After William Blair and Cleveland Research gave Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Oppenheimer. Analyst Ittai Kidron assigned a Buy rating to Fortinet yesterday and set a price target of $190.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $175.77.
According to TipRanks.com, Kidron is a top 25 analyst with an average return of 37.4% and a 71.6% success rate. Kidron covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Zoom Video Communications, CrowdStrike Holdings, and Palo Alto Networks.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for Fortinet with a $167.06 average price target, representing a -2.1% downside. In a report released yesterday, Cleveland Research also maintained a Buy rating on the stock.
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Fortinet’s market cap is currently $27.12B and has a P/E ratio of 57.60. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 37.39.
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Fortinet, Inc. provides cybersecurity solutions to variety of business, such as enterprises, communication service providers and small businesses. It operates through the following segments: Network Security; Infrastructure Security; Cloud Security; and Endpoint Protection, Internet of Things and Operational Technology. The Network Security segment include majority of product sales from it FortiGate network security appliances. The Infrastructure Security segment provide platform which is an architectural approach that protects the entire digital attack surface, including network core, endpoints, applications, data centers and private and public cloud. Together with it network of Fabric-Ready Partners, the Fortinet Security Fabric platform enables disparate security devices to work together as an integrated, automated and collaborative solution. The Cloud Security segment provides help to the customers connect securely to and across their cloud environments by offering security through it virtual firewall and other software products in public and private cloud environments. The Endpoint Protection, Internet of Things and Operational Technology segment include the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) and an Operational Technology (OT) device has generated new opportunities for it to grow it business. IoT and OT have created an environment where data move freely between devices across locations, network environments, remote offices, mobile workers and public cloud environments, making the data difficult to consistently track and secure. The company was founded by Ken Xie and Michael Xie in October 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
