Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) Releases Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided EPS guidance of -0.090–0.050 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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 Stock Performance

Fastly stock traded up $0.04 during midday trading on Wednesday, hitting $10.10. 9,005,003 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,625,632. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.36, a quick ratio of 3.97 and a current ratio of 3.97. The stock has a market cap of $1.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -9.27 and a beta of 1.26. Fastly has a 12-month low of $5.52 and a 12-month high of $23.94. The firm’s 50 day simple moving average is $10.02 and its 200 day simple moving average is $8.10.

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

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Royal Bank of Canada boosted their price target on shares of Fastly from $7.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, January 3rd. Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Fastly from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $12.00 target price for the company in a report on Monday, December 2nd. Citigroup lifted their price objective on Fastly from $9.00 to $10.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Piper Sandler upped their target price on shares of Fastly from $8.00 to $10.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, December 3rd. Finally, DA Davidson lifted their price target on shares of Fastly from $5.50 to $7.50 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $8.85.

Insider Transactions at Fastly

In other Fastly news, CEO Todd Nightingale sold 49,816 shares of Fastly stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 18th. The shares were sold at an average price of $6.25, for a total transaction of $311,350.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,600,973 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $10,006,081.25. The trade was a 3.02 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CTO Artur Bergman sold 10,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, February 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $10.21, for a total transaction of $102,100.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer now directly owns 3,374,136 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $34,449,928.56. The trade was a 0.30 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 250,152 shares of company stock worth $2,182,083 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 6.70% of the company’s stock.

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.