465.0)
(10.9) %
(231.8)
______________
(1)
Includes share-based compensation as follows:
2022
2020
Year Ended July 31,
2021
(in millions)
Cost of product revenue .................................................................................$
9.3 $
6.2 $
Cost of subscription and support revenue ......................................................
Research and development..............................................................................
Sales and marketing ........................................................................................
General and administrative .............................................................................
110.2
471.1
304.7
118.1
93.0
428.9
269.9
128.9
Total share-based compensation ...............................................................$
1,013.4 $
926.9 $
31.2 %
68.8 %
8.6 %
20.7 %
29.3 %
70.7 %
22.5 %
44.7 %
8.8 %
76.0 %
(5.3) %
(2.6) %
1.1 %
(6.8) %
1.0 %
(7.8) %
5.7
77.7
274.6
214.5
92.0
664.5
Results of Operations
Revenue
The following table summarizes our results of operations for the periods presented and as a percentage of our total revenue for
Our revenue consists of product revenue and subscription and support revenue. Revenue is recognized upon transfer of control
those periods based on our consolidated statements of operations data. The period to period comparison of results is not necessarily
indicative of results for future periods.
of the corresponding promised products and subscriptions and support to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we
expect to be entitled to in exchange for those products and subscriptions and support. We expect our revenue to vary from quarter to
quarter based on seasonal and cyclical factors.
Product Revenue
Product revenue is derived from sales of our appliances, primarily our ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall, which is
available in a number of form factors, including as physical, virtual, and containerized appliances. Product revenue also includes
revenue derived from software licenses of Panorama. Our appliances and software licenses include a broad set of built-in networking
and security features and functionalities. We recognize product revenue at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software
license.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Product ......................................................$ 1,363.1 $ 1,120.3 $ 242.8
(dollars in millions)
21.7 % $ 1,120.3 $ 1,064.2 $
56.1
5.3 %
Product revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased demand for our new generation of
products, which includes customer transition from our legacy products.
Subscription and Support Revenue
Subscription and support revenue is derived primarily from sales of our subscription and support offerings. Our contractual
subscription and support contracts are typically one to five years. We recognize revenue from subscriptions and support over time as
the services are performed. As a percentage of total revenue, we expect our subscription and support revenue to vary from quarter to
quarter and increase over the long term as we introduce new subscriptions, renew existing subscription and support contracts, and
expand our installed end-customer base.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Provision for income taxes.................................................
59.8
1.1 %
33.9
0.8 %
35.2
Subscription ..............................................$ 2,539.0 $ 1,898.8 $ 640.2
(dollars in millions)
33.7 % $ 1,898.8 $ 1,405.3 $ 493.5
Net loss ..............................................................................$
(267.0)
(4.9) % $
(498.9)
(11.7) % $
(267.0)
Support ...................................................... 1,599.4
1,237.0
362.4
29.3 % 1,237.0
938.9
298.1
Total subscription and support ...........$ 4,138.4 $ 3,135.8 $ 1,002.6
32.0 % $ 3,135.8 $ 2,344.2 $ 791.6
35.1 %
31.7 %
33.8 %
Subscription and support revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 due to increased demand for our
subscription and support offerings from our end-customers. The mix between subscription revenue and support revenue will fluctuate
over time, depending on the introduction of new subscription offerings, renewals of support services, and our ability to increase sales
to new and existing end-customers.
Revenue by Geographic Theater
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Americas ...................................................$ 3,802.6 $ 2,937.5 $ 865.1
(dollars in millions)
29.5 % $ 2,937.5 $ 2,318.0 $ 619.5
EMEA ....................................................... 1,055.8
APAC ........................................................
643.1
817.3
501.3
238.5
141.8
29.2 %
817.3
28.3 %
501.3
671.9
418.5
145.4
82.8
Total revenue ....................................$ 5,501.5 $ 4,256.1 $ 1,245.4
29.3 % $ 4,256.1 $ 3,408.4 $ 847.7
26.7 %
21.6 %
19.8 %
24.9 %
With respect to geographic theaters, the Americas contributed the largest portion of the year-over-year increases in revenue for
fiscal 2022 due to its larger and more established sales force compared to our other theaters. Revenue from Europe, the Middle East,
and Africa (“EMEA”) and Asia Pacific and Japan (“APAC”) increased year-over-year for fiscal 2022 due to increasing investment in
global sales force in order to support our growth and innovation.
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Cost of Revenue
Our cost of revenue consists of cost of product revenue and cost of subscription and support revenue.
Operating Expenses
Subscription and support gross margin was relatively flat for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021.
Cost of Product Revenue
Cost of product revenue primarily includes costs paid to our manufacturing partners for procuring components and
compensation, travel and entertainment, and with regard to sales and marketing expense, sales commissions. Our operating expenses
manufacturing our products. Our cost of product revenue also includes personnel costs, which consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses,
share-based compensation and travel and entertainment associated with our operations organization, amortization of intellectual
property licenses, product testing costs, shipping and tariff costs, and shared costs. Shared costs consist of certain facilities,
depreciation, benefits, recruiting, and information technology costs that we allocate based on headcount. We expect our cost of product
revenue to fluctuate with our product revenue.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Research and Development
Cost of product revenue ...........................$ 455.5 $ 308.5 $ 147.0
(dollars in millions)
47.6 % $ 308.5 $ 294.4 $
Number of employees at period end ........
149
127
22
17.3 %
127
117
14.1
10
4.8 %
8.5 %
of total revenue.
Cost of product revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in the volume of product
sold. The remaining increase in costs was primarily driven by supply chain challenges.
Cost of Subscription and Support Revenue
Cost of subscription and support revenue includes personnel costs for our global customer support and technical operations
organizations, customer support and repair costs, third-party professional services costs, data center and cloud hosting service costs,
amortization of acquired intangible assets and capitalized software development costs, and shared costs. We expect our cost of
subscription and support revenue to increase as our installed end-customer base grows and adoption of our cloud-based subscription
offerings increases.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Sales and Marketing
Our operating expenses consist of research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses.
Personnel costs are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses, share-based
also include shared costs, which consist of certain facilities, depreciation, benefits, recruiting, and information technology costs that
we allocate based on headcount to each department. We expect operating expenses generally to increase in absolute dollars and
decrease over the long term as a percentage of revenue as we continue to scale our business. As of July 31, 2022, we expect to
recognize approximately $1.8 billion of share-based compensation expense over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.6
years, excluding additional share-based compensation expense related to any future grants of share-based awards. Share-based
compensation expense is generally recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards.
Research and development expense consists primarily of personnel costs. Research and development expense also includes
prototype related expenses and shared costs. We expect research and development expense to increase in absolute dollars as we
continue to invest in our future products and services, although our research and development expense may fluctuate as a percentage
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Research and development ......................$ 1,417.7 $ 1,140.4 $ 277.3
24.3 % $ 1,140.4 $ 768.1 $ 372.3
Number of employees at period end ........
3,268
2,595
673
25.9 %
2,595
1,821
774
48.5 %
42.5 %
Research and development expense increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in personnel
costs, which grew $193.5 million to $1.1 billion, primarily due to headcount growth. The increase in research and development
expense was further driven by increased shared costs and third-party product development costs.
Cost of subscription and support
revenue .....................................................$ 1,263.2 $ 966.4 $ 296.8
407
Number of employees at period end ........
2,108
2,515
(dollars in millions)
30.7 % $ 966.4 $ 705.1 $ 261.3
19.3 %
2,108
1,402
706
37.1 %
50.4 %
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel costs, including commission expense. Sales and marketing
expense also includes costs for market development programs, promotional and other marketing costs, professional services, and
shared costs. We continue to strategically invest in headcount and have grown our sales presence. We expect sales and marketing
expense to continue to increase in absolute dollars as we increase the size of our sales and marketing organizations to grow our
customer base, increase touch points with end-customers, and expand our global presence, although our sales and marketing expense
Cost of subscription and support revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased costs to
may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenue.
support the growth of our subscription and support offerings. Personnel costs grew $135.4 million to $547.8 million for fiscal 2022
compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to headcount growth. The remaining increase was primarily due to increased cloud hosting
service costs to support our cloud-based subscription offerings, outside service costs for global customer support resulting from the
expansions of our customer base and product portfolio, and shared costs.
Gross Margin
Gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors, including the introduction of new products,
manufacturing costs, the average sales price of our products, cloud hosting service costs, personnel costs, the mix of products sold,
and the mix of revenue between product and subscription and support offerings. Our virtual and higher-end firewall products generally
have higher gross margins than our lower-end firewall products within each product series. We expect our gross margins to vary over
time depending on the factors described above.
2022
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Amount
Gross
Margin
Amount
Gross
Margin
Amount
Gross
Margin
Product ....................................................... $
907.6
66.6 % $
(dollars in millions)
811.8
72.5 % $
Subscription and support ............................
2,875.2
69.5 %
2,169.4
69.2 %
769.8
1,639.1
Total gross profit ................................ $
3,782.8
68.8 % $
2,981.2
70.0 % $
2,408.9
72.3 %
69.9 %
70.7 %
Product gross margin decreased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to higher costs related to our product
offerings driven by supply chain challenges.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Sales and marketing ................................$ 2,148.9 $ 1,753.8 $ 395.1
22.5 % $ 1,753.8 $ 1,520.2 $ 233.6
Number of employees at period end
5,167
4,493
674
15.0 %
4,493
3,800
693
15.4 %
18.2 %
Sales and marketing expense increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in personnel costs,
which grew $291.8 million to $1.6 billion, primarily due to headcount growth and increased travel and entertainment expenses. The
increase in sales and marketing expense was further driven by an increase in costs associated with marketing activities.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel costs and shared costs for our executive, finance, human
resources, information technology, and legal organizations, and professional services costs, which consist primarily of legal, auditing,
accounting, and other consulting costs. We expect general and administrative expense to increase in absolute dollars as we increase the
size of our general and administrative organizations and incur additional costs to support our business growth, although our general
and administrative expense may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenue.
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Cost of Revenue
Cost of Product Revenue
Cost of product revenue primarily includes costs paid to our manufacturing partners for procuring components and
manufacturing our products. Our cost of product revenue also includes personnel costs, which consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses,
share-based compensation and travel and entertainment associated with our operations organization, amortization of intellectual
property licenses, product testing costs, shipping and tariff costs, and shared costs. Shared costs consist of certain facilities,
depreciation, benefits, recruiting, and information technology costs that we allocate based on headcount. We expect our cost of product
revenue to fluctuate with our product revenue.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Cost of product revenue ...........................$ 455.5 $ 308.5 $ 147.0
47.6 % $ 308.5 $ 294.4 $
14.1
Number of employees at period end ........
149
127
22
17.3 %
127
117
10
4.8 %
8.5 %
Cost of product revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in the volume of product
sold. The remaining increase in costs was primarily driven by supply chain challenges.
Cost of Subscription and Support Revenue
Cost of subscription and support revenue includes personnel costs for our global customer support and technical operations
organizations, customer support and repair costs, third-party professional services costs, data center and cloud hosting service costs,
amortization of acquired intangible assets and capitalized software development costs, and shared costs. We expect our cost of
subscription and support revenue to increase as our installed end-customer base grows and adoption of our cloud-based subscription
offerings increases.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Cost of subscription and support
revenue .....................................................$ 1,263.2 $ 966.4 $ 296.8
30.7 % $ 966.4 $ 705.1 $ 261.3
Number of employees at period end ........
2,515
2,108
407
19.3 %
2,108
1,402
706
37.1 %
50.4 %
Cost of subscription and support revenue increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased costs to
support the growth of our subscription and support offerings. Personnel costs grew $135.4 million to $547.8 million for fiscal 2022
compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to headcount growth. The remaining increase was primarily due to increased cloud hosting
service costs to support our cloud-based subscription offerings, outside service costs for global customer support resulting from the
expansions of our customer base and product portfolio, and shared costs.
Gross Margin
Gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors, including the introduction of new products,
manufacturing costs, the average sales price of our products, cloud hosting service costs, personnel costs, the mix of products sold,
and the mix of revenue between product and subscription and support offerings. Our virtual and higher-end firewall products generally
have higher gross margins than our lower-end firewall products within each product series. We expect our gross margins to vary over
time depending on the factors described above.
2022
Gross
Margin
Year Ended July 31,
2021
Gross
Margin
(dollars in millions)
Amount
Amount
Amount
2020
Gross
Margin
Product ....................................................... $
907.6
66.6 % $
811.8
72.5 % $
769.8
Subscription and support ............................
2,875.2
69.5 %
2,169.4
69.2 %
1,639.1
Total gross profit ................................ $
3,782.8
68.8 % $
2,981.2
70.0 % $
2,408.9
72.3 %
69.9 %
70.7 %
Product gross margin decreased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to higher costs related to our product
offerings driven by supply chain challenges.
Our cost of revenue consists of cost of product revenue and cost of subscription and support revenue.
Operating Expenses
Subscription and support gross margin was relatively flat for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021.
Our operating expenses consist of research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses.
Personnel costs are the most significant component of operating expenses and consist of salaries, benefits, bonuses, share-based
compensation, travel and entertainment, and with regard to sales and marketing expense, sales commissions. Our operating expenses
also include shared costs, which consist of certain facilities, depreciation, benefits, recruiting, and information technology costs that
we allocate based on headcount to each department. We expect operating expenses generally to increase in absolute dollars and
decrease over the long term as a percentage of revenue as we continue to scale our business. As of July 31, 2022, we expect to
recognize approximately $1.8 billion of share-based compensation expense over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.6
years, excluding additional share-based compensation expense related to any future grants of share-based awards. Share-based
compensation expense is generally recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service periods of the awards.
Research and Development
Research and development expense consists primarily of personnel costs. Research and development expense also includes
prototype related expenses and shared costs. We expect research and development expense to increase in absolute dollars as we
continue to invest in our future products and services, although our research and development expense may fluctuate as a percentage
of total revenue.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Research and development ......................$ 1,417.7 $ 1,140.4 $ 277.3
(dollars in millions)
24.3 % $ 1,140.4 $ 768.1 $ 372.3
Number of employees at period end ........
3,268
2,595
673
25.9 %
2,595
1,821
774
48.5 %
42.5 %
Research and development expense increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in personnel
costs, which grew $193.5 million to $1.1 billion, primarily due to headcount growth. The increase in research and development
expense was further driven by increased shared costs and third-party product development costs.
Sales and Marketing
Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of personnel costs, including commission expense. Sales and marketing
expense also includes costs for market development programs, promotional and other marketing costs, professional services, and
shared costs. We continue to strategically invest in headcount and have grown our sales presence. We expect sales and marketing
expense to continue to increase in absolute dollars as we increase the size of our sales and marketing organizations to grow our
customer base, increase touch points with end-customers, and expand our global presence, although our sales and marketing expense
may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenue.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Sales and marketing ................................$ 2,148.9 $ 1,753.8 $ 395.1
(dollars in millions)
22.5 % $ 1,753.8 $ 1,520.2 $ 233.6
Number of employees at period end
5,167
4,493
674
15.0 %
4,493
3,800
693
15.4 %
18.2 %
Sales and marketing expense increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to an increase in personnel costs,
which grew $291.8 million to $1.6 billion, primarily due to headcount growth and increased travel and entertainment expenses. The
increase in sales and marketing expense was further driven by an increase in costs associated with marketing activities.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel costs and shared costs for our executive, finance, human
resources, information technology, and legal organizations, and professional services costs, which consist primarily of legal, auditing,
accounting, and other consulting costs. We expect general and administrative expense to increase in absolute dollars as we increase the
size of our general and administrative organizations and incur additional costs to support our business growth, although our general
and administrative expense may fluctuate as a percentage of total revenue.
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Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Liquidity and Capital Resources
July 31,
2022
2021
(in millions)
General and administrative ......................$ 405.0 $ 391.1 $
13.9
3.6 % $ 391.1 $ 299.6 $
91.5
Number of employees at period end
1,462
1,150
312
27.1 %
1,150
874
276
30.5 %
31.6 %
Cash, cash equivalents, and investments:
Working capital(1) ................................................................................................................................ $
(1,891.4) $
(469.4)
General and administrative expenses increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to personnel costs, which
grew $24.6 million to $268.6 million, partially offset by a decrease in acquisition-related costs. The increase in personnel costs was
primarily due to headcount growth, partially offset by lower share-based compensation related to accelerated vesting of equity awards
in connection with acquisitions.
Interest Expense
Interest expense primarily consists of interest expense related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and the 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes,” and together with “2023 Notes,” the “Notes”).
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Cash and cash equivalents ........................................................................................................... $
2,118.5 $
Investments ..................................................................................................................................
2,567.9
Total cash, cash equivalents, and investments ...................................................................... $
4,686.4 $
1,874.2
1,915.2
3,789.4
______________
(1)
Current liabilities included net carrying amounts of convertible senior notes of $3.7 billion and $1.6 billion as of July 31, 2022 and 2021,
respectively. Refer to Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information on the Notes.
As of July 31, 2022, our total cash, cash equivalents, and investments of $4.7 billion were held for general corporate purposes.
As of July 31, 2022, we had no unremitted earnings when evaluating our outside basis difference relating to our U.S. investment in
foreign subsidiaries. However, there could be local withholding taxes payable due to various foreign countries if certain lower tier
earnings are distributed. Withholding taxes that would be payable upon remittance of these lower tier earnings are not expected to be
Interest expense
$
27.4 $ 163.3 $ (135.9)
(dollars in millions)
(83.2) % $ 163.3 $
88.7 $
74.6
84.1 %
material.
Debt
Interest expense decreased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily because we no longer recognize interest expense
for amortization of the debt discount as a result of the adoption of new debt guidance. Refer to Note 1. Description of Business and
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more
information.
Other Income, Net
Other income, net includes interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalents, and investments, and gains and losses from
foreign currency remeasurement and foreign currency transactions.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Other income, net
$
9.0 $
2.4 $
6.6
(dollars in millions)
275.0 % $
2.4 $
35.9 $
(33.5)
(93.3) %
Other income, net increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased foreign currency exchange gains
and higher interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalent, and investment balances as a result of higher interest rates for fiscal
2022 compared to fiscal 2021, partially offset by increased losses related to non-designated derivative instruments.
Provision for Income Taxes
Provision for income taxes consists primarily of income taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business and
withholding taxes. We maintain a full valuation allowance for domestic and certain foreign deferred tax assets, including net operating
loss carryforwards and certain domestic tax credits. Our valuation allowance has caused, and may continue to cause, disproportionate
relationships between our overall effective tax rate and other jurisdictional measures.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Provision for income taxes ..........................$ 59.8
$ 33.9
$
25.9
(dollars in millions)
76.4 % $ 33.9
$ 35.2
$
(1.3)
(3.7) %
Effective tax rate .........................................(28.9) %
(7.3) %
(7.3) % (15.2) %
We recorded an income tax provision for fiscal 2022. The provision for income taxes for fiscal 2022 was primarily due to
income taxes in profitable foreign jurisdictions and withholding taxes. Our provision for income taxes increased for fiscal 2022
compared to fiscal 2021, primarily due to foreign income and withholding taxes. Refer to Note 15. Income Taxes in Part II, Item 8 of
this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
In July 2018, we issued the 2023 Notes with an aggregate principal amount of $1.7 billion. In June 2020, we issued the 2025
Notes with an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion. The 2023 Notes mature on July 1, 2023 and the 2025 Notes mature on
June 1, 2025; however, under certain circumstances, holders may surrender their Notes of a series for conversion prior to the
applicable maturity date. Upon conversion of the Notes of a series, we will pay cash equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Notes of such series to be converted, and, at our election, will pay or deliver cash and/or shares of our common stock for the amount
of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series being converted. The sale price
condition for the Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2022, and as a result, holders may convert their Notes at any
time during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022. If all of the holders of the Notes converted their Notes during this period, we
would be obligated to settle the $3.7 billion principal amount of the Notes in cash. We believe that our cash provided by operating
activities, our existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, and existing sources of and access to financing will be sufficient to
meet our anticipated cash needs should the holders choose to convert their Notes during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022 or
hold the 2023 Notes until maturity on July 1, 2023. As of July 31, 2022, substantially all of our Notes remained outstanding. Refer to
Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on the Notes.
In September 2018, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) that provides for a $400.0 million unsecured
revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), with an option to increase the amount of the Credit Facility by up to an additional
$350.0 million, subject to certain conditions. As of July 31, 2022, there were no amounts outstanding, and we were in compliance with
all covenants under the Credit Agreement. Refer to Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more
information on the Credit Agreement.
Capital Return
In February 2019, our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program. In December 2020 and August
2021, our board of directors authorized additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million increases, respectively, bringing the total
authorization under this share repurchase program to $2.4 billion. Repurchases will be funded from available working capital and may
be made at management’s discretion from time to time. The expiration date of this repurchase authorization was extended to
December 31, 2022, and our repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. As of July 31, 2022, 85.0 million
remained available for future share repurchases under this repurchase program. In February 2020, our board of directors approved the
repurchase of $1.0 billion of our common stock through an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) transaction, which was in addition
to our current authorization. During fiscal 2020, we completed the ASR transaction with an aggregate of 5.2 million shares of our
common stock repurchased and retired. Refer to Note 13. Stockholders’ Equity in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K
for information on these repurchase programs.
Leases and Other Material Cash Requirements
We have entered into various non-cancelable operating leases primarily for our facilities with original lease periods expiring
through the year ending July 31, 2032, with the most significant leases relating to our corporate headquarters in Santa Clara,
California. As of July 31, 2022, we have total operating lease obligations of $338.4 million recorded on our consolidated balance
sheet.
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Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Liquidity and Capital Resources
General and administrative ......................$ 405.0 $ 391.1 $
13.9
3.6 % $ 391.1 $ 299.6 $
91.5
Number of employees at period end
1,462
1,150
312
27.1 %
1,150
874
276
30.5 %
31.6 %
Working capital(1) ................................................................................................................................ $
Cash, cash equivalents, and investments:
July 31,
2022
2021
(in millions)
(1,891.4) $
(469.4)
General and administrative expenses increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to personnel costs, which
grew $24.6 million to $268.6 million, partially offset by a decrease in acquisition-related costs. The increase in personnel costs was
primarily due to headcount growth, partially offset by lower share-based compensation related to accelerated vesting of equity awards
Cash and cash equivalents ........................................................................................................... $
2,118.5 $
Investments ..................................................................................................................................
2,567.9
Total cash, cash equivalents, and investments ...................................................................... $
4,686.4 $
1,874.2
1,915.2
3,789.4
Interest expense
$
27.4 $ 163.3 $ (135.9)
(83.2) % $ 163.3 $
88.7 $
74.6
84.1 %
Debt
______________
(1)
Current liabilities included net carrying amounts of convertible senior notes of $3.7 billion and $1.6 billion as of July 31, 2022 and 2021,
respectively. Refer to Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information on the Notes.
As of July 31, 2022, our total cash, cash equivalents, and investments of $4.7 billion were held for general corporate purposes.
As of July 31, 2022, we had no unremitted earnings when evaluating our outside basis difference relating to our U.S. investment in
foreign subsidiaries. However, there could be local withholding taxes payable due to various foreign countries if certain lower tier
earnings are distributed. Withholding taxes that would be payable upon remittance of these lower tier earnings are not expected to be
material.
In July 2018, we issued the 2023 Notes with an aggregate principal amount of $1.7 billion. In June 2020, we issued the 2025
Notes with an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion. The 2023 Notes mature on July 1, 2023 and the 2025 Notes mature on
June 1, 2025; however, under certain circumstances, holders may surrender their Notes of a series for conversion prior to the
applicable maturity date. Upon conversion of the Notes of a series, we will pay cash equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Notes of such series to be converted, and, at our election, will pay or deliver cash and/or shares of our common stock for the amount
of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series being converted. The sale price
condition for the Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2022, and as a result, holders may convert their Notes at any
time during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022. If all of the holders of the Notes converted their Notes during this period, we
would be obligated to settle the $3.7 billion principal amount of the Notes in cash. We believe that our cash provided by operating
activities, our existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, and existing sources of and access to financing will be sufficient to
meet our anticipated cash needs should the holders choose to convert their Notes during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022 or
hold the 2023 Notes until maturity on July 1, 2023. As of July 31, 2022, substantially all of our Notes remained outstanding. Refer to
Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on the Notes.
In September 2018, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) that provides for a $400.0 million unsecured
revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), with an option to increase the amount of the Credit Facility by up to an additional
$350.0 million, subject to certain conditions. As of July 31, 2022, there were no amounts outstanding, and we were in compliance with
all covenants under the Credit Agreement. Refer to Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more
information on the Credit Agreement.
Capital Return
In February 2019, our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program. In December 2020 and August
2021, our board of directors authorized additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million increases, respectively, bringing the total
authorization under this share repurchase program to $2.4 billion. Repurchases will be funded from available working capital and may
be made at management’s discretion from time to time. The expiration date of this repurchase authorization was extended to
December 31, 2022, and our repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. As of July 31, 2022, 85.0 million
remained available for future share repurchases under this repurchase program. In February 2020, our board of directors approved the
repurchase of $1.0 billion of our common stock through an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) transaction, which was in addition
to our current authorization. During fiscal 2020, we completed the ASR transaction with an aggregate of 5.2 million shares of our
common stock repurchased and retired. Refer to Note 13. Stockholders’ Equity in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K
for information on these repurchase programs.
Leases and Other Material Cash Requirements
We have entered into various non-cancelable operating leases primarily for our facilities with original lease periods expiring
through the year ending July 31, 2032, with the most significant leases relating to our corporate headquarters in Santa Clara,
California. As of July 31, 2022, we have total operating lease obligations of $338.4 million recorded on our consolidated balance
sheet.
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in connection with acquisitions.
Interest Expense
Interest expense primarily consists of interest expense related to our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and the 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes,” and together with “2023 Notes,” the “Notes”).
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Interest expense decreased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily because we no longer recognize interest expense
for amortization of the debt discount as a result of the adoption of new debt guidance. Refer to Note 1. Description of Business and
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Note 10. Debt in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more
information.
Other Income, Net
Other income, net includes interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalents, and investments, and gains and losses from
foreign currency remeasurement and foreign currency transactions.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Other income, net
$
9.0 $
2.4 $
6.6
275.0 % $
2.4 $
35.9 $
(33.5)
(93.3) %
Other income, net increased for fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021 primarily due to increased foreign currency exchange gains
and higher interest income earned on our cash, cash equivalent, and investment balances as a result of higher interest rates for fiscal
2022 compared to fiscal 2021, partially offset by increased losses related to non-designated derivative instruments.
Provision for Income Taxes
Provision for income taxes consists primarily of income taxes in foreign jurisdictions in which we conduct business and
withholding taxes. We maintain a full valuation allowance for domestic and certain foreign deferred tax assets, including net operating
loss carryforwards and certain domestic tax credits. Our valuation allowance has caused, and may continue to cause, disproportionate
relationships between our overall effective tax rate and other jurisdictional measures.
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
Change
Year Ended July 31,
2021
2020
Change
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
Amount
Amount
Amount
%
(dollars in millions)
Provision for income taxes ..........................$ 59.8
$ 33.9
$
25.9
76.4 % $ 33.9
$ 35.2
$
(1.3)
(3.7) %
Effective tax rate .........................................(28.9) %
(7.3) %
(7.3) % (15.2) %
We recorded an income tax provision for fiscal 2022. The provision for income taxes for fiscal 2022 was primarily due to
income taxes in profitable foreign jurisdictions and withholding taxes. Our provision for income taxes increased for fiscal 2022
compared to fiscal 2021, primarily due to foreign income and withholding taxes. Refer to Note 15. Income Taxes in Part II, Item 8 of
this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information.
As of July 31, 2022, our commitments to purchase products, components, cloud and other services totaled $2.4 billion. Refer to
Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on these
commitments.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
will be affected.
Net cash provided by operating activities .....................................................................$
1,984.7 $
1,503.0 $
1,035.7
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ......................................................
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities ......................................................
(933.4)
(806.6)
(1,480.6)
(1,104.0)
288.0
673.0
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash .........................$
244.7 $
(1,081.6) $
1,996.7
Cash from operations could be affected by various risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the effects of COVID-
19 and other risks detailed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K. We believe that our cash flow from operations with
existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months and thereafter
for the foreseeable future. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors including our growth rate, the timing and
extent of spending to support development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and
enhanced products and subscription and support offerings, the costs to acquire or invest in complementary businesses and
technologies, the costs to ensure access to adequate manufacturing capacity, the investments in our infrastructure to support the
adoption of our cloud-based subscription offerings, the repayment obligations associated with our Notes, the continuing market
acceptance of our products and subscription and support offerings and macroeconomic events such as COVID-19. In addition, from
time to time, we may incur additional tax liability in connection with certain corporate structuring decisions.
We may also choose to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that additional financing is required from outside
sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our
business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected.
Operating Activities
Our operating activities have consisted of net losses adjusted for certain non-cash items and changes in assets and liabilities.
Our largest source of cash provided by our operations is receipts from our product revenue and subscription and support revenue.
Cash provided by operating activities during fiscal 2022 was $2.0 billion, an increase of $481.7 million compared to fiscal
2021. The increase was primarily due to growth of our business as reflected by increases in billings and collections during fiscal 2022,
partially offset by higher cash expenditure to support our business growth.
Investing Activities
Our investing activities have consisted of capital expenditures, net investment purchases, sales, and maturities, and business
acquisitions. We expect to continue such activities as our business grows.
Cash used in investing activities during fiscal 2022 was $933.4 million, a decrease of $547.2 million compared to fiscal 2021.
The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in net cash payments for business acquisitions, partially offset by an increase in net
investment purchases, sales and maturities during fiscal 2022.
Financing Activities
Our financing activities have consisted of cash used to repurchase shares of our common stock, proceeds from sales of shares
through employee equity incentive plans, and payments for tax withholding obligations of certain employees related to the net share
settlement of equity awards.
Cash used in financing activities during fiscal 2022 was $806.6 million, a decrease of $297.4 million compared to fiscal 2021.
The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in repurchases of our common stock during fiscal 2022.
Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated
financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue,
expenses, and related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are
reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Actual results could differ
materially from those estimates due to risks and uncertainties, including uncertainty in the current economic environment. To the
extent that there are material differences between these estimates and our actual results, our future consolidated financial statements
We believe that of our significant accounting policies described in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the critical accounting estimates, assumptions, and
judgments that have the most significant impact on our consolidated financial statements are described below.
Revenue Recognition
The majority of our contracts with our customers include various combinations of our products and subscriptions and support.
Our appliances and software licenses have significant standalone functionalities and capabilities and, accordingly, are distinct from our
subscriptions and support services, as the customer can benefit from the product without these services and such services are
separately identifiable within the contract. We account for multiple agreements with a single customer as a single contract if the
contractual terms and/or substance of those agreements indicate that they may be so closely related that they are, in effect, parts of a
single contract. The amount we are due in exchange for delivering on the contract is allocated to each performance obligation based on
its relative standalone selling price.
We establish standalone selling price using the prices charged for a deliverable when sold separately. If not observable through
past transactions, we estimate the standalone selling price based on our pricing model and our go-to-market strategy, which include
factors such as type of sales channel (channel partner or end-customer), the geographies in which our offerings were sold (domestic or
international) and offering type (products, subscriptions, or support). As our business offerings evolve over time, we may be required
to modify our estimated standalone selling prices, and as a result the timing and classification of our revenue could be affected.
