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FSLY vs. NET, DJT, FRSH, TENB, YOU, RUM, ZI, WK, ZETA, and GTM

Should you be buying Fastly stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fastly include Cloudflare (NET), Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), Freshworks (FRSH), Tenable (TENB), CLEAR Secure (YOU), Rumble (RUM), ZoomInfo Technologies (ZI), Workiva (WK), Zeta Global (ZETA), and ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Fastly vs. Its Competitors

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

Cloudflare has a net margin of -6.22% compared to Fastly's net margin of -27.73%. Cloudflare's return on equity of -8.42% beat Fastly's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Fastly-27.73% -12.29% -8.13%
Cloudflare -6.22%-8.42%-2.52%

Fastly presently has a consensus price target of $8.28, suggesting a potential upside of 29.75%. Cloudflare has a consensus price target of $186.88, suggesting a potential downside of 6.77%. Given Fastly's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Fastly is more favorable than Cloudflare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Fastly
0 Sell rating(s)
10 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Cloudflare
3 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

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

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
Fastly$554.63M1.66-$158.06M-$1.09-5.85
Cloudflare$1.88B36.93-$78.80M-$0.34-589.59

In the previous week, Cloudflare had 91 more articles in the media than Fastly. MarketBeat recorded 96 mentions for Cloudflare and 5 mentions for Fastly. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Fastly's score of -0.20 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Fastly
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Cloudflare
39 Very Positive mention(s)
11 Positive mention(s)
25 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Fastly has a beta of 1.19, indicating that its share price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.84, indicating that its share price is 84% 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$920.20M$18.62B$28.46B$20.40B
Dividend YieldN/A2.99%3.10%3.70%
P/E Ratio-5.8584.8748.1329.01
Price / Sales1.6664.561,552.1556.89
Price / CashN/A82.8533.4617.53
Price / Book0.938.108.224.53
Net Income-$158.06M$344.92M$802.12M$994.29M
7 Day Performance-12.48%-6.76%3.29%-3.62%
1 Month Performance-9.18%-1.15%-1.13%-2.71%
1 Year Performance-15.05%57.38%53,364.62%10.16%

Fastly Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FSLY
Fastly
3.7738 of 5 stars
$6.38
-6.0%
$8.28
+29.7%
-15.0%$920.20M$554.63M-5.851,100Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
NET
Cloudflare
4.2343 of 5 stars
$199.55
+0.6%
$161.72
-19.0%
+152.3%$69.20B$1.67B-868.014,263Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Down
DJT
Trump Media & Technology Group
N/A$18.80
-1.9%
N/A-42.1%$4.15B$3.62M-36.872Earnings Report
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
FRSH
Freshworks
2.9718 of 5 stars
$13.98
-1.5%
$20.07
+43.6%
+8.7%$4.13B$720.42M-58.314,400Earnings Report
Analyst Revision
TENB
Tenable
4.6233 of 5 stars
$33.27
+0.2%
$40.78
+22.6%
-26.8%$4.06B$900.02M-89.831,872Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
YOU
CLEAR Secure
3.2073 of 5 stars
$30.10
+1.2%
$32.00
+6.3%
+49.5%$4.00B$770.49M18.814,022Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
RUM
Rumble
2.4701 of 5 stars
$9.10
-4.0%
$14.00
+53.9%
+33.9%$3.95B$95.49M-6.3170Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
ZI
ZoomInfo Technologies
0.323 of 5 stars
$11.22
+2.1%
$10.63
-5.3%
-1.9%$3.84B$1.21B374.123,540News Coverage
Positive News
WK
Workiva
3.6102 of 5 stars
$68.31
+0.5%
$101.30
+48.3%
+17.0%$3.81B$769.29M-58.452,828Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
ZETA
Zeta Global
2.4741 of 5 stars
$16.14
+0.6%
$30.36
+88.1%
-34.5%$3.80B$1.01B-55.572,191Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
GTM
ZoomInfo Technologies
0.6695 of 5 stars
$11.40
+1.6%
$12.00
+5.3%
N/A$3.75B$1.21B95.013,508News Coverage

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