Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)

Cybersecurity software, grown by acquisition. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending July 31, 2026, filed September 10, 2026. Ranked 28 of the 70 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A security software company whose filing states one total and its growth through an acquisition but nothing by function or country, so one software pattern carries it.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 25% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 75% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 75% desk work, 23% people work and 2% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 25% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 58% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

21,921 employees as of July 31, 2026 (stated). No count by country is stated; 67% of fiscal 2026 revenue was in the Americas.

The filing: “With a global workforce of 21,921 as of July 31, 2026, our People Strategy is a critical element of our overall company strategy and is overseen by our Chief People Officer who regularly updates our board of directors and the board's Compensation and People Committee on human capital matters.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: A global workforce of 21,921 at July 31, 2026, up from 16,068 a year earlier, including about 4,223 from the CyberArk acquisition; the filing describes technical and business functions and 12 employee network groups but states no hourly, part-time or union counts.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
• Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)26% now, 68% by 2028
• Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
• Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
• DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
• Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
• ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028
• Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS, 28,000 employees)25% now, 69% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

152 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing calls the company a global AI cybersecurity provider whose platforms secure AI apps, agents and workloads with cybersecurity backed by AI, describes building AI fluency across the organization with role-based training, and says it has embedded AI across its hiring process with human oversight of decisions.

• “These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the following: expectations regarding the cybersecurity landscape and demand; expectations regarding our platformization strategy and related progress and opportunities, our product development strategy, and drivers of and factors affecting growth in our business; expectations regarding annual recurring reve...”
• “Business General Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is a global artificial intelligence ("AI") cybersecurity provider and our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.”
• “Our platforms and services help secure enterprise users, networks, clouds, endpoints, AI apps and agents, and identities by delivering comprehensive cybersecurity backed by AI and automation, and provide real-time visibility and monitoring across cloud infrastructure, applications and AI workloads.”
• “Network & AI Security Our Network & AI Security platform is designed to deliver complete zero trust solutions to our customers.”
• “Prisma ® Access, when combined with Prisma SD-WAN, provides a comprehensive AI-powered SASE solution that secures users, branches, data, AI apps and agents from the most evasive threats in the new AI landscape.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 202115median 0
• Fiscal 202217median 0
• Fiscal 202335median 1
• Fiscal 202459median 4
• Fiscal 202581median 10
• Fiscal 2026152

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• One pattern by description (c); the filing counts no employees by function or segment.
• The U.S. share is not stated.
• The count grew by about 4,223 through the CyberArk acquisition in fiscal 2026.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001327567-26-000023, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.