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FSLY vs. NET, ZETA, VERX, CLBT, KC, FRSH, TENB, INTA, MGNI, and NCNO

Should you be buying Fastly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fastly include Cloudflare (NET), Zeta Global (ZETA), Vertex (VERX), Cellebrite DI (CLBT), Kingsoft Cloud (KC), Freshworks (FRSH), Tenable (TENB), Intapp (INTA), Magnite (MGNI), and nCino (NCNO). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Fastly vs. Its Competitors

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) and Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Cloudflare has higher revenue and earnings than Fastly. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Fastly, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cloudflare$1.67B45.82-$78.80M-$0.34-645.71
Fastly$543.68M2.28-$158.06M-$1.03-8.17

Cloudflare has a net margin of -6.22% compared to Fastly's net margin of -25.85%. Cloudflare's return on equity of -8.42% beat Fastly's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cloudflare-6.22% -8.42% -2.52%
Fastly -25.85%-11.98%-7.87%

In the previous week, Cloudflare had 15 more articles in the media than Fastly. MarketBeat recorded 25 mentions for Cloudflare and 10 mentions for Fastly. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Fastly's score of 0.62 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cloudflare
19 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Fastly
4 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Cloudflare presently has a consensus target price of $191.28, suggesting a potential downside of 12.87%. Fastly has a consensus target price of $8.69, suggesting a potential upside of 3.18%. Given Fastly's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Fastly is more favorable than Cloudflare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cloudflare
3 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Fastly
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.10

82.7% of Cloudflare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.7% of Fastly shares are held by institutional investors. 10.9% of Cloudflare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.7% of Fastly shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Cloudflare has a beta of 1.95, meaning that its stock price is 95% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fastly has a beta of 1.24, meaning that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Cloudflare beats Fastly on 15 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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FSLY vs. The Competition

MetricFastlyINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.29B$20.09B$32.03B$21.51B
Dividend YieldN/A3.50%3.15%3.50%
P/E Ratio-8.1780.16448.9129.83
Price / Sales2.28102.441,721.8653.44
Price / CashN/A84.4837.2024.76
Price / Book1.228.777.434.53
Net Income-$158.06M$355.93M$809.77M$998.53M
7 Day Performance14.48%2.67%2.63%1.09%
1 Month Performance21.50%7.07%5.81%4.39%
1 Year Performance14.32%70.69%24,268.61%13.83%

Fastly Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FSLY
Fastly
3.2279 of 5 stars
$8.42
-3.9%
$8.69
+3.2%
+20.7%$1.29B$543.68M-8.171,100News Coverage
High Trading Volume
NET
Cloudflare
3.8018 of 5 stars
$217.96
+1.6%
$191.28
-12.2%
+174.7%$75.96B$1.67B-641.074,263Positive News
ZETA
Zeta Global
3.2114 of 5 stars
$18.58
-1.7%
$30.14
+62.3%
-25.0%$4.42B$1.01B-97.772,191
VERX
Vertex
3.9215 of 5 stars
$25.93
+7.9%
$43.69
+68.5%
-29.9%$4.14B$666.78M-78.571,900Positive News
CLBT
Cellebrite DI
3.5926 of 5 stars
$17.09
+2.9%
$22.40
+31.1%
-1.5%$4.09B$401.20M-22.491,167Positive News
Analyst Downgrade
KC
Kingsoft Cloud
1.7336 of 5 stars
$14.12
+2.2%
$15.40
+9.1%
+636.7%$3.95B$1.07B-12.3912,355Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
FRSH
Freshworks
3.2661 of 5 stars
$13.14
+2.3%
$20.29
+54.4%
+12.9%$3.83B$720.42M-73.004,400Analyst Forecast
TENB
Tenable
4.9192 of 5 stars
$31.16
+0.4%
$41.06
+31.8%
-26.2%$3.77B$900.02M-84.211,872Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
INTA
Intapp
3.5446 of 5 stars
$45.34
+1.4%
$60.63
+33.7%
-6.1%$3.72B$504.12M-188.921,336News Coverage
Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
MGNI
Magnite
3.7458 of 5 stars
$25.35
+2.0%
$25.82
+1.8%
+64.4%$3.61B$668.17M87.42950
NCNO
nCino
3.2936 of 5 stars
$30.83
+1.4%
$33.94
+10.1%
+1.0%$3.57B$540.66M-106.311,833

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