{"id":249837,"date":"2026-05-19T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:46:00","slug":"zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zscaler vs. Fortinet: Which Cybersecurity Stock Is the Better Buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/ZS\/pressreleases\/2018289\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/\">Zscaler vs. Fortinet: Which Cybersecurity Stock Is the Better Buy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/ZS\/pressreleases\/2018289\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/ZS\/pressreleases\/2018289\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 10:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theglobeandmail.com\">www.theglobeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zscaler, Inc.<\/strong>ZS and <strong>Fortinet, Inc.<\/strong>FTNT are among the biggest beneficiaries of the growing need for cloud and network security as enterprises accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and digital transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies are gaining from the rising popularity of zero-trust security and SASE architectures, but they approach the market differently. Zscaler focuses on a cloud-native zero-trust platform, while Fortinet combines firewall dominance with integrated networking and security offerings.<\/p>\n<p>As enterprises increase spending to secure AI workloads, cloud applications and distributed networks, investors might be wondering which stock offers the stronger long-term opportunity at current levels.<\/p>\n<h2>The Case for Zscaler Stock<\/h2>\n<p>Zscaler continues to strengthen its position as a leading zero-trust cybersecurity provider. The company delivered solid fiscal second-quarter 2026 results, with revenues rising nearly 26% year over year to $815.8 million, and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) soaring 29.5% to $1.01. The company also reported strong demand for AI-security offerings, Zero Trust Everywhere and Data Security Everywhere solutions and led annual recurring revenues, climbing 25% year over year to $3.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>During the last earnings release, management noted that AI adoption is significantly expanding cybersecurity demand because enterprises need to secure AI agents, applications and machine-to-machine communication. Zscaler\u2019s Zero Trust Exchange platform is emerging as a key differentiator. The company processed nearly 1 trillion AI transactions in calendar year 2025 and highlighted rapid growth in AI Protect solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Zscaler is also seeing healthy customer expansion. The number of \u201cZero Trust Everywhere\u201d enterprise customers increased to more than 550 from around 130 a year ago. The company continues to win large deals from financial services, semiconductor and retail customers, showing that enterprises are increasingly replacing traditional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/ZS\/pressreleases\/2018289\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zscaler vs. Fortinet: Which Cybersecurity Stock Is the Better Buy? https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/investing\/markets\/stocks\/ZS\/pressreleases\/2018289\/zscaler-vs-fortinet-which-cybersecurity-stock-is-the-better-buy\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 10:46:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,28,29,57],"class_list":["post-249837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-security","tag-network-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}