By the StockSemáforo model · Updated September 11, 2026

Best cybersecurity stocks

Cybersecurity has something almost no other tech spending has: it doesn't get cut even in a crisis, because the cost of a breach is always higher. These are subscription businesses with very high gross margins; the classic trap is that growth is bought with so much sales spending that accounting profit takes years to appear — which is why cash matters more than the bottom line here.

This ranking sorts by fundamental quality, not by whether a stock is cheap or expensive: an excellent company can be expensive. To find the fair price, enter its quote in the analyzer. The scores recompute on their own with each new SEC filing.

93

quality /100

Margin 28.2%ROE 136.7%Growth 21.4%FCF 41.4%Debt/EBITDA -0.94x

Fortinet sells network security: its FortiGate firewalls protect the perimeter of hundreds of thousands of companies, with the twist that it designs its own chips to do it faster and cheaper than rivals.

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85

quality /100

Margin 9.6%ROE 4.2%Growth 26.8%FCF 31.9%Debt/EBITDA -3.11x

Okta manages companies' digital identities: who each employee or customer is and what they can access.

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78

quality /100

Margin 20.7%ROE 39.6%Growth 14%FCF 30.5%Debt/EBITDA 2.91x

Gen Digital is the home of Norton, Avast and LifeLock: consumer cybersecurity, from the classic antivirus to identity and financial-theft protection.

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77

quality /100

Margin -1.9%ROE -2.4%Growth 37.9%FCF 25.4%

Zscaler sells cloud security under the 'zero trust' model: instead of protecting the office network with walls, it verifies every connection from every employee, wherever they are.

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68

quality /100

Margin 0.8%ROE 0.9%Growth 39.3%FCF 29.8%

CrowdStrike is one of the reference cybersecurity companies.

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62

quality /100

Margin 2.7%ROE 1.1%Growth 22%FCF 35.8%Debt/EBITDA -1.62x

Palo Alto Networks is one of the world's cybersecurity leaders.

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62

quality /100

Margin -8.2%ROE -12.7%Growth 37.8%FCF 13.9%Debt/EBITDA 12.88x

Cloudflare runs a global network that sits between users and the internet: it speeds up websites, stops cyberattacks and increasingly runs code at the network edge.

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