Deferred Contract Costs
We defer contract costs that are recoverable and incremental to obtaining customer sales contracts. Contract costs, which
primarily consist of sales commissions, are amortized on a systematic basis that is consistent with the transfer to the customer of the
goods or services to which the asset relates. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are not commensurate with renewal
commissions are amortized over a benefit period of five years, consistent with the revenue recognition pattern of the performance
obligations in the related contracts including expected renewals. The benefit period is determined by taking into consideration contract
length, technology life, and other quantitative and qualitative factors. The expected renewals are estimated based on historical renewal
trends. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are commensurate and sales commissions for renewal contracts are amortized over
the related contractual period in proportion to the revenue recognized.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and
liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our consolidated financial statements or tax
returns. In addition, deferred tax assets are recorded for the future benefit of utilizing net operating losses and research and
development credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount
expected to be realized.
Significant judgment is required in determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets. In assessing the
need for a valuation allowance, we consider all available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable
income, and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In the event that we change our determination as to the amount of deferred tax
assets that can be realized, we will adjust our valuation allowance with a corresponding impact to the provision for income taxes in the
period in which such determination is made.
We recognize liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for
recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be
sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step requires us to estimate and
measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more likely than not to be realized upon ultimate settlement.
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As of July 31, 2022, our commitments to purchase products, components, cloud and other services totaled $2.4 billion. Refer to
Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for more information on these
Critical Accounting Estimates
commitments.
Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(in millions)
Net cash provided by operating activities .....................................................................$
1,984.7 $
1,503.0 $
1,035.7
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ......................................................
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities ......................................................
(933.4)
(806.6)
(1,480.6)
(1,104.0)
288.0
673.0
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash .........................$
244.7 $
(1,081.6) $
1,996.7
Cash from operations could be affected by various risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the effects of COVID-
19 and other risks detailed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-K. We believe that our cash flow from operations with
existing cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next 12 months and thereafter
for the foreseeable future. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors including our growth rate, the timing and
extent of spending to support development efforts, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the introduction of new and
enhanced products and subscription and support offerings, the costs to acquire or invest in complementary businesses and
technologies, the costs to ensure access to adequate manufacturing capacity, the investments in our infrastructure to support the
adoption of our cloud-based subscription offerings, the repayment obligations associated with our Notes, the continuing market
acceptance of our products and subscription and support offerings and macroeconomic events such as COVID-19. In addition, from
time to time, we may incur additional tax liability in connection with certain corporate structuring decisions.
We may also choose to seek additional equity or debt financing. In the event that additional financing is required from outside
sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our
business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected.
Our operating activities have consisted of net losses adjusted for certain non-cash items and changes in assets and liabilities.
Our largest source of cash provided by our operations is receipts from our product revenue and subscription and support revenue.
Cash provided by operating activities during fiscal 2022 was $2.0 billion, an increase of $481.7 million compared to fiscal
2021. The increase was primarily due to growth of our business as reflected by increases in billings and collections during fiscal 2022,
partially offset by higher cash expenditure to support our business growth.
Operating Activities
Investing Activities
Our investing activities have consisted of capital expenditures, net investment purchases, sales, and maturities, and business
acquisitions. We expect to continue such activities as our business grows.
Cash used in investing activities during fiscal 2022 was $933.4 million, a decrease of $547.2 million compared to fiscal 2021.
The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in net cash payments for business acquisitions, partially offset by an increase in net
investment purchases, sales and maturities during fiscal 2022.
Financing Activities
Our financing activities have consisted of cash used to repurchase shares of our common stock, proceeds from sales of shares
through employee equity incentive plans, and payments for tax withholding obligations of certain employees related to the net share
settlement of equity awards.
Cash used in financing activities during fiscal 2022 was $806.6 million, a decrease of $297.4 million compared to fiscal 2021.
The decrease was primarily due to a decrease in repurchases of our common stock during fiscal 2022.
Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated
financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue,
expenses, and related disclosures. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are
reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Actual results could differ
materially from those estimates due to risks and uncertainties, including uncertainty in the current economic environment. To the
extent that there are material differences between these estimates and our actual results, our future consolidated financial statements
will be affected.
We believe that of our significant accounting policies described in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, the critical accounting estimates, assumptions, and
judgments that have the most significant impact on our consolidated financial statements are described below.
Revenue Recognition
The majority of our contracts with our customers include various combinations of our products and subscriptions and support.
Our appliances and software licenses have significant standalone functionalities and capabilities and, accordingly, are distinct from our
subscriptions and support services, as the customer can benefit from the product without these services and such services are
separately identifiable within the contract. We account for multiple agreements with a single customer as a single contract if the
contractual terms and/or substance of those agreements indicate that they may be so closely related that they are, in effect, parts of a
single contract. The amount we are due in exchange for delivering on the contract is allocated to each performance obligation based on
its relative standalone selling price.
We establish standalone selling price using the prices charged for a deliverable when sold separately. If not observable through
past transactions, we estimate the standalone selling price based on our pricing model and our go-to-market strategy, which include
factors such as type of sales channel (channel partner or end-customer), the geographies in which our offerings were sold (domestic or
international) and offering type (products, subscriptions, or support). As our business offerings evolve over time, we may be required
to modify our estimated standalone selling prices, and as a result the timing and classification of our revenue could be affected.
Deferred Contract Costs
We defer contract costs that are recoverable and incremental to obtaining customer sales contracts. Contract costs, which
primarily consist of sales commissions, are amortized on a systematic basis that is consistent with the transfer to the customer of the
goods or services to which the asset relates. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are not commensurate with renewal
commissions are amortized over a benefit period of five years, consistent with the revenue recognition pattern of the performance
obligations in the related contracts including expected renewals. The benefit period is determined by taking into consideration contract
length, technology life, and other quantitative and qualitative factors. The expected renewals are estimated based on historical renewal
trends. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are commensurate and sales commissions for renewal contracts are amortized over
the related contractual period in proportion to the revenue recognized.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and
liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our consolidated financial statements or tax
returns. In addition, deferred tax assets are recorded for the future benefit of utilizing net operating losses and research and
development credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount
expected to be realized.
Significant judgment is required in determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets. In assessing the
need for a valuation allowance, we consider all available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable
income, and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In the event that we change our determination as to the amount of deferred tax
assets that can be realized, we will adjust our valuation allowance with a corresponding impact to the provision for income taxes in the
period in which such determination is made.
We recognize liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for
recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be
sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step requires us to estimate and
measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more likely than not to be realized upon ultimate settlement.
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Significant judgment is required in evaluating our uncertain tax positions and determining our provision for income taxes.
Although we believe our reserves are reasonable, no assurance can be given that the final tax outcome of these matters will not be
different from that which is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals. We adjust these reserves in light of changing
facts and circumstances, such as the closing of a tax audit or the refinement of an estimate. To the extent that the final tax outcome of
these matters is different than the amounts recorded, such differences may impact the provision for income taxes in the period in
which such determination is made.
Manufacturing Partner and Supplier Liabilities
We outsource most of our manufacturing, repair, and supply chain management operations to our EMS provider, which
procures components and assembles our products based on our demand forecasts. These forecasts of future demand are based upon
historical trends and analysis from our sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions. We accrue
costs for manufacturing purchase commitments in excess of our forecasted demand, including costs for excess components or for
carrying costs incurred by our manufacturing partners and component suppliers. Actual component usage and product demand may be
materially different from our forecast and could be caused by factors outside of our control, which could have an adverse impact on
our results of operations. To date, we have not accrued significant costs associated with this exposure.
Loss Contingencies
We evaluate purchased intangible assets and other long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. Such events or changes in circumstances
include, but are not limited to, a significant decrease in the fair value of the underlying asset or asset group, a significant decrease in
the benefits realized from the acquired assets, difficulty and delays in integrating the business, or a significant change in the operations
of the acquired assets or use of an asset or asset group. A long-lived asset is considered impaired if its carrying amount exceeds the
estimated future undiscounted cash flows the asset or asset group is expected to generate. Critical estimates in determining whether a
long-lived asset is considered impaired include the amount and timing of future cash flows that the asset or asset group is expected to
generate. If a long-lived asset is considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is the amount by which the carrying
amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group, which is estimated using a present value technique. Critical
estimates in determining the fair value of an asset or asset group and the amount of impairment to recognize include, but are not
limited to, the amount and timing of future cash flows that the asset or asset group is expected to generate and the discount rate.
Determining the fair value of an asset or asset group is highly judgmental in nature and involves the use of significant estimates and
assumptions for market participants. We base our fair value estimates on assumptions we believe to be reasonable but that are
unpredictable and inherently uncertain. Actual future results may differ from those estimates.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to “Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements” in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant
We are subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business. We accrue for loss
Accounting Policies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a description of recent accounting pronouncements and
contingencies when it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be
reasonably estimated. If we determine that a loss is possible and the range of the loss can be reasonably determined, then we disclose
the range of the possible loss. We regularly evaluate current information available to us to determine whether an accrual is required, an
accrual should be adjusted, or a range of possible loss should be disclosed.
our expectation of their impact, if any, on our results of operations and financial condition.
ITEM 7A.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
From time to time, we are involved in disputes, litigation, and other legal actions. However, there are many uncertainties
Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars. A portion of our operating expenses are incurred outside of the
associated with any litigation, and these actions or other third-party claims against us may cause us to incur substantial settlement
charges, which are inherently difficult to estimate and could adversely affect our results of operations. The actual liability in any such
matters may be materially different from our estimates, which could result in the need to adjust our liability and record additional
expenses.
Goodwill, Intangibles, and Other Long-Lived Assets
United States and are denominated in foreign currencies and are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange
rates. Additionally, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may cause us to recognize transaction gains and losses in our
statement of operations. The effect of an immediate 10% adverse change in foreign exchange rates on monetary assets and liabilities at
July 31, 2022 would not be material to our financial condition or results of operations. As of July 31, 2022, foreign currency
transaction gains and losses and exchange rate fluctuations have not been material to our consolidated financial statements. We enter
into foreign currency derivative contracts with maturities of 16 months or less which we designate as cash flow hedges to manage the
We make significant estimates, assumptions, and judgments when valuing goodwill and other purchased intangible assets in
foreign currency exchange risk associated with our foreign currency denominated operating expenditures. The effectiveness of our
connection with the initial purchase price allocation of an acquired entity, as well as when evaluating impairment of goodwill and
other purchased intangible assets on an ongoing basis. These estimates are based upon a number of factors, including historical
experience, market conditions, and information obtained from the management of the acquired company. Critical estimates in valuing
certain intangible assets include, but are not limited to, cash flows that an asset is expected to generate in the future, discount rates, the
time and expense that would be necessary to recreate the assets, and the profit margin a market participant would receive. The
amounts and useful lives assigned to identified intangible assets impact the amount and timing of future amortization expense.
existing hedging transactions and the availability and effectiveness of any hedging transactions we may decide to enter into in the
future may be limited, and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exposure, which could adversely affect our financial
condition and operating results. Refer to Note 6. Derivative Instruments in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for
more information.
As our international operations grow, our risks associated with fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates will become
greater, and we will continue to reassess our approach to managing this risk. In addition, a weakening U.S. dollar can increase the
We evaluate goodwill for impairment on an annual basis in our fourth fiscal quarter or more frequently if we believe
costs of our international expansion and a strengthening U.S. dollar can increase the real cost of our products to our end-customers
impairment indicators exist. We have elected to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the
fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. The qualitative assessment includes our evaluation
of relevant events and circumstances affecting our single reporting unit, including macroeconomic, industry, and market conditions,
our overall financial performance, and trends in the market price of our common stock. If qualitative factors indicate that it is more
likely than not that our reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount, then we will perform the quantitative impairment
test by comparing our reporting unit’s carrying amount, including goodwill, to its fair value. If the carrying amount of our reporting
unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss will be recognized in an amount equal to that excess but limited to the total amount of
goodwill. To date, the results of our qualitative assessment have indicated that the quantitative goodwill impairment test is not
necessary.
outside of the United States, leading to delays in the purchase of our products and services. For additional information, see the risk
factor entitled “We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial
condition and operating results.” in Part 1, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Interest Rate Risk
The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, provide liquidity, and maximize income without
significantly increasing risk. Most of the securities we invest in are subject to interest rate risk. To minimize this risk, we maintain our
portfolio of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments in a variety of securities, including commercial paper, money market
funds, U.S. government and agency securities, corporate debt securities, and asset-backed securities. To assess the interest rate risk, we
performed a sensitivity analysis to determine the impact a change in interest rates would have on the value of the investment portfolio.
Based on investment positions as of July 31, 2022, a hypothetical 100 basis point increase in interest rates across all maturities would
result in a $20.6 million decline in the fair market value of the portfolio. Such losses would only be realized if we sold the investments
prior to maturity. Conversely, a hypothetical 100 basis point decrease in interest rates would lead to a $20.6 million increase in the fair
market value of the portfolio.
In July 2018, we issued $1.7 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and in June 2020, we issued $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025
Notes”). We carry these instruments at face value less unamortized discount and unamortized issuance costs on our consolidated
balance sheets. As these instruments have a fixed annual interest rate, we have no financial and economic exposure associated with
changes in interest rates. However, the fair value of fixed rate instruments fluctuates when interest rates change, and additionally, in
the case of either series of Notes, when the market price of our common stock fluctuates.
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Significant judgment is required in evaluating our uncertain tax positions and determining our provision for income taxes.
Although we believe our reserves are reasonable, no assurance can be given that the final tax outcome of these matters will not be
different from that which is reflected in our historical income tax provisions and accruals. We adjust these reserves in light of changing
facts and circumstances, such as the closing of a tax audit or the refinement of an estimate. To the extent that the final tax outcome of
these matters is different than the amounts recorded, such differences may impact the provision for income taxes in the period in
which such determination is made.
Manufacturing Partner and Supplier Liabilities
We outsource most of our manufacturing, repair, and supply chain management operations to our EMS provider, which
procures components and assembles our products based on our demand forecasts. These forecasts of future demand are based upon
historical trends and analysis from our sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions. We accrue
costs for manufacturing purchase commitments in excess of our forecasted demand, including costs for excess components or for
carrying costs incurred by our manufacturing partners and component suppliers. Actual component usage and product demand may be
materially different from our forecast and could be caused by factors outside of our control, which could have an adverse impact on
our results of operations. To date, we have not accrued significant costs associated with this exposure.
Loss Contingencies
We are subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business. We accrue for loss
contingencies when it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be
reasonably estimated. If we determine that a loss is possible and the range of the loss can be reasonably determined, then we disclose
the range of the possible loss. We regularly evaluate current information available to us to determine whether an accrual is required, an
From time to time, we are involved in disputes, litigation, and other legal actions. However, there are many uncertainties
associated with any litigation, and these actions or other third-party claims against us may cause us to incur substantial settlement
charges, which are inherently difficult to estimate and could adversely affect our results of operations. The actual liability in any such
matters may be materially different from our estimates, which could result in the need to adjust our liability and record additional
expenses.
Goodwill, Intangibles, and Other Long-Lived Assets
We make significant estimates, assumptions, and judgments when valuing goodwill and other purchased intangible assets in
connection with the initial purchase price allocation of an acquired entity, as well as when evaluating impairment of goodwill and
other purchased intangible assets on an ongoing basis. These estimates are based upon a number of factors, including historical
experience, market conditions, and information obtained from the management of the acquired company. Critical estimates in valuing
certain intangible assets include, but are not limited to, cash flows that an asset is expected to generate in the future, discount rates, the
time and expense that would be necessary to recreate the assets, and the profit margin a market participant would receive. The
amounts and useful lives assigned to identified intangible assets impact the amount and timing of future amortization expense.
We evaluate goodwill for impairment on an annual basis in our fourth fiscal quarter or more frequently if we believe
impairment indicators exist. We have elected to first assess qualitative factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the
fair value of our reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, including goodwill. The qualitative assessment includes our evaluation
of relevant events and circumstances affecting our single reporting unit, including macroeconomic, industry, and market conditions,
our overall financial performance, and trends in the market price of our common stock. If qualitative factors indicate that it is more
likely than not that our reporting unit’s fair value is less than its carrying amount, then we will perform the quantitative impairment
unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss will be recognized in an amount equal to that excess but limited to the total amount of
goodwill. To date, the results of our qualitative assessment have indicated that the quantitative goodwill impairment test is not
necessary.
We evaluate purchased intangible assets and other long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in
circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable. Such events or changes in circumstances
include, but are not limited to, a significant decrease in the fair value of the underlying asset or asset group, a significant decrease in
the benefits realized from the acquired assets, difficulty and delays in integrating the business, or a significant change in the operations
of the acquired assets or use of an asset or asset group. A long-lived asset is considered impaired if its carrying amount exceeds the
estimated future undiscounted cash flows the asset or asset group is expected to generate. Critical estimates in determining whether a
long-lived asset is considered impaired include the amount and timing of future cash flows that the asset or asset group is expected to
generate. If a long-lived asset is considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is the amount by which the carrying
amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group, which is estimated using a present value technique. Critical
estimates in determining the fair value of an asset or asset group and the amount of impairment to recognize include, but are not
limited to, the amount and timing of future cash flows that the asset or asset group is expected to generate and the discount rate.
Determining the fair value of an asset or asset group is highly judgmental in nature and involves the use of significant estimates and
assumptions for market participants. We base our fair value estimates on assumptions we believe to be reasonable but that are
unpredictable and inherently uncertain. Actual future results may differ from those estimates.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to “Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements” in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a description of recent accounting pronouncements and
our expectation of their impact, if any, on our results of operations and financial condition.
ITEM 7A.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
accrual should be adjusted, or a range of possible loss should be disclosed.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our sales contracts are primarily denominated in U.S. dollars. A portion of our operating expenses are incurred outside of the
United States and are denominated in foreign currencies and are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange
rates. Additionally, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may cause us to recognize transaction gains and losses in our
statement of operations. The effect of an immediate 10% adverse change in foreign exchange rates on monetary assets and liabilities at
July 31, 2022 would not be material to our financial condition or results of operations. As of July 31, 2022, foreign currency
transaction gains and losses and exchange rate fluctuations have not been material to our consolidated financial statements. We enter
into foreign currency derivative contracts with maturities of 16 months or less which we designate as cash flow hedges to manage the
foreign currency exchange risk associated with our foreign currency denominated operating expenditures. The effectiveness of our
existing hedging transactions and the availability and effectiveness of any hedging transactions we may decide to enter into in the
future may be limited, and we may not be able to successfully hedge our exposure, which could adversely affect our financial
condition and operating results. Refer to Note 6. Derivative Instruments in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for
more information.
As our international operations grow, our risks associated with fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates will become
greater, and we will continue to reassess our approach to managing this risk. In addition, a weakening U.S. dollar can increase the
costs of our international expansion and a strengthening U.S. dollar can increase the real cost of our products to our end-customers
outside of the United States, leading to delays in the purchase of our products and services. For additional information, see the risk
factor entitled “We are exposed to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, which could negatively affect our financial
condition and operating results.” in Part 1, Item 1A of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Interest Rate Risk
test by comparing our reporting unit’s carrying amount, including goodwill, to its fair value. If the carrying amount of our reporting
The primary objectives of our investment activities are to preserve principal, provide liquidity, and maximize income without
significantly increasing risk. Most of the securities we invest in are subject to interest rate risk. To minimize this risk, we maintain our
portfolio of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments in a variety of securities, including commercial paper, money market
funds, U.S. government and agency securities, corporate debt securities, and asset-backed securities. To assess the interest rate risk, we
performed a sensitivity analysis to determine the impact a change in interest rates would have on the value of the investment portfolio.
Based on investment positions as of July 31, 2022, a hypothetical 100 basis point increase in interest rates across all maturities would
result in a $20.6 million decline in the fair market value of the portfolio. Such losses would only be realized if we sold the investments
prior to maturity. Conversely, a hypothetical 100 basis point decrease in interest rates would lead to a $20.6 million increase in the fair
market value of the portfolio.
In July 2018, we issued $1.7 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and in June 2020, we issued $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025
Notes”). We carry these instruments at face value less unamortized discount and unamortized issuance costs on our consolidated
balance sheets. As these instruments have a fixed annual interest rate, we have no financial and economic exposure associated with
changes in interest rates. However, the fair value of fixed rate instruments fluctuates when interest rates change, and additionally, in
the case of either series of Notes, when the market price of our common stock fluctuates.
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ITEM 8.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Opinion on the Financial Statements
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
60
63
64
65
66
67
69
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the Company) as of July 31, 2022 and
2021, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three
years in the period ended July 31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In
our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at
July 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended July 31,
2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal
Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework)
and our report dated September 6, 2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to
be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used
and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was
communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material
to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the
critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not,
by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or
disclosures to which it relates.
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ITEM 8.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 42)
INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Operations
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
60
63
64
65
66
67
69
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the Company) as of July 31, 2022 and
2021, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three
years in the period ended July 31, 2022, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In
our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at
July 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended July 31,
2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal
Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework)
and our report dated September 6, 2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to
be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence
regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used
and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was
communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material
to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of the
critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not,
by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or
disclosures to which it relates.
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Revenue Recognition
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Description of
the Matter
As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s contracts with customers
sometimes contain multiple performance obligations, which are accounted for separately if they are distinct. In
such cases, the transaction price is then allocated to the distinct performance obligations on a relative standalone
selling price basis, and revenue is recognized when control of the distinct performance obligation is transferred.
For example, product revenue is recognized at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software license, and
subscription and support revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed.
How We
Addressed the
Matter in Our
Audit
Auditing the Company’s revenue recognition was complex, including the identification and determination of
distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue recognition. For example, there were nonstandard terms
and conditions that required judgment to determine the distinct performance obligations and the impact on the
timing of revenue recognition.
We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s
process and controls to identify and determine the distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue
recognition.
To test the identification and determination of the distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue
recognition, our audit procedures included, among others, reading the executed contract and purchase order to
understand the contract, identifying the performance obligation(s), determining the distinct performance
obligations, and evaluating the timing of revenue recognition for a sample of individual sales transactions. We
evaluated the accuracy of the Company’s contract summary documentation, specifically related to the
identification and determination of distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue recognition.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2009.
San Jose, California
September 6, 2022
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited Palo Alto Networks, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on criteria established
in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013
framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective
internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of
operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended July 31, 2022, and
the related notes and our report dated September 6, 2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of
the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control
over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based
on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the
Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness
exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such
other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the
maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the
company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in
accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect
on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections
of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in
conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Jose, California
September 6, 2022
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Revenue Recognition
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Description of
As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s contracts with customers
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
the Matter
sometimes contain multiple performance obligations, which are accounted for separately if they are distinct. In
such cases, the transaction price is then allocated to the distinct performance obligations on a relative standalone
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
selling price basis, and revenue is recognized when control of the distinct performance obligation is transferred.
For example, product revenue is recognized at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software license, and
subscription and support revenue is recognized over time as the services are performed.
Auditing the Company’s revenue recognition was complex, including the identification and determination of
distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue recognition. For example, there were nonstandard terms
and conditions that required judgment to determine the distinct performance obligations and the impact on the
timing of revenue recognition.
We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s
process and controls to identify and determine the distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue
To test the identification and determination of the distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue
recognition, our audit procedures included, among others, reading the executed contract and purchase order to
understand the contract, identifying the performance obligation(s), determining the distinct performance
obligations, and evaluating the timing of revenue recognition for a sample of individual sales transactions. We
evaluated the accuracy of the Company’s contract summary documentation, specifically related to the
identification and determination of distinct performance obligations and the timing of revenue recognition.
How We
Addressed the
Matter in Our
Audit
recognition.
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2009.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Jose, California
September 6, 2022
We have audited Palo Alto Networks, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on criteria established
in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013
framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the Company) maintained, in all material respects, effective
internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)
(PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of
operations, comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended July 31, 2022, and
the related notes and our report dated September 6, 2022 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of
the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control
over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based
on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the
Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit
to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness
exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such
other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of
financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the
maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the
company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in
accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding
prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect
on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections
of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in
conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Jose, California
September 6, 2022
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In millions, except per share data)
Product ..................................................................................................................... $
1,363.1 $
1,120.3 $
Subscription and support .........................................................................................
Total revenue...................................................................................................................
Revenue:
Cost of revenue:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Product .....................................................................................................................
Subscription and support .........................................................................................
Total cost of revenue .......................................................................................................
Total gross profit .............................................................................................................
Operating expenses:
Research and development ......................................................................................
Sales and marketing .................................................................................................
General and administrative ......................................................................................
Total operating expenses .................................................................................................
Interest expense...............................................................................................................
Other income, net ............................................................................................................
Provision for income taxes..............................................................................................
Operating loss
Loss before income taxes
Net loss
Net loss per share, basic and diluted ............................................................................... $
(2.71) $
(5.18) $
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted ............
98.5
96.4
$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
4,138.4
5,501.5
455.5
1,263.2
1,718.7
3,782.8
1,417.7
2,148.9
405.0
3,971.6
(188.8)
(27.4)
9.0
(207.2)
59.8
3,135.8
4,256.1
308.5
966.4
1,274.9
2,981.2
1,140.4
1,753.8
391.1
3,285.3
(304.1)
(163.3)
2.4
(465.0)
33.9
1,064.2
2,344.2
3,408.4
294.4
705.1
999.5
2,408.9
768.1
1,520.2
299.6
2,587.9
(179.0)
(88.7)
35.9
(231.8)
35.2
(2.76)
96.9
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions, except per share data)
July 31,
2022
2021
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents ................................................................................................................. $
2,118.5 $
Short-term investments ......................................................................................................................
1,516.0
1,874.2
1,026.9
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $8.9 and $11.2 at July 31, 2022 and
July 31, 2021, respectively ................................................................................................................
Short-term deferred contract costs .....................................................................................................
Prepaid expenses and other current assets .........................................................................................
2,142.5
1,240.4
317.7
320.2
276.5
229.3
Total current assets ....................................................................................................................................
6,414.9
4,647.3
Property and equipment, net .....................................................................................................................
Operating lease right-of-use assets ...........................................................................................................
Long-term investments .............................................................................................................................
Long-term deferred contract costs ............................................................................................................
Goodwill ...................................................................................................................................................
Intangible assets, net .................................................................................................................................
Other assets ...............................................................................................................................................
357.8
242.0
1,051.9
550.1
2,747.7
384.5
504.7
318.4
262.9
888.3
494.6
2,710.1
498.6
421.4
Total assets ................................................................................................................................................ $
12,253.6 $
10,241.6
Liabilities, temporary equity and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable ............................................................................................................................... $
128.0 $
Accrued compensation .......................................................................................................................
Accrued and other liabilities ..............................................................................................................
Deferred revenue ...............................................................................................................................
Convertible senior notes, net .............................................................................................................
Total current liabilities ..............................................................................................................................
Convertible senior notes, net .....................................................................................................................
461.1
399.2
3,641.2
3,676.8
8,306.3
—
Long-term deferred revenue .....................................................................................................................
3,352.8
Long-term operating lease liabilities .........................................................................................................
Other long-term liabilities .........................................................................................................................
276.1
108.4
56.9
430.6
329.4
2,741.9
1,557.9
5,116.7
1,668.1
2,282.1
313.4
97.7
Total liabilities ..........................................................................................................................................
12,043.6
9,478.0
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)
Temporary equity
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock; $0.0001 par value; 100.0 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding at
July 31, 2022 and July 31, 2021 .......................................................................................................
Common stock and additional paid-in capital; $0.0001 par value; 1,000.0 shares authorized; 99.6
and 97.3 shares issued and outstanding at July 31, 2022 and July 31, 2021, respectively .................
Accumulated other comprehensive loss .............................................................................................
—
—
1,932.7
(55.6)
129.1
—
2,311.2
(9.9)
Accumulated deficit ...........................................................................................................................
(1,667.1)
(1,666.8)
Total stockholders’ equity .........................................................................................................................
210.0
634.5
Total liabilities, temporary equity and stockholders’ equity ..................................................................... $
12,253.6 $
10,241.6
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In millions, except per share data)
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Revenue:
Product ..................................................................................................................... $
1,363.1 $
1,120.3 $
2,142.5
1,240.4
Cost of revenue:
Subscription and support .........................................................................................
Total revenue...................................................................................................................
Product .....................................................................................................................
Subscription and support .........................................................................................
Total cost of revenue .......................................................................................................
Total gross profit .............................................................................................................
Operating expenses:
Research and development ......................................................................................
Sales and marketing .................................................................................................
General and administrative ......................................................................................
Total operating expenses .................................................................................................
Operating loss
Interest expense...............................................................................................................
Other income, net ............................................................................................................
Loss before income taxes
Provision for income taxes..............................................................................................
4,138.4
5,501.5
455.5
1,263.2
1,718.7
3,782.8
1,417.7
2,148.9
405.0
3,971.6
(188.8)
(27.4)
9.0
(207.2)
59.8
3,135.8
4,256.1
308.5
966.4
1,274.9
2,981.2
1,140.4
1,753.8
391.1
3,285.3
(304.1)
(163.3)
2.4
(465.0)
33.9
1,064.2
2,344.2
3,408.4
294.4
705.1
999.5
2,408.9
768.1
1,520.2
299.6
2,587.9
(179.0)
(88.7)
35.9
(231.8)
35.2
Net loss
$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted ............................................................................... $
(2.71) $
(5.18) $
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted ............
98.5
96.4
(2.76)
96.9
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In millions, except per share data)
July 31,
2022
2021
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents ................................................................................................................. $
2,118.5 $
Short-term investments ......................................................................................................................
1,516.0
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $8.9 and $11.2 at July 31, 2022 and
July 31, 2021, respectively ................................................................................................................
Short-term deferred contract costs .....................................................................................................
Prepaid expenses and other current assets .........................................................................................
Total current assets ....................................................................................................................................
6,414.9
4,647.3
Property and equipment, net .....................................................................................................................
Operating lease right-of-use assets ...........................................................................................................
Long-term investments .............................................................................................................................
Long-term deferred contract costs ............................................................................................................
Goodwill ...................................................................................................................................................
Intangible assets, net .................................................................................................................................
Other assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Total assets ................................................................................................................................................ $
12,253.6 $
10,241.6
Liabilities, temporary equity and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable ............................................................................................................................... $
128.0 $
Accrued compensation .......................................................................................................................
Accrued and other liabilities ..............................................................................................................
Deferred revenue ...............................................................................................................................
Convertible senior notes, net .............................................................................................................
Total current liabilities ..............................................................................................................................
Convertible senior notes, net .....................................................................................................................
Long-term deferred revenue .....................................................................................................................
3,352.8
Long-term operating lease liabilities .........................................................................................................
Other long-term liabilities .........................................................................................................................
Total liabilities ..........................................................................................................................................
12,043.6
9,478.0
Commitments and contingencies (Note 12)
Temporary equity
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock; $0.0001 par value; 100.0 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding at
July 31, 2022 and July 31, 2021 .......................................................................................................
Common stock and additional paid-in capital; $0.0001 par value; 1,000.0 shares authorized; 99.6
and 97.3 shares issued and outstanding at July 31, 2022 and July 31, 2021, respectively .................
Accumulated other comprehensive loss .............................................................................................
Accumulated deficit ...........................................................................................................................
