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This week, we were watching Okta, Inc. (OKTA).

The stock is up roughly 24% this week after the company reported stronger earnings, raised its outlook, and showed growing demand around AI security.

Most traders think about AI security through names like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Cloudflare, but another layer is becoming more important: identity and access control.

The company helps businesses manage logins, permissions, customer identities, authentication, and access across cloud applications.

Its platform is tied to areas like:

Okta recently reported $805M in quarterly revenue, up 11% year over year, with subscription revenue rising 12% to $793M.

The company also raised its full-year outlook, which helped fuel the stock’s sharp move higher this week.

Why We Are Watching:

OKTA gives investors exposure to the identity layer of the AI security trade.

The key risk is that the stock already moved sharply after earnings, so it could be volatile in the short term.

But as AI agents become more common inside businesses, companies will need better ways to secure identities, control access, and manage permissions.

Okta gives investors exposure to that security layer behind enterprise AI adoption.

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