Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) trade information

Upright in the red during last session for losing -3.30%, in the last five days FTNT remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 09/12/23 when the stock touched $61.02 price level, adding 7.1% to its value on the day. Fortinet Inc.’s shares saw a change of 24.81% in year-to-date performance and have moved -4.76% in past 5-day. Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT) showed a performance of 4.88% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 9.86 million shares which calculate 1.25 days to cover the short interests.

Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of $75.29 to the stock, which implies a rise of 18.95% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting $65.00 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of $95.00. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -55.69% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -6.52% for stock’s current value.

Fortinet Inc. (FTNT) estimates and forecasts

Statistics highlight that Fortinet Inc. is scoring comparatively higher than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company lost -1.39% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of 26.89% while that of industry is 22.00. Apart from that, the company came raising its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2023. The company is estimating its revenue growth to increase by 9.10% in the current quarter and calculating -4.50% decrease in the next quarter. This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 22.30% from the last financial year’s standing.

29 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of $1.35 billion for the same. And 29 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of $1.5 billion in the next quarter that will end on Dec 2023. Company posted $1.12 billion and $1.28 billion of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier. Analysts are expecting this quarter sales to grow by 20.10% while estimating it to be 16.70% for the next quarter.

Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 58.60% during past 5 years. In 2023, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 46.60% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 17.88%.

FTNT Dividends

Fortinet Inc. is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report in October and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt.

Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ:FTNT)’s Major holders

Insiders are in possession of 17.02% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 70.35 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 84.78%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 70.35% institutions for Fortinet Inc. that are currently holding shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc is the top institutional holder at FTNT for having 68.0 million shares of worth $5.14 billion. And as of Jun 29, 2023, it was holding 8.66% of the company’s outstanding shares.

The second largest institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., which was holding about 49.71 million shares on Jun 29, 2023. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.33% of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $3.76 billion.

On the other hand, Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager was holding 20.82 million shares of worth $1.57 billion or 2.65% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 15.52 million shares on Jun 29, 2023, making its stake of worth around $1.17 billion in the company or a holder of 1.98% of company’s stock.