BMO Capital analyst Keith Bachman lowered his price target on Zscaler (ZS) to $60 and kept his Market Perform rating, saying that while the 53% revenue growth reported in Q4 would be "exceptional" in "normal circumstances", it marked a deceleration from the prior quarter. The analyst also points to the competitive dynamics between Zscaler and Palo Alto (PANW) firewall vendors, noting that the valuation of the former heading into the results "left little room" for the slowdown. Bachman still points to the positives in Zscaler's Q4 results, which included high net retention rates and steady gross margins.

Zscaler announced innovations - ZDX Copilot, Hosted Monitoring, and Data Explorer - to its Zscaler Digital Experience service. The new ZDX Copilot, an AI assistant, instantly analyzes and harnesses knowledge from over 500 trillion data points daily across users, devices, networks, and applications, to provide IT operations, service desk, and security teams insights they need related to digital experience and performance. Teams can ask sequences of questions to effectively converse with Copilot, which uses Generative AI, to review high-level trends and progressively narrow results down to specific actionable insights.