Fortinet Inc (NASDAQ: FTNT) is 34.70% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $44.12 and a high of $83.77 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The FTNT stock was last observed hovering at around $78.80 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.04%.
Currently trading at $78.84, the stock is -2.30% and 0.94% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 3.49 million and changing 0.05% at the moment leaves the stock 16.22% off its SMA200. FTNT registered 36.90% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 34.06%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $78.0242 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $67.74455.
The stock witnessed a 1.06% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 41.26%, and is -2.37% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.98% over the week and 2.01% over the month.
Fortinet Inc (FTNT) has around 13568 employees, a market worth around $60.41B and $5.54B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 46.58 and Fwd P/E is 35.23. Profit margin for the company is 23.71%. Distance from 52-week low is 78.69% and -5.88% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (102.45%).
with sales reaching $1.48B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 25.77% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 10.50% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 10.90% in year-over-year returns.
Fortinet Inc (FTNT) Top Institutional Holders
1644.0 institutions hold shares in Fortinet Inc (FTNT), with institutional investors hold 85.12% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 761.00M, and float is at 630.88M with Short Float at 2.05%. Institutions hold 70.22% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 66.87 million shares valued at $4.03 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 8.7709% of the FTNT Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 55.24 million shares valued at $3.33 billion to account for 7.2451 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are PRICE T ROWE ASSOCIATES INC /MD/ which holds 28.99 million shares representing 3.8024% and valued at over $1.75 billion, while STATE STREET CORP holds 3.4779 of the shares totaling 26.52 million with a market value of $1.6 billion.
Fortinet Inc (FTNT) Insider Activity
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Fortinet Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on Oct 15 ’24 that Xie Ken (PRESIDENT & CEO) sold a total of 23,302 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on Oct 15 ’24 and was made at $82.63 per share for $1.93 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 48.9 million shares of the FTNT stock.
Still, SEC filings show that on Oct 16 ’24, Xie Ken (PRESIDENT & CEO) disposed off 23,307 shares at an average price of $81.89 for $1.91 million. The insider now directly holds 48,915,530 shares of Fortinet Inc (FTNT).
