About NetApp
NetApp is a data infrastructure company founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It develops software and related capabilities for organizations that want to manage data across different environments and applications.
The company’s description centers on helping customers build an intelligent data infrastructure that brings data together and supports “any application, any data, anywhere.” Clear enough. Its offerings are positioned around making data infrastructure more seamless, more dynamic, and higher performing.
NetApp operates at enterprise scale, with more than 10,001 employees. It serves B2B customers that need to support a wide range of applications and data across their infrastructure.
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Insights
Updated 21 Aug 2026NetApp is being judged in a crowded large-cap technology setting, where recent coverage lines it up against peers on risk, valuation, ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, and profitability. That tells investors are still treating NetApp as a mature software-and-storage business with meaningful institutional interest. It is not being framed as a pure growth story.
Analyst focus is squarely on NetApp’s AI storage push. Oppenheimer expects the company to beat its $1.9 billion fiscal Q1 revenue outlook and lift its full-year forecast when it reports on Sept. 2, so the market is watching closely to see whether AI-related demand turns into stronger guidance. Short wait.
Investor signals look mixed, but they are active. Multiple institutional investors recently opened new positions in NetApp, including Meeder Advisory Services and Johnson Financial Group, while President Cesar Cernuda sold 2,608 shares in a transaction on Aug. 17, and coverage that describes NetApp as a data storage provider keeps ownership changes and the upcoming earnings release front and center as sentiment markers around the stock.
Frequently asked questions
NetApp is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.
NetApp has 10001+ employees according to its company profile.
NetApp operates in the Computer Software sector. Public valuation figures are not always disclosed for private companies.