Stock Traders Purchase High Volume of SentinelOne Call Options (NYSE:S)

SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE:S) was the target of unusually large options trading on Tuesday. Stock investors purchased 22,596 call options on the company. This represents an increase of approximately 71% compared to the average daily volume of 13,239 call options.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. Wolfe Research set a $20.00 price objective on shares of SentinelOne in a report on Friday, May 29th. Raymond James Financial lowered shares of SentinelOne from a “strong-buy” rating to a “market perform” rating and set a $18.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Friday, May 29th. Barclays cut their target price on shares of SentinelOne from $19.00 to $16.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, May 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price target on shares of SentinelOne from $16.00 to $20.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 28th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company increased their price objective on shares of SentinelOne from $14.00 to $16.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, May 21st. Eighteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, SentinelOne presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $19.93.

Insider Buying and Selling at SentinelOne

In related news, CEO Tomer Weingarten sold 57,941 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $17.71, for a total transaction of $1,026,135.11. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer owned 1,894,397 shares in the company, valued at approximately $33,549,770.87. This trade represents a 2.97% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider Ana G. Pinczuk sold 16,042 shares of SentinelOne stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, July 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $17.89, for a total value of $286,991.38. Following the sale, the insider directly owned 743,946 shares in the company, valued at $13,309,193.94. This trade represents a 2.11% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 524,837 shares of company stock valued at $8,245,598. 4.27% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On SentinelOne

Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of SentinelOne by 1.4% during the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 36,532,555 shares of the company’s stock worth $547,988,000 after purchasing an additional 520,142 shares during the last quarter. Caprock Group LLC grew its holdings in shares of SentinelOne by 2,275.2% in the fourth quarter. Caprock Group LLC now owns 7,749,446 shares of the company’s stock worth $116,242,000 after purchasing an additional 7,423,177 shares during the last quarter. Maxi Investments CY Ltd grew its holdings in shares of SentinelOne by 63.3% in the fourth quarter. Maxi Investments CY Ltd now owns 245,000 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,675,000 after purchasing an additional 95,000 shares during the last quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC increased its stake in SentinelOne by 830.7% in the 4th quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC now owns 338,042 shares of the company’s stock worth $5,071,000 after buying an additional 301,719 shares during the period. Finally, Swedbank AB lifted its holdings in SentinelOne by 8.0% during 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. 90.87% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

SentinelOne Stock Up 7.5%

SentinelOne stock opened at $19.95 on Wednesday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is $16.69 and its 200-day moving average price is $14.91. The company has a market cap of $6.84 billion, a PE ratio of -20.78 and a beta of 0.82. SentinelOne has a twelve month low of $11.81 and a twelve month high of $21.40.

SentinelOne (NYSE:S) last announced its quarterly earnings results 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 the consensus estimate of $277.31 million. SentinelOne had a negative net margin of 30.39% and a negative return on equity of 15.35%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 20.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $0.02 EPS. SentinelOne has set its Q2 2027 guidance at 0.060-0.080 EPS and its FY 2027 guidance at 0.320-0.380 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that SentinelOne will post -0.45 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

About SentinelOne

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

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