Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of -0.090–0.050 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of -0.010. The company issued revenue guidance of $136.0 million-$140.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $137.1 million. Fastly also updated its FY 2025 guidance to -0.150–0.090 EPS.

Fastly Trading Up 0.4 %

Shares of NYSE:FSLY traded up $0.04 during trading on Wednesday, reaching $10.10. The stock had a trading volume of 9,082,871 shares, compared to its average volume of 2,635,111. The company has a quick ratio of 3.97, a current ratio of 3.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36. The stock has a market cap of $1.42 billion, a P/E ratio of -9.27 and a beta of 1.26. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $10.02 and a 200-day moving average price of $8.10. Fastly has a fifty-two week low of $5.52 and a fifty-two week high of $23.94.

Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 12th. The company reported ($0.21) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.01 by ($0.22). Fastly had a negative net margin of 27.47% and a negative return on equity of 13.24%. As a group, analysts anticipate that Fastly will post -0.86 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Robert W. Baird upped their price objective on shares of Fastly from $7.00 to $8.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Thursday, November 7th. Piper Sandler increased their price target on shares of Fastly from $8.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 3rd. Citigroup lifted their price target on shares of Fastly from $9.00 to $10.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, January 17th. Royal Bank of Canada upped their price objective on Fastly from $7.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a report on Friday, January 3rd. Finally, Craig Hallum lifted their target price on Fastly from $6.00 to $8.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and one has issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $8.85.

Insider Activity

In other news, CTO Artur Bergman sold 3,400 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, December 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $12.01, for a total transaction of $40,834.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now owns 3,444,136 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $41,364,073.36. This trade represents a 0.10 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, CFO Ronald W. Kisling sold 16,102 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, November 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $6.25, for a total transaction of $100,637.50. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 542,462 shares in the company, valued at $3,390,387.50. This represents a 2.88 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last three months, insiders sold 260,152 shares of company stock worth $2,287,883. 6.70% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Fastly Company Profile

Fastly, Inc operates an edge cloud platform for processing, serving, and securing its customer's applications in the United States, the Asia Pacific, Europe, and internationally. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the internet.