(1,667.1)
(1,666.8)
Total stockholders’ equity .........................................................................................................................
210.0
634.5
Total liabilities, temporary equity and stockholders’ equity ..................................................................... $
12,253.6 $
10,241.6
1,874.2
1,026.9
276.5
229.3
318.4
262.9
888.3
494.6
2,710.1
498.6
421.4
56.9
430.6
329.4
2,741.9
1,557.9
5,116.7
1,668.1
2,282.1
313.4
97.7
129.1
—
2,311.2
(9.9)
317.7
320.2
357.8
242.0
1,051.9
550.1
2,747.7
384.5
504.7
461.1
399.2
3,641.2
3,676.8
8,306.3
—
276.1
108.4
—
—
1,932.7
(55.6)
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(In millions)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Net loss ..........................................................................................................................$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Change in unrealized gains (losses) on investments ......................................................
(25.0)
(3.0)
Cash flow hedges:
Change in unrealized gains (losses) .....................................................................
Net realized (gains) losses reclassified into earnings ...........................................
Net change on cash flow hedges ....................................................................................
Other comprehensive income (loss) ...............................................................................
(54.0)
33.3
(20.7)
(45.7)
1.1
(18.5)
(17.4)
(20.4)
1.0
8.3
4.9
13.2
14.2
Comprehensive loss .......................................................................................................$
(312.7) $
(519.3) $
(252.8)
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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Balance as of July 31, 2019
Net loss
Other comprehensive income
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Settlement of warrants
Equity component of convertible senior notes, net
Issuance of warrants
Purchase of note hedges
Balance as of July 31, 2020
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Issuance of common and restricted common stock
in connection with acquisitions
Temporary equity reclassification
Balance as of July 31, 2021
Cumulative-effect adjustment from adoption of new
accounting pronouncement
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
(In millions)
Common Stock
and
Additional Paid-In Capital
Shares
Amount
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Accumulated
Stockholders’
Deficit
Total
Equity
96.8
$
2,490.9
$
(3.7) $
(900.9) $
(267.0)
1,586.3
(267.0)
—
14.2
—
—
84.0
(22.7)
674.4
(1,198.1)
—
398.7
202.8
(370.8)
2,259.2
—
—
104.0
(28.9)
943.4
(1,178.1)
340.7
(129.1)
2,311.2
(581.9)
—
—
137.3
(50.3)
1,031.4
(915.0)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
10.5
(20.4)
(1,167.9)
(498.9)
(9.9)
(1,666.8)
266.7
(267.0)
(45.7)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
14.2
84.0
(22.7)
674.4
(1,198.1)
—
398.7
202.8
(370.8)
1,101.8
(498.9)
(20.4)
104.0
(28.9)
943.4
(1,178.1)
340.7
(129.1)
634.5
(315.2)
(267.0)
(45.7)
137.3
(50.3)
1,031.4
(915.0)
210.0
Balance as of July 31, 2022
99.6 $
1,932.7 $
(55.6) $
(1,667.1) $
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
—
—
3.6
—
—
(6.1)
2.0
—
—
—
—
—
96.3
3.7
—
—
(4.0)
1.3
—
97.3
—
—
—
4.1
—
—
(1.8)
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Net loss ..........................................................................................................................$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:
Cash flow hedges:
Change in unrealized gains (losses) on investments ......................................................
(25.0)
(3.0)
Change in unrealized gains (losses) .....................................................................
Net realized (gains) losses reclassified into earnings ...........................................
Net change on cash flow hedges ....................................................................................
Other comprehensive income (loss) ...............................................................................
(54.0)
33.3
(20.7)
(45.7)
1.1
(18.5)
(17.4)
(20.4)
1.0
8.3
4.9
13.2
14.2
Comprehensive loss .......................................................................................................$
(312.7) $
(519.3) $
(252.8)
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(In millions)
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In millions)
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Common Stock
and
Additional Paid-In Capital
Amount
Shares
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
Accumulated
Deficit
Total
Stockholders’
Equity
Balance as of July 31, 2019
Net loss
Other comprehensive income
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Settlement of warrants
Equity component of convertible senior notes, net
Issuance of warrants
Purchase of note hedges
Balance as of July 31, 2020
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Issuance of common and restricted common stock
in connection with acquisitions
Temporary equity reclassification
Balance as of July 31, 2021
Cumulative-effect adjustment from adoption of new
accounting pronouncement
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss
Issuance of common stock in connection with
employee equity incentive plans
Taxes paid related to net share settlement of equity
awards
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards
Repurchase and retirement of common stock
Balance as of July 31, 2022
96.8
—
—
3.6
—
—
(6.1)
2.0
—
—
—
96.3
—
—
3.7
—
—
(4.0)
1.3
—
97.3
—
—
—
4.1
—
$
$
2,490.9
—
—
(3.7) $
—
14.2
(900.9) $
(267.0)
—
84.0
(22.7)
674.4
(1,198.1)
—
398.7
202.8
(370.8)
2,259.2
—
—
104.0
(28.9)
943.4
(1,178.1)
340.7
(129.1)
2,311.2
(581.9)
—
—
137.3
(50.3)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
10.5
—
(20.4)
—
—
—
—
—
—
(9.9)
—
—
(45.7)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
(1,167.9)
(498.9)
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
(1,666.8)
266.7
(267.0)
—
—
—
—
(1.8)
99.6 $
1,031.4
(915.0)
1,932.7 $
—
—
(55.6) $
—
—
(1,667.1) $
1,586.3
(267.0)
14.2
84.0
(22.7)
674.4
(1,198.1)
—
398.7
202.8
(370.8)
1,101.8
(498.9)
(20.4)
104.0
(28.9)
943.4
(1,178.1)
340.7
(129.1)
634.5
(315.2)
(267.0)
(45.7)
137.3
(50.3)
1,031.4
(915.0)
210.0
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
Cash and cash equivalents
Year Ended July 31,
Restricted cash included in prepaid expenses and other current assets
2022
2021
2020
Restricted cash included in other assets
Cash flows from operating activities
Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
$
2,124.8 $
1,880.1 $
2,961.7
Net loss .......................................................................................................................$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: .........
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards ...........................................
1,011.1
Depreciation and amortization .............................................................................
Gain related to facility exit ..................................................................................
Amortization of deferred contract costs ...............................................................
Amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs .......................................
Reduction of operating lease right-of-use assets .................................................
Amortization of investment premiums, net of accretion of purchase
discounts..............................................................................................................
Repayments of convertible senior notes attributable to debt discount .................
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions: ..........
Accounts receivable, net ...............................................................................
Deferred contract costs .................................................................................
Prepaid expenses and other assets ................................................................
Accounts payable .........................................................................................
Accrued compensation .................................................................................
Accrued and other liabilities .........................................................................
Deferred revenue ..........................................................................................
Net cash provided by operating activities ..........................................................................
Cash flows from investing activities
282.6
—
362.1
7.2
54.4
13.5
—
(902.0)
(458.8)
(141.0)
69.3
30.4
(47.1)
1,970.0
1,984.7
894.5
260.4
—
298.0
142.9
44.5
13.1
(0.1)
(172.4)
(440.8)
(299.1)
(11.8)
105.1
(28.5)
1,196.1
1,503.0
658.4
206.1
(3.1)
254.4
73.9
47.4
(6.2)
—
(435.6)
(407.4)
(1.6)
(12.8)
75.7
(39.8)
893.3
1,035.7
Purchases of investments ............................................................................................
(2,271.7)
(1,958.9)
(1,180.8)
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
2,118.5
$
1,874.2 $
2,958.0
6.3
—
5.4
0.5
2.8
0.9
$
$
$
(2.5) $
(365.4) $
(11.0)
34.6 $
20.2 $
24.9 $
20.0 $
17.2
13.5
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Equity consideration for business acquisitions
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Cash paid for income taxes
Cash paid for contractual interest
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
Proceeds from sales of investments ............................................................................
449.2
Proceeds from maturities of investments ....................................................................
1,118.9
Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired ................................................................
Purchases of property, equipment, and other assets ....................................................
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ...........................................................
(37.0)
(192.8)
(933.4)
Cash flows from financing activities
Repayments of convertible senior notes .....................................................................
(0.6)
Payments for debt issuance costs ................................................................................
Proceeds from borrowings on convertible senior notes, net .......................................
Proceeds from issuance of warrants ............................................................................
Purchase of note hedges ..............................................................................................
Repurchases of common stock ...................................................................................
Proceeds from sales of shares through employee equity incentive plans....................
Payments for taxes related to net share settlement of equity awards ..........................
Payment of deferred consideration related to prior year business acquisition ............
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities ...........................................................
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash—beginning of period ....................................
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash—end of period...............................................$
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash to the consolidated
balance sheets
—
—
—
—
(892.3)
136.6
(50.3)
—
(806.6)
244.7
1,880.1
131.1
1,240.5
(777.3)
(116.0)
(1,480.6)
(0.9)
(0.2)
—
—
—
314.0
1,952.7
(583.5)
(214.4)
288.0
—
—
1,979.1
202.8
(370.8)
(1,178.1)
(1,198.1)
104.0
(28.8)
—
(1,104.0)
(1,081.6)
2,961.7
84.0
(22.7)
(1.3)
673.0
1,996.7
965.0
2,124.8 $
1,880.1 $
2,961.7
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(In millions)
Year Ended July 31,
Restricted cash included in prepaid expenses and other current assets
2022
2021
2020
Restricted cash included in other assets
Cash and cash equivalents
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
2,118.5
$
1,874.2 $
2,958.0
6.3
—
5.4
0.5
2.8
0.9
Cash flows from operating activities
Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
$
2,124.8 $
1,880.1 $
2,961.7
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Equity consideration for business acquisitions
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Cash paid for income taxes
Cash paid for contractual interest
$
$
$
(2.5) $
(365.4) $
(11.0)
34.6 $
20.2 $
24.9 $
20.0 $
17.2
13.5
See notes to consolidated financial statements.
Net loss .......................................................................................................................$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: .........
Share-based compensation for equity-based awards ...........................................
1,011.1
Depreciation and amortization .............................................................................
Gain related to facility exit ..................................................................................
Amortization of deferred contract costs ...............................................................
Amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs .......................................
Reduction of operating lease right-of-use assets .................................................
Amortization of investment premiums, net of accretion of purchase
discounts..............................................................................................................
Repayments of convertible senior notes attributable to debt discount .................
Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of effects of acquisitions: ..........
Accounts receivable, net ...............................................................................
Deferred contract costs .................................................................................
Prepaid expenses and other assets ................................................................
Accounts payable .........................................................................................
Accrued compensation .................................................................................
Accrued and other liabilities .........................................................................
Deferred revenue ..........................................................................................
282.6
—
362.1
7.2
54.4
13.5
—
(902.0)
(458.8)
(141.0)
69.3
30.4
(47.1)
1,970.0
1,984.7
(37.0)
(192.8)
(933.4)
—
—
—
—
(892.3)
136.6
(50.3)
—
(806.6)
244.7
894.5
260.4
—
298.0
142.9
44.5
13.1
(0.1)
(172.4)
(440.8)
(299.1)
(11.8)
105.1
(28.5)
1,196.1
1,503.0
131.1
1,240.5
(777.3)
(116.0)
(1,480.6)
(0.9)
(0.2)
—
—
—
104.0
(28.8)
—
(1,104.0)
(1,081.6)
2,961.7
658.4
206.1
(3.1)
254.4
73.9
47.4
(6.2)
—
(435.6)
(407.4)
(1.6)
(12.8)
75.7
(39.8)
893.3
1,035.7
314.0
1,952.7
(583.5)
(214.4)
288.0
—
—
1,979.1
202.8
(370.8)
84.0
(22.7)
(1.3)
673.0
1,996.7
965.0
Net cash provided by operating activities ..........................................................................
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of investments ............................................................................................
(2,271.7)
(1,958.9)
(1,180.8)
Proceeds from sales of investments ............................................................................
449.2
Proceeds from maturities of investments ....................................................................
1,118.9
Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired ................................................................
Purchases of property, equipment, and other assets ....................................................
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities ...........................................................
Cash flows from financing activities
Repayments of convertible senior notes .....................................................................
(0.6)
Payments for debt issuance costs ................................................................................
Proceeds from borrowings on convertible senior notes, net .......................................
Proceeds from issuance of warrants ............................................................................
Purchase of note hedges ..............................................................................................
Proceeds from sales of shares through employee equity incentive plans....................
Payments for taxes related to net share settlement of equity awards ..........................
Payment of deferred consideration related to prior year business acquisition ............
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities ...........................................................
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
Repurchases of common stock ...................................................................................
(1,178.1)
(1,198.1)
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash—beginning of period ....................................
1,880.1
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash—end of period...............................................$
2,124.8 $
1,880.1 $
2,961.7
Reconciliation of cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash to the consolidated
balance sheets
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We define fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly
transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and
liabilities which are required to be recorded at fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which to transact
We categorize assets and liabilities recorded or disclosed at fair value on our consolidated balance sheets based upon the level
of judgment associated with inputs used to measure their fair value. The categories are as follows:
Level 1—Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2—Inputs are quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable for the
assets or liabilities, either directly or indirectly through market corroboration, for substantially the full term of the
financial instruments.
•
•
•
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Foreign Currency Transactions
1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
The functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign
currencies have been remeasured into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet dates. Foreign currency
remeasurement gains and losses and foreign currency transaction gains and losses are not significant to the consolidated financial
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was incorporated in
statements.
March 2005 under the laws of the State of Delaware and commenced operations in April 2005. We empower enterprises,
organizations, service providers, and government entities to secure their users, networks, clouds and endpoints by delivering
comprehensive cybersecurity backed by artificial intelligence and automation.
Fair Value
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
and the market-based risk.
accounting principles (“GAAP”). The consolidated financial statements include all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of our
annual results. All adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include our accounts and our wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany
balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
Level 3—Inputs are unobservable inputs based on our own assumptions used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value.
assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We
evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis. Management estimates include, but are not limited to, the standalone selling price for our
products and services, share-based compensation, fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations, the
assessment of recoverability of our intangibles and goodwill, valuation allowance against deferred tax assets, manufacturing partner
and supplier liabilities, deferred contract cost benefit period, and loss contingencies. We base our estimates on assumptions, both
historical and forward looking, that we believe are reasonable. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates due to risks
and uncertainties, including uncertainty in the current economic environment.
The inputs require significant management judgment or estimation.
Our financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis include marketable securities and
derivative financial instruments. Goodwill, intangible assets, and other long-lived assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring
basis, only if impairment is indicated. The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements approximate the fair
value for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities, due to their short-term nature.
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Investments
Concentrations
Financial instruments that subject us to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, investments,
derivative contracts, accounts receivable and financing receivables.
We invest only in high-quality credit instruments and our cash and cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments consist
primarily of fixed income securities. Management believes that the financial institutions that hold our investments are financially
sound and, accordingly, are subject to minimal credit risk. Deposits held with banks may exceed the amount of insurance provided on
such deposits.
Our derivative contracts expose us to credit risk to the extent that the counterparties may be unable to meet the terms of the
arrangement. We mitigate this credit risk by transacting with major financial institutions with high credit ratings and also enter into
master netting arrangements, which permit net settlement of transactions with the same counterparty. We are not required to pledge,
and are not entitled to receive, cash collateral related to these derivative instruments. We do not enter into derivative contracts for
trading or speculative purposes.
We consider all highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash
equivalents. Investments not considered cash equivalents, and with maturities of one year or less from the consolidated balance sheet
date, are classified as short-term investments. Investments with maturities greater than one year from the consolidated balance sheet
date are classified as long-term investments.
We determine the classification of our investments in marketable debt securities at the time of purchase and reevaluate such
determination at each balance sheet date. Our marketable debt securities are classified as available-for-sale. Debt securities in an
unrealized loss position are written down to its fair value with the corresponding charge recorded in other income, net in our
consolidated statements of operations, if it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the impaired security before recovery
of its amortized cost basis, or we have the intention to sell the security. If neither of these conditions are met, we determine whether a
credit loss exists by comparing the present value of the expected cash flows of the security with its amortized cost basis. An allowance
for credit losses is recorded in other income, net in our consolidated statements of operations for an amount not to exceed the
unrealized loss. Unrealized losses that are not credit-related are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”)
in stockholders’ equity.
Our accounts receivable are primarily derived from our distributors in various geographical locations. Our financing receivables
Accounts Receivable
are with qualified end-customers. We perform ongoing credit evaluations and generally do not require collateral on accounts
receivable or financing receivables.
Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount, net of allowances for credit losses. The allowance for credit
losses is based on our assessment of collectability. Management regularly reviews the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses on a
As of July 31, 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our gross accounts receivable, and in the
collective basis by considering the age of each outstanding invoice, each customer’s expected ability to pay and collection history,
aggregate represented 47.7% of our gross accounts receivable. As of July 31, 2022, two end-customers represented 10% or more of
our gross financing receivables, and in aggregate represented 33.7% of our gross financing receivables.
current market conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions. Accounts receivable deemed
uncollectible are charged against the allowance for credit losses. For the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, the allowance for credit
For fiscal 2022, three distributors represented 10% or more of our total revenue, representing 29.7%, 12.4%, and 11.5%,
respectively. No single end-customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue in fiscal 2022, 2021, or 2020.
Financing Receivables
losses activity was not significant.
We rely on an electronics manufacturing services provider (“EMS provider”) to assemble most of our products and sole source
We provide financing arrangements for certain qualified end-user customers to purchase our products and services. Payment
component suppliers for a certain number of our components.
Comprehensive Loss
Comprehensive loss is comprised of net loss and other comprehensive income (loss). Our other comprehensive income (loss)
includes unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale investments and unrealized gains and losses on cash flow hedges.
terms on these financing arrangements are up to five years. Financing receivables are recorded at amortized cost, which approximates
fair value. We may sell, in certain instances, these financing arrangements on a non-recourse basis to third party financial institutions.
The financing receivables are derecognized upon transfer as these sales qualify as true sales.
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Foreign Currency Transactions
1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Description of Business
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was incorporated in
March 2005 under the laws of the State of Delaware and commenced operations in April 2005. We empower enterprises,
organizations, service providers, and government entities to secure their users, networks, clouds and endpoints by delivering
comprehensive cybersecurity backed by artificial intelligence and automation.
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles (“GAAP”). The consolidated financial statements include all adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of our
annual results. All adjustments are of a normal recurring nature.
Principles of Consolidation
balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Use of Estimates
The consolidated financial statements include our accounts and our wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the amounts reported and disclosed in the consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes. We
evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis. Management estimates include, but are not limited to, the standalone selling price for our
products and services, share-based compensation, fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in business combinations, the
assessment of recoverability of our intangibles and goodwill, valuation allowance against deferred tax assets, manufacturing partner
and supplier liabilities, deferred contract cost benefit period, and loss contingencies. We base our estimates on assumptions, both
historical and forward looking, that we believe are reasonable. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates due to risks
The functional currency of our foreign subsidiaries is the U.S. dollar. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign
currencies have been remeasured into U.S. dollars using the exchange rates in effect at the balance sheet dates. Foreign currency
remeasurement gains and losses and foreign currency transaction gains and losses are not significant to the consolidated financial
statements.
Fair Value
We define fair value as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly
transaction between market participants at the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and
liabilities which are required to be recorded at fair value, we consider the principal or most advantageous market in which to transact
and the market-based risk.
We categorize assets and liabilities recorded or disclosed at fair value on our consolidated balance sheets based upon the level
of judgment associated with inputs used to measure their fair value. The categories are as follows:
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Level 1—Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2—Inputs are quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable for the
assets or liabilities, either directly or indirectly through market corroboration, for substantially the full term of the
financial instruments.
Level 3—Inputs are unobservable inputs based on our own assumptions used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value.
The inputs require significant management judgment or estimation.
Our financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis include marketable securities and
derivative financial instruments. Goodwill, intangible assets, and other long-lived assets are measured at fair value on a nonrecurring
basis, only if impairment is indicated. The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated financial statements approximate the fair
value for cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities, due to their short-term nature.
and uncertainties, including uncertainty in the current economic environment.
Cash, Cash Equivalents, and Investments
Concentrations
Financial instruments that subject us to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, investments,
derivative contracts, accounts receivable and financing receivables.
We invest only in high-quality credit instruments and our cash and cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments consist
primarily of fixed income securities. Management believes that the financial institutions that hold our investments are financially
sound and, accordingly, are subject to minimal credit risk. Deposits held with banks may exceed the amount of insurance provided on
such deposits.
Our derivative contracts expose us to credit risk to the extent that the counterparties may be unable to meet the terms of the
arrangement. We mitigate this credit risk by transacting with major financial institutions with high credit ratings and also enter into
master netting arrangements, which permit net settlement of transactions with the same counterparty. We are not required to pledge,
and are not entitled to receive, cash collateral related to these derivative instruments. We do not enter into derivative contracts for
trading or speculative purposes.
We consider all highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash
equivalents. Investments not considered cash equivalents, and with maturities of one year or less from the consolidated balance sheet
date, are classified as short-term investments. Investments with maturities greater than one year from the consolidated balance sheet
date are classified as long-term investments.
We determine the classification of our investments in marketable debt securities at the time of purchase and reevaluate such
determination at each balance sheet date. Our marketable debt securities are classified as available-for-sale. Debt securities in an
unrealized loss position are written down to its fair value with the corresponding charge recorded in other income, net in our
consolidated statements of operations, if it is more likely than not that we will be required to sell the impaired security before recovery
of its amortized cost basis, or we have the intention to sell the security. If neither of these conditions are met, we determine whether a
credit loss exists by comparing the present value of the expected cash flows of the security with its amortized cost basis. An allowance
for credit losses is recorded in other income, net in our consolidated statements of operations for an amount not to exceed the
unrealized loss. Unrealized losses that are not credit-related are included in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) (“AOCI”)
in stockholders’ equity.
Our accounts receivable are primarily derived from our distributors in various geographical locations. Our financing receivables
Accounts Receivable
are with qualified end-customers. We perform ongoing credit evaluations and generally do not require collateral on accounts
receivable or financing receivables.
As of July 31, 2022, three distributors individually represented 10% or more of our gross accounts receivable, and in the
aggregate represented 47.7% of our gross accounts receivable. As of July 31, 2022, two end-customers represented 10% or more of
our gross financing receivables, and in aggregate represented 33.7% of our gross financing receivables.
For fiscal 2022, three distributors represented 10% or more of our total revenue, representing 29.7%, 12.4%, and 11.5%,
Trade accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount, net of allowances for credit losses. The allowance for credit
losses is based on our assessment of collectability. Management regularly reviews the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses on a
collective basis by considering the age of each outstanding invoice, each customer’s expected ability to pay and collection history,
current market conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions. Accounts receivable deemed
uncollectible are charged against the allowance for credit losses. For the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, the allowance for credit
losses activity was not significant.
respectively. No single end-customer accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue in fiscal 2022, 2021, or 2020.
Financing Receivables
We rely on an electronics manufacturing services provider (“EMS provider”) to assemble most of our products and sole source
We provide financing arrangements for certain qualified end-user customers to purchase our products and services. Payment
component suppliers for a certain number of our components.
Comprehensive Loss
Comprehensive loss is comprised of net loss and other comprehensive income (loss). Our other comprehensive income (loss)
includes unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale investments and unrealized gains and losses on cash flow hedges.
terms on these financing arrangements are up to five years. Financing receivables are recorded at amortized cost, which approximates
fair value. We may sell, in certain instances, these financing arrangements on a non-recourse basis to third party financial institutions.
The financing receivables are derecognized upon transfer as these sales qualify as true sales.
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We evaluate the allowance for credit losses by assessing the risks and losses inherent in our financing receivables on either an
Manufacturing Partner and Supplier Liabilities
individual or a collective basis. Our assessment considers various factors, including lifetime expected losses determined using
customer risk profile, current economic conditions that may affect a customer’s ability to pay, and forward-looking economic
considerations. Financing receivables deemed uncollectible are charged against the allowance for credit losses. Short-term financing
receivables are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets, and long-term financing receivables are included in other assets
on our consolidated balance sheets.
Derivatives
We are exposed to foreign currency exchange risk. Substantially all of our revenue is transacted in U.S. dollars, however, a
portion of our operating expenditures are incurred outside of the United States and are denominated in foreign currencies, making
them subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. We enter into foreign currency derivative contracts with maturities of
16 months or less, which we designate as cash flow hedges, to manage the foreign currency exchange risk associated with our
operating expenditures.
We outsource most of our manufacturing, repair, and supply chain management operations to our EMS provider and payments
to it are a significant portion of our cost of product revenue. Although we are contractually obligated to purchase manufactured
products and components, we generally do not own the components and manufactured products. Product title transfers from our EMS
provider to us and immediately to our customers upon shipment. Our EMS provider assembles our products using design
specifications, quality assurance programs, and standards that we establish, and it procures components and assembles products based
on our demand forecasts. These forecasts represent our estimates of future demand for our products based upon historical trends and
analysis from our sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions. If the actual component usage
and product demand are significantly lower than forecast, we record a liability for manufacturing purchase commitments in excess of
our forecasted demand including costs for excess components or for carrying costs incurred by our manufacturing partners and
component suppliers. Through July 31, 2022, we have not accrued any significant costs associated with this exposure.
Convertible Senior Notes
Our derivative financial instruments are recorded at fair value, on a gross basis, as either assets or liabilities on our consolidated
Prior to August 1, 2021, our convertible senior notes were separated into a liability and an equity component. The carrying
balance sheets. Gains or losses related to our cash flow hedges are recorded as a component of AOCI on our consolidated balance
sheets and are reclassified into the financial statement line item associated with the underlying hedged transaction in our consolidated
statements of operations when the underlying hedged transaction is recognized in earnings. Gains or losses related to non-designated
derivative instruments are recognized in other income, net in our consolidated statements of operations for each period until the
instrument matures, is terminated, is re-designated as a qualified cash flow hedge, or is sold. Derivatives designated as cash flow
hedges are classified in our consolidated statements of cash flows in the same manner as the underlying hedged transaction, primarily
within cash flows from operating activities.
Property and Equipment
amount of the liability component was calculated by measuring the fair value of a similar liability that did not have an associated
convertible feature, using a discounted cash flow model with a risk-adjusted yield. The carrying amount of the equity component
representing the conversion option was determined by deducting the fair value of the liability component from the par value of the
notes as a whole. This difference represented a debt discount that was amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method
over the term of the notes. The equity component was not remeasured as it continued to meet the conditions for equity classification.
Transaction costs related to the issuance of the notes were allocated to the liability and equity components using the same proportions
as the proceeds from the notes. Transaction costs attributable to the liability component were netted with the liability component and
amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the notes. Transaction costs attributable to the equity
component were netted with the equity component of the notes in additional paid-in capital. Upon the notes becoming convertible, the
Property and equipment are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line
net carrying amount of the liability component was classified as a current liability and a portion of the equity component representing
method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, generally three to ten years. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the
shorter of the estimated useful lives of the improvements or the remaining lease term. Land is not depreciated.
the conversion option was reclassified to temporary equity. The portion of the equity component classified as temporary equity was
measured as the difference between the principal and net carrying amount of the notes, excluding debt issuance costs.
Business Combinations
We include the results of operations of the businesses that we acquire as of the respective dates of acquisition. We allocate the
fair value of the purchase price of our acquisitions to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, generally based on their estimated
fair values. The excess of the purchase price over the fair values of these identifiable assets and liabilities is recorded as goodwill.
Additional information existing as of the acquisition date but unknown to us may become known during the remainder of the
measurement period, not to exceed 12 months from the acquisition date, which may result in changes to the amounts and allocations
recorded.
Upon adoption of the new debt guidance on August 1, 2021, our convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability
and measured at their amortized cost. Transaction costs related to the issuance of the notes are netted with the liability and are
amortized on a straight-line basis, which approximates the effective interest rate method, to interest expense over the term of the notes.
Revenue Recognition
Our revenue consists of product revenue and subscription and support revenue. Revenue is recognized when control of
promised products, subscriptions and support services are transferred to customers, in an amount that reflects the expected
Intangible Assets
Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are carried at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed over
the estimated useful lives of the respective assets. Acquisition-related in-process research and development represents the fair value of
incomplete research and development projects that have not reached technological feasibility as of the date of acquisition. Initially,
these assets are not subject to amortization. Assets related to projects that have been completed are transferred to developed
technology, which are subject to amortization.
Impairment of Goodwill, Intangible Assets, and Other Long-Lived Assets
Goodwill is evaluated for impairment on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year, and whenever events or
changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of goodwill may not be recoverable. We have elected to first assess qualitative
factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of our single reporting unit is less than its carrying amount,
including goodwill. If we determine that it is more likely than not that the fair value is less than its carrying amount, then the
quantitative impairment test will be performed. Under the quantitative impairment test, if the carrying amount exceeds its fair value,
we will recognize an impairment loss in an amount equal to that excess but limited to the total amount of goodwill.
We evaluate events and changes in circumstances that could indicate carrying amounts of purchased intangible assets and other
long-lived assets may not be recoverable. When such events or changes in circumstances occur, we assess the recoverability of these
assets or asset groups by determining whether or not the carrying amount will be recovered through undiscounted expected future cash
flows. If the total of the future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying amount of an asset or asset group, we record an
impairment loss for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group.
We did not recognize any impairment losses on our goodwill, intangible assets, or other long-lived assets during the years
typically one to five years.
ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
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consideration in exchange for those products and services.
We determine revenue recognition through the following steps:
Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer.
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract.
Determination of the transaction price.
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included in cost of revenue.
Product Revenue
Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.
Recognition of revenue when, or as, we satisfy a performance obligation.
Revenues are reported net of sales taxes. Shipping charges billed to our customers are included in revenues and related costs are
Product revenue is derived primarily from sales of our appliances. Product revenue also includes revenue derived from software
licenses of Panorama and the VM-Series. Our appliances and software licenses include a broad set of built-in networking and security
features and functionalities. We recognize product revenue at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software license.
Subscription and Support Revenue
Subscription and support revenue is derived primarily from sales of our subscription and support offerings. We recognize
subscription and support revenue over time as the services are performed. Our contractual subscription and support contracts are
individual or a collective basis. Our assessment considers various factors, including lifetime expected losses determined using
customer risk profile, current economic conditions that may affect a customer’s ability to pay, and forward-looking economic
considerations. Financing receivables deemed uncollectible are charged against the allowance for credit losses. Short-term financing
receivables are included in prepaid expenses and other current assets, and long-term financing receivables are included in other assets
on our consolidated balance sheets.
Derivatives
We are exposed to foreign currency exchange risk. Substantially all of our revenue is transacted in U.S. dollars, however, a
portion of our operating expenditures are incurred outside of the United States and are denominated in foreign currencies, making
them subject to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. We enter into foreign currency derivative contracts with maturities of
16 months or less, which we designate as cash flow hedges, to manage the foreign currency exchange risk associated with our
Our derivative financial instruments are recorded at fair value, on a gross basis, as either assets or liabilities on our consolidated
balance sheets. Gains or losses related to our cash flow hedges are recorded as a component of AOCI on our consolidated balance
sheets and are reclassified into the financial statement line item associated with the underlying hedged transaction in our consolidated
statements of operations when the underlying hedged transaction is recognized in earnings. Gains or losses related to non-designated
derivative instruments are recognized in other income, net in our consolidated statements of operations for each period until the
instrument matures, is terminated, is re-designated as a qualified cash flow hedge, or is sold. Derivatives designated as cash flow
hedges are classified in our consolidated statements of cash flows in the same manner as the underlying hedged transaction, primarily
within cash flows from operating activities.
