SentinelOne (NYSE:S) COO Barry Padgett Sells 9,778 Shares

SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S) COO Barry Padgett sold 9,778 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, August 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $20.09, for a total transaction of $196,440.02. Following the transaction, the chief operating officer owned 977,430 shares in the company, valued at $19,636,568.70. This represents a 0.99% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards.

SentinelOne Price Performance

Shares of SentinelOne stock opened at $21.36 on Friday. SentinelOne, Inc. has a one year low of $11.81 and a one year high of $21.51. The firm has a market capitalization of $7.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -22.25 and a beta of 0.79. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $17.46 and a 200 day simple moving average of $15.47.

SentinelOne (NYSE:S) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.04 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.02 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $276.66 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $277.31 million. SentinelOne had a negative return on equity of 15.35% and a negative net margin of 30.39%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 20.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.02 earnings per share. SentinelOne has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.060-0.080 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 0.320-0.380 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts expect that SentinelOne, Inc. will post -0.44 EPS for the current year.

Key Headlines Impacting SentinelOne

Here are the key news stories impacting SentinelOne this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Traders purchased 22,967 call options on SentinelOne, 54% above the stock’s typical daily call volume of 14,948 contracts. The activity suggests increased bullish positioning and may be contributing to upward momentum. SentinelOne options activity
• Neutral Sentiment: CEO Tomer Weingarten, COO Barry Padgett, CAO Robin Tomasello, and directors or other insiders sold a combined 101,660 shares for approximately $2.04 million. Each filing stated that the shares were sold to satisfy tax-withholding obligations when equity awards vested. The sales reduced individual holdings by roughly 0.84% to 2.84%, but the executives continued to own substantial positions. SentinelOne insider transaction filing
• Negative Sentiment: SentinelOne recently underperformed the broader market in the latest session, closing lower than the prior day. That weakness may reflect short-term profit-taking after the stock’s strong run and its position near its 52-week high, rather than a newly announced fundamental setback. Why SentinelOne fell more than the broader market

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in shares of SentinelOne by 1.4% in the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 36,532,555 shares of the company’s stock valued at $547,988,000 after purchasing an additional 520,142 shares during the period. Caprock Group LLC boosted its holdings in SentinelOne by 2,275.2% in the 4th quarter. Caprock Group LLC now owns 7,749,446 shares of the company’s stock worth $116,242,000 after buying an additional 7,423,177 shares during the period. Maxi Investments CY Ltd boosted its holdings in SentinelOne by 63.3% in the 4th quarter. Maxi Investments CY Ltd now owns 245,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,675,000 after buying an additional 95,000 shares during the period. Swedbank AB grew its stake in SentinelOne by 8.0% in the 4th quarter. Swedbank AB now owns 3,809,314 shares of the company’s stock valued at $57,140,000 after buying an additional 280,587 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. purchased a new position in SentinelOne in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $35,781,000. Institutional investors own 90.87% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on S shares. DA Davidson lowered their target price on shares of SentinelOne from $18.00 to $15.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, May 29th. Rosenblatt Securities reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $20.00 price objective on shares of SentinelOne in a research note on Wednesday, July 1st. Cantor Fitzgerald raised their target price on SentinelOne from $18.00 to $24.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 27th. Weiss Ratings upgraded SentinelOne from a “sell (e+)” rating to a “sell (d-)” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 21st. Finally, UBS Group increased their price target on SentinelOne from $15.00 to $16.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, May 29th. Eighteen research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, SentinelOne presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $19.93.

SentinelOne Company Profile

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

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