Fortinet - FTNT Stock Forecast, Price & News

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fortinet in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 17 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" FTNT shares.
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21 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Fortinet's shares. Their FTNT share price forecasts range from $57.00 to $78.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $67.61 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 33.0% from the stock's current price.
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Fortinet's stock was trading at $71.88 at the start of the year. Since then, FTNT shares have decreased by 29.3% and is now trading at $50.85.
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Fortinet saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 10,360,000 shares, an increase of 19.2% from the October 31st total of 8,690,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 5,530,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.9 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 2nd 2023.
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Fortinet, Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, November, 2nd. The software maker reported $0.28 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.08. The software maker earned $1.15 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.12 billion. Fortinet had a net margin of 18.12% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9,183.04%. Fortinet's quarterly revenue was up 32.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.15 EPS.
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Fortinet shares split on the morning of Thursday, June 23rd 2022. The 5-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 9th 2022. The newly issued shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, June 22nd 2022. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 500 shares after the split.

Fortinet updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 9th. The company provided EPS guidance of $0.38-$0.40 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.35. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.27 billion-$1.31 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.27 billion.

640 employees have rated Fortinet Chief Executive Officer Ken Xie on Glassdoor.com. Ken Xie has an approval rating of 95% among the company'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 investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.59%), BlackRock Inc. (6.62%), State Street Corp (3.27%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.96%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (2.78%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.64%). Insiders that own company stock include Christopher B Paisley, John Whittle, Keith Jensen, Kelly Ducourty, Michael Xie and William H Neukom.
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Shares of FTNT stock 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 $50.85.

Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) has a market capitalization of $39.73 billion and generates $3.34 billion in revenue each year. The software maker earns $606.80 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.9060 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 10,195 workers across the globe.

Fortinet's mailing address is 899 KIFER ROAD, SUNNYVALE CA, 94086. The official website for the company is www.fortinet.com. The software maker can be reached via phone at (408) 235-7700, via email at investors@fortinet.com, or via fax at 408-235-7737.