Property and Equipment
Property and equipment are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line
method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, generally three to ten years. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the
shorter of the estimated useful lives of the improvements or the remaining lease term. Land is not depreciated.
Business Combinations
We include the results of operations of the businesses that we acquire as of the respective dates of acquisition. We allocate the
fair value of the purchase price of our acquisitions to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, generally based on their estimated
Additional information existing as of the acquisition date but unknown to us may become known during the remainder of the
measurement period, not to exceed 12 months from the acquisition date, which may result in changes to the amounts and allocations
recorded.
Intangible Assets
Purchased intangible assets with finite lives are carried at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed over
the estimated useful lives of the respective assets. Acquisition-related in-process research and development represents the fair value of
incomplete research and development projects that have not reached technological feasibility as of the date of acquisition. Initially,
these assets are not subject to amortization. Assets related to projects that have been completed are transferred to developed
technology, which are subject to amortization.
Impairment of Goodwill, Intangible Assets, and Other Long-Lived Assets
Goodwill is evaluated for impairment on an annual basis in the fourth quarter of our fiscal year, and whenever events or
including goodwill. If we determine that it is more likely than not that the fair value is less than its carrying amount, then the
quantitative impairment test will be performed. Under the quantitative impairment test, if the carrying amount exceeds its fair value,
we will recognize an impairment loss in an amount equal to that excess but limited to the total amount of goodwill.
We evaluate events and changes in circumstances that could indicate carrying amounts of purchased intangible assets and other
long-lived assets may not be recoverable. When such events or changes in circumstances occur, we assess the recoverability of these
flows. If the total of the future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying amount of an asset or asset group, we record an
impairment loss for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the asset or asset group.
We did not recognize any impairment losses on our goodwill, intangible assets, or other long-lived assets during the years
ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
We evaluate the allowance for credit losses by assessing the risks and losses inherent in our financing receivables on either an
Manufacturing Partner and Supplier Liabilities
We outsource most of our manufacturing, repair, and supply chain management operations to our EMS provider and payments
to it are a significant portion of our cost of product revenue. Although we are contractually obligated to purchase manufactured
products and components, we generally do not own the components and manufactured products. Product title transfers from our EMS
provider to us and immediately to our customers upon shipment. Our EMS provider assembles our products using design
specifications, quality assurance programs, and standards that we establish, and it procures components and assembles products based
on our demand forecasts. These forecasts represent our estimates of future demand for our products based upon historical trends and
analysis from our sales and product management functions as adjusted for overall market conditions. If the actual component usage
and product demand are significantly lower than forecast, we record a liability for manufacturing purchase commitments in excess of
our forecasted demand including costs for excess components or for carrying costs incurred by our manufacturing partners and
component suppliers. Through July 31, 2022, we have not accrued any significant costs associated with this exposure.
operating expenditures.
Convertible Senior Notes
Prior to August 1, 2021, our convertible senior notes were separated into a liability and an equity component. The carrying
amount of the liability component was calculated by measuring the fair value of a similar liability that did not have an associated
convertible feature, using a discounted cash flow model with a risk-adjusted yield. The carrying amount of the equity component
representing the conversion option was determined by deducting the fair value of the liability component from the par value of the
notes as a whole. This difference represented a debt discount that was amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method
over the term of the notes. The equity component was not remeasured as it continued to meet the conditions for equity classification.
Transaction costs related to the issuance of the notes were allocated to the liability and equity components using the same proportions
as the proceeds from the notes. Transaction costs attributable to the liability component were netted with the liability component and
amortized to interest expense using the effective interest method over the term of the notes. Transaction costs attributable to the equity
component were netted with the equity component of the notes in additional paid-in capital. Upon the notes becoming convertible, the
net carrying amount of the liability component was classified as a current liability and a portion of the equity component representing
the conversion option was reclassified to temporary equity. The portion of the equity component classified as temporary equity was
measured as the difference between the principal and net carrying amount of the notes, excluding debt issuance costs.
Upon adoption of the new debt guidance on August 1, 2021, our convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability
and measured at their amortized cost. Transaction costs related to the issuance of the notes are netted with the liability and are
amortized on a straight-line basis, which approximates the effective interest rate method, to interest expense over the term of the notes.
fair values. The excess of the purchase price over the fair values of these identifiable assets and liabilities is recorded as goodwill.
Revenue Recognition
Our revenue consists of product revenue and subscription and support revenue. Revenue is recognized when control of
promised products, subscriptions and support services are transferred to customers, in an amount that reflects the expected
consideration in exchange for those products and services.
We determine revenue recognition through the following steps:
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Identification of the contract, or contracts, with a customer.
Identification of the performance obligations in the contract.
Determination of the transaction price.
Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.
Recognition of revenue when, or as, we satisfy a performance obligation.
changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of goodwill may not be recoverable. We have elected to first assess qualitative
Revenues are reported net of sales taxes. Shipping charges billed to our customers are included in revenues and related costs are
factors to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of our single reporting unit is less than its carrying amount,
included in cost of revenue.
Product Revenue
Product revenue is derived primarily from sales of our appliances. Product revenue also includes revenue derived from software
licenses of Panorama and the VM-Series. Our appliances and software licenses include a broad set of built-in networking and security
features and functionalities. We recognize product revenue at the time of hardware shipment or delivery of software license.
assets or asset groups by determining whether or not the carrying amount will be recovered through undiscounted expected future cash
Subscription and Support Revenue
Subscription and support revenue is derived primarily from sales of our subscription and support offerings. We recognize
subscription and support revenue over time as the services are performed. Our contractual subscription and support contracts are
typically one to five years.
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Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
Leases
The majority of our contracts with our customers include various combinations of our products and subscriptions and support.
We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. We evaluate the classification of leases at commencement and, as
Our appliances and software licenses have significant standalone functionalities and capabilities. Accordingly, these appliances and
software licenses are distinct from our subscriptions and support services as the customer can benefit from the product without these
services and such services are separately identifiable within the contract. We account for multiple agreements with a single customer
as a single contract if the contractual terms and/or substance of those agreements indicate that they may be so closely related that they
are, in effect, parts of a single contract. The amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for delivering on the contract is
allocated to each performance obligation based on its relative standalone selling price. If a contract contains a single performance
obligation, no allocation is required.
We establish standalone selling price using the prices charged for a deliverable when sold separately. If the standalone selling
price is not observable through past transactions, we estimate the standalone selling price based on our pricing model and our go-to-
market strategy, which include factors such as type of sales channel (reseller, distributor, or end-customer), the geographies in which
our offerings were sold (domestic or international), and offering type (products, subscriptions, or support).
Deferred Revenue
We record deferred revenue when cash payments are received or due in advance of our performance. Our payment terms
typically require payment within 30 to 45 days of the date we issue an invoice. The current portion of deferred revenue represents the
amounts that are expected to be recognized as revenue within one year of the consolidated balance sheet date.
Deferred Contract Costs
We defer contract costs that are recoverable and incremental to obtaining customer sales contracts. Contract costs, which
primarily consist of sales commissions, are amortized on a systematic basis that is consistent with the transfer to the customer of the
goods or services to which the asset relates. Sales commissions paid for initial contracts are generally not commensurate with the
commissions paid for renewal contracts, given the substantive difference in commission rates in proportion to their respective contract
values. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are not commensurate are amortized over a benefit period of five years, consistent
with the revenue recognition pattern of the performance obligations in the related contracts including expected renewals. The benefit
period is determined by taking into consideration contract length, technology life, and other quantitative and qualitative factors. The
expected renewals are estimated based on historical renewal trends. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are commensurate and
sales commissions for renewal contracts are amortized over the related contractual period in proportion to the revenue recognized.
necessary, at modification. Operating leases related balances are included in operating lease right-of-use assets, accrued and other
liabilities, and long-term operating lease liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets. We did not have any material finance leases in
any of the periods presented.
Operating lease right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term. Operating lease liabilities
represent our obligation to make payments arising from the lease. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at
the present value of the future lease payments at the lease commencement date. The interest rate used to determine the present value of
the future lease payments is our incremental borrowing rate, because the interest rates implicit in most of our leases are not readily
determinable. Our incremental borrowing rate is estimated to approximate the interest rate on a collateralized basis with similar terms
and payments, and in economic environments where the leased asset is located. Operating lease right-of-use assets also include
adjustments related to lease incentives, prepaid or accrued rent and initial direct lease costs. Operating lease right-of-use assets are
subject to evaluation for impairment or disposal on a basis consistent with other long-lived assets.
Our lease terms may include periods under options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will
exercise that option. We generally use the base, non-cancelable lease term when determining the lease assets and liabilities. Operating
lease cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
We account for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component and do not recognize right-of-use assets and lease
liabilities for leases with a term of 12 months or less. Payments under our lease arrangements are primarily fixed, however, certain
lease agreements contain variable payments, which are expensed as incurred and not included in the operating lease right-of-use assets
and liabilities. Variable lease payments are primarily comprised of real estate taxes, common area maintenance charges, and insurance
costs.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and
liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our consolidated financial statements or tax
returns. In addition, deferred tax assets are recorded for the future benefit of utilizing net operating losses and research and
development credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount
expected to be realized.
We classify deferred contract costs as short-term or long-term based on when we expect to recognize the expense. The
Significant judgment is required in determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets. In assessing the
amortization of deferred contract costs is included in sales and marketing expense in our consolidated statements of operations.
Deferred contract costs are periodically reviewed for impairment. We did not recognize any impairment losses on our deferred
contract costs during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, or 2020.
need for a valuation allowance, we consider all available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable
income, and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In the event that we change our determination as to the amount of deferred tax
assets that can be realized, we will adjust our valuation allowance with a corresponding impact to the provision for income taxes in the
Software Development Costs
Internally developed software includes security software developed to meet our internal needs to provide cloud-based
subscription offerings to our end-customers and business software that we customize to meet our specific operational needs. These
capitalized costs consist of internal compensation related costs and external direct costs incurred during the application development
stage and will be amortized over a useful life of three to five years. As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, we capitalized as other assets on our
consolidated balance sheets $130.9 million and $114.8 million in costs, respectively, net of accumulated amortization, for security
software developed to meet our internal needs to provide our cloud-based subscription offerings. We recognized amortization expense
of $62.4 million, $47.8 million, and $31.3 million related to these capitalized costs as cost of subscription and support revenue in our
consolidated statements of operations during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
The costs to develop software that is marketed externally have not been capitalized as we believe our current software
or a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. If we determine that a loss is possible and the
development process is essentially completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility. As such, all related
software development costs are expensed as incurred and included in research and development expense in our consolidated
statements of operations.
Share-Based Compensation
should be disclosed.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Compensation expense related to share-based transactions is measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements
Acquired Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities
based on fair value on the grant date. We recognize share-based compensation expense for awards with only service conditions on a
straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the related award. We recognize share-based compensation expense for awards
with market conditions and awards with performance conditions on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for each
separately vesting portion of the award and, for awards with performance conditions, when it is probable that the performance
condition will be achieved. We account for forfeitures of all share-based payment awards when they occur.
In October 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued authoritative guidance that requires companies to
apply revenue guidance to recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities from contracts with customers acquired in a
business combination on the acquisition date, instead of measuring them at fair value. We early adopted this guidance in our first
quarter of fiscal 2022 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated
financial statements.
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period in which such determination is made.
We recognize liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for
recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be
sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step requires us to estimate and
measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more likely than not to be realized upon ultimate settlement.
Loss Contingencies
We are subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business. In determining loss
contingencies, we consider the likelihood of loss or impairment of an asset, or the incurrence of a liability, as well as our ability to
reasonably estimate the amount of loss. An estimated loss contingency is accrued when it is probable that an asset has been impaired,
range of the loss can be reasonably determined, then we disclose the range of the possible loss. We regularly evaluate current
information available to us to determine whether an accrual is required, an accrual should be adjusted, or a range of possible loss
Our appliances and software licenses have significant standalone functionalities and capabilities. Accordingly, these appliances and
software licenses are distinct from our subscriptions and support services as the customer can benefit from the product without these
services and such services are separately identifiable within the contract. We account for multiple agreements with a single customer
as a single contract if the contractual terms and/or substance of those agreements indicate that they may be so closely related that they
are, in effect, parts of a single contract. The amount of consideration we expect to receive in exchange for delivering on the contract is
allocated to each performance obligation based on its relative standalone selling price. If a contract contains a single performance
obligation, no allocation is required.
We establish standalone selling price using the prices charged for a deliverable when sold separately. If the standalone selling
price is not observable through past transactions, we estimate the standalone selling price based on our pricing model and our go-to-
market strategy, which include factors such as type of sales channel (reseller, distributor, or end-customer), the geographies in which
our offerings were sold (domestic or international), and offering type (products, subscriptions, or support).
We record deferred revenue when cash payments are received or due in advance of our performance. Our payment terms
typically require payment within 30 to 45 days of the date we issue an invoice. The current portion of deferred revenue represents the
amounts that are expected to be recognized as revenue within one year of the consolidated balance sheet date.
Deferred Revenue
Deferred Contract Costs
We defer contract costs that are recoverable and incremental to obtaining customer sales contracts. Contract costs, which
primarily consist of sales commissions, are amortized on a systematic basis that is consistent with the transfer to the customer of the
goods or services to which the asset relates. Sales commissions paid for initial contracts are generally not commensurate with the
commissions paid for renewal contracts, given the substantive difference in commission rates in proportion to their respective contract
values. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are not commensurate are amortized over a benefit period of five years, consistent
with the revenue recognition pattern of the performance obligations in the related contracts including expected renewals. The benefit
period is determined by taking into consideration contract length, technology life, and other quantitative and qualitative factors. The
expected renewals are estimated based on historical renewal trends. Sales commissions for initial contracts that are commensurate and
sales commissions for renewal contracts are amortized over the related contractual period in proportion to the revenue recognized.
amortization of deferred contract costs is included in sales and marketing expense in our consolidated statements of operations.
Deferred contract costs are periodically reviewed for impairment. We did not recognize any impairment losses on our deferred
contract costs during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, or 2020.
Software Development Costs
Internally developed software includes security software developed to meet our internal needs to provide cloud-based
subscription offerings to our end-customers and business software that we customize to meet our specific operational needs. These
capitalized costs consist of internal compensation related costs and external direct costs incurred during the application development
stage and will be amortized over a useful life of three to five years. As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, we capitalized as other assets on our
software developed to meet our internal needs to provide our cloud-based subscription offerings. We recognized amortization expense
of $62.4 million, $47.8 million, and $31.3 million related to these capitalized costs as cost of subscription and support revenue in our
consolidated statements of operations during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
The costs to develop software that is marketed externally have not been capitalized as we believe our current software
development process is essentially completed concurrent with the establishment of technological feasibility. As such, all related
software development costs are expensed as incurred and included in research and development expense in our consolidated
statements of operations.
Share-Based Compensation
Contracts with Multiple Performance Obligations
Leases
The majority of our contracts with our customers include various combinations of our products and subscriptions and support.
We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. We evaluate the classification of leases at commencement and, as
necessary, at modification. Operating leases related balances are included in operating lease right-of-use assets, accrued and other
liabilities, and long-term operating lease liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets. We did not have any material finance leases in
any of the periods presented.
Operating lease right-of-use assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term. Operating lease liabilities
represent our obligation to make payments arising from the lease. Operating lease right-of-use assets and liabilities are recognized at
the present value of the future lease payments at the lease commencement date. The interest rate used to determine the present value of
the future lease payments is our incremental borrowing rate, because the interest rates implicit in most of our leases are not readily
determinable. Our incremental borrowing rate is estimated to approximate the interest rate on a collateralized basis with similar terms
and payments, and in economic environments where the leased asset is located. Operating lease right-of-use assets also include
adjustments related to lease incentives, prepaid or accrued rent and initial direct lease costs. Operating lease right-of-use assets are
subject to evaluation for impairment or disposal on a basis consistent with other long-lived assets.
Our lease terms may include periods under options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will
exercise that option. We generally use the base, non-cancelable lease term when determining the lease assets and liabilities. Operating
lease cost is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
We account for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component and do not recognize right-of-use assets and lease
liabilities for leases with a term of 12 months or less. Payments under our lease arrangements are primarily fixed, however, certain
lease agreements contain variable payments, which are expensed as incurred and not included in the operating lease right-of-use assets
and liabilities. Variable lease payments are primarily comprised of real estate taxes, common area maintenance charges, and insurance
costs.
Income Taxes
We account for income taxes using the asset and liability method, which requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and
liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our consolidated financial statements or tax
returns. In addition, deferred tax assets are recorded for the future benefit of utilizing net operating losses and research and
development credit carryforwards. Valuation allowances are provided when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount
expected to be realized.
We classify deferred contract costs as short-term or long-term based on when we expect to recognize the expense. The
Significant judgment is required in determining any valuation allowance recorded against deferred tax assets. In assessing the
need for a valuation allowance, we consider all available evidence, including past operating results, estimates of future taxable
income, and the feasibility of tax planning strategies. In the event that we change our determination as to the amount of deferred tax
assets that can be realized, we will adjust our valuation allowance with a corresponding impact to the provision for income taxes in the
period in which such determination is made.
We recognize liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for
recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates that it is more likely than not that the position will be
sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step requires us to estimate and
measure the tax benefit as the largest amount that is more likely than not to be realized upon ultimate settlement.
consolidated balance sheets $130.9 million and $114.8 million in costs, respectively, net of accumulated amortization, for security
Loss Contingencies
We are subject to the possibility of various loss contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business. In determining loss
contingencies, we consider the likelihood of loss or impairment of an asset, or the incurrence of a liability, as well as our ability to
reasonably estimate the amount of loss. An estimated loss contingency is accrued when it is probable that an asset has been impaired,
or a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. If we determine that a loss is possible and the
range of the loss can be reasonably determined, then we disclose the range of the possible loss. We regularly evaluate current
information available to us to determine whether an accrual is required, an accrual should be adjusted, or a range of possible loss
should be disclosed.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
Compensation expense related to share-based transactions is measured and recognized in the consolidated financial statements
Acquired Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities
based on fair value on the grant date. We recognize share-based compensation expense for awards with only service conditions on a
straight-line basis over the requisite service period of the related award. We recognize share-based compensation expense for awards
with market conditions and awards with performance conditions on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for each
separately vesting portion of the award and, for awards with performance conditions, when it is probable that the performance
condition will be achieved. We account for forfeitures of all share-based payment awards when they occur.
In October 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued authoritative guidance that requires companies to
apply revenue guidance to recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities from contracts with customers acquired in a
business combination on the acquisition date, instead of measuring them at fair value. We early adopted this guidance in our first
quarter of fiscal 2022 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated
financial statements.
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Debt with Conversion Options
3. Fair Value Measurements
In August 2020, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that simplifies the accounting for certain financial instruments with
The following table presents our financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of July 31, 2022
characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible instruments. The standard reduces the number of models used to account
for convertible instruments and simplifies the classification of debt on the balance sheet.
and 2021 (in millions):
We adopted this standard in our first quarter of fiscal 2022 using the modified-retrospective approach, under which financial
results reported in periods prior to fiscal 2022 were not adjusted. The adoption of this standard resulted in an increase to convertible
senior notes, net of $444.3 million, a decrease to accumulated deficit of $266.7 million, and a decrease to additional paid-in capital
and temporary equity of $711.0 million upon adoption.
2. Revenue
Disaggregation of Revenue
The following table presents revenue by geographic theater (in millions):
Revenue:
Americas
United States
Other Americas
Total Americas
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (“EMEA”)
Asia Pacific and Japan (“APAC”)
Total revenue
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
3,560.3 $
2,747.8
$
2,157.6
242.3
3,802.6
1,055.8
643.1
189.7
2,937.5
817.3
501.3
160.4
2,318.0
671.9
418.5
$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1
$
3,408.4
The following table presents revenue for groups of similar products and services (in millions):
17.4
1,516.0
17.4
1,516.0
43.5
1,026.9
43.5
1,026.9
Revenue:
Product
Subscription and support
Subscription
Support
Total subscription and support
Total revenue
Deferred Revenue
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
1,363.1 $
1,120.3
$
1,064.2
2,539.0
1,599.4
4,138.4
1,898.8
1,237.0
3,135.8
$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1
$
1405.3
938.9
2,344.2
3,408.4
During the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, we recognized approximately $2.7 billion and $2.0 billion of revenue
pertaining to amounts that were deferred as of July 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Revenue expected to be recognized from remaining performance obligations was $8.2 billion as of July 31, 2022, of which we
expect to recognize approximately $4.1 billion over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter.
July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Money market funds .......................$ 1,205.2 $ — $
— $ 1,205.2 $ 124.2 $
— $ — $ 124.2
Total cash equivalents ............... 1,205.2
259.0
1,464.2
124.2
267.7
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
155.3
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
116.4
79.0
505.0
798.2
—
761.2
118.2
—
172.5
2.4
2.4
0.7
0.7
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
155.3
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
116.4
79.0
505.0
798.2
—
761.2
118.2
—
172.5
2.4
2.4
0.7
0.7
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
150.4
—
1.0
116.3
—
12.4
—
208.9
762.1
5.0
180.7
674.1
28.5
—
888.3
4.1
4.1
0.1
0.1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
150.4
—
1.0
116.3
—
391.9
12.4
—
208.9
762.1
5.0
180.7
674.1
28.5
—
888.3
4.1
4.1
0.1
0.1
Cash equivalents:
Certificates of deposit ......................
Commercial paper ............................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
Short-term investments:
Certificates of deposit ......................
Commercial paper ............................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
Total short-term investments ....
Long-term investments:
Certificates of deposit ......................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
Asset-backed securities ....................
Prepaid expenses and other current
assets:
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................
Total prepaid expenses and
other current assets ...................
Other assets:
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................
Total other assets ......................
Accrued and other liabilities: ..............
Foreign currency forward
Total accrued and other
liabilities ................................
Other long-term liabilities: ..................
Foreign currency forward
Total assets measured at fair value ......$ 1,205.2 $ 2,830.0 $
— $ 4,035.2 $ 124.2 $ 2,187.1 $ — $ 2,311.3
contracts ...........................................$ — $
32.4 $
— $
32.4 $ — $
6.4 $ — $
6.4
—
32.4
—
32.4
—
6.4
—
6.4
contracts ...........................................
—
0.8
—
0.8
—
0.5
—
0.5
Total long-term investments .....
1,051.9
1,051.9
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We adopted this standard in our first quarter of fiscal 2022 using the modified-retrospective approach, under which financial
results reported in periods prior to fiscal 2022 were not adjusted. The adoption of this standard resulted in an increase to convertible
senior notes, net of $444.3 million, a decrease to accumulated deficit of $266.7 million, and a decrease to additional paid-in capital
and temporary equity of $711.0 million upon adoption.
2. Revenue
Disaggregation of Revenue
The following table presents revenue by geographic theater (in millions):
The following table presents revenue for groups of similar products and services (in millions):
Revenue:
Americas
United States
Other Americas
Total Americas
Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (“EMEA”)
Asia Pacific and Japan (“APAC”)
Total revenue
Revenue:
Product
Subscription and support
Subscription
Support
Total subscription and support
Total revenue
Deferred Revenue
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
3,560.3 $
2,747.8
$
2,157.6
242.3
3,802.6
1,055.8
643.1
189.7
2,937.5
817.3
501.3
160.4
2,318.0
671.9
418.5
$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1
$
3,408.4
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
1,363.1 $
1,120.3
$
1,064.2
2,539.0
1,599.4
4,138.4
1,898.8
1,237.0
3,135.8
$
5,501.5 $
4,256.1
$
1405.3
938.9
2,344.2
3,408.4
During the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, we recognized approximately $2.7 billion and $2.0 billion of revenue
pertaining to amounts that were deferred as of July 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
Remaining Performance Obligations
Revenue expected to be recognized from remaining performance obligations was $8.2 billion as of July 31, 2022, of which we
expect to recognize approximately $4.1 billion over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter.
Debt with Conversion Options
3. Fair Value Measurements
In August 2020, the FASB issued authoritative guidance that simplifies the accounting for certain financial instruments with
The following table presents our financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of July 31, 2022
characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible instruments. The standard reduces the number of models used to account
and 2021 (in millions):
for convertible instruments and simplifies the classification of debt on the balance sheet.
July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds .......................$ 1,205.2 $ — $
— $ 1,205.2 $ 124.2 $
— $ — $ 124.2
Certificates of deposit ......................
Commercial paper ............................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
—
—
—
—
—
155.3
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
Total cash equivalents ............... 1,205.2
259.0
Short-term investments:
Certificates of deposit ......................
Commercial paper ............................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
Total short-term investments ....
Long-term investments:
Certificates of deposit ......................
Corporate debt securities .................
U.S. government and agency
securities ..........................................
Non-U.S. government and
agency securities ..............................
Asset-backed securities ....................
Total long-term investments .....
Prepaid expenses and other current
assets:
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................
Total prepaid expenses and
other current assets ...................
Other assets:
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................
Total other assets ......................
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
116.4
79.0
505.0
798.2
17.4
1,516.0
—
761.2
118.2
—
172.5
1,051.9
2.4
2.4
0.7
0.7
Total assets measured at fair value ......$ 1,205.2 $ 2,830.0 $
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
155.3
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
—
—
—
—
—
150.4
—
1.0
116.3
—
1,464.2
124.2
267.7
116.4
79.0
505.0
798.2
17.4
1,516.0
—
761.2
118.2
—
172.5
1,051.9
2.4
2.4
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
12.4
—
208.9
762.1
43.5
1,026.9
5.0
180.7
674.1
28.5
—
888.3
4.1
4.1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
150.4
—
1.0
116.3
—
391.9
12.4
—
208.9
762.1
43.5
1,026.9
5.0
180.7
674.1
28.5
—
888.3
4.1
4.1
—
0.7
—
0.1
—
0.1
—
0.1
— $ 4,035.2 $ 124.2 $ 2,187.1 $ — $ 2,311.3
0.1
0.7
—
—
Accrued and other liabilities: ..............
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................$ — $
32.4 $
— $
32.4 $ — $
6.4 $ — $
6.4
Total accrued and other
liabilities ................................
Other long-term liabilities: ..................
Foreign currency forward
contracts ...........................................
—
32.4
—
32.4
—
6.4
—
6.4
—
0.8
—
0.8
—
0.5
—
0.5
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July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Total other long-term
liabilities ................................
—
0.8
—
0.8
—
0.5
—
0.5
Total liabilities measured at fair
value ....................................................$ — $
33.2 $
— $
33.2 $ — $
6.9 $ — $
6.9
Refer to Note 10. Debt, for the carrying amount and estimated fair value of our convertible senior notes as of July 31, 2022 and
to our available-for-sale debt securities during the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021.
2021.
4. Cash Equivalents and Investments
Available-for-sale Debt Securities
The following tables summarize the amortized cost, unrealized gains and losses, and fair value of our available-for-sale debt
securities (in millions):
Cash equivalents:
Amortized Cost
Unrealized Gains
Unrealized Losses
Fair Value
July 31, 2022
As of July 31, 2022, the gross unrealized losses that have been in a continuous unrealized loss position for less than 12 months
were $24.8 million, which were related to $2.0 billion of available-for-sale debt securities, and the gross unrealized losses that have
been in a continuous unrealized loss position for more than 12 months were not material. The gross unrealized losses on our available-
for-sale debt securities as of July 31, 2021 were not material.
Unrealized losses related to our available-for-sale debt securities are due to interest rate fluctuations as opposed to credit
quality. We do not intend to sell any of the securities in an unrealized loss position and it is not likely that we would be required to sell
these securities before recovery of their amortized cost basis, which may be at maturity. We did not recognize any credit losses related
The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of our available-for-sale debt securities as of July 31, 2022,
by contractual years-to-maturity (in millions):
Due within one year ............................................................................................................................$
1,789.4
$
Due between one and three years ........................................................................................................
Due between three to five years ..........................................................................................................
Due between five to ten years .............................................................................................................
965.2
91.5
4.3
1,775.0
956.4
91.2
4.3
Total .............................................................................................................................................$
2,850.4
$
2,826.9
Amortized Cost
Fair Value
Certificates of deposit .......................................................$
155.3 $
— $
— $
155.3
Commercial paper .............................................................
Corporate debt securities ..................................................
U.S. government and agency securities ............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities ....................
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.0
—
—
—
0.1
—
—
—
—
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
Total available-for-sale cash equivalents ...................$
258.9 $
0.1 $
— $
259.0
Marketable Equity Securities
2022, 2021, and 2020.
5. Financing Receivables
Marketable equity securities consist of money market funds and are included in cash and cash equivalents on our consolidated
balance sheets. As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the carrying value of our marketable equity securities were $1.2 billion and
$124.2 million, respectively. There were no unrealized gains or losses recognized for these securities during the years ended July 31,
Investments:
Certificates of deposit .......................................................$
116.5
$
— $
(0.1) $
Commercial paper
Corporate debt securities ..................................................
U.S. government and agency securities ............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities ....................
Asset-backed securities .....................................................
79.1
1,276.8
928.1
17.6
173.4
—
1.3
0.1
—
0.2
(0.1)
(11.9)
(11.8)
(0.2)
(1.1)
116.4
79.0
1,266.2
916.4
17.4
172.5
Total available-for-sale investments ..........................$
2,591.5 $
1.6 $
(25.2) $
2,567.9
The following table summarizes our short-term and long-term financing receivables (in millions):
Short-term financing receivables, gross ...............................................................................................$
112.6
$
Allowance for credit losses ..................................................................................................................
Short-term financing receivables, net ...........................................................................................$
Long-term financing receivables, gross ...............................................................................................$
Allowance for credit losses ..................................................................................................................
(1.3)
111.3
194.6
(2.5)
$
$
Long-term financing receivables, net ...........................................................................................$
192.1
$
80.0
(1.0)
79.0
198.6
(4.3)
194.3
July 31,
2022
2021
Cash equivalents:
Amortized Cost
Unrealized Gains
Unrealized Losses
Fair Value
July 31, 2021
There was no significant activity in allowance for credit losses during the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021. Past due
amounts on financing receivables were not material as of July 31, 2022 and 2021.
Certificates of deposit ........................................................$
150.4 $
— $
— $
Corporate debt securities ...................................................
U.S. government and agency securities .............................
1.0
116.3
—
—
—
—
Total available-for-sale cash equivalents ....................$
267.7 $
— $
— $
Investments:
Certificates of deposit ........................................................$
17.4 $
— $
— $
Corporate debt securities ...................................................
U.S. government and agency securities .............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities .....................
389.2
1,435.1
72.0
0.5
1.1
—
(0.1)
—
—
150.4
1.0
116.3
267.7
17.4
389.6
1,436.2
72.0
Total available-for-sale investments ...........................$
1,913.7 $
1.6 $
(0.1) $
1,915.2
6. Derivative Instruments
As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the total notional amount of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts was
$856.9 million and $531.9 million, respectively. Refer to Note 3. Fair Value Measurements for the fair value of our derivative
instruments as reported on our consolidated balance sheets as of July 31, 2022.
