Insider Selling: SentinelOne (NYSE:S) COO Sells $196,440.02 in Stock

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

SentinelOne Price Performance

SentinelOne stock opened at $21.36 on Monday. SentinelOne, Inc. has a 12-month low of $11.81 and a 12-month high of $21.51. The stock has a market capitalization of $7.32 billion, a PE ratio of -22.25 and a beta of 0.79. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $17.46 and a 200-day simple moving average of $15.48.

SentinelOne (NYSE:S) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, May 28th. The company reported $0.04 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.02 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $276.66 million for 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 firm’s quarterly revenue was up 20.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $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, analysts forecast that SentinelOne, Inc. will post -0.44 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of SentinelOne

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of S. Woodline Partners LP purchased a new position in shares of SentinelOne in the first quarter worth approximately $382,000. Focus Partners Wealth purchased a new stake in shares of SentinelOne in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $346,000. Prudential Financial Inc. boosted its stake in SentinelOne by 28.4% in the 2nd quarter. Prudential Financial Inc. now owns 21,141 shares of the company’s stock worth $386,000 after purchasing an additional 4,680 shares during the period. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC boosted its stake in SentinelOne by 540.3% in the 2nd quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 4,258 shares of the company’s stock worth $78,000 after purchasing an additional 3,593 shares during the period. Finally, Amundi grew its position in SentinelOne by 7.9% during the 2nd quarter. Amundi now owns 170,047 shares of the company’s stock worth $3,083,000 after purchasing an additional 12,495 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 90.87% of the company’s stock.

SentinelOne News Summary

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on S. Barclays cut their price objective on SentinelOne from $19.00 to $16.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, May 29th. Citigroup upgraded shares of SentinelOne from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, May 29th. Oppenheimer raised their price objective on shares of SentinelOne from $18.00 to $21.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 21st. Jefferies Financial Group lifted their price objective on shares of SentinelOne from $20.00 to $24.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their target price on shares of SentinelOne from $16.00 to $20.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, May 28th. Eighteen investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, ten have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $19.93.

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.