The trading price of Fastly Inc (NYSE:FSLY) closed higher on Monday, December 09, and closing at $11.34, 4.04% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it fluctuated between $10.97 and $11.6186. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $25.87 and a 52-week low of $5.52. Over the past month, the stock has gained 38.80% in value.
Fastly Inc, whose market valuation is $1.75 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report in January. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest FSLY has a 50% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned FSLY a recommendation rating is 11. Out of them, 5 rate it a Hold, while 5 recommend Buy, whereas 1 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Fastly Inc (FSLY) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that FSLY’s price is currently 38.47% off the SMA20 and 47.12% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 77.35, and weekly volatility stands at 6.85%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 7.24%. Fastly Inc (NYSE:FSLY)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.26, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.60. With analysts defining $5.5-$8 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $6.75 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 51.5% off the estimated low and 29.45% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if FSLY’s share price rises to $6.75, which is the median consensus price. At that level, FSLY’s share price would be 40.48% above current price.
To see how Fastly Inc stock has been performing in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: FSLY stock’s performance was 4.04% in the latest trading, and -32.66% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Fastly Inc (NYSE:FSLY) indicates that the 3-month average is 2.95 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 4.57.
Currently, records show that 140.08 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 8.81% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 62.96%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-11-15, stood at 10.2 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.5 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 777.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in November were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 12.36 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen -36.29% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even lower.