As of July 31, 2022, unrealized losses in AOCI related to our cash flow hedges were $24.8 million, of which $22.0 million of
losses are expected to be recognized into earnings within the next 12 months. As of July 31, 2021, unrealized gains and losses in AOCI
related to our cash flow hedges were not material.
7. Acquisitions
Fiscal 2022
During the year ended July 31, 2022, we completed acquisitions for a combined total purchase consideration of $40.1 million,
which was primarily cash. We have accounted for these transactions as business combinations, and recorded goodwill of
$37.6 million. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
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Total other long-term
liabilities ................................
Total liabilities measured at fair
2021.
4. Cash Equivalents and Investments
Available-for-sale Debt Securities
securities (in millions):
Cash equivalents:
July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total
—
0.8
—
0.8
—
0.5
—
0.5
value ....................................................$ — $
33.2 $
— $
33.2 $ — $
6.9 $ — $
6.9
Refer to Note 10. Debt, for the carrying amount and estimated fair value of our convertible senior notes as of July 31, 2022 and
The following tables summarize the amortized cost, unrealized gains and losses, and fair value of our available-for-sale debt
Amortized Cost
Unrealized Gains
Unrealized Losses
Fair Value
July 31, 2022
Commercial paper .............................................................
Corporate debt securities ..................................................
U.S. government and agency securities ............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities ....................
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.0
Investments:
Commercial paper
Corporate debt securities ..................................................
U.S. government and agency securities ............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities ....................
Asset-backed securities .....................................................
79.1
1,276.8
928.1
17.6
173.4
Certificates of deposit .......................................................$
116.5
$
— $
(0.1) $
Total available-for-sale investments ..........................$
2,591.5 $
1.6 $
(25.2) $
2,567.9
Cash equivalents:
Investments:
Corporate debt securities ...................................................
U.S. government and agency securities .............................
1.0
116.3
Total available-for-sale cash equivalents ....................$
267.7 $
— $
— $
Certificates of deposit ........................................................$
17.4 $
— $
— $
Corporate debt securities ...................................................
U.S. government and agency securities .............................
Non-U.S. government and agency securities .....................
389.2
1,435.1
72.0
Total available-for-sale investments ...........................$
1,913.7 $
1.6 $
(0.1) $
1,915.2
—
—
—
0.1
—
1.3
0.1
—
0.2
—
—
0.5
1.1
—
—
—
—
—
(0.1)
(11.9)
(11.8)
(0.2)
(1.1)
—
—
(0.1)
—
—
69.1
19.5
10.0
5.1
116.4
79.0
1,266.2
916.4
17.4
172.5
150.4
1.0
116.3
267.7
17.4
389.6
1,436.2
72.0
As of July 31, 2022, the gross unrealized losses that have been in a continuous unrealized loss position for less than 12 months
were $24.8 million, which were related to $2.0 billion of available-for-sale debt securities, and the gross unrealized losses that have
been in a continuous unrealized loss position for more than 12 months were not material. The gross unrealized losses on our available-
for-sale debt securities as of July 31, 2021 were not material.
Unrealized losses related to our available-for-sale debt securities are due to interest rate fluctuations as opposed to credit
quality. We do not intend to sell any of the securities in an unrealized loss position and it is not likely that we would be required to sell
these securities before recovery of their amortized cost basis, which may be at maturity. We did not recognize any credit losses related
to our available-for-sale debt securities during the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021.
The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of our available-for-sale debt securities as of July 31, 2022,
by contractual years-to-maturity (in millions):
Due within one year ............................................................................................................................$
1,789.4
$
Due between one and three years ........................................................................................................
Due between three to five years ..........................................................................................................
Due between five to ten years .............................................................................................................
965.2
91.5
4.3
1,775.0
956.4
91.2
4.3
Total .............................................................................................................................................$
2,850.4
$
2,826.9
Amortized Cost
Fair Value
Certificates of deposit .......................................................$
155.3 $
— $
— $
155.3
Marketable Equity Securities
Total available-for-sale cash equivalents ...................$
258.9 $
0.1 $
— $
259.0
5. Financing Receivables
Marketable equity securities consist of money market funds and are included in cash and cash equivalents on our consolidated
balance sheets. As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the carrying value of our marketable equity securities were $1.2 billion and
$124.2 million, respectively. There were no unrealized gains or losses recognized for these securities during the years ended July 31,
2022, 2021, and 2020.
The following table summarizes our short-term and long-term financing receivables (in millions):
Short-term financing receivables, gross ...............................................................................................$
112.6
$
Allowance for credit losses ..................................................................................................................
Short-term financing receivables, net ...........................................................................................$
Long-term financing receivables, gross ...............................................................................................$
Allowance for credit losses ..................................................................................................................
(1.3)
111.3
194.6
(2.5)
$
$
Long-term financing receivables, net ...........................................................................................$
192.1
$
80.0
(1.0)
79.0
198.6
(4.3)
194.3
July 31,
2022
2021
Certificates of deposit ........................................................$
150.4 $
— $
— $
6. Derivative Instruments
Amortized Cost
Unrealized Gains
Unrealized Losses
Fair Value
July 31, 2021
There was no significant activity in allowance for credit losses during the years ended July 31, 2022 and 2021. Past due
amounts on financing receivables were not material as of July 31, 2022 and 2021.
As of July 31, 2022 and 2021, the total notional amount of our outstanding foreign currency forward contracts was
$856.9 million and $531.9 million, respectively. Refer to Note 3. Fair Value Measurements for the fair value of our derivative
instruments as reported on our consolidated balance sheets as of July 31, 2022.
As of July 31, 2022, unrealized losses in AOCI related to our cash flow hedges were $24.8 million, of which $22.0 million of
losses are expected to be recognized into earnings within the next 12 months. As of July 31, 2021, unrealized gains and losses in AOCI
related to our cash flow hedges were not material.
7. Acquisitions
Fiscal 2022
During the year ended July 31, 2022, we completed acquisitions for a combined total purchase consideration of $40.1 million,
which was primarily cash. We have accounted for these transactions as business combinations, and recorded goodwill of
$37.6 million. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
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Fiscal 2021
Bridgecrew Inc.
On March 2, 2021, we completed our acquisition of Bridgecrew Inc. (“Bridgecrew”), a privately-held cloud security company.
We expect the acquisition will expand our Prisma Cloud offering to deliver security across the full application lifecycle. The total
purchase consideration for the acquisition of Bridgecrew was $156.9 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Amount
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
155.9
1.0
156.9
As part of the acquisition, we issued $42.5 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
129.6
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
21.6
9.0
(3.3)
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
156.9
Amount
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Bridgecrew technology into our platforms. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible asset acquired (in millions, except years):
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
21.6
6 years
Expanse Inc.
On December 15, 2020, we completed our acquisition of Expanse Inc. (“Expanse”), a privately-held company specializing in
attack surface management. We expect the acquisition will enrich our Cortex offerings and provide organizations an integrated view of
the enterprise to combine external, internal, and threat data. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Expanse was
$797.2 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Common stock (1.1 million shares) .................................................................................................................................
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
434.9
340.7
21.6
797.2
As part of the acquisition, we issued replacement equity awards, which included 0.2 million shares of our restricted common
stock. The total fair value of the replacement equity awards was $160.0 million, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Amount
598.2
160.3
51.1
(12.4)
797.2
Amount
26.9
0.1
27.0
Amount
13.7
20.4
(7.1)
27.0
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Expanse technology into our platforms. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships........................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Sinefa Group, Inc.
Estimated Useful
Life
6 years
10 years
Fair Value
123.4
36.9
160.3
On November 24, 2020, we completed our acquisition of Sinefa Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (“Sinefa”), a
privately-held digital experience monitoring company. We expect the acquisition will extend our Prisma Access offering. The total
purchase consideration for the acquisition of Sinefa was $27.0 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
As part of the acquisition, we issued $11.5 million of replacement equity awards, of which the portion attributable to services
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Sinefa technology into our platforms. The goodwill is deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
6 years
8 years
18.6
1.8
20.4
The Crypsis Group
millions):
On September 17, 2020, we completed our acquisition of The Crypsis Group (“Crypsis”), an incident response, risk
management, and digital forensics consulting firm. We expect the acquisition will expand our capabilities and strengthen our Cortex
strategy. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Crypsis was $227.7 million, which consisted of the following (in
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
225.7
Amount
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Fiscal 2021
Bridgecrew Inc.
On March 2, 2021, we completed our acquisition of Bridgecrew Inc. (“Bridgecrew”), a privately-held cloud security company.
We expect the acquisition will expand our Prisma Cloud offering to deliver security across the full application lifecycle. The total
purchase consideration for the acquisition of Bridgecrew was $156.9 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
155.9
1.0
156.9
As part of the acquisition, we issued $42.5 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
129.6
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
21.6
9.0
(3.3)
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
156.9
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Bridgecrew technology into our platforms. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible asset acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
21.6
6 years
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
Expanse Inc.
On December 15, 2020, we completed our acquisition of Expanse Inc. (“Expanse”), a privately-held company specializing in
attack surface management. We expect the acquisition will enrich our Cortex offerings and provide organizations an integrated view of
the enterprise to combine external, internal, and threat data. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Expanse was
$797.2 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Common stock (1.1 million shares) .................................................................................................................................
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
434.9
340.7
21.6
797.2
As part of the acquisition, we issued replacement equity awards, which included 0.2 million shares of our restricted common
stock. The total fair value of the replacement equity awards was $160.0 million, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Amount
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
598.2
160.3
51.1
(12.4)
797.2
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Expanse technology into our platforms. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships........................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
123.4
36.9
160.3
6 years
10 years
Amount
Sinefa Group, Inc.
On November 24, 2020, we completed our acquisition of Sinefa Group, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries (“Sinefa”), a
privately-held digital experience monitoring company. We expect the acquisition will extend our Prisma Access offering. The total
purchase consideration for the acquisition of Sinefa was $27.0 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
26.9
0.1
27.0
As part of the acquisition, we issued $11.5 million of replacement equity awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
13.7
20.4
(7.1)
27.0
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Sinefa technology into our platforms. The goodwill is deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
18.6
1.8
20.4
6 years
8 years
The Crypsis Group
On September 17, 2020, we completed our acquisition of The Crypsis Group (“Crypsis”), an incident response, risk
management, and digital forensics consulting firm. We expect the acquisition will expand our capabilities and strengthen our Cortex
strategy. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Crypsis was $227.7 million, which consisted of the following (in
millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
225.7
Amount
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Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships........................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Estimated Useful
Life
5 years
10 years
Fair Value
67.2
42.7
109.9
Aporeto, Inc.
millions):
On December 23, 2019, we completed our acquisition of Aporeto, Inc. (“Aporeto”), a privately-held machine identity-based
microsegmentation company. We believe the acquisition will strengthen our cloud-native security platform capabilities delivered by
Prisma Cloud. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Aporeto was $144.1 million, which consisted of the following (in
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
As part of the acquisition, we issued $16.4 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
111.3
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
144.1
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Aporeto’s technology into our platform. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Amount
139.8
4.3
144.1
Amount
23.8
10.5
(1.5)
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
7 years
4 years
20.5
3.3
23.8
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
2.0
227.7
As part of the acquisition, we issued $27.1 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net assets acquired ...........................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
157.6
54.4
15.7
227.7
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Crypsis technology into our platforms. The goodwill is deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
6.9
47.5
54.4
3 years
7 years
Fiscal 2020
CloudGenix Inc.
On April 21, 2020, we completed our acquisition of CloudGenix, Inc. (“CloudGenix”), a privately-held company. We believe
the acquisition will strengthen our secure access service edge (“SASE”) offering. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition
of CloudGenix was $402.7 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
396.1
6.6
402.7
As part of the acquisition, we issued $30.3 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Zingbox, Inc.
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
301.2
109.9
8.3
(16.7)
402.7
On September 20, 2019, we completed our acquisition of Zingbox, Inc. (“Zingbox”), a privately-held Internet of Things (“IoT”)
security company. We believe the acquisition will accelerate our delivery of IoT security through our ML-Powered Next-Generation
Firewall and Cortex offerings. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Zingbox was $66.4 million in cash.
As part of the acquisition, we issued replacement equity awards with a total fair value of $5.7 million, which will be expensed
over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating CloudGenix technology into our portfolio. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
48.1
20.4
(2.1)
66.4
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Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
2.0
227.7
As part of the acquisition, we issued $27.1 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on preliminary estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net assets acquired ...........................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
157.6
54.4
15.7
227.7
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Crypsis technology into our platforms. The goodwill is deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
3 years
7 years
6.9
47.5
54.4
Fiscal 2020
CloudGenix Inc.
On April 21, 2020, we completed our acquisition of CloudGenix, Inc. (“CloudGenix”), a privately-held company. We believe
the acquisition will strengthen our secure access service edge (“SASE”) offering. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition
of CloudGenix was $402.7 million, which consisted of the following (in millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships........................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
67.2
42.7
109.9
5 years
10 years
Aporeto, Inc.
On December 23, 2019, we completed our acquisition of Aporeto, Inc. (“Aporeto”), a privately-held machine identity-based
microsegmentation company. We believe the acquisition will strengthen our cloud-native security platform capabilities delivered by
Prisma Cloud. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Aporeto was $144.1 million, which consisted of the following (in
millions):
Cash ................................................................................................................................................................................. $
Fair value of replacement awards ....................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
139.8
4.3
144.1
As part of the acquisition, we issued $16.4 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
111.3
23.8
10.5
(1.5)
144.1
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Aporeto’s technology into our platform. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
As part of the acquisition, we issued $30.3 million of replacement awards, of which the portion attributable to services
performed prior to the acquisition date was allocated to purchase consideration. The remaining fair value was allocated to future
services and will be expensed over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
20.5
3.3
23.8
7 years
4 years
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Zingbox, Inc.
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
On September 20, 2019, we completed our acquisition of Zingbox, Inc. (“Zingbox”), a privately-held Internet of Things (“IoT”)
security company. We believe the acquisition will accelerate our delivery of IoT security through our ML-Powered Next-Generation
Firewall and Cortex offerings. The total purchase consideration for the acquisition of Zingbox was $66.4 million in cash.
Cash .................................................................................................................................................................................
As part of the acquisition, we issued replacement equity awards with a total fair value of $5.7 million, which will be expensed
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
over the remaining service periods as share-based compensation.
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
We have accounted for this transaction as a business combination and allocated the purchase consideration to assets acquired
Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating CloudGenix technology into our portfolio. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
and liabilities assumed based on estimated fair values, as presented in the following table (in millions):
Goodwill .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Identified intangible assets ...............................................................................................................................................
Net liabilities assumed .....................................................................................................................................................
Total .......................................................................................................................................................................... $
Amount
48.1
20.4
(2.1)
66.4
Amount
396.1
6.6
402.7
Amount
301.2
109.9
8.3
(16.7)
402.7
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Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Zingbox’s technology into our portfolio. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
purposes.
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
18.6
1.8
20.4
5 years
8 years
Additional Acquisition-Related Information
Pro forma results of operations have not been presented because the effects of the acquisitions were not material to our
consolidated statements of operations.
Additional information related to our acquisitions completed in fiscal 2022, such as that related to income tax and other
contingencies, existing as of the acquisition date but unknown to us may become known during the remainder of the measurement
period, not to exceed 12 months from the respective acquisition date, which may result in changes to the amounts and allocations
recorded.
8. Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
9. Property and Equipment
The following table presents details of our property and equipment, net (in millions):
July 31,
2022
2021
Computers, equipment, and software ........................................................................................................ $
404.3 $
Leasehold improvements ..........................................................................................................................
Land ..........................................................................................................................................................
Demonstration units ..................................................................................................................................
Furniture and fixtures ................................................................................................................................
Total property and equipment, gross ..................................................................................................
Less: accumulated depreciation ................................................................................................................
249.3
87.2
41.6
45.1
827.5
(469.7)
Total property and equipment, net ..................................................................................................... $
357.8 $
352.1
231.6
49.6
43.8
40.3
717.4
(399.0)
318.4
During the year ended July 31, 2022, we purchased 4.6 acres of land adjacent to our headquarters in Santa Clara, California,
along with the associated buildings, for $39.5 million to accommodate future expansion of our headquarters. This amount was
recorded in property and equipment, net on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2022.
We recognized depreciation expense of $92.8 million, $94.2 million, and $96.0 million related to property and equipment
during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
The following table presents details of our goodwill during the year ended July 31, 2022 (in millions):
............................................................................................................................................................................................
Balance as of July 31, 2021 ................................................................................................................................................ $
Goodwill acquired ..........................................................................................................................................................
Amount
2,710.1
37.6
Balance as of July 31, 2022 ................................................................................................................................................ $
2,747.7
10. Debt
Convertible Senior Notes
Purchased Intangible Assets
The following table presents details of our purchased intangible assets (in millions):
2022
2021
July 31,
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortizatio
n
Net Carrying
Amount
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortizatio
n
Net Carrying
Amount
Intangible assets subject to amortization:
Developed technology ......................................$
600.7 $
(347.9) $
252.8 $
596.2 $
(243.8) $
Customer relationships .....................................
Acquired intellectual property ..........................
Trade name and trademarks ..............................
Other ................................................................
172.7
11.3
9.4
0.9
(52.2)
(4.8)
(9.4)
(0.1)
120.5
172.7
(30.6)
6.5
—
0.8
7.9
9.4
1.8
(3.8)
(9.4)
(1.8)
352.4
142.1
4.1
—
—
Total intangible assets subject to
amortization ...............................................
Intangible assets not subject to amortization:
795.0
(414.4)
380.6
788.0
(289.4)
498.6
2023 Notes
2025 Notes
In July 2018, we issued $1.7 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and, in June 2020, we issued $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the
“2025 Notes,” and together with the 2023 Notes, the “Notes”). The 2023 Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 0.75% per year, payable
semi-annually in arrears on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2019. The 2025 Notes bear interest at a fixed
rate of 0.375% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2020.
Each series of the convertible notes is governed by an indenture between us, as the issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee (individually, each an “Indenture,” and together, the “Indentures”). The Notes of each series are unsecured, unsubordinated
obligations and the applicable Indenture governing each series of Notes does not contain any financial covenants or restrictions on the
payments of dividends, the incurrence of indebtedness, or the issuance or repurchase of securities by us or any of our subsidiaries. The
2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes mature on July 1, 2023 and June 1, 2025, respectively. We cannot redeem the 2023 Notes prior to
maturity. We may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2025 Notes, at our option, on or after June 5, 2023, and prior to the 31st
scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date if the last reported sale price of our common stock has been at least
130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days during any 30 consecutive trading day period ending on and
including the trading day preceding the date on which we provide notice of redemption. The redemption will be at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount of the 2025 Notes and adjusted for interest. If we call any or all of the 2025 Notes for redemption,
holders may convert such 2025 Notes called for redemption at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading
day immediately preceding the redemption date.
The following table presents details of our Notes (number of shares in millions):
Conversion Rate per
Initial Conversion
$1,000 Principal
Price
Convertible Date
Initial Number of
Shares
3.7545 $
3.3602 $
266.35
297.60
April 1, 2023
March 1, 2025
6.4
6.7
In-process research and development ...............
3.9
—
3.9
—
—
—
Total purchased intangible assets ..........$
798.9 $
(414.4) $
384.5 $
788.0 $
(289.4) $
498.6
Holders of the Notes may surrender their Notes for conversion at their option at any time prior to the close of business on the
business day immediately preceding their respective convertible dates only under the following circumstances:
We recognized amortization expense of $126.9 million, $117.8 million, and $77.3 million for the years ended July 31, 2022,
2021, and 2020, respectively.
The following table summarizes estimated future amortization expense of our intangible assets subject to amortization as of
July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and
Thereafter
Fiscal years ending July 31,
•
during any fiscal quarter commencing after the fiscal quarters ending on October 31, 2018 and October 31, 2020 for the
2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes, respectively (and only during such fiscal quarter), if the last reported sale price of our
common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days
ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the
applicable conversion price for the respective Notes on each applicable trading day (the “sale price condition”);
•
during the five business day period after any five consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the
trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the applicable series of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period
was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of our common stock and the applicable conversion rate
Future amortization expense .....$
380.6 $
101.1 $
91.1 $
77.4 $
55.6 $
28.5 $
26.9
for the respective Notes on each such trading day; or
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Goodwill generated from this business combination is primarily attributable to the assembled workforce and expected post-
acquisition synergies from integrating Zingbox’s technology into our portfolio. The goodwill is not deductible for income tax
9. Property and Equipment
purposes.
The following table presents details of our property and equipment, net (in millions):
The following table presents details of the identified intangible assets acquired (in millions, except years):
Developed technology ........................................................................................................................ $
Customer relationships .......................................................................................................................
Total ............................................................................................................................................. $
Additional Acquisition-Related Information
Pro forma results of operations have not been presented because the effects of the acquisitions were not material to our
consolidated statements of operations.
Additional information related to our acquisitions completed in fiscal 2022, such as that related to income tax and other
contingencies, existing as of the acquisition date but unknown to us may become known during the remainder of the measurement
period, not to exceed 12 months from the respective acquisition date, which may result in changes to the amounts and allocations
Fair Value
Estimated Useful
Life
5 years
8 years
18.6
1.8
20.4
recorded.
8. Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
July 31,
2022
2021
Computers, equipment, and software ........................................................................................................ $
404.3 $
Leasehold improvements ..........................................................................................................................
Land ..........................................................................................................................................................
Demonstration units ..................................................................................................................................
Furniture and fixtures ................................................................................................................................
Total property and equipment, gross ..................................................................................................
Less: accumulated depreciation ................................................................................................................
249.3
87.2
41.6
45.1
827.5
(469.7)
Total property and equipment, net ..................................................................................................... $
357.8 $
352.1
231.6
49.6
43.8
40.3
717.4
(399.0)
318.4
During the year ended July 31, 2022, we purchased 4.6 acres of land adjacent to our headquarters in Santa Clara, California,
along with the associated buildings, for $39.5 million to accommodate future expansion of our headquarters. This amount was
recorded in property and equipment, net on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2022.
We recognized depreciation expense of $92.8 million, $94.2 million, and $96.0 million related to property and equipment
during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
The following table presents details of our goodwill during the year ended July 31, 2022 (in millions):
10. Debt
............................................................................................................................................................................................
Amount
Convertible Senior Notes
Balance as of July 31, 2021 ................................................................................................................................................ $
2,710.1
Goodwill acquired ..........................................................................................................................................................
37.6
Balance as of July 31, 2022 ................................................................................................................................................ $
2,747.7
Purchased Intangible Assets
The following table presents details of our purchased intangible assets (in millions):
2022
2021
July 31,
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortizatio
n
Net Carrying
Amount
Gross
Carrying
Amount
Accumulated
Amortizatio
n
Net Carrying
Amount
Intangible assets subject to amortization:
Developed technology ......................................$
600.7 $
(347.9) $
252.8 $
596.2 $
(243.8) $
Customer relationships .....................................
Acquired intellectual property ..........................
Trade name and trademarks ..............................
Other ................................................................
172.7
11.3
9.4
0.9
(52.2)
(4.8)
(9.4)
(0.1)
120.5
172.7
(30.6)
6.5
—
0.8
7.9
9.4
1.8
(3.8)
(9.4)
(1.8)
352.4
142.1
4.1
—
—
In July 2018, we issued $1.7 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2023 (the “2023
Notes”) and, in June 2020, we issued $2.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.375% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 (the
“2025 Notes,” and together with the 2023 Notes, the “Notes”). The 2023 Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 0.75% per year, payable
semi-annually in arrears on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2019. The 2025 Notes bear interest at a fixed
rate of 0.375% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 1 and December 1 of each year, beginning on December 1, 2020.
Each series of the convertible notes is governed by an indenture between us, as the issuer, and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee (individually, each an “Indenture,” and together, the “Indentures”). The Notes of each series are unsecured, unsubordinated
obligations and the applicable Indenture governing each series of Notes does not contain any financial covenants or restrictions on the
payments of dividends, the incurrence of indebtedness, or the issuance or repurchase of securities by us or any of our subsidiaries. The
2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes mature on July 1, 2023 and June 1, 2025, respectively. We cannot redeem the 2023 Notes prior to
maturity. We may redeem for cash all or any portion of the 2025 Notes, at our option, on or after June 5, 2023, and prior to the 31st
scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date if the last reported sale price of our common stock has been at least
130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days during any 30 consecutive trading day period ending on and
including the trading day preceding the date on which we provide notice of redemption. The redemption will be at a price equal to
100% of the principal amount of the 2025 Notes and adjusted for interest. If we call any or all of the 2025 Notes for redemption,
holders may convert such 2025 Notes called for redemption at any time prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading
day immediately preceding the redemption date.
The following table presents details of our Notes (number of shares in millions):
Total intangible assets subject to
amortization ...............................................
Intangible assets not subject to amortization:
795.0
(414.4)
380.6
788.0
(289.4)
498.6
2023 Notes
2025 Notes
Conversion Rate per
$1,000 Principal
Initial Conversion
Price
Convertible Date
Initial Number of
Shares
3.7545 $
3.3602 $
266.35
297.60
April 1, 2023
March 1, 2025
6.4
6.7
In-process research and development ...............
3.9
—
3.9
—
—
—
Total purchased intangible assets ..........$
798.9 $
(414.4) $
384.5 $
788.0 $
(289.4) $
498.6
Holders of the Notes may surrender their Notes for conversion at their option at any time prior to the close of business on the
business day immediately preceding their respective convertible dates only under the following circumstances:
We recognized amortization expense of $126.9 million, $117.8 million, and $77.3 million for the years ended July 31, 2022,
The following table summarizes estimated future amortization expense of our intangible assets subject to amortization as of
2021, and 2020, respectively.
July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and
Thereafter
Fiscal years ending July 31,
Future amortization expense .....$
380.6 $
101.1 $
91.1 $
77.4 $
55.6 $
28.5 $
26.9
•
•
during any fiscal quarter commencing after the fiscal quarters ending on October 31, 2018 and October 31, 2020 for the
2023 Notes and the 2025 Notes, respectively (and only during such fiscal quarter), if the last reported sale price of our
common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period of 30 consecutive trading days
ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding fiscal quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the
applicable conversion price for the respective Notes on each applicable trading day (the “sale price condition”);
during the five business day period after any five consecutive trading day period (the “measurement period”) in which the
trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the applicable series of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period
was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of our common stock and the applicable conversion rate
for the respective Notes on each such trading day; or
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•
upon the occurrence of specified corporate events.
The following table sets forth interest expense recognized related to the Notes (dollars in millions):
On or after the respective convertible date, holders may surrender all or any portion of their Notes for conversion at any time
prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the applicable maturity date regardless of the
foregoing conditions, and such conversions will be settled upon the applicable maturity date. Upon conversion, holders of the Notes of
a series will receive cash equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series to be converted, and, at our election, cash
and/or shares of our common stock for any amounts in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series being
converted.
The conversion price will be subject to adjustment in some events. Holders of the Notes of a series who convert their Notes of
such series in connection with certain corporate events that constitute a “make-whole fundamental change” under the applicable
Indenture are, under certain circumstances, entitled to an increase in the conversion rate for such series of Notes. Additionally, upon
the occurrence of a corporate event that constitutes a “fundamental change” under the applicable Indenture, holders of the Notes of
such series may require us to repurchase for cash all or a portion of the Notes of such series at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Notes of such series plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase
date.
The sale price condition for the Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2022, and as a result, holders may
convert their Notes at any time during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022. The net carrying amount of the Notes was classified
as a current liability on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2022.
The sale price condition for the 2023 Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021, and as a result, holders may
convert their 2023 Notes at any time during the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2021. Accordingly, the net carrying amount of the
2023 Notes was classified as a current liability and the portion of the equity component representing the conversion option was
classified as temporary equity on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2021. The sale price condition for the 2025 Notes was
not met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021. Since the 2025 Notes were not convertible during the fiscal quarter ended
October 31, 2021, the associated net carrying amount was classified as a long-term liability and the equity component was included in
additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2021.
The following table sets forth the components of the Notes (in millions):
Year Ended July 31, 2022
Year Ended July 31, 2021
Year Ended July 31, 2020
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
Contractual interest expense
$ 12.7
$ 7.5
$
20.2 $ 12.7
$ 7.5
$
20.2 $ 12.7
$ 1.1
$
Amortization of debt discount(1)
—
—
—
63.5
74.3
137.8
60.9
10.5
Amortization of debt issuance costs
2.8
4.4
7.2
2.3
2.8
5.1
2.1
0.4
13.8
71.4
2.5
Total interest expense recognized
$ 15.5
$ 11.9
$
27.4 $ 78.5
$ 84.6
$ 163.1 $ 75.7
$ 12.0
$
87.7
Effective interest rate of the liability
component
______________
0.9 %
0.6 %
5.2 %
5.4 %
5.2 %
5.4 %
(1)
Upon adoption of the new debt guidance on August 1, 2021, the conversion option is no longer separately accounted for as debt discount. Our
convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability.
Note Hedges
To minimize the impact of potential economic dilution upon conversion of our convertible senior notes, we entered into
separate convertible note hedge transactions (the “2023 Note Hedges,” with respect to the 2023 Notes, the “2025 Note Hedges,” with
respect to the 2025 Notes, and the 2023 Notes Hedges together with 2025 Note Hedges, the “Note Hedges”) with respect to our
common stock concurrent with the issuance of each series of the Notes.
The following table presents details of our Note Hedges (in millions):
Initial Number of
Shares
Aggregate
Purchase
6.4 $
6.7 $
332.0
370.8
Liability component:
Principal
July 31, 2022(1)
July 31, 2021
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
The Note Hedges cover shares of our common stock at a strike price per share that corresponds to the initial applicable
conversion price of the applicable series of the Notes, which are also subject to adjustment, and are exercisable upon conversion of the
applicable series of the Notes. The Note Hedges will expire upon maturity of the applicable series of the Notes. The Note Hedges are
separate transactions and are not part of the terms of the applicable series of the Notes. Holders of the Notes of either series will not
$ 1,691.9 $ 1,999.4
$ 3,691.3 $ 1,692.0 $ 2,000.0 $ 3,692.0
have any rights with respect to the Note Hedges. Any shares of our common stock receivable by us under the Note Hedges are
Less: debt discount and debt issuance costs, net of amortization
(2.6)
(11.9)
(14.5)
(134.1)
(331.9)
(466.0)
Net carrying amount
$ 1,689.3 $ 1,987.5
$ 3,676.8 $ 1,557.9 $ 1,668.1 $ 3,226.0
excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as they are antidilutive. The aggregate amounts paid for the Note Hedges
are included in additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
Equity component (including amounts classified as temporary equity)
$
— $
—
$
— $ 315.0 $ 403.0 $ 718.0
Separately, but concurrently with the issuance of each series of our convertible senior notes, we entered into transactions
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(1)
As described in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, we adopted new debt guidance effective
August 1, 2021, using a modified retrospective method, under which financial results reported in prior periods were not adjusted. Upon
adoption, our convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability and measured at their amortized cost. Transaction costs related
to the issuance of the notes are netted with the liability and are amortized on a straight-line basis, which approximates the effective interest
rate method, to interest expense over the term of the notes.
