Cybersecurity stocks are in the spotlight as ever-expanding AI demand now includes data safety and agent protection. While the broader AI sector has cooled, cybersecurity stocks have outperformed, fueling a rotation out of hardware and into software. According to research firm Gartner, information security spend will top $215 billion in 2026 despite pesky inflation and weak hiring, and frames this spending more as compliance-driven insurance rather than capex. Today, we’ll look at five cybersecurity stocks leading this sector higher. Each stock has a minimum market cap of $5 billion with a Benzinga Edge Momentum rating of at least 90. Palo Alto Networks Inc. Benzinga Edge Momentum Score: 97.16 Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) has the most momentum of any large-cap cybersecurity firm on the market, and its recent earnings help explain its recent run. The company beat top- and bottom-line estimates in its fiscal Q3 2026 report release in June, with revenue growing more than 30% year-over-year (YoY). Earnings per share (EPS) also grew more than 6% YoY, and full-year guidance was raised to $3.79 per share, with total annual revenue between $11.41 billion and $11.43 billion. The company’s fiscal Q4 2026 report is scheduled for after-hours on September 1. Still, analysts have already started bumping targets, including a new Street-high $475 price target from Wells Fargo on August 17, which represents upside of more than 25% from current levels. The bullish pattern on the PANW daily chart is familiar, and one often repeated in other stocks on this list. The breakout is confirmed by a Golden Cross, which flips the 50-day moving average from resistance level to support level. Support at the 50-day is buoyed by a bullish reversal on the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator, and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is in the Goldilocks territory between 50