Okta

OKTA

Market cap $12.8B

Wall Street's so-called “SaaSpocalypse”, that is, the sharp drop across traditional software companies in recent weeks, has been driven by one dominant fear: that artificial intelligence (AI) will automate away the very functions of these software companies. If AI can enable its customers to handle tasks such as marketing workflows, customer relationship management, and identity verification autonomously, why would they pay premium subscription fees to companies that provide software-as-a-service (Saas)?

Get a deeper insight into the potential performance of Okta (OKTA) for the quarter ended January 2026 by going beyond Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimates and examining the estimates for some of its key metrics.

Software stocks took a hit as investors fretted over AI's disruptive potential. Two strong businesses experiencing share price drops are ServiceNow and Okta.

Okta (OKTA) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).

Okta (OKTA) reached $73.01 at the closing of the latest trading day, reflecting a +2.62% change compared to its last close.

Okta (OKTA) has become technically an oversold stock now, which implies exhaustion of the heavy selling pressure on it. This, combined with strong agreement among Wall Street analysts in revising earnings estimates higher, indicates a potential trend reversal for the stock in the near term.

Anthropic announced new AI tools that connect with Salesforce-owned Slack, Intuit, Docusign, LegalZoom, FactSet and Google's Gmail. Cybersecurity and software names have sold off heavily in recent weeks as investors fretted about potential disruption from artificial intelligence.

Shares of cybersecurity companies including CrowdStrike and Datadog slumped on Monday, as investors weighed the potential impact of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic's new security tool on the industry.

Cybersecurity stocks dropped for a second day as the threat of AI to the industry loomed large with Anthropic's latest AI tool that can scan code for vulnerabilities. Investors are worried these new tools will displace software business models and many tasks handled by cybersecurity vendors.

Okta's (NASDAQ:OKTA) is more than just another cybersecurity stock — it has shown strong and quantifiable financial performance while evolving into a profitable enterprise software entity. In its complete fiscal year 2025, Okta disclosed total revenue of $2.61 billion, marking a 15% increase from the previous year, while subscription revenue rose 16% to $2.556 billion, underscoring a consistent demand for its identity and access management offerings.