The total estimated fair value of the 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes were $3.2 billion and $3.5 billion at July 31, 2022, respectively
and $2.6 billion and $2.9 billion at July 31, 2021, respectively. The fair value was determined based on the closing trading price per
$100 of the applicable series of the Notes as of the last day of trading for the period. We consider the fair value of the Notes at July 31,
2022 and 2021 to be a Level 2 measurement. The fair value of the Notes is primarily affected by the trading price of our common
stock and market interest rates.
whereby we sold warrants (the “2023 Warrants,” with respect to the 2023 Notes, the “2025 Warrants,” with respect to the 2025 Notes,
and the 2023 Warrants together with the 2025 Warrants, the “Warrants”) to acquire shares of our common stock, subject to anti-
dilution adjustments. The 2023 Warrants and 2025 Warrants are exercisable beginning October 2023 and September 2025,
The following table presents details of our Warrants (in millions, except per share data):
Initial Number
Strike Price per
of Shares
Share
Aggregate
Proceeds
6.4 $
6.7 $
417.80 $
408.47 $
145.4
202.8
The shares issuable under the Warrants will be included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share when the average
market value per share of our common stock for the reporting period exceeds the applicable strike price for such series of Warrants.
The Warrants are separate transactions and are not part of either series of Notes or Note Hedges and are not remeasured through
earnings each reporting period. Holders of the Notes of either series will not have any rights with respect to the Warrants. The
aggregate proceeds received from the sale of the Warrants are included in additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
2023 Note Hedges
2025 Note Hedges
Warrants
respectively.
2023 Warrants
2025 Warrants
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upon the occurrence of specified corporate events.
The following table sets forth interest expense recognized related to the Notes (dollars in millions):
On or after the respective convertible date, holders may surrender all or any portion of their Notes for conversion at any time
prior to the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the applicable maturity date regardless of the
foregoing conditions, and such conversions will be settled upon the applicable maturity date. Upon conversion, holders of the Notes of
a series will receive cash equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series to be converted, and, at our election, cash
and/or shares of our common stock for any amounts in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series being
converted.
date.
The conversion price will be subject to adjustment in some events. Holders of the Notes of a series who convert their Notes of
such series in connection with certain corporate events that constitute a “make-whole fundamental change” under the applicable
Indenture are, under certain circumstances, entitled to an increase in the conversion rate for such series of Notes. Additionally, upon
the occurrence of a corporate event that constitutes a “fundamental change” under the applicable Indenture, holders of the Notes of
such series may require us to repurchase for cash all or a portion of the Notes of such series at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Notes of such series plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase
The sale price condition for the Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2022, and as a result, holders may
convert their Notes at any time during the fiscal quarter ending October 31, 2022. The net carrying amount of the Notes was classified
as a current liability on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2022.
The sale price condition for the 2023 Notes was met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021, and as a result, holders may
convert their 2023 Notes at any time during the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2021. Accordingly, the net carrying amount of the
2023 Notes was classified as a current liability and the portion of the equity component representing the conversion option was
classified as temporary equity on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2021. The sale price condition for the 2025 Notes was
not met during the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2021. Since the 2025 Notes were not convertible during the fiscal quarter ended
October 31, 2021, the associated net carrying amount was classified as a long-term liability and the equity component was included in
additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheet as of July 31, 2021.
The following table sets forth the components of the Notes (in millions):
July 31, 2022(1)
July 31, 2021
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
Less: debt discount and debt issuance costs, net of amortization
(2.6)
(11.9)
(14.5)
(134.1)
(331.9)
(466.0)
Net carrying amount
$ 1,689.3 $ 1,987.5
$ 3,676.8 $ 1,557.9 $ 1,668.1 $ 3,226.0
$ 1,691.9 $ 1,999.4
$ 3,691.3 $ 1,692.0 $ 2,000.0 $ 3,692.0
Equity component (including amounts classified as temporary equity)
$
— $
—
$
— $ 315.0 $ 403.0 $ 718.0
Liability component:
Principal
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(1)
As described in Note 1. Description of Business and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, we adopted new debt guidance effective
August 1, 2021, using a modified retrospective method, under which financial results reported in prior periods were not adjusted. Upon
adoption, our convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability and measured at their amortized cost. Transaction costs related
to the issuance of the notes are netted with the liability and are amortized on a straight-line basis, which approximates the effective interest
rate method, to interest expense over the term of the notes.
The total estimated fair value of the 2023 Notes and 2025 Notes were $3.2 billion and $3.5 billion at July 31, 2022, respectively
and $2.6 billion and $2.9 billion at July 31, 2021, respectively. The fair value was determined based on the closing trading price per
$100 of the applicable series of the Notes as of the last day of trading for the period. We consider the fair value of the Notes at July 31,
2022 and 2021 to be a Level 2 measurement. The fair value of the Notes is primarily affected by the trading price of our common
stock and market interest rates.
Year Ended July 31, 2022
Year Ended July 31, 2021
Year Ended July 31, 2020
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
2023
Notes
2025
Notes
Total
Contractual interest expense
Amortization of debt discount(1)
$ 12.7
$ 7.5
$
20.2 $ 12.7
$ 7.5
$
20.2 $ 12.7
$ 1.1
$
—
—
—
63.5
74.3
137.8
60.9
10.5
Amortization of debt issuance costs
2.8
4.4
7.2
2.3
2.8
5.1
2.1
0.4
13.8
71.4
2.5
Total interest expense recognized
$ 15.5
$ 11.9
$
27.4 $ 78.5
$ 84.6
$ 163.1 $ 75.7
$ 12.0
$
87.7
Effective interest rate of the liability
component
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0.9 %
0.6 %
5.2 %
5.4 %
5.2 %
5.4 %
(1)
Upon adoption of the new debt guidance on August 1, 2021, the conversion option is no longer separately accounted for as debt discount. Our
convertible senior notes are accounted for entirely as a liability.
Note Hedges
To minimize the impact of potential economic dilution upon conversion of our convertible senior notes, we entered into
separate convertible note hedge transactions (the “2023 Note Hedges,” with respect to the 2023 Notes, the “2025 Note Hedges,” with
respect to the 2025 Notes, and the 2023 Notes Hedges together with 2025 Note Hedges, the “Note Hedges”) with respect to our
common stock concurrent with the issuance of each series of the Notes.
The following table presents details of our Note Hedges (in millions):
2023 Note Hedges
2025 Note Hedges
Initial Number of
Shares
Aggregate
Purchase
6.4 $
6.7 $
332.0
370.8
The Note Hedges cover shares of our common stock at a strike price per share that corresponds to the initial applicable
conversion price of the applicable series of the Notes, which are also subject to adjustment, and are exercisable upon conversion of the
applicable series of the Notes. The Note Hedges will expire upon maturity of the applicable series of the Notes. The Note Hedges are
separate transactions and are not part of the terms of the applicable series of the Notes. Holders of the Notes of either series will not
have any rights with respect to the Note Hedges. Any shares of our common stock receivable by us under the Note Hedges are
excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as they are antidilutive. The aggregate amounts paid for the Note Hedges
are included in additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
Warrants
Separately, but concurrently with the issuance of each series of our convertible senior notes, we entered into transactions
whereby we sold warrants (the “2023 Warrants,” with respect to the 2023 Notes, the “2025 Warrants,” with respect to the 2025 Notes,
and the 2023 Warrants together with the 2025 Warrants, the “Warrants”) to acquire shares of our common stock, subject to anti-
dilution adjustments. The 2023 Warrants and 2025 Warrants are exercisable beginning October 2023 and September 2025,
respectively.
The following table presents details of our Warrants (in millions, except per share data):
2023 Warrants
2025 Warrants
Initial Number
of Shares
Strike Price per
Share
Aggregate
Proceeds
6.4 $
6.7 $
417.80 $
408.47 $
145.4
202.8
The shares issuable under the Warrants will be included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share when the average
market value per share of our common stock for the reporting period exceeds the applicable strike price for such series of Warrants.
The Warrants are separate transactions and are not part of either series of Notes or Note Hedges and are not remeasured through
earnings each reporting period. Holders of the Notes of either series will not have any rights with respect to the Warrants. The
aggregate proceeds received from the sale of the Warrants are included in additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
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Revolving Credit Facility
11. Leases
On September 4, 2018, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with certain institutional lenders that
provides for a $400.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), with an option to increase the amount of the
Credit Facility by up to an additional $350.0 million, subject to certain conditions. The Credit Facility matures on the earlier of
(i) September 4, 2023 and (ii) the date that is 91 days prior to the stated maturity of our 2023 Notes if (a) any of the 2023 Notes are
still outstanding and (b) our unrestricted cash and cash equivalents are less than the then outstanding principal amount of our 2023
Notes plus $400.0 million.
The borrowings under the Credit Facility currently bear interest, at our option, at a base rate plus a spread of 0.00% to 0.75%,
or an adjusted LIBO Rate plus a spread of 1.00% to 1.75%, in each case with such spread being determined based on our leverage
ratio. We are obligated to pay an ongoing commitment fee on undrawn amounts at a rate of 0.125% to 0.250%, depending on our
leverage ratio. In March 2021, the ICE Benchmark Administration, the administrator of LIBO Rate, announced that it will cease
publication of LIBO Rate by June 2023. Under the terms of our Credit Facility, in the event of the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate, a
mutually agreed-upon alternative benchmark rate will be established to replace the LIBO Rate, which may include the Secured
Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”). We do not anticipate that the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate will materially impact our
liquidity or financial position.
As of July 31, 2022, there were no amounts outstanding and we were in compliance with all covenants under the Credit
Agreement.
We have entered into various non-cancelable operating leases primarily for our facilities with original lease periods expiring
through the year ending July 31, 2032, with the most significant leases relating to corporate headquarters in Santa Clara.
In May 2015 and October 2015, we entered into a total of three lease agreements for approximately 941,000 square feet of
corporate office space in Santa Clara, California, which serves as our current corporate headquarters. The leases contain rent holiday
periods, scheduled rent increases, lease incentives, and renewal options which allow the lease terms to be extended beyond their
expiration dates of July 2028 through July 2046. Rental payments under the three lease agreements are approximately $412.0 million
over the lease term.
In September 2012, we entered into two lease agreements for a total of approximately 300,000 square feet of space in Santa
Clara, California, which served as our previous corporate headquarters through August 2017, when we relocated to our current
corporate campus. In December 2019, we terminated these leases prior to their expiration date. The early termination fee is
$25.0 million, payable in equal quarterly installments from April 2020 through July 2023. Upon termination, we recorded a decrease
of $13.6 million in operating lease liabilities based on the payment schedule of the early termination fee discounted by the incremental
borrowing rate for the remaining payment term. We also decreased right-of-use assets by $8.7 million upon surrendering possession of
the properties. As a result, during the year ended July 31, 2020, we recorded a gain of $3.1 million net of other related fees of
$1.8 million in general and administrative expense in our consolidated statements of operations.
During the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, our net cost for operating leases was $89.7 million, $75.2 million, and
$80.4 million, respectively, primarily consisting of operating lease costs of $67.6 million, $59.3 million, and $63.5 million,
respectively. Our net cost for operating leases also included variable lease costs, short-term lease costs and sublease income in the
periods presented.
The following tables present additional information for our operating leases (in millions, except for years and percentages):
Operating cash flows used in payments of operating lease liabilities
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
81.5
33.0
$
$
81.7 $
48.6 $
78.3
28.4
July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
5.5 years
4.0 %
6.1 years
3.8 %
The following table presents maturities of operating lease liabilities as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Weighted-average remaining lease term
Weighted-average discount rate
Fiscal years ending July 31:
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and thereafter
Total operating lease payments
Less: imputed interest
Present value of operating lease liabilities
Current portion of operating lease liabilities(1)
Long-term operating lease liabilities
________________________
Amount
73.5
66.6
64.5
62.1
56.0
57.4
380.1
(41.7)
338.4
62.3
276.1
$
$
$
$
(1)
Current portion of operating lease liabilities is included in accrued and other liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet.
As of July 31, 2022, we have additional non-cancelable operating leases for office space that had been signed but had not yet
commenced with total future minimum lease payments of $26.0 million. These leases will commence in fiscal 2023, with lease terms
ranging from three to ten years.
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Revolving Credit Facility
11. Leases
On September 4, 2018, we entered into a credit agreement (the “Credit Agreement”) with certain institutional lenders that
provides for a $400.0 million unsecured revolving credit facility (the “Credit Facility”), with an option to increase the amount of the
Credit Facility by up to an additional $350.0 million, subject to certain conditions. The Credit Facility matures on the earlier of
(i) September 4, 2023 and (ii) the date that is 91 days prior to the stated maturity of our 2023 Notes if (a) any of the 2023 Notes are
still outstanding and (b) our unrestricted cash and cash equivalents are less than the then outstanding principal amount of our 2023
Notes plus $400.0 million.
The borrowings under the Credit Facility currently bear interest, at our option, at a base rate plus a spread of 0.00% to 0.75%,
or an adjusted LIBO Rate plus a spread of 1.00% to 1.75%, in each case with such spread being determined based on our leverage
ratio. We are obligated to pay an ongoing commitment fee on undrawn amounts at a rate of 0.125% to 0.250%, depending on our
leverage ratio. In March 2021, the ICE Benchmark Administration, the administrator of LIBO Rate, announced that it will cease
publication of LIBO Rate by June 2023. Under the terms of our Credit Facility, in the event of the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate, a
mutually agreed-upon alternative benchmark rate will be established to replace the LIBO Rate, which may include the Secured
Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”). We do not anticipate that the discontinuance of the LIBO Rate will materially impact our
liquidity or financial position.
Agreement.
As of July 31, 2022, there were no amounts outstanding and we were in compliance with all covenants under the Credit
We have entered into various non-cancelable operating leases primarily for our facilities with original lease periods expiring
through the year ending July 31, 2032, with the most significant leases relating to corporate headquarters in Santa Clara.
In May 2015 and October 2015, we entered into a total of three lease agreements for approximately 941,000 square feet of
corporate office space in Santa Clara, California, which serves as our current corporate headquarters. The leases contain rent holiday
periods, scheduled rent increases, lease incentives, and renewal options which allow the lease terms to be extended beyond their
expiration dates of July 2028 through July 2046. Rental payments under the three lease agreements are approximately $412.0 million
over the lease term.
In September 2012, we entered into two lease agreements for a total of approximately 300,000 square feet of space in Santa
Clara, California, which served as our previous corporate headquarters through August 2017, when we relocated to our current
corporate campus. In December 2019, we terminated these leases prior to their expiration date. The early termination fee is
$25.0 million, payable in equal quarterly installments from April 2020 through July 2023. Upon termination, we recorded a decrease
of $13.6 million in operating lease liabilities based on the payment schedule of the early termination fee discounted by the incremental
borrowing rate for the remaining payment term. We also decreased right-of-use assets by $8.7 million upon surrendering possession of
the properties. As a result, during the year ended July 31, 2020, we recorded a gain of $3.1 million net of other related fees of
$1.8 million in general and administrative expense in our consolidated statements of operations.
During the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, our net cost for operating leases was $89.7 million, $75.2 million, and
$80.4 million, respectively, primarily consisting of operating lease costs of $67.6 million, $59.3 million, and $63.5 million,
respectively. Our net cost for operating leases also included variable lease costs, short-term lease costs and sublease income in the
periods presented.
The following tables present additional information for our operating leases (in millions, except for years and percentages):
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Operating cash flows used in payments of operating lease liabilities
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities
$
$
81.5
33.0
$
$
81.7 $
48.6 $
78.3
28.4
Weighted-average remaining lease term
Weighted-average discount rate
July 31, 2022
July 31, 2021
5.5 years
4.0 %
6.1 years
3.8 %
The following table presents maturities of operating lease liabilities as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Fiscal years ending July 31:
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and thereafter
Total operating lease payments
Less: imputed interest
Present value of operating lease liabilities
Current portion of operating lease liabilities(1)
Long-term operating lease liabilities
________________________
Amount
73.5
66.6
64.5
62.1
56.0
57.4
380.1
(41.7)
338.4
62.3
276.1
$
$
$
$
(1)
Current portion of operating lease liabilities is included in accrued and other liabilities on our consolidated balance sheet.
As of July 31, 2022, we have additional non-cancelable operating leases for office space that had been signed but had not yet
commenced with total future minimum lease payments of $26.0 million. These leases will commence in fiscal 2023, with lease terms
ranging from three to ten years.
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Other purchase
$
commitments ........................
Additionally, we have a $162.2 million minimum purchase commitment with a service provider through September 2027 with
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and
Thereafter
1,881.4 $
82.7 $
368.5 $
413.9 $
531.6 $
483.9 $
0.8
Fiscal years ending July 31,
12. Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase Commitments
Manufacturing Purchase Commitments
13. Stockholders’ Equity
Share Repurchase Program
In February 2019, our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program, which is funded from available
working capital. In December 2020 and August 2021, our board of directors authorized additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million
In order to reduce manufacturing lead times and plan for adequate supply, we enter into agreements with manufacturing
increases to this share repurchase program, respectively, bringing the total authorization under this share repurchase program to
partners and component suppliers to procure inventory based on our demand forecasts. The following table presents details of the
aggregate future minimum or fixed purchase commitments under these arrangements excluding obligations under contracts that we
can cancel without a significant penalty as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
$2.4 billion (our “current authorization”). The expiration date of our current authorization was extended to December 31, 2022, and
our repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. Repurchases may be made at management’s discretion from
time to time on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and
Thereafter
amounts):
Fiscal years ending July 31,
institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a combination of the foregoing.
The following table summarizes the share repurchase activity under our share repurchase program (in millions, except per share
Manufacturing purchase
commitments ........................$
Other Purchase Commitments
331.7 $
226.7 $
30.0 $
35.0 $
40.0 $
— $
—
We have entered into various non-cancelable agreements with certain service providers, under which we are committed to
minimum or fixed purchases. The following table presents details of the aggregate future non-cancelable purchase commitments under
these agreements as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
no specified annual commitments.
Mutual Covenant Not to Sue and Release Agreement
In January 2020, we executed a Mutual Covenant Not to Sue and Release Agreement for $50.0 million to extend an existing
covenant not to sue for seven years. As the primary benefit of the arrangement was attributable to future use, the amount was recorded
in other assets on our consolidated balance sheets and is amortized to cost of product revenue in our consolidated statements of
operations over the estimated period of benefit of seven years.
program.
Litigation
We are subject to legal proceedings, claims, and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, including intellectual
property litigation. Such matters are subject to many uncertainties and outcomes are not predictable with assurance. We accrue for
contingencies when we believe that a loss is probable and that we can reasonably estimate the amount of any such loss.
To the extent there is a reasonable possibility that a loss exceeding amounts already recognized may be incurred and the amount
of such additional loss would be material, we will either disclose the estimated additional loss or state that such an estimate cannot be
made. As of July 31, 2022, we have not recorded any significant accruals for loss contingencies associated with such legal
proceedings, determined that an unfavorable outcome is probable or reasonably possible, or determined that the amount or range of
any possible loss is reasonably estimable.
Indemnification
Under the indemnification provisions of our standard sales related contracts, we agree to defend our end-customers against
third-party claims asserting infringement of certain intellectual property rights, which may include patents, copyrights, trademarks, or
trade secrets, and to pay judgments entered on such claims. Our exposure under these indemnification provisions is generally limited
to payments made to us for the alleged infringing products over the preceding twelve months under the agreement. However, certain
agreements include indemnification provisions that could potentially expose us to losses in excess of these payments. In addition, we
indemnify our officers, directors, and certain key employees while they are serving in good faith in their company capacities. To date,
we have not recorded any accruals for loss contingencies associated with indemnification claims or determined that an unfavorable
outcome is probable or reasonably possible.
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Number of shares repurchased
Weighted average price per share (1) ........................................................ $
Aggregate purchase price (1) ..................................................................... $
______________
(1)
Includes transaction costs
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
1.8
512.49 $
915.0 $
4.0
294.87 $
1,178.1 $
0.9
209.12
198.1
As of July 31, 2022, $85.0 million remained available for future share repurchases under our current repurchase authorization.
The total price of the shares repurchased and related transaction costs are reflected as a reduction to common stock and additional
paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
Accelerated Stock Repurchase
In February 2020, our board of directors approved the repurchase of $1.0 billion of our common stock through an accelerated
share repurchase (“ASR”) transaction with a financial institution. This ASR transaction was in addition to our share repurchase
During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2020, we completed the ASR transaction with an aggregate of 5.2 million shares of our
common stock repurchased and retired. The total price of the ASR transaction is reflected as a reduction to common stock and
additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheet.
14. Equity Award Plans
Share-Based Compensation Plans
Equity Incentive Plans
Our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (our “2021 Plan”) became effective in December 2021 and replaced our 2012 Equity Incentive
Plan (our “2012 Plan”). Our 2021 Plan provides for the granting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards
(“RSAs”), restricted stock units (“RSUs”), performance shares (“PSAs”), performance-based stock units (“PSUs”) and performance
stock options (“PSOs”) to our employees, directors, and consultants. Upon effectiveness of the 2021 Plan, the 2012 Plan was
terminated and no further awards will be granted under the 2012 Plan. Awards that were outstanding upon such termination remained
outstanding pursuant to their original terms, and any subsequent expiration, cancellation or forfeiture of awards under our 2012 Plan
are returned to our 2021 Plan.
The majority of our equity awards are RSUs, which generally vest over a period of three to four years from the date of grant.
Until vested, RSUs do not have the voting and dividend participation rights of common stock and the shares underlying the awards are
not considered issued and outstanding. Our options expire no more than ten years after the date of grant.
We grant PSUs to certain employees, which vest over a period of one to four years from the date of grant. The actual number of
PSUs earned and eligible to vest is determined based on the level of achievement against revenue growth, pre-established billings and
operating margin goals, or pre-defined individual performance targets for the fiscal year, and market conditions, if applicable. During
the year ended July 31, 2022, we granted 0.1 million shares of PSUs, which contain service, performance and market conditions. The
performance condition is based on revenue growth, whereas the market condition measures our total shareholder return (“TSR”)
relative to the TSR of the companies listed in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. In addition to this grant, we have also approved the
future grant of 0.1 million shares of PSUs with similar terms, which will be considered granted at the time their related vesting
conditions are established in the next two years.
12. Commitments and Contingencies
Purchase Commitments
Manufacturing Purchase Commitments
In order to reduce manufacturing lead times and plan for adequate supply, we enter into agreements with manufacturing
partners and component suppliers to procure inventory based on our demand forecasts. The following table presents details of the
aggregate future minimum or fixed purchase commitments under these arrangements excluding obligations under contracts that we
can cancel without a significant penalty as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Fiscal years ending July 31,
2028 and
Thereafter
Manufacturing purchase
commitments ........................$
Other Purchase Commitments
We have entered into various non-cancelable agreements with certain service providers, under which we are committed to
minimum or fixed purchases. The following table presents details of the aggregate future non-cancelable purchase commitments under
these agreements as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028 and
Thereafter
Fiscal years ending July 31,
Other purchase
$
1,881.4 $
82.7 $
368.5 $
413.9 $
531.6 $
483.9 $
0.8
Additionally, we have a $162.2 million minimum purchase commitment with a service provider through September 2027 with
commitments ........................
no specified annual commitments.
Mutual Covenant Not to Sue and Release Agreement
In January 2020, we executed a Mutual Covenant Not to Sue and Release Agreement for $50.0 million to extend an existing
covenant not to sue for seven years. As the primary benefit of the arrangement was attributable to future use, the amount was recorded
in other assets on our consolidated balance sheets and is amortized to cost of product revenue in our consolidated statements of
operations over the estimated period of benefit of seven years.
Litigation
We are subject to legal proceedings, claims, and litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, including intellectual
property litigation. Such matters are subject to many uncertainties and outcomes are not predictable with assurance. We accrue for
contingencies when we believe that a loss is probable and that we can reasonably estimate the amount of any such loss.
To the extent there is a reasonable possibility that a loss exceeding amounts already recognized may be incurred and the amount
of such additional loss would be material, we will either disclose the estimated additional loss or state that such an estimate cannot be
made. As of July 31, 2022, we have not recorded any significant accruals for loss contingencies associated with such legal
proceedings, determined that an unfavorable outcome is probable or reasonably possible, or determined that the amount or range of
any possible loss is reasonably estimable.
Indemnification
Under the indemnification provisions of our standard sales related contracts, we agree to defend our end-customers against
third-party claims asserting infringement of certain intellectual property rights, which may include patents, copyrights, trademarks, or
trade secrets, and to pay judgments entered on such claims. Our exposure under these indemnification provisions is generally limited
to payments made to us for the alleged infringing products over the preceding twelve months under the agreement. However, certain
agreements include indemnification provisions that could potentially expose us to losses in excess of these payments. In addition, we
indemnify our officers, directors, and certain key employees while they are serving in good faith in their company capacities. To date,
we have not recorded any accruals for loss contingencies associated with indemnification claims or determined that an unfavorable
outcome is probable or reasonably possible.
13. Stockholders’ Equity
Share Repurchase Program
In February 2019, our board of directors authorized a $1.0 billion share repurchase program, which is funded from available
working capital. In December 2020 and August 2021, our board of directors authorized additional $700.0 million and $676.1 million
increases to this share repurchase program, respectively, bringing the total authorization under this share repurchase program to
$2.4 billion (our “current authorization”). The expiration date of our current authorization was extended to December 31, 2022, and
our repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. Repurchases may be made at management’s discretion from
time to time on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured through investment banking
institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a combination of the foregoing.
The following table summarizes the share repurchase activity under our share repurchase program (in millions, except per share
Total
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
amounts):
331.7 $
226.7 $
30.0 $
35.0 $
40.0 $
— $
—
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Number of shares repurchased
Weighted average price per share (1) ........................................................ $
Aggregate purchase price (1) ..................................................................... $
1.8
512.49 $
915.0 $
4.0
294.87 $
1,178.1 $
0.9
209.12
198.1
______________
(1)
Includes transaction costs
As of July 31, 2022, $85.0 million remained available for future share repurchases under our current repurchase authorization.
The total price of the shares repurchased and related transaction costs are reflected as a reduction to common stock and additional
paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheets.
Accelerated Stock Repurchase
In February 2020, our board of directors approved the repurchase of $1.0 billion of our common stock through an accelerated
share repurchase (“ASR”) transaction with a financial institution. This ASR transaction was in addition to our share repurchase
program.
During the fiscal year ended July 31, 2020, we completed the ASR transaction with an aggregate of 5.2 million shares of our
common stock repurchased and retired. The total price of the ASR transaction is reflected as a reduction to common stock and
additional paid-in capital on our consolidated balance sheet.
14. Equity Award Plans
Share-Based Compensation Plans
Equity Incentive Plans
Our 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (our “2021 Plan”) became effective in December 2021 and replaced our 2012 Equity Incentive
Plan (our “2012 Plan”). Our 2021 Plan provides for the granting of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards
(“RSAs”), restricted stock units (“RSUs”), performance shares (“PSAs”), performance-based stock units (“PSUs”) and performance
stock options (“PSOs”) to our employees, directors, and consultants. Upon effectiveness of the 2021 Plan, the 2012 Plan was
terminated and no further awards will be granted under the 2012 Plan. Awards that were outstanding upon such termination remained
outstanding pursuant to their original terms, and any subsequent expiration, cancellation or forfeiture of awards under our 2012 Plan
are returned to our 2021 Plan.
The majority of our equity awards are RSUs, which generally vest over a period of three to four years from the date of grant.
Until vested, RSUs do not have the voting and dividend participation rights of common stock and the shares underlying the awards are
not considered issued and outstanding. Our options expire no more than ten years after the date of grant.
We grant PSUs to certain employees, which vest over a period of one to four years from the date of grant. The actual number of
PSUs earned and eligible to vest is determined based on the level of achievement against revenue growth, pre-established billings and
operating margin goals, or pre-defined individual performance targets for the fiscal year, and market conditions, if applicable. During
the year ended July 31, 2022, we granted 0.1 million shares of PSUs, which contain service, performance and market conditions. The
performance condition is based on revenue growth, whereas the market condition measures our total shareholder return (“TSR”)
relative to the TSR of the companies listed in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. In addition to this grant, we have also approved the
future grant of 0.1 million shares of PSUs with similar terms, which will be considered granted at the time their related vesting
conditions are established in the next two years.
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We have also granted PSOs with both a market condition and a service condition to certain executives. The market condition
Stock Option Activities
for PSOs granted in the fiscal years 2018 and 2019 requires the price of our common stock to equal or exceed $297.75, $397.00,
$496.25, and $595.50 based on the average closing price for 30 consecutive trading days during the four-, five-, six-, and seven-and-a-
half-year periods following the date of grant in fiscal year 2018 and 2019, respectively. The market condition for PSOs granted in the
fiscal year 2021 requires the price of our common stock to equal or exceed $397.00, $496.25, $595.50 and $700.00 based on the
average closing price for 30 consecutive trading days during the three-, four-, five-, and six-and-a-half-year periods following the date
of grant. All of the PSOs granted in the fiscal year 2021 were forfeited in the same fiscal year and are no longer outstanding. To the
extent that the market condition has been met, one-fourth of the PSOs will vest on each anniversary date of the grant date for such
PSOs, subject to continued service. All outstanding PSOs may be exercised prior to vesting (“early exercise”). Shares of common
stock issued upon early exercise of the PSOs will be restricted and, at our option, subject to repurchase if the option holder ceases to
be a service provider. The maximum contractual term of our outstanding PSOs is seven and a half years from the date of grant,
depending on vesting period. As of July 31, 2022, all stock price targets for our outstanding PSOs have been satisfied.
We net-share settle equity awards held by certain employees by withholding shares upon vesting to satisfy tax withholding
obligations. The shares withheld to satisfy employee tax withholding obligations are returned to our 2021 Plan and will be available
for future issuance. Payments for employees’ tax obligations to the tax authorities are recognized as a reduction to additional paid-in
capital and reflected as financing activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
A total of 13.1 million shares of our common stock are reserved for issuance pursuant to our equity incentive plans as of
July 31, 2022.
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Our 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan was adopted by our board of directors and approved by the stockholders on June 5,
2012, and was effective upon completion of our initial public offering (“IPO”). On August 29, 2017, we amended and restated our
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (our “2012 ESPP”) to extend the length of our offering periods from 6 to 24 months.
Our 2012 ESPP permits eligible employees to acquire shares of our common stock at 85% of the lower of the fair market value
of our common stock on the first trading day of each offering period or on the purchase date. If the fair market value of our common
stock on the purchase date is lower than the first trading day of the offering period, the current offering period will be cancelled after
purchase and a new 24-month offering period will begin. Under our 2012 ESPP, each 24-month offering period consists of four
consecutive 6-month purchase periods, with purchase dates on the first trading day on or after February 28 and August 31 of each year.
Participants may purchase shares of common stock through payroll deductions of up to 15% of their eligible compensation, subject to
purchase limits of 625 shares per six-month purchase period and $25,000 worth of stock for each calendar year. Shares purchased
under our 2012 ESPP during the fiscal years ended July 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 were 0.7 million, 0.6 million and 0.6 million, at an
average exercise price of $192.81 per share, $161.07 per share and $146.90 per share respectively.
A total of 4.9 million shares of our common stock are available for sale under our 2012 ESPP as of July 31, 2022. On the first
day of each fiscal year, the number of shares in the reserve may be increased by the lesser of (i) 2,000,000 shares, (ii) 1% of the
outstanding shares of our common stock on the first day of the fiscal year, or (iii) such other amount as determined by our board of
directors.
