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Tenable Holdings, Inc.

$TENB·$4.4B·Software - Infrastructure·Technology
$39.20-1.5%YTD+65.4%1Y+18.4%
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TETENB
$TENBTenable Holdings, Inc.
$39.20-1.46%215 posts+5%
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Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $TENB, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Proven numbersAcceleratingAI verdict · as of 2026-07-13

The move is getting stronger, with heavier trading behind it.

Tenable up 68% YTD as the cybersecurity exposure-management story breaks out — Scotiabank PT $50, Jul 29 earnings is the confirmation.

Tenable Holdings is the cybersecurity vulnerability-management leader — the Nessus vulnerability scanner and the Tenable Exposure Management platform, and one of the few pure-play cybersecurity names with real AI-powered assessment capability that the market has been rerating.

  • The Scotiabank upgrade is the biggest analyst catalyst: raising to Sector Outperform with a target of $50 from $26 tells you sell-side is finally chasing — the doubled target price reflects the AI-powered-exposure-assessment recognition, and the price-target math implies meaningful further upside.
  • The Gartner recognition is validating: Tenable named 'the current company to beat for AI-powered exposure assessment' in a June 2026 Gartner report — being called out specifically as the AI-native leader in the exposure-management category is the exact enterprise-buyer signal that drives pipeline conversion.
  • The fundamentals are inflecting: Q1 revenue at $262M with EPS at $0.01 (technically positive) versus Q4's $261M and -$0.01, analyst FY26 EPS at $1.95 rising to $2.16 in FY27 and $2.38 in FY28 — the earnings-per-share trajectory implies ~10% annual growth with the operating-margin expansion the SaaS-turnaround crowd rewards.
  • The congressional-buy signal is a real institutional-flow tell: Rep. Ro Khanna disclosed over $500K in TENB buys between April 2025 and February 2026 — congressional trades don't drive stocks alone, but Khanna's ~$500K in a mid-cap security name is a specific institutional-adjacent buying signal worth noting.

Jul 29 is the pivot — a beat with a raised ARR growth guide and specific commentary on AI-powered-exposure-management customer conversions extends the run toward the Scotiabank $50 target; a soft print or a slowdown in net-new-ARR commentary would trigger a real digest of the 68% YTD move and give the 'chased a 50%-in-two-weeks move' caution the last word.

Agrees with X sentimentAgree with the bullish X read — the Scotiabank upgrade to Sector Outperform with $50 target, the 50%-in-two-weeks and 80%-in-two-months moves on the cup-and-handle breakout, and the 400 December $60 calls plus September $30 calls up 350% are all real momentum signals; Rep. Khanna's $500K buys are a legitimate institutional-flow signal that reinforces the setup.

What to watch: The Jul 29 print — a beat with a raised ARR growth guide and AI-powered-exposure-management customer conversion commentary extends toward Scotiabank's $50; a soft print or net-new-ARR slowdown triggers a digest of the 68% YTD move.

On the calendar: 2026-07-29 — Q2 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment10 posts analyzed · as of 2026-07-13

Scotiabank upgraded Tenable to Sector Outperform and raised its price target to $50 from $26, and a Tenable-OpenAI deal announced June 22 has driven the stock roughly 56% higher. Traders describe a monster cup-and-handle breakout with September $30 calls up 350%, alongside broader cybersecurity strength in QLYS, RBRK, CRWD, and PANW.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Cybersecurity exposure management platform scanning cloud, OT, identity, and traditional IT environments to prioritize and reduce vulnerability risk.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Software - Infrastructure sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $TENB.

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

No material change from last week — Enterprise software infrastructure is in a multiple compression phase (-16.

What this means for $TENB

Partial — Cybersecurity exposure management platform scanning cloud, OT, identity, and traditional IT environments to prioritize and reduce vulnerability risk; the cloud-native adoption and AI security spend despite multiple compression creates tailwinds for one product line, not the full operation.

Top industry ETF

$IGViShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF
-12.9%YTD
-15.0%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-398.1How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-27.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
2.9%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
6.3%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
4.1Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-3.7%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
78.2%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
1.7Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q1 2026Apr 29, 2026$0.47$0.41+14.6%
Q4 2025Feb 4, 2026$0.48$0.42+14.3%
Q3 2025Oct 29, 2025$0.42$0.37+13.5%
Q2 2025Jul 30, 2025$0.34$0.30+13.3%
Next earningsWed, Jul 29·consensus EPS $0.47

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$262.1M+9.6%78.4%4.3%$0.01$85.4M
Q4 FY25$260.5M+10.5%78.8%7.4%$-0.01$86.7M
Q3 FY25$252.4M+11.2%77.5%2.8%$0.02$53.0M
Q2 FY25$247.3M+11.8%78.0%-3.0%$-0.12$38.1M

Forward consensus

4-year forecast · up to 17 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$1.1B$1.1B – $1.1B$1.95$1.94 – $1.9817
FY27$1.2B$1.1B – $1.2B$2.16$1.96 – $2.3417
FY28$1.2B$1.2B – $1.2B$2.38$1.21 – $3.007
FY29$1.4B$1.4B – $1.4B$0.00$0.00 – $0.003

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.7×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.86%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+40.0%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.+58.3%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

β0.935-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

No open-market buys or sells in the last 180 days.

+ 9 other (5 exempts · 4 inkinds) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KPress release / Reg FDMay 218-K — Item 7.01: Press release / Reg FD
AI summary

Tenable Holdings, Inc. (TENB) hosted an Investor Day event on May 21, 2026, where senior management presented the company's business overview and long-term strategy via live webcast; materials are furnished as Exhibit 99.1. This is a non-binding Reg FD disclosure with no immediate financial impact. Investor Days typically communicate multi-year growth targets, product roadmaps, and margin trajectory assumptions that investors may re-rate on.

8-KShareholder voteMay 138-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

Tenable Holdings, Inc. (TENB) held its 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 13, 2026, with approximately 92.89% of shares represented (106.4M of 114.5M). Three directors were elected for three-year terms to 2029; notably, John C. Huffard Jr. passed with a thin 54% in-favor margin (50.8M for / 42.6M against) while A. Brooke Seawell and Raymond Vicks Jr. received stronger support. Ernst & Young LLP was ratified as auditor. Huffard's close vote signals measurable shareholder dissatisfaction at the board governance level.

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Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Why Tenable Holdings Rallied on Mondayfool.com·7d agoTenable Named as the Current Company to Beat for AI-Powered Exposure Assessment in a June 2026 Gartner® Reportglobenewswire.com·13d agoTenable (TENB) Surges 10.1%: Is This an Indication of Further Gains?zacks.com·13d agoWhy Tenable Stock Is Racing Higher Again Todayfool.com·14d agoWhy Tenable Stock Raced Higher Todayfool.com·14d ago

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