We recently published a list Why these 15 cyber security shares are falling in 2025. In this article we will look at where Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNS) stands against other cyber security shares that will fall in 2025.
Cyber security shares arranged in the most popular names on the stock market for years because these companies have driven a wave of cyber threats and have easily taken over customers. Moreover, AI made them even hotter. These companies raised breathtaking growth, while companies came together to protect their data against extremely advanced attacks.
Even in this area, many still post very impressive income figures. There is a lot of demand for their services because cyber crime does not show any signs of delay. Despite this power, their stock prices have taken a dip this year. Unfortunately, there is a lot of pessimism around AI and connected themes such as cyber security.
Wall Street withdraws to these names and the shift has dragged down some shares that were only a few months earlier market scarts. It is a good idea to look at the cyber security shares that have been sold the most, because there are probably opportunities here.
For this article I have screened the worst performing cyber security shares from year to date.
I will also state the number of investors of hedge funds in these shares. Why are we interested in the shares that stack hedge funds? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can surpass the market by imitating the best share choices of the best hedge funds. The strategy of our quarterly newsletter selects 14 CAP and Large-CAP shares every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014 and has reported its benchmark with 218 percentage points (See more details here).
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Number of holders of hedge funds in Q4 2024: 38
Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNS) offers software solutions for data security.
The share has so far fallen considerably in 2025, because Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) reported a quarterly loss of $ 0.10 per share. It missed the consensus estimate of $ 0.14 with $ 0.24.
In addition, analysts have revised their predictions for 2025 and projected increased losses of $ 0.89 per share versus prior expectations of $ 0.74 per share.
Varonis (Nasdaq: VRNS) reported the annual recurring turnover growth, but there was a shortage of the expectations of sales because of the company that was confronted with challenges in the transition to a Saas model.
The consensus price objective of $ 59.38 implies 42.42% advantage.