Assumed Share-Based Compensation Plans
Balance—July 31, 2019
6.9 $ 188.16 $ 1,554.0
0.3 $ 197.86 $
67.0
In connection with our acquisitions, we have assumed equity incentive plans of certain acquired companies (collectively “the
Assumed Plans”). The equity awards assumed in connection with each acquisition were granted from their respective assumed plans.
The assumed equity awards will be settled in shares of our common stock and will retain the terms and conditions under which they
were originally granted. No additional equity awards will be granted under and forfeited awards will not be returned to the Assumed
Plans. Refer to Note 7. Acquisitions for more information on our acquisitions and the related equity awards assumed.
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The following table summarizes the stock option and PSO activity under our stock plans during the years ended July 31, 2022,
2021, and 2020 (in millions, except per share amounts):
Stock Options Outstanding
PSOs Outstanding
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(Years)
Number of
Shares
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Number of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(Years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
2.2 $
81.4
3.7 $ 193.99
6.2 $ 120.1
Balance—July 31, 2020 .........
0.1 $
19.59
1.5 $
34.2
2.8 $ 194.14
5.2 $ 170.9
Balance—July 31, 2019 .........
Exercised .............................
Forfeited...............................
0.3 $
(0.2) $
— $
Granted ................................
— $
Exercised .............................
0.0 $
12.82
Forfeited...............................
Balance—July 31, 2021 .........
— $
0.1 $
Exercised .............................
(0.1) $
Forfeited...............................
— $
14.53
11.46
—
—
7.84
26.20
18.72
—
0.8 $
27.4
2.8 $ 194.14
4.2 $ 566.8
Balance—July 31, 2022 .........
0.0 $
55.36
Exercisable—July 31, 2022....
0.0
$
55.36
0.5 $
0.5 $
6.7
6.7
3.2 $ 809.3
3.2 $
809.3
The weighted-average grant-date fair value of PSOs granted during the year ended July 31, 2021 was $82.12 per share. The
intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 was $29.2 million, $22.2 million and
$50.2 million, respectively.
RSU and PSU Activities
The following table summarizes the RSU and PSU activity under our stock plans during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021,
and 2020 (in millions, except per share amounts):
RSUs Outstanding
PSUs Outstanding
Number
of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
Per Share
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Number
of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
Per Share
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
— $
—
(0.9) $ 193.51
0.2 $ 304.29
— $
—
(0.2) $ 304.29
— $
—
(0.1) $ 184.24
2.7 $ 194.55
2.7
$
194.55
Granted(1)(2)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
Granted(1)(2)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
Granted(1)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
Balance—July 31, 2020
6.6 $ 203.30 $ 1,688.1
0.6 $ 231.42 $
147.2
Balance—July 31, 2021
6.9 $ 257.56 $ 2,760.2
1.3 $ 292.93 $
498.4
Balance—July 31, 2022
4.9 $ 346.54 $ 2,456.9
1.0 $ 319.15 $
513.7
0.4 $ 248.55
(0.1) $ 166.90
0.0 $ 175.88
0.8 $ 321.45
(0.1) $ 195.60
0.0 $ 235.98
0.3 $ 351.14
(0.4) $ 250.42
(0.2) $ 321.92
3.5 $ 211.38
(2.8) $ 181.19
(1.0) $ 188.18
4.1 $ 297.89
(2.9) $ 200.91
(0.9) $ 226.79
1.9 $ 494.54
(3.0) $ 257.07
(0.9) $ 286.49
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for PSOs granted in the fiscal years 2018 and 2019 requires the price of our common stock to equal or exceed $297.75, $397.00,
$496.25, and $595.50 based on the average closing price for 30 consecutive trading days during the four-, five-, six-, and seven-and-a-
half-year periods following the date of grant in fiscal year 2018 and 2019, respectively. The market condition for PSOs granted in the
fiscal year 2021 requires the price of our common stock to equal or exceed $397.00, $496.25, $595.50 and $700.00 based on the
average closing price for 30 consecutive trading days during the three-, four-, five-, and six-and-a-half-year periods following the date
of grant. All of the PSOs granted in the fiscal year 2021 were forfeited in the same fiscal year and are no longer outstanding. To the
extent that the market condition has been met, one-fourth of the PSOs will vest on each anniversary date of the grant date for such
PSOs, subject to continued service. All outstanding PSOs may be exercised prior to vesting (“early exercise”). Shares of common
stock issued upon early exercise of the PSOs will be restricted and, at our option, subject to repurchase if the option holder ceases to
be a service provider. The maximum contractual term of our outstanding PSOs is seven and a half years from the date of grant,
depending on vesting period. As of July 31, 2022, all stock price targets for our outstanding PSOs have been satisfied.
We net-share settle equity awards held by certain employees by withholding shares upon vesting to satisfy tax withholding
obligations. The shares withheld to satisfy employee tax withholding obligations are returned to our 2021 Plan and will be available
capital and reflected as financing activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
A total of 13.1 million shares of our common stock are reserved for issuance pursuant to our equity incentive plans as of
July 31, 2022.
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Our 2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan was adopted by our board of directors and approved by the stockholders on June 5,
Our 2012 ESPP permits eligible employees to acquire shares of our common stock at 85% of the lower of the fair market value
of our common stock on the first trading day of each offering period or on the purchase date. If the fair market value of our common
stock on the purchase date is lower than the first trading day of the offering period, the current offering period will be cancelled after
purchase and a new 24-month offering period will begin. Under our 2012 ESPP, each 24-month offering period consists of four
consecutive 6-month purchase periods, with purchase dates on the first trading day on or after February 28 and August 31 of each year.
Participants may purchase shares of common stock through payroll deductions of up to 15% of their eligible compensation, subject to
purchase limits of 625 shares per six-month purchase period and $25,000 worth of stock for each calendar year. Shares purchased
under our 2012 ESPP during the fiscal years ended July 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020 were 0.7 million, 0.6 million and 0.6 million, at an
average exercise price of $192.81 per share, $161.07 per share and $146.90 per share respectively.
A total of 4.9 million shares of our common stock are available for sale under our 2012 ESPP as of July 31, 2022. On the first
day of each fiscal year, the number of shares in the reserve may be increased by the lesser of (i) 2,000,000 shares, (ii) 1% of the
outstanding shares of our common stock on the first day of the fiscal year, or (iii) such other amount as determined by our board of
directors.
Assumed Share-Based Compensation Plans
In connection with our acquisitions, we have assumed equity incentive plans of certain acquired companies (collectively “the
Assumed Plans”). The equity awards assumed in connection with each acquisition were granted from their respective assumed plans.
The assumed equity awards will be settled in shares of our common stock and will retain the terms and conditions under which they
were originally granted. No additional equity awards will be granted under and forfeited awards will not be returned to the Assumed
Plans. Refer to Note 7. Acquisitions for more information on our acquisitions and the related equity awards assumed.
We have also granted PSOs with both a market condition and a service condition to certain executives. The market condition
Stock Option Activities
The following table summarizes the stock option and PSO activity under our stock plans during the years ended July 31, 2022,
2021, and 2020 (in millions, except per share amounts):
Stock Options Outstanding
PSOs Outstanding
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(Years)
Number of
Shares
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Number of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
(Years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Balance—July 31, 2019 .........
Exercised .............................
Forfeited...............................
0.3 $
(0.2) $
— $
14.53
11.46
—
2.2 $
81.4
3.7 $ 193.99
6.2 $ 120.1
— $
—
(0.9) $ 193.51
Balance—July 31, 2020 .........
0.1 $
19.59
1.5 $
34.2
2.8 $ 194.14
5.2 $ 170.9
for future issuance. Payments for employees’ tax obligations to the tax authorities are recognized as a reduction to additional paid-in
Granted ................................
— $
—
Exercised .............................
0.0 $
12.82
Forfeited...............................
Balance—July 31, 2021 .........
— $
0.1 $
Exercised .............................
(0.1) $
Forfeited...............................
— $
7.84
26.20
18.72
—
2012, and was effective upon completion of our initial public offering (“IPO”). On August 29, 2017, we amended and restated our
Balance—July 31, 2022 .........
0.0 $
55.36
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (our “2012 ESPP”) to extend the length of our offering periods from 6 to 24 months.
Exercisable—July 31, 2022....
0.0
$
55.36
0.2 $ 304.29
— $
—
(0.2) $ 304.29
0.8 $
27.4
2.8 $ 194.14
4.2 $ 566.8
0.5 $
0.5 $
6.7
6.7
— $
—
(0.1) $ 184.24
2.7 $ 194.55
2.7
$
194.55
3.2 $ 809.3
3.2 $
809.3
The weighted-average grant-date fair value of PSOs granted during the year ended July 31, 2021 was $82.12 per share. The
intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 was $29.2 million, $22.2 million and
$50.2 million, respectively.
RSU and PSU Activities
The following table summarizes the RSU and PSU activity under our stock plans during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021,
and 2020 (in millions, except per share amounts):
RSUs Outstanding
PSUs Outstanding
Number
of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
Per Share
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Number
of
Shares
Weighted-
Average
Grant-Date
Fair Value
Per Share
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Balance—July 31, 2019
6.9 $ 188.16 $ 1,554.0
0.3 $ 197.86 $
67.0
Granted(1)(2)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
3.5 $ 211.38
(2.8) $ 181.19
(1.0) $ 188.18
0.4 $ 248.55
(0.1) $ 166.90
0.0 $ 175.88
Balance—July 31, 2020
6.6 $ 203.30 $ 1,688.1
0.6 $ 231.42 $
147.2
Granted(1)(2)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
4.1 $ 297.89
(2.9) $ 200.91
(0.9) $ 226.79
0.8 $ 321.45
(0.1) $ 195.60
0.0 $ 235.98
Balance—July 31, 2021
6.9 $ 257.56 $ 2,760.2
1.3 $ 292.93 $
498.4
Granted(1)
Vested(3)
Forfeited
1.9 $ 494.54
(3.0) $ 257.07
(0.9) $ 286.49
0.3 $ 351.14
(0.4) $ 250.42
(0.2) $ 321.92
Balance—July 31, 2022
4.9 $ 346.54 $ 2,456.9
1.0 $ 319.15 $
513.7
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(1)
(2)
For PSUs, shares granted represent the aggregate maximum number of shares that may be earned and issued with respect to these awards over
their full terms.
Includes 0.4 million RSUs assumed in connection with the acquisitions of Crypsis, Sinefa, Expanse and Bridgecrew, with weighted-average
grant-date fair value of $241.43, $297.17, $317.45 and $354.66, respectively, for the year ended July 31, 2021, and 0.1 million RSUs assumed
in connection with the acquisitions of Zingbox, Aporeto and CloudGenix, with weighted-average grant-date fair value of $208.25, $231.30
and $181.48, respectively, for the year ended July 31, 2020.
(3)
Includes time-based vesting for PSUs.
The expected volatility is based on a combination of implied volatility from traded options on our common stock and the
historical volatility of our common stock. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our anticipated
dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with terms
equal to the contractual terms of each tranche.
The fair value of shares issued under our 2012 ESPP are estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option pricing
model. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and the resulting grant-date fair values of our ESPP:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
The aggregate fair value, as of the respective vesting dates, of RSUs vested during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and
Volatility .....................................................................................
33.6% - 39.4%
34.9% - 42.6%
31.0% - 35.7%
2020 was $1.6 billion, $986.4 million, and $615.7 million, respectively. The aggregate fair value, as of the respective vesting dates, of
PSUs vested during the year ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 was $184.0 million, $20.8 million and $11.9 million, respectively.
Shares Available for Grant
Expected term (in years) ............................................................
Dividend yield ............................................................................
0.5 - 2.0
— %
Risk-free interest rate .................................................................
0.1% - 1.4%
0.5 - 2.0
— %
0.1%
0.5 - 2.0
— %
0.9% - 1.9%
The following table presents the stock activity and the total number of shares available for grant under our equity incentive
Grant-date fair value per share ...................................................
$112.76 - $222.30
$69.48 - $129.05
$46.75 - $66.47
plans as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Balance—July 31, 2021 ..............................................................................................................................................
Authorized ...........................................................................................................................................................
Cancelled upon effectiveness of the 2021 Plan ...................................................................................................
RSUs and PSUs granted ......................................................................................................................................
PSOs, RSUs, and PSUs forfeited .........................................................................................................................
Shares withheld for taxes .....................................................................................................................................
Balance—July 31, 2022 ..............................................................................................................................................
Number of shares
11.3
8.8
(14.6)
(2.2)
1.2
0.1
4.6
Share-Based Compensation
We record share-based compensation awards based on estimated fair value as of the grant date. The fair value of RSUs and
Sales and marketing ......................................................................................................
PSUs not subject to market conditions is based on the closing market price of our common stock on the date of grant.
General and administrative ...........................................................................................
The fair value of the PSUs subject to the market condition is estimated on the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model.
No such PSUs were granted during the years ended July 31, 2021 or 2020. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and
the resulting grant-date fair value of our PSUs subject to the market condition granted during the year ended July 31, 2022:
Total share-based compensation .............................................................................$
1,013.4 $
926.9 $
664.5
As of July 31, 2022, total compensation cost related to unvested share-based awards not yet recognized was $1.8 billion. This
cost is expected to be amortized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.6 years. Future grants will increase the amount of
.....................................................................................................................................................................
Volatility
Expected term (in years)
Dividend yield
Risk-free interest rate
Grant-date fair value per share
Year Ended July 31, 2022
compensation expense to be recorded in these periods.
36.0% - 41.1%
1.4 - 3.0
— %
0.2% - 2.0%
$411.49 - $782.13
The following table presents the components of income (loss) before income taxes (in millions):
The expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of our common stock. The expected term is based on the length of
each tranche’s performance period from the grant date. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our
anticipated dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with
maturities that approximate the expected term.
The fair value of PSOs is estimated on the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model, which predicts settlement of the
options midway between the vesting term and the contractual term. No PSOs were granted during the years ended July 31, 2022 or
2020. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and the resulting grant-date fair values of our PSOs granted during the
year ended July 31, 2021:
Year Ended July 31, 2021
Volatility
Dividend yield
Risk-free interest rate
Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share
$
35.9 %
— %
0.6 %
82.12
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The expected volatility is based on a combination of implied volatility from traded options on our common stock and the
historical volatility of our common stock. The expected term represents the term from the first day of the offering period to the
purchase dates within each offering period. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our anticipated
dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with maturities
that approximate the expected term.
The following table summarizes share-based compensation included in costs and expenses (in millions):
Cost of product revenue ...............................................................................................$
9.3
$
6.2
$
Cost of subscription and support revenue ....................................................................
Research and development ............................................................................................
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
110.2
471.1
304.7
118.1
93.0
428.9
269.9
128.9
5.7
77.7
274.6
214.5
92.0
15. Income Taxes
United States
Foreign
Total
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
(152.3) $
(482.2) $
(54.9)
17.2
(207.2) $
(465.0) $
(56.1)
(175.7)
(231.8)
______________
their full terms.
(1)
(2)
For PSUs, shares granted represent the aggregate maximum number of shares that may be earned and issued with respect to these awards over
Includes 0.4 million RSUs assumed in connection with the acquisitions of Crypsis, Sinefa, Expanse and Bridgecrew, with weighted-average
grant-date fair value of $241.43, $297.17, $317.45 and $354.66, respectively, for the year ended July 31, 2021, and 0.1 million RSUs assumed
in connection with the acquisitions of Zingbox, Aporeto and CloudGenix, with weighted-average grant-date fair value of $208.25, $231.30
and $181.48, respectively, for the year ended July 31, 2020.
(3)
Includes time-based vesting for PSUs.
2020 was $1.6 billion, $986.4 million, and $615.7 million, respectively. The aggregate fair value, as of the respective vesting dates, of
PSUs vested during the year ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020 was $184.0 million, $20.8 million and $11.9 million, respectively.
Shares Available for Grant
plans as of July 31, 2022 (in millions):
Balance—July 31, 2021 ..............................................................................................................................................
Authorized ...........................................................................................................................................................
Cancelled upon effectiveness of the 2021 Plan ...................................................................................................
RSUs and PSUs granted ......................................................................................................................................
PSOs, RSUs, and PSUs forfeited .........................................................................................................................
Shares withheld for taxes .....................................................................................................................................
The aggregate fair value, as of the respective vesting dates, of RSUs vested during the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and
Volatility .....................................................................................
33.6% - 39.4%
34.9% - 42.6%
31.0% - 35.7%
The following table presents the stock activity and the total number of shares available for grant under our equity incentive
Grant-date fair value per share ...................................................
$112.76 - $222.30
$69.48 - $129.05
$46.75 - $66.47
Expected term (in years) ............................................................
Dividend yield ............................................................................
0.5 - 2.0
— %
Risk-free interest rate .................................................................
0.1% - 1.4%
0.5 - 2.0
— %
0.1%
0.5 - 2.0
— %
0.9% - 1.9%
The expected volatility is based on a combination of implied volatility from traded options on our common stock and the
historical volatility of our common stock. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our anticipated
dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with terms
equal to the contractual terms of each tranche.
The fair value of shares issued under our 2012 ESPP are estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option pricing
model. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and the resulting grant-date fair values of our ESPP:
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
The expected volatility is based on a combination of implied volatility from traded options on our common stock and the
historical volatility of our common stock. The expected term represents the term from the first day of the offering period to the
purchase dates within each offering period. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our anticipated
dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with maturities
that approximate the expected term.
The following table summarizes share-based compensation included in costs and expenses (in millions):
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
Balance—July 31, 2022 ..............................................................................................................................................
Cost of product revenue ...............................................................................................$
9.3
$
6.2
$
Share-Based Compensation
Cost of subscription and support revenue ....................................................................
Research and development ............................................................................................
We record share-based compensation awards based on estimated fair value as of the grant date. The fair value of RSUs and
Sales and marketing ......................................................................................................
PSUs not subject to market conditions is based on the closing market price of our common stock on the date of grant.
General and administrative ...........................................................................................
110.2
471.1
304.7
118.1
93.0
428.9
269.9
128.9
5.7
77.7
274.6
214.5
92.0
The fair value of the PSUs subject to the market condition is estimated on the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model.
Total share-based compensation .............................................................................$
1,013.4 $
926.9 $
664.5
No such PSUs were granted during the years ended July 31, 2021 or 2020. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and
the resulting grant-date fair value of our PSUs subject to the market condition granted during the year ended July 31, 2022:
.....................................................................................................................................................................
Year Ended July 31, 2022
As of July 31, 2022, total compensation cost related to unvested share-based awards not yet recognized was $1.8 billion. This
cost is expected to be amortized over a weighted-average period of approximately 2.6 years. Future grants will increase the amount of
compensation expense to be recorded in these periods.
15. Income Taxes
The following table presents the components of income (loss) before income taxes (in millions):
The expected volatility is based on the historical volatility of our common stock. The expected term is based on the length of
each tranche’s performance period from the grant date. The dividend yield assumption is based on our current expectations about our
anticipated dividend policy. The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury zero-coupon issues with
maturities that approximate the expected term.
The fair value of PSOs is estimated on the grant date using a Monte Carlo simulation model, which predicts settlement of the
options midway between the vesting term and the contractual term. No PSOs were granted during the years ended July 31, 2022 or
2020. The following table summarizes the assumptions used and the resulting grant-date fair values of our PSOs granted during the
United States
Foreign
Total
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
(152.3) $
(482.2) $
(54.9)
17.2
(207.2) $
(465.0) $
(56.1)
(175.7)
(231.8)
Volatility
Expected term (in years)
Dividend yield
Risk-free interest rate
Grant-date fair value per share
year ended July 31, 2021:
Volatility
Dividend yield
Risk-free interest rate
Weighted-average grant-date fair value per share
$
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Number of shares
11.3
8.8
(14.6)
(2.2)
1.2
0.1
4.6
36.0% - 41.1%
1.4 - 3.0
— %
0.2% - 2.0%
$411.49 - $782.13
Year Ended July 31, 2021
35.9 %
— %
0.6 %
82.12
The following table summarizes our provision for income taxes (in millions):
Federal:
Current
Deferred
State:
Current
Deferred
Foreign:
Current
Deferred
Total
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
2.6
$
3.3
$
(0.3)
(5.9)
1.5
0.1
58.8
(2.9)
1.7
0.1
41.3
(6.6)
$
59.8 $
33.9 $
3.8
(1.3)
1.3
0.1
39.2
(7.9)
35.2
For the year ended July 31, 2022, our provision for income taxes increased compared to the year ended July 31, 2021, primarily
due to foreign income and withholding taxes.
For the year ended July 31, 2021, our provision for income taxes decreased slightly compared to the year ended July 31, 2020,
primarily due to tax benefits from changes in our valuation allowances.
The following table presents the items accounting for the difference between income taxes computed at the federal statutory
income tax rate and our provision for income taxes:
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals and reserves
Deferred revenue
Net operating loss carryforwards
Tax credits
Share-based compensation
Fixed assets and intangible assets
Interest carryforward
Gross deferred tax assets
Valuation allowance
Total deferred tax assets
Deferred tax liabilities:
Deferred contract costs
Other deferred tax liabilities
Total deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax assets
July 31,
2022
2021
$
227.1
$
475.5
759.1
317.4
59.2
1,742.6
55.8
3,636.7
(3,414.1)
222.6
(183.6)
(27.8)
(211.4)
$
11.2
$
125.0
364.9
556.7
230.8
53.9
1,789.6
19.2
3,140.1
(2,933.3)
206.8
(165.4)
(32.3)
(197.7)
9.1
Federal statutory rate
Effect of:
State taxes, net of federal tax benefit
Effects of non-U.S. operations
Change in valuation allowance
Share-based compensation
Tax credits
Non-deductible expenses
Other, net
Total
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
21.0 %
21.0 %
21.0 %
2.7
(16.5)
(158.7)
83.6
41.5
(2.5)
—
1.3
(3.1)
(40.7)
5.0
9.9
(1.3)
0.6
3.0
667.5
(714.1)
(5.1)
17.9
(3.9)
(1.5)
(28.9) %
(7.3) %
(15.2) %
expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the year ending July 31, 2026. The state credit will carry forward indefinitely.
In fiscal 2020, we transferred certain intellectual property rights to a wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary, primarily to
align our legal structure to our evolving operations. The tax benefit from an increase in the tax basis of intellectual property rights
resulted in an increase in effects of non-U.S. operations and was fully offset by a full valuation.
The following table presents the components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as of July 31, 2022 and 2021 (in millions):
A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that the deferred tax asset will not be realized. Realization of
deferred tax assets is dependent upon future taxable income, if any, the amount and timing of which are uncertain. At such time, if it is
determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets are realizable, the valuation allowance will be adjusted. As of
July 31, 2022, we have provided a valuation allowance for our federal, state, United Kingdom and certain other foreign deferred tax
assets that we believe will, more likely than not, be unrealizable. The net valuation allowance increased by $0.5 billion from the year
ended July 31, 2021 to the year ended July 31, 2022, primarily due to an increase in our NOL carryforwards and deferred revenue as a
result of current year operations.
As of July 31, 2022, we had federal, state, and foreign NOL carryforwards of approximately $2.0 billion, $1.0 billion, and
$1.8 billion, respectively, as reported on our tax returns, available to reduce future taxable income, if any. If not utilized, our federal
and state NOL carryforwards will expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the years ending July 31, 2033 and July 31,
2023, respectively. Our foreign NOL will carry forward indefinitely.
As of July 31, 2022, we had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately
$243.8 million and $197.4 million, respectively, as reported on our tax returns. If not utilized, the federal credit carryforwards will
As of July 31, 2022, we had foreign tax credit carryforwards of $3.5 million as reported on our tax returns. If not utilized, the
foreign tax credit carryforwards will expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the year ending July 31, 2023.
Utilization of the NOL carryforwards and credits may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the ownership change
limitations provided by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and similar state provisions. The annual limitation may result
in the expiration of NOLs and credits before utilization.
As of July 31, 2022, we had $414.0 million of unrecognized tax benefits, $76.1 million of which would affect income tax
expense if recognized, after consideration of our valuation allowance in the United States and other assets. As of July 31, 2021, we had
$372.9 million of unrecognized tax benefits, $68.7 million of which would affect income tax expense if recognized, after
consideration of our valuation allowance in the United States and other assets. We do not expect the amount of unrecognized tax
benefits as of July 31, 2022 to materially change over the next 12 months.
We file federal, state, and foreign income tax returns in jurisdictions with varying statutes of limitations. Generally, all years
remain subject to adjustment due to our NOL and credit carryforwards. We currently have ongoing tax audits in various jurisdictions
and at various times. The primary focus of these audits is, generally, profit allocation. The ultimate amount and timing of any future
settlements cannot be predicted with reasonable certainty.
We recognize both interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax expense. During
the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, we recognized income tax expense related to interest and penalties of $5.2 million,
$3.5 million, and $1.6 million, respectively. We had accrued interest and penalties on our consolidated balance sheets related to
unrecognized tax benefits of $20.9 million and $15.7 million as of July 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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The following table summarizes our provision for income taxes (in millions):
Federal:
State:
Current
Deferred
Current
Deferred
Current
Deferred
Foreign:
Total
Federal statutory rate
Effect of:
State taxes, net of federal tax benefit
Effects of non-U.S. operations
Change in valuation allowance
Share-based compensation
Tax credits
Non-deductible expenses
Other, net
Total
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
2.6
$
3.3
$
(0.3)
(5.9)
1.5
0.1
58.8
(2.9)
1.7
0.1
41.3
(6.6)
$
59.8 $
33.9 $
3.8
(1.3)
1.3
0.1
39.2
(7.9)
35.2
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
21.0 %
21.0 %
21.0 %
2.7
(16.5)
(158.7)
83.6
41.5
(2.5)
—
1.3
(3.1)
(40.7)
5.0
9.9
(1.3)
0.6
3.0
667.5
(714.1)
(5.1)
17.9
(3.9)
(1.5)
(28.9) %
(7.3) %
(15.2) %
For the year ended July 31, 2022, our provision for income taxes increased compared to the year ended July 31, 2021, primarily
due to foreign income and withholding taxes.
For the year ended July 31, 2021, our provision for income taxes decreased slightly compared to the year ended July 31, 2020,
primarily due to tax benefits from changes in our valuation allowances.
The following table presents the items accounting for the difference between income taxes computed at the federal statutory
income tax rate and our provision for income taxes:
In fiscal 2020, we transferred certain intellectual property rights to a wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary, primarily to
align our legal structure to our evolving operations. The tax benefit from an increase in the tax basis of intellectual property rights
resulted in an increase in effects of non-U.S. operations and was fully offset by a full valuation.
The following table presents the components of our deferred tax assets and liabilities as of July 31, 2022 and 2021 (in millions):
Deferred tax assets:
Accruals and reserves
Deferred revenue
Net operating loss carryforwards
Tax credits
Share-based compensation
Fixed assets and intangible assets
Interest carryforward
Gross deferred tax assets
Valuation allowance
Total deferred tax assets
Deferred tax liabilities:
Deferred contract costs
Other deferred tax liabilities
Total deferred tax liabilities
Net deferred tax assets
July 31,
2022
2021
$
227.1
$
475.5
759.1
317.4
59.2
1,742.6
55.8
3,636.7
(3,414.1)
222.6
(183.6)
(27.8)
(211.4)
$
11.2
$
125.0
364.9
556.7
230.8
53.9
1,789.6
19.2
3,140.1
(2,933.3)
206.8
(165.4)
(32.3)
(197.7)
9.1
A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that the deferred tax asset will not be realized. Realization of
deferred tax assets is dependent upon future taxable income, if any, the amount and timing of which are uncertain. At such time, if it is
determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets are realizable, the valuation allowance will be adjusted. As of
July 31, 2022, we have provided a valuation allowance for our federal, state, United Kingdom and certain other foreign deferred tax
assets that we believe will, more likely than not, be unrealizable. The net valuation allowance increased by $0.5 billion from the year
ended July 31, 2021 to the year ended July 31, 2022, primarily due to an increase in our NOL carryforwards and deferred revenue as a
result of current year operations.
As of July 31, 2022, we had federal, state, and foreign NOL carryforwards of approximately $2.0 billion, $1.0 billion, and
$1.8 billion, respectively, as reported on our tax returns, available to reduce future taxable income, if any. If not utilized, our federal
and state NOL carryforwards will expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the years ending July 31, 2033 and July 31,
2023, respectively. Our foreign NOL will carry forward indefinitely.
As of July 31, 2022, we had federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately
$243.8 million and $197.4 million, respectively, as reported on our tax returns. If not utilized, the federal credit carryforwards will
expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the year ending July 31, 2026. The state credit will carry forward indefinitely.
As of July 31, 2022, we had foreign tax credit carryforwards of $3.5 million as reported on our tax returns. If not utilized, the
foreign tax credit carryforwards will expire in various amounts at various dates beginning in the year ending July 31, 2023.
Utilization of the NOL carryforwards and credits may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the ownership change
limitations provided by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and similar state provisions. The annual limitation may result
in the expiration of NOLs and credits before utilization.
As of July 31, 2022, we had $414.0 million of unrecognized tax benefits, $76.1 million of which would affect income tax
expense if recognized, after consideration of our valuation allowance in the United States and other assets. As of July 31, 2021, we had
$372.9 million of unrecognized tax benefits, $68.7 million of which would affect income tax expense if recognized, after
consideration of our valuation allowance in the United States and other assets. We do not expect the amount of unrecognized tax
benefits as of July 31, 2022 to materially change over the next 12 months.
We file federal, state, and foreign income tax returns in jurisdictions with varying statutes of limitations. Generally, all years
remain subject to adjustment due to our NOL and credit carryforwards. We currently have ongoing tax audits in various jurisdictions
and at various times. The primary focus of these audits is, generally, profit allocation. The ultimate amount and timing of any future
settlements cannot be predicted with reasonable certainty.
We recognize both interest and penalties associated with uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax expense. During
the years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020, we recognized income tax expense related to interest and penalties of $5.2 million,
$3.5 million, and $1.6 million, respectively. We had accrued interest and penalties on our consolidated balance sheets related to
unrecognized tax benefits of $20.9 million and $15.7 million as of July 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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The following table presents a reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of our gross unrecognized tax benefits (in
millions):
18. Segment Information
Unrecognized tax benefits at the beginning of the period
Additions for tax positions taken in prior years
Reductions for tax positions taken in prior years
Additions for tax positions taken in the current year
Unrecognized tax benefits at the end of the period
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
372.9 $
3.5
(7.4)
45.0
414.0 $
326.4 $
26.5
(2.5)
22.5
372.9 $
314.5
3.2
(1.6)
10.3
326.4
We conduct business globally and sales are primarily managed on a geographic theater basis. Our chief operating decision
maker reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis accompanied by information about revenue by geographic
region for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. We have one business activity and there are no
segment managers who are held accountable for operations, operating results, and plans for levels, components, or types of products
or services below the consolidated unit level. Accordingly, we are considered to be in a single reportable segment and operating unit
structure.
The following table presents our long-lived assets, which consist of property and equipment, net and operating lease right-of-
use assets, by geographic region (in millions):
Long-lived assets:
United States
Israel
Other countries
Total long-lived assets
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
$
$
446.1
$
55.4
98.3
599.8
$
461.1
61.9
58.3
581.3
Refer to Note 2. Revenue for revenue by geographic theater and revenue for groups of similar products and services for the
years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
During the year ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, our additions for tax positions taken in the given year were primarily
attributable to uncertain tax positions related to tax credits.
