Okta

OKTA

Market cap $26.9B

Cybersecurity stocks jumped on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers in the company's preliminary second-quarter results. Krishna told CNBC's Sara Eisen on Tuesday that some major deals were put on hold toward the end of the quarter as businesses rethink spending.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) warning that clients paused software and mainframe spending amid "rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity concerns" sent the stock down more than 24% on Tuesday, heading towards its worst daily performance ever.

Okta, Inc. (OKTA) Discusses Technology Vision and Identity Security Strategy Transcript

Cybersecurity stocks S, PANW, FTNT and OKTA are poised to benefit as rising AI-driven cyber threats accelerate demand for advanced security platforms.

Technology security firm Okta, Inc. (OKTA) up 50.1% in a year thanks to AI demand, institutional inflows.

Okta (OKTA) closed the most recent trading day at $146.77, moving 1.15% from the previous trading session.

Six names show top-decile relative strength, trend-confirmed, all within about 2% to 7% of their own 52-week highs, at the same time: Tenable Holdings, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Okta, and Datadog. That's a coherent basket, not one ticker running hot on its own story. The basket-level signal is real: six names, same direction, mostly on clean volume, backed by a structural argument (more attack surface, not just a rally in risk appetite) rather than pure multiple expansion.

Shares of major cybersecurity names are rallying in Monday's midday session.

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Okta (OKTA) closed at $140.46 in the latest trading session, marking a +2.94% move from the prior day.