SentinelOne vs. Zscaler: A $6,500 Gap in One Year of Cybersecurity
As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 26, 2026.
Same $10,000, same sector, same year: SentinelOne turned it into $14,489 while Zscaler left you with $7,981. A $6,500 gap inside one cybersecurity trade.
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SentinelOne returned 44.9% over the past year, while Zscaler moved in the opposite direction with a loss of roughly 20%.
The spread between the two outcomes is about $6,500 for two companies operating in the same next-gen cybersecurity space over the same twelve-month window. Both faced the same macro environment, rate backdrop, and enterprise IT spending pressures.
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SentinelOne dipped well below its starting level before recovering sharply in the back half of the period and finishing at its peak. Zscaler fared far worse in the middle of the year before a partial recovery that still left investors underwater.
For anyone benchmarking cybersecurity allocations, the comparison illustrates how much stock selection can matter within a single sector. A blended position in both would have landed close to flat, masking the fact that one name more than covered for the other's losses.