Briefing on the Fundamentals of Fortinet

By Emilio Sanchez • Monday, August 07 09:46 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Fortinet over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the stock at a price of $57.41? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Fortinet has moved 8.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 10.0%
FTNT has an average analyst rating of buy and is -27.9% away from its mean target price of $79.63 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.18
Fortinet has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 48.7
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.74 and its forward P/E ratio is 33.0
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 140.37
Fortinet is part of the Technology sector
FTNT has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 57.1% and gross profit margins of 0.8%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.58 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Fortinet, Inc. provides cybersecurity and networking solutions worldwide. It offers FortiGate hardware and software licenses that provide various security and networking functions, including firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, virtual private network, application control, web filtering, anti-spam, and wide area network acceleration.

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