During the year ended July 31, 2020, our additions for tax positions taken in the given year were primarily attributable to
intercompany transactions.
As of July 31, 2022, we had no unremitted earnings when evaluating our outside basis difference relating to our U.S.
investment in foreign subsidiaries. However, there could be local withholding taxes payable due to various foreign countries if certain
lower tier earnings are distributed. Withholding taxes that would be payable upon remittance of these lower tier earnings are not
material.
16. Net Loss Per Share
Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by basic weighted-average shares outstanding during the period.
Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by diluted weighted-average shares outstanding, including potentially
dilutive securities.
The following table presents the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share of common stock (in millions, except per
share data):
Net loss
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
98.5
96.4
(2.71) $
(5.18) $
(267.0)
96.9
(2.76)
The following securities were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share of common stock for the periods
presented as their effect would have been antidilutive (in millions):
Convertible senior notes
Warrants related to the issuance of convertible senior notes
RSUs and PSUs
Options to purchase common stock, including PSOs
RSAs and PSAs
ESPP shares
Total
17. Other Income, Net
The following table sets forth the components of other income, net (in millions):
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
13.1
13.1
5.9
2.7
0.1
0.2
35.1
13.1
13.1
8.2
2.9
0.3
0.3
37.9
13.1
13.1
7.2
2.9
0.1
0.3
36.7
Interest income
Foreign currency exchange gains (losses), net
Other
Total other income, net
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
15.6 $
1.8
(8.4)
$
8.5
(5.4)
(0.7)
9.0 $
2.4
$
41.4
(6.7)
1.2
35.9
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The following table presents a reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of our gross unrecognized tax benefits (in
18. Segment Information
millions):
Unrecognized tax benefits at the beginning of the period
$
372.9 $
326.4 $
314.5
Additions for tax positions taken in prior years
Reductions for tax positions taken in prior years
Additions for tax positions taken in the current year
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
3.5
(7.4)
45.0
26.5
(2.5)
22.5
3.2
(1.6)
10.3
We conduct business globally and sales are primarily managed on a geographic theater basis. Our chief operating decision
maker reviews financial information presented on a consolidated basis accompanied by information about revenue by geographic
region for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. We have one business activity and there are no
segment managers who are held accountable for operations, operating results, and plans for levels, components, or types of products
or services below the consolidated unit level. Accordingly, we are considered to be in a single reportable segment and operating unit
structure.
The following table presents our long-lived assets, which consist of property and equipment, net and operating lease right-of-
Unrecognized tax benefits at the end of the period
$
414.0 $
372.9 $
326.4
use assets, by geographic region (in millions):
During the year ended July 31, 2022 and 2021, our additions for tax positions taken in the given year were primarily
attributable to uncertain tax positions related to tax credits.
During the year ended July 31, 2020, our additions for tax positions taken in the given year were primarily attributable to
As of July 31, 2022, we had no unremitted earnings when evaluating our outside basis difference relating to our U.S.
investment in foreign subsidiaries. However, there could be local withholding taxes payable due to various foreign countries if certain
lower tier earnings are distributed. Withholding taxes that would be payable upon remittance of these lower tier earnings are not
Long-lived assets:
United States
Israel
Other countries
Total long-lived assets
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
$
$
446.1
$
55.4
98.3
599.8
$
461.1
61.9
58.3
581.3
Refer to Note 2. Revenue for revenue by geographic theater and revenue for groups of similar products and services for the
years ended July 31, 2022, 2021, and 2020.
intercompany transactions.
material.
16. Net Loss Per Share
dilutive securities.
share data):
Net loss
Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by basic weighted-average shares outstanding during the period.
Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss by diluted weighted-average shares outstanding, including potentially
The following table presents the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share of common stock (in millions, except per
Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per share, basic and diluted
98.5
96.4
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
(2.71) $
(5.18) $
The following securities were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share of common stock for the periods
presented as their effect would have been antidilutive (in millions):
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
(267.0) $
(498.9) $
(267.0)
$
$
96.9
(2.76)
13.1
13.1
7.2
2.9
0.1
0.3
36.7
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
13.1
13.1
5.9
2.7
0.1
0.2
35.1
13.1
13.1
8.2
2.9
0.3
0.3
37.9
Year Ended July 31,
2022
2021
2020
$
$
15.6 $
8.5
$
1.8
(8.4)
(5.4)
(0.7)
9.0 $
2.4
$
41.4
(6.7)
1.2
35.9
Convertible senior notes
Warrants related to the issuance of convertible senior notes
Options to purchase common stock, including PSOs
RSUs and PSUs
RSAs and PSAs
ESPP shares
Total
17. Other Income, Net
Interest income
Foreign currency exchange gains (losses), net
Other
Total other income, net
The following table sets forth the components of other income, net (in millions):
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19. Subsequent Events
Share Repurchase
On August 19, 2022, our board of directors authorized a $915.0 million increase to our share repurchase program under the
current authorization, bringing the total remaining authorization for future share repurchases to $1.0 billion. Repurchases may be made
at management’s discretion from time to time on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured
through investment banking institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a combination of the foregoing. The
repurchase authorization will expire on December 31, 2023, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice.
Stock Split Effected in the Form of a Stock Dividend (“Stock Split”)
DISCLOSURE
Not applicable.
ITEM 9A.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
ITEM 9.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
On August 22, 2022, we announced that our board of directors had approved a three-for-one stock split of our outstanding
procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control
shares of common stock to be effected in the form of a stock dividend. Each stockholder of record at the close of business on
September 6, 2022 (the “record date”), will receive, after the close of business on September 13, 2022, two additional shares for every
share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on September 14, 2022.
Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of
our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”). In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and
objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and
that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of July 31, 2022, our
disclosure controls and procedures are designed at a reasonable assurance level and are effective to provide reasonable assurance that
information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized,
and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such
information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as
appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in
Rules 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as
of July 31, 2022, based on the framework set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(“COSO”) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013 framework). Based on that assessment, management concluded that, as of
July 31, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022 has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP,
the independent registered public accounting firm that audits our consolidated financial statements, as stated in their report which is
included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by
Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended July 31, 2022 that have materially affected,
or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
ITEM 9B.
OTHER INFORMATION
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
ITEM 9C.
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS
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19. Subsequent Events
Share Repurchase
ITEM 9.
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE
On August 19, 2022, our board of directors authorized a $915.0 million increase to our share repurchase program under the
Not applicable.
current authorization, bringing the total remaining authorization for future share repurchases to $1.0 billion. Repurchases may be made
ITEM 9A.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
at management’s discretion from time to time on the open market, through privately negotiated transactions, transactions structured
through investment banking institutions, block purchase techniques, 10b5-1 trading plans, or a combination of the foregoing. The
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
repurchase authorization will expire on December 31, 2023, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time without prior notice.
Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of
Stock Split Effected in the Form of a Stock Dividend (“Stock Split”)
On August 22, 2022, we announced that our board of directors had approved a three-for-one stock split of our outstanding
shares of common stock to be effected in the form of a stock dividend. Each stockholder of record at the close of business on
September 6, 2022 (the “record date”), will receive, after the close of business on September 13, 2022, two additional shares for every
share held on the record date, and trading will begin on a split-adjusted basis on September 14, 2022.
our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”). In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and
procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control
objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and
that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.
Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of July 31, 2022, our
disclosure controls and procedures are designed at a reasonable assurance level and are effective to provide reasonable assurance that
information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized,
and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and forms, and that such
information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as
appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in
Rules 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act. Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as
of July 31, 2022, based on the framework set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(“COSO”) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013 framework). Based on that assessment, management concluded that, as of
July 31, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.
The effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of July 31, 2022 has been audited by Ernst & Young LLP,
the independent registered public accounting firm that audits our consolidated financial statements, as stated in their report which is
included in Part II, Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by
Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the quarter ended July 31, 2022 that have materially affected,
or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
ITEM 9B.
OTHER INFORMATION
Not applicable.
ITEM 9C.
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS
Not applicable.
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ITEM 10.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
The information required by this item will be contained in our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the SEC in connection
Documents filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K are as follows:
PART III
PART IV
with our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”), which is expected to be filed not later than 120 days after the
end of our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, and is incorporated in this report by reference.
ITEM 11.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 12.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
1.
Consolidated Financial Statements
of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
2.
Financial Statement Schedules
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Statements or the notes thereto.
ITEM 13.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
3.
Exhibits
Our Consolidated Financial Statements are listed in the “Index to Consolidated Financial Statements” under Part II, Item 8
Financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not required, not applicable, not present in amounts
sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or the required information is shown in the Consolidated Financial
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
The following documents are incorporated by reference or are filed with this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in each case
ITEM 14.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
as indicated therein (numbered in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K).
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
EXHIBIT INDEX
Form of Global 0.75% Convertible Senior Note due
8-K
001-35594
July 13, 2018
Form of Global 0.375% Convertible Senior Note due
8-K
001-35594
June 8, 2020
3.1
3.2
3.3
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
10.2*
10.3*
10.4*
10.5*
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant.
Certificate of Change of Location of Registered Agent
and/or Registered Office.
Indenture between the Registrant and U.S. Bank
National Association, dated as of July 12, 2018.
Indenture between the Registrant and U.S. Bank
National Association, dated as of June 8, 2020.
2023 (included in Exhibit 4.1).
2023 (included in Exhibit 4.1).
Description of Registrant’s Securities.
Registrant and its directors and officers.
2012 Equity Incentive Plan and related form
agreements.
Form of 2012 Equity Incentive Plan Performance-Based
Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement
2021 Equity Incentive Plan
Form of 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Global Stock
Option Award Agreement
Stock Unit Award Agreement
10.7*
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and
restated, and related form agreements.
10.8*
RedLock Inc. 2015 Stock Plan, as amended, and related
form agreements under RedLock Inc. 2015 Stock Plan,
as amended.
Form
10-K
8-K
8-K
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
October 4, 2012
May 23, 2022
August 30, 2016
8-K
001-35594
July 13, 2018
8-K
001-35594
June 8, 2020
3.1
3.1
3.1
4.1
4.1
4.2
4.2
10-Q
10-Q
S-8
S-8
001-35594
001-35594
333-261697
333-261697
10.2
10.4
99.1
99.2
November 26, 2019
November 19, 2021
December 16, 2021
December 16, 2021
S-8
333-227901
99.1
October 19, 2018
10.6*
Form of 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Global Restricted
S-8
333-261697
99.3
December 16, 2021
10.1*
Form of Indemnification Agreement between the
S-1/A
333-180620
10.1
July 9, 2012
10.9*
Demisto, Inc. 2015 Stock Option Plan, as amended.
S-8
333-230663
99.1
April 1, 2019
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ITEM 10.
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
ITEM 15.
EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
The information required by this item will be contained in our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the SEC in connection
Documents filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K are as follows:
with our 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”), which is expected to be filed not later than 120 days after the
end of our fiscal year ended July 31, 2022, and is incorporated in this report by reference.
1.
Consolidated Financial Statements
PART III
PART IV
ITEM 11.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 12.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED
STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
Our Consolidated Financial Statements are listed in the “Index to Consolidated Financial Statements” under Part II, Item 8
of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
2.
Financial Statement Schedules
Financial statement schedules have been omitted because they are not required, not applicable, not present in amounts
sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or the required information is shown in the Consolidated Financial
Statements or the notes thereto.
ITEM 13.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
3.
Exhibits
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 14.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information required by this item will be set forth in the Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.
The following documents are incorporated by reference or are filed with this Annual Report on Form 10-K, in each case
as indicated therein (numbered in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K).
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
3.1
3.2
3.3
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
10.1*
10.2*
10.3*
10.4*
10.5*
10.6*
10.7*
10.8*
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant.
Certificate of Change of Location of Registered Agent
and/or Registered Office.
Indenture between the Registrant and U.S. Bank
National Association, dated as of July 12, 2018.
Indenture between the Registrant and U.S. Bank
National Association, dated as of June 8, 2020.
Form of Global 0.75% Convertible Senior Note due
2023 (included in Exhibit 4.1).
Form
10-K
8-K
8-K
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
8-K
001-35594
8-K
001-35594
8-K
001-35594
3.1
3.1
3.1
4.1
4.1
4.2
4.2
October 4, 2012
May 23, 2022
August 30, 2016
July 13, 2018
June 8, 2020
July 13, 2018
June 8, 2020
Form of Global 0.375% Convertible Senior Note due
2023 (included in Exhibit 4.1).
8-K
001-35594
Description of Registrant’s Securities.
Form of Indemnification Agreement between the
Registrant and its directors and officers.
2012 Equity Incentive Plan and related form
agreements.
Form of 2012 Equity Incentive Plan Performance-Based
Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement
2021 Equity Incentive Plan
Form of 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Global Stock
Option Award Agreement
Form of 2021 Equity Incentive Plan Global Restricted
Stock Unit Award Agreement
2012 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and
restated, and related form agreements.
RedLock Inc. 2015 Stock Plan, as amended, and related
form agreements under RedLock Inc. 2015 Stock Plan,
as amended.
S-1/A
333-180620
10.1
July 9, 2012
10-Q
10-Q
S-8
S-8
001-35594
001-35594
333-261697
333-261697
10.2
10.4
99.1
99.2
November 26, 2019
November 19, 2021
December 16, 2021
December 16, 2021
S-8
333-261697
99.3
December 16, 2021
S-8
333-227901
99.1
October 19, 2018
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10.9*
Demisto, Inc. 2015 Stock Option Plan, as amended.
S-8
333-230663
99.1
April 1, 2019
Exhibit
Number
10.10*
10.11*
10.12*
Exhibit Description
Twistlock Ltd. Amended and Restated 2015 Share
Option Plan.
Zingbox, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and
restated.
Form
S-8
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
333-232672
99.1
July 16, 2019
S-8
333-234059
99.1
October 2, 2019
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Form
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Incorporated by Reference
10.34*
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 19, 2021
the Registrant and Amit Singh, dated October 19, 2021.
10.35*
Second Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and
10-Q
001-35594
10.5
February 23, 2022
Aporeto, Inc. Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Option
and Grant Plan.
S-8
333-235854
99.1
January 8, 2020
between the Registrant and Amit Singh, dated
January 28, 2022.
10.36*
Form of Offer Letter between the Registrant and its
10-K
001-35594
10.27
September 3, 2021
10.13*
CloudGenix Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
10.14*
Crypsis Group Holdings, LLC 2017 Equity Incentive
Plan.
10.15*
Sinefa Group, Inc. 2020 Stock Plan.
10.16*
10.17*
Expanse Holding Company, Inc. Amended and Restated
2012 Stock Incentive Plan.
Gamma Networks, Inc. 2018 Stock Option and Grant
Plan
S-8
S-8
S-8
S-8
333-238014
333-249387
333-251423
333-251425
99.1
99.1
99.1
99.1
May 5, 2020
directors.
October 8, 2020
10.37**
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
May 30, 2019
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
10.38
Vendor Information Security Terms between the
10-K
001-35594
10.29
September 3, 2021
S-8
333-259327
99.1
September 3, 2021
8-K
001-35594
10.1
May 28, 2014
10.18*
Bridgecrew, Inc. 2019 Stock Incentive Plan.
S-8
333-254042
10.19*
Employee Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended
and restated.
10-Q
001-35594
10.20*
Clawback Policy, adopted as of August 29, 2017.
10.21*
Amended and Restated Outside Director Compensation
Policy (last amended February 16, 2022)
10-Q
10-Q
001-35594
001-35594
99.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
March 9, 2021
November 25, 2014
November 21, 2017
February 23, 2022
10.22*
Continued Service Policy
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
May 20, 2022
10.23*
10.24*
10.25*
10.26*
10.27*
10.28*
10.29*
10.30*
10.31*
10.32*
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan
effective June 1, 2022
New Offer Letter between the Registrant and Mark D.
McLaughlin, dated May 31, 2018.
Employment Agreement between Palo Alto Networks
(Israel Analytics) Ltd. and Nir Zuk, dated August 18,
2020.
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Nikesh Arora,
dated May 30, 2018.
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Josh Paul, dated
August 5, 2021.
Confirmatory Employment Letter with Updated Change
in Control Protection between the Registrant and Lee
Klarich, dated December 19, 2011.
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
the Registrant and Dipak Golechha, dated March 17,
2021.
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
the Registrant and Dipak Golechha, dated February 18,
2022.
Employment Offer Letter by and between the Registrant
and William “BJ” Jenkins, dated July 27, 2021.
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter between the
Registrant and William “BJ” Jenkins dated February 18,
2022.
8-K
001-35594
10.1
June 4, 2018
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
November 19, 2020
8-K
001-35594
10.1
June 4, 2018
10.47
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
10-K
001-35594
10.30
September 17, 2015
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
10-K
001-35594
10.29
September 17, 2015
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
8-K
001-35594
10.1
September 8, 2021
10.48
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
10-K
001-35594
10.31
September 17, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.4
November 30, 2018
8-K
001-35594
10.1
March 19, 2021
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
May 20, 2022
8-K
001-35594
10.1
August 12, 2021
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
May 20, 2022
10.40
Purchase Agreement, dated July 10, 2018, by and among
8-K
001-35594
10.1
July 13, 2018
Amended and Restated Flextronics Manufacturing
Services Agreement, by and between the Registrant and
Flextronics Telecom Systems Ltd., dated April 1, 2019.
Registrant and Flextronics Telecom Systems Ltd. dated
July 23, 2021
10.39
Settlement, Release and Cross-License Agreement,
dated May 27, 2014, by and between the Registrant and
Juniper Networks, Inc.
the Registrant and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the
several Initial Purchasers named therein.
Form of Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation.
Form of Warrant Confirmation.
Purchase Agreement, dated June 3, 2020, by and among
the Registrant and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the
several Initial Purchasers named therein.
Form of Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation.
Form of Warrant Confirmation.
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
Lease by and between the Registrant and Santa Clara
Campus Property Owner I LLC, dated October 7, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase I Property LLC, dated
November 9, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 9, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
10.41
10.42
10.43
10.44
10.45
10.46
10.49
10.50
10.51
10.52
10.53
8-K
8-K
8-K
8-K
8-K
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
10.2
10.3
10.1
10.2
10.3
July 13, 2018
July 13, 2018
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
8-K/A
001-35594
10.1
October 19, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 24, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
November 24, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
November 22, 2016
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 22, 2016
10.33*
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Amit K. Singh,
dated October 11, 2018.
8-K
001-35594
10.1
October 15, 2018
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- 104 -
Option Plan.
restated.
and Grant Plan.
Plan.
Plan
and restated.
Form
S-8
S-8
S-8
S-8
S-8
333-238014
333-249387
333-251423
333-251425
99.1
99.1
99.1
99.1
99.1
10.2
10.3
10.4
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
10.10*
Twistlock Ltd. Amended and Restated 2015 Share
333-232672
99.1
July 16, 2019
10.11*
Zingbox, Inc. Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and
S-8
333-234059
99.1
October 2, 2019
10.12*
Aporeto, Inc. Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Option
S-8
333-235854
99.1
January 8, 2020
Exhibit
Number
10.34*
10.35*
Exhibit Description
Form
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Incorporated by Reference
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
the Registrant and Amit Singh, dated October 19, 2021.
Second Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and
between the Registrant and Amit Singh, dated
January 28, 2022.
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 19, 2021
10-Q
001-35594
10.5
February 23, 2022
10.13*
CloudGenix Inc. 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
May 5, 2020
10.36*
Form of Offer Letter between the Registrant and its
directors.
10-K
001-35594
10.27
September 3, 2021
10.14*
Crypsis Group Holdings, LLC 2017 Equity Incentive
October 8, 2020
10.37**
10.15*
Sinefa Group, Inc. 2020 Stock Plan.
10.16*
Expanse Holding Company, Inc. Amended and Restated
2012 Stock Incentive Plan.
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
10.17*
Gamma Networks, Inc. 2018 Stock Option and Grant
S-8
333-259327
99.1
September 3, 2021
10.18*
Bridgecrew, Inc. 2019 Stock Incentive Plan.
S-8
333-254042
March 9, 2021
10.19*
Employee Incentive Compensation Plan, as amended
10-Q
001-35594
November 25, 2014
10.20*
Clawback Policy, adopted as of August 29, 2017.
10.21*
Amended and Restated Outside Director Compensation
Policy (last amended February 16, 2022)
10-Q
10-Q
001-35594
001-35594
November 21, 2017
February 23, 2022
10.22*
Continued Service Policy
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
May 20, 2022
10.23*
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan
effective June 1, 2022
10.24*
New Offer Letter between the Registrant and Mark D.
8-K
001-35594
10.1
June 4, 2018
McLaughlin, dated May 31, 2018.
10.25*
Employment Agreement between Palo Alto Networks
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
November 19, 2020
(Israel Analytics) Ltd. and Nir Zuk, dated August 18,
2020.
dated May 30, 2018.
August 5, 2021.
10.26*
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Nikesh Arora,
8-K
001-35594
10.1
June 4, 2018
10.27*
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Josh Paul, dated
8-K
001-35594
10.1
September 8, 2021
10.28*
Confirmatory Employment Letter with Updated Change
10-Q
001-35594
10.4
November 30, 2018
in Control Protection between the Registrant and Lee
Klarich, dated December 19, 2011.
10.29*
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
the Registrant and Dipak Golechha, dated March 17,
8-K
001-35594
10.1
March 19, 2021
2021.
2022.
2022.
10.30*
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter by and between
the Registrant and Dipak Golechha, dated February 18,
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
May 20, 2022
10.31*
Employment Offer Letter by and between the Registrant
8-K
001-35594
10.1
August 12, 2021
and William “BJ” Jenkins, dated July 27, 2021.
10.32*
Addendum to Employment Offer Letter between the
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
May 20, 2022
Registrant and William “BJ” Jenkins dated February 18,
10.33*
Offer Letter between the Registrant and Amit K. Singh,
8-K
001-35594
10.1
October 15, 2018
dated October 11, 2018.
10.38
10.39
10.40
10.41
10.42
10.43
10.44
10.45
10.46
10.47
10.48
10.49
10.50
10.51
10.52
10.53
Amended and Restated Flextronics Manufacturing
Services Agreement, by and between the Registrant and
Flextronics Telecom Systems Ltd., dated April 1, 2019.
Vendor Information Security Terms between the
Registrant and Flextronics Telecom Systems Ltd. dated
July 23, 2021
Settlement, Release and Cross-License Agreement,
dated May 27, 2014, by and between the Registrant and
Juniper Networks, Inc.
Purchase Agreement, dated July 10, 2018, by and among
the Registrant and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the
several Initial Purchasers named therein.
Form of Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation.
Form of Warrant Confirmation.
Purchase Agreement, dated June 3, 2020, by and among
the Registrant and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the
several Initial Purchasers named therein.
Form of Convertible Note Hedge Confirmation.
Form of Warrant Confirmation.
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
Lease between the Registrant and Santa Clara Campus
Property Owner I LLC, dated May 28, 2015.
Lease by and between the Registrant and Santa Clara
Campus Property Owner I LLC, dated October 7, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase I Property LLC, dated
November 9, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 9, 2015.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 1 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
May 30, 2019
10-K
001-35594
10.29
September 3, 2021
8-K
001-35594
10.1
May 28, 2014
8-K
001-35594
10.1
July 13, 2018
8-K
8-K
8-K
8-K
8-K
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
001-35594
10.2
10.3
10.1
10.2
10.3
July 13, 2018
July 13, 2018
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
10-K
001-35594
10.29
September 17, 2015
10-K
001-35594
10.30
September 17, 2015
10-K
001-35594
10.31
September 17, 2015
8-K/A
001-35594
10.1
October 19, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 24, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
November 24, 2015
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
November 22, 2016
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
November 22, 2016
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Exhibit
Number
10.54
10.55
10.56
10.57
10.58
10.59
10.60
10.61
10.62
10.63
10.64
21.1
23.1
24.1
31.1
31.2
32.1†
32.2†
Exhibit Description
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara EFH LLC, dated June 22,
2017.
Form
10-Q
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Form
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Incorporated by Reference
001-35594
10.3
November 22, 2016
101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document.
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
March 1, 2017
101.PRE
XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document.
104
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline
XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
*
**
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
March 1, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
March 1, 2017
and (ii) the omitted information would likely cause harm to the Registrant if publicly disclosed.
Certain portions of this exhibit have been omitted as the Registrant has determined (i) the omitted information is not material
10-K
001-35594
10.40
September 7, 2017
†
The certifications attached as Exhibit 32.1 and Exhibit 32.2 that accompany this Annual Report on Form 10-K, are not
deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the
Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made
before or after the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in
such filing.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara G LLC, dated June 22, 2017.
10-K
001-35594
10.41
September 7, 2017
10-K
001-35594
10.42
September 7, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.5
November 21, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.6
November 21, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.7
November 21, 2017
8-K
001-35594
10.1
September 6, 2018
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara EFH LLC, dated June 22,
2017.
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III EFH LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III G LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Amendment No. 5 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III EFH LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Credit Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2018, by
and among the Registrant, the lenders from time to time
party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as administrative
agent.
List of subsidiaries of the Registrant.
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting
Firm.
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page to
this Annual Report on Form 10-K).
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to
Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to
Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS
XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document.
101.CAL
XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document.
- 105 -
- 106 -
Form
10-Q
Exhibit Description
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated September 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 2 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Campus Property Owner I
LLC, dated November 16, 2016.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara EFH LLC, dated June 22,
Incorporated by Reference
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit Description
Form
File No.
Exhibit
Filing Date
Incorporated by Reference
001-35594
10.3
November 22, 2016
101.DEF
XBRL Taxonomy Definition Linkbase Document.
101.LAB
XBRL Taxonomy Labels Linkbase Document.
10-Q
001-35594
10.1
March 1, 2017
101.PRE
XBRL Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document.
10-Q
001-35594
10.2
March 1, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.3
March 1, 2017
10-K
001-35594
10.40
September 7, 2017
104
*
**
†
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as inline
XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)
Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
Certain portions of this exhibit have been omitted as the Registrant has determined (i) the omitted information is not material
and (ii) the omitted information would likely cause harm to the Registrant if publicly disclosed.
The certifications attached as Exhibit 32.1 and Exhibit 32.2 that accompany this Annual Report on Form 10-K, are not
deemed filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the
Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, whether made
before or after the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, irrespective of any general incorporation language contained in
such filing.
2017.
2017.
Amendment No. 3 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara G LLC, dated June 22, 2017.
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara EFH LLC, dated June 22,
10-K
001-35594
10.41
September 7, 2017
10-K
001-35594
10.42
September 7, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.5
November 21, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.6
November 21, 2017
10-Q
001-35594
10.7
November 21, 2017
8-K
001-35594
10.1
September 6, 2018
Exhibit
Number
10.54
10.55
10.56
10.57
10.58
10.59
10.60
10.61
10.62
10.63
10.64
21.1
23.1
24.1
31.1
31.2
32.1†
32.2†
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III EFH LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Amendment No. 4 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III G LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Amendment No. 5 to Lease by and between the
Registrant and Santa Clara Phase III EFH LLC, dated
September 29, 2017.
Credit Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2018, by
and among the Registrant, the lenders from time to time
party thereto and Citibank, N.A., as administrative
List of subsidiaries of the Registrant.
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting
agent.
Firm.
Power of Attorney (contained in the signature page to
this Annual Report on Form 10-K).
Certification of the Chief Executive Officer pursuant to
Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to
Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18
U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906
of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.INS
XBRL Instance Document.
101.SCH
XBRL Taxonomy Schema Linkbase Document.
101.CAL
XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on September 6, 2022.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
By:
/s/ NIKESH ARORA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL THESE PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints Nikesh Arora, Dipak Golechha, and Josh Paul, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection
therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their, his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following
persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature
Title
Date
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
September 6, 2022
Chief Financial Officer (Duly Authorized
Officer and Principal Financial Officer)
September 6, 2022
Chief Accounting Officer (Duly Authorized
Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
September 6, 2022
Vice Chairman and Director
September 6, 2022
Chief Technology Officer and Director
September 6, 2022
/s/ NIKESH ARORA
Nikesh Arora
/s/ DIPAK GOLECHHA
Dipak Golechha
/s/ JOSH PAUL
Josh Paul
/s/ MARK D. MCLAUGHLIN
Mark D. McLaughlin
/s/ NIR ZUK
Nir Zuk
/s/ APARNA BAWA
Aparna Bawa
/s/ ASHEEM CHANDNA
Asheem Chandna
/s/ JOHN M. DONOVAN
John M. Donovan
/s/ CARL ESCHENBACH
Carl Eschenbach
/s/ DR. HELENE D. GAYLE
Dr. Helene D. Gayle
/s/ JAMES J. GOETZ
James J. Goetz
/s/ RT HON SIR JOHN KEY
Rt Hon Sir John Key
/s/ MARY PAT MCCARTHY
Mary Pat McCarthy
/s/ LORRAINE TWOHILL
Lorraine Twohill
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on September 6, 2022.
PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
By:
/s/ NIKESH ARORA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL THESE PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and
appoints Nikesh Arora, Dipak Golechha, and Josh Paul, and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign
any and all amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of
them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection
therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their, his or her substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following
persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ NIKESH ARORA
Nikesh Arora
/s/ DIPAK GOLECHHA
Dipak Golechha
/s/ JOSH PAUL
Josh Paul
/s/ MARK D. MCLAUGHLIN
Mark D. McLaughlin
/s/ NIR ZUK
Nir Zuk
/s/ APARNA BAWA
Aparna Bawa
/s/ ASHEEM CHANDNA
Asheem Chandna
/s/ JOHN M. DONOVAN
John M. Donovan
/s/ CARL ESCHENBACH
Carl Eschenbach
/s/ DR. HELENE D. GAYLE
Dr. Helene D. Gayle
/s/ JAMES J. GOETZ
James J. Goetz
/s/ RT HON SIR JOHN KEY
Rt Hon Sir John Key
/s/ MARY PAT MCCARTHY
Mary Pat McCarthy
/s/ LORRAINE TWOHILL
Lorraine Twohill
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
Director (Principal Executive Officer)
September 6, 2022
Chief Financial Officer (Duly Authorized
Officer and Principal Financial Officer)
September 6, 2022
Chief Accounting Officer (Duly Authorized
Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
September 6, 2022
Vice Chairman and Director
September 6, 2022
Chief Technology Officer and Director
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
September 6, 2022
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
Director
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer and
Chair of the Board of Directors
Mark D. McLaughlin
Vice Chair of the Board of Directors
Nir Zuk
Chief Technology Officer and Director
Aparna Bawa
Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Legal Officer,
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
Asheem Chandna
Partner, Greylock Partners
John M. Donovan
Former Chief Executive Officer—AT&T Communications
Carl Eschenbach
General Partner, Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC
Dr. Helene D. Gayle
President, Spelman College
James J. Goetz
Managing Member, Sequoia Capital
Rt Hon Sir John Key
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Mary Pat McCarthy
Former Vice Chair, KPMG LLP
Lorraine Twohill
Chief Marketing Officer, Google
CORPORATE EXECUTIVES
Nikesh Arora
Chief Executive Officer and
Chair of the Board of Directors
Dipak Golechha
Chief Financial Officer
BJ Jenkins
President
Lee Klarich
Chief Product Officer
Nir Zuk
Chief Technology Officer and Director
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
3000 Tannery Way
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F: (408) 753-4001
www.paloaltonetworks.com
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For questions regarding your account, changes of
address or the consolidation of accounts, please
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Foreign Stockholders: (781) 575-2879
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