Cramer's Morning Take: Palo Alto 5/21/24
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club |
| 0:06.3 | morning meeting. |
| 0:06.9 | Let's jump to Palo Alto next. |
| 0:10.2 | So the company reported last night, it was very in line. |
| 0:14.2 | I think it was just a very in line quarter. |
| 0:16.4 | Billings up 3.4% missed estimates by $5 million. |
| 0:19.6 | That's an end. That's with a B. |
| 0:21.6 | Not a B. |
| 0:22.6 | Earnings beat by seven cents. They bought back a 1.7 million shares for 500 million. |
| 0:27.6 | Q4 guidance in line though, but I would think that the tone of this call was much different from what we heard in the past couple of calls. |
| 0:34.6 | Yes. |
| 0:35.6 | Where this was more of about Palo Alto, I think, playing |
| 0:38.6 | offense, securing large deals, some early signs that the platformization strategy is working. |
| 0:44.7 | He's still saying don't look at billings because of the high cost of money changing the duration |
| 0:49.5 | of contracts. Look at RPO. RPO actually ticked up in the quarter up 23%. Yeah, you would think that it went down from all the chatter. |
| 0:57.0 | Right. You know, just talking about platformization, there was obviously one of the biggest hacks of all time in the quarter, United Healthcare. |
| 1:05.0 | They chose Palo Alto, and when Palo Alto explained to them the benefits of platformization, they adopted it. |
| 1:11.4 | So I think that's a nice win. |
| 1:12.6 | Did you see how much more they make on a platformization customer? |
| 1:16.6 | Ten times what they make from a non. |
| 1:18.6 | Sure, because they're selling so many more different products. |
| 1:22.6 | You can get bogged out on buildings. |
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