Fortinet Stock Forecast, Price & News

25 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortinet in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" Fortinet stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FTNT, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Fortinet saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 3,970,000 shares, a decrease of 22.8% from the March 15th total of 5,140,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,270,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.1 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's shares are sold short.
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Fortinet is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 29th 2021.
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Fortinet will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, April 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Fortinet, Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 4th. The software maker reported $1.06 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.71 by $0.35. The software maker had revenue of $748 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $722.37 million. Fortinet had a net margin of 18.50% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 48.30%.
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Fortinet's stock was trading at $87.95 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, FTNT stock has increased by 128.7% and is now trading at $201.16.
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Fortinet updated its FY21 earnings guidance on Thursday, February, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.60-3.75 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.63. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.025-3.075 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.97 billion.

25 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Fortinet's stock. Their forecasts range from $104.00 to $240.00. On average, they anticipate Fortinet's stock price to reach $166.78 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 17.1%.
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640 employees have rated Fortinet CEO Ken Xie on Glassdoor.com. Ken Xie has an approval rating of 95% among Fortinet's employees. This puts Ken Xie in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Fortinet trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FTNT."

Fortinet's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.11%), Country Trust Bank (0.10%), Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc. (0.07%), Hexavest Inc. (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.04%). Company insiders that own Fortinet stock include Christopher B Paisley, John Whittle, Keith Jensen, Ken Xie, Michael Xie and William H Neukom.
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FTNT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Country Trust Bank, Hexavest Inc., New York State Teachers Retirement System, Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc., Sentry Investment Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Private Advisor Group LLC, and Retirement Systems of Alabama. Company insiders that have sold Fortinet company stock in the last year include Christopher B Paisley, John Whittle, Keith Jensen, and Michael Xie.
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FTNT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TrimTabs Asset Management LLC, Roman Butler Fullerton & Co., Callahan Advisors LLC, Everence Capital Management Inc., Trust Asset Management LLC, Royal London Asset Management Ltd., DnB Asset Management AS, and Cypress Capital Group.
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Shares of FTNT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of FTNT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $201.16.

Fortinet has a market capitalization of $32.83 billion and generates $2.16 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $326.50 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.91 on an earnings per share basis.

Fortinet employs 8,238 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Fortinet: 3Crowd Technologies, AccelOps, Accelops China, Bradford Networks, Bradford Networks Europe Limited, Bradford Networks Inc, Coyote Point Systems, CyberSponse, CyberSponse Federal Inc, CyberSponse Inc, CyberSponse India Private Limited, Fortinet Austria GmbH, Fortinet BV, Fortinet Belgium BV, Fortinet Branch Holding Company, Fortinet Colombia SAS, Fortinet Denmark ApS, Fortinet Federal Inc, Fortinet Finland Oy, Fortinet GmbH, Fortinet Holding LLC, Fortinet Information Technology (Beijing) Co Ltd, Fortinet International Inc, Fortinet Japan KK, Fortinet Malaysia SDN BHD, Fortinet Mexico S de RL de CV, Fortinet Network Security Brazil Limitada, Fortinet Networks Mauritius Ltd, Fortinet Networks Romania SRL, Fortinet SARL, Fortinet Security Israel Ltd, Fortinet Security Italy SRL, Fortinet Security Korea Ltd, Fortinet Security LLC, Fortinet Security NZ Limited, Fortinet Security Network (Thailand) Ltd, Fortinet Security Spain SL, Fortinet Singapore Private Limited, Fortinet Technologies (Canada) ULC, Fortinet Technologies India Private Limited, Fortinet Turkey Güvenlik Sistemleri Limited Şirketi, Fortinet UK Ltd, IPLocks, IntruGuard, Meru Networks, OPAQ Networks, PT Fortinet Indonesia Security, Panopta, Secure Element, ShieldX Networks, TalkSwitch, Woven Systems, ZoneFox, ZoneFox Holding Limited, ZoneFox Limited, enSilo, enSilo Inc, enSilo Limited, and enSilo Ltd.

Fortinet was founded in 2000.

The official website for Fortinet is www.fortinet.com.

Fortinet is headquartered at 899 KIFER ROAD, SUNNYVALE CA, 94086.

Fortinet's mailing address is 899 KIFER ROAD, SUNNYVALE CA, 94086. The software maker can be reached via phone at 408-235-7700 or via email at [email protected]