With 767.00M Outstanding Shares, Can Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ: FTNT) Deliver Big Short-Term Gains?

Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ:FTNT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.59M but it saw 4248446 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 75.71B USD, the company’s current market price of $98.45 came rising about 0.29 while comparing to the previous closing price of $98.17. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $114.82 and as low as $54.57. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $97.1115 while lowest mark touched by it was $99.59.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Fortinet Inc (FTNT) gives us an average price of $102.29, while its current price level is -14.26% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 80.41% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $101.98 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $82.92. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.44% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.38%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 42.80 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Robert W. Baird issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $105 and $112.

Over the week, FTNT’s stock price is moving 5.38% up while it is -14.07% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 4.20% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 45.74%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-05, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.53 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.47. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.63B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $6.77B and seeing the company making $7.67B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.54B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Fortinet Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 767.00M with 17.49% of that held by the insiders while 71.50% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 68.86% and return on equity (ROE) at 338.74%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 43.56 while having a 35.70 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.09. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 50.55 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 12.71. Its return on asset (ROA) is 20.51% on average.