Fastly, Inc. (FSLY)Technology | Software - Application | San Francisco, United States | NasdaqGS
27.06 USD
+0.63
(2.384%)
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(Oct. 13, 2026, 2:33 p.m.
EDT)
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Hot Take ↕ | Oct. 10, 2026, 8:22 a.m. EDT
Fastly presents a classic 'value trap' scenario where the business fundamentals are deteriorating despite a recent earnings beat. The company is losing money, with negative operating margins and a forward P/E that implies massive growth expectations it hasn't delivered yet. While revenue is growing at 23%, the path to profitability remains unclear, and the balance sheet is stretched with debt exceeding cash. The recent 25% crash followed by a recovery suggests the market is in a state of flux, oscillating between panic and hope. The options data confirms this tension: traders are buying deep puts as insurance against further decline while simultaneously betting on a volatile rebound. Until the company demonstrates a clear path to sustained profitability and stabilizes its margins, the investment case remains weak. The current price is not a bargain; it is a reflection of the high risk that the growth story may fail to materialize. |
| Model | MAE |
|---|---|
| AutoTheta ✓ | 0.156968 |
| AutoETS | 0.189587 |
| AutoARIMA | 0.189588 |
| MSTL | 0.189937 |
Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: AutoTheta
| Forecast Reliability | |
|---|---|
| Score | 36% |
| H-stat | 0.50 |
| Ljung-Box p | 0.000 |
| Jarque-Bera p | 0.272 |
| Excess Kurtosis | -0.42 |
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Sector | Technology |
| Debt to Equity Ratio | 40.198 |
| Revenue per Share | 4.508 |
| Market Cap | 4,310,658,048 |
| Forward P/E | 42.14 |
| Beta | 0.31 |
| Profit Margins | -11.80% |
| Website | https://www.fastly.com |
As of Oct. 10, 2026, 8:22 a.m. EDT: Speculators are positioning for significant volatility rather than a clear directional breakout. Call volume is heavily skewed toward out-of-the-money strikes (30, 32, 33, 40, 45), suggesting a bullish bias or a 'long gamma' setup where dealers face pressure if the stock rises. However, put open interest is massive at deep strikes (10, 15, 20), creating a formidable floor. The IV spikes at these deep strikes indicate a market pricing in a binary event or a potential crash, while the lack of ITM put volume suggests sellers are not aggressively betting on a collapse yet. The net effect is a high-volatility environment with a slight speculative tilt upward, but heavy insurance against a drop.
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| 52 Week Change | 2.2750928 |
| Address1 | 475 Brannan Street |
| Address2 | Suite 300 |
| All Time High | 136.5 |
| All Time Low | 4.65 |
| Ask | 32.7 |
| Ask Size | 2 |
| Audit Risk | 6 |
| Average Analyst Rating | 2.2 - Buy |
| Average Daily Volume10 Day | 5,337,160 |
| Average Daily Volume3 Month | 6,551,231 |
| Average Volume | 6,551,231 |
| Average Volume10Days | 5,337,160 |
| Beta | 0.311 |
| Bid | 20.01 |
| Bid Size | 2 |
| Board Risk | 5 |
| Book Value | 6.229 |
| City | San Francisco |
| Compensation As Of Epoch Date | 1,767,139,200 |
| Compensation Risk | 9 |
| Country | United States |
| Crypto Tradeable | 0 |
| Currency | USD |
| Current Price | 27.06 |
| Current Ratio | 3.361 |
| Custom Price Alert Confidence | HIGH |
| Date Short Interest | 1,790,726,400 |
| Day High | 28.28 |
| Day Low | 25.45 |
| Debt To Equity | 40.198 |
| Display Name | Fastly |
| Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp End | 1,793,822,400 |
| Earnings Call Timestamp Start | 1,793,822,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp | 1,793,822,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp End | 1,793,822,400 |
| Earnings Timestamp Start | 1,793,822,400 |
| Ebitda | -38,510,000 |
| Ebitda Margins | -0.05604 |
| Enterprise To Ebitda | -110.909 |
| Enterprise To Revenue | 6.215 |
| Enterprise Value | 4,271,092,992 |
| Eps Current Year | 0.52526 |
| Eps Forward | 0.64217 |
| Eps Trailing Twelve Months | -0.53 |
| Esg Populated | 0 |
| Exchange | NMS |
| Exchange Data Delayed By | 15 |
| Exchange Timezone Name | America/New_York |
| Exchange Timezone Short Name | EDT |
| Fifty Day Average | 24.926 |
| Fifty Day Average Change | 2.1339989 |
| Fifty Day Average Change Percent | 0.08561337 |
| Fifty Two Week Change Percent | 227.50928 |
| Fifty Two Week High | 34.82 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change | -7.76 |
| Fifty Two Week High Change Percent | -0.22286044 |
| Fifty Two Week Low | 7.735 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change | 19.324999 |
| Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent | 2.4983838 |
| Fifty Two Week Range | 7.735 - 34.82 |
| Financial Currency | USD |
| First Trade Date Milliseconds | 1,558,099,800,000 |
| Float Shares | 152,429,391 |
| Forward Eps | 0.64217 |
| Forward P E | 42.138374 |
| Free Cashflow | 86,973,248 |
| Full Exchange Name | NasdaqGS |
| Full Time Employees | 1,140 |
| Fullday Change | 0.62999916 |
| Fullday Change Percent | 2.3836517 |
| Fullday Price | 27.06 |
| Gmt Off Set Milliseconds | -14,400,000 |
| Governance Epoch Date | 1,790,812,800 |
| Gross Margins | 0.61472 |
| Gross Profits | 422,420,992 |
| Has Pre Post Market Data | 1 |
| Held Percent Insiders | 0.04528 |
| Held Percent Institutions | 0.95431 |
| Implied Shares Outstanding | 159,300,000 |
| Industry | Software - Application |
| Industry Disp | Software - Application |
| Industry Key | software-application |
| Ipo Expected Date | 2,025-12-09 |
| Is Earnings Date Estimate | 0 |
| Language | en-US |
| Last Fiscal Year End | 1,767,139,200 |
| Long Business Summary | 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. The company offers network services to speed up and optimize the delivery of web and application traffic; content delivery network, such as dynamic site acceleration, origin shield, instant purge, surrogate keys, programmatic control, content compression, reliability features, fanout, domainr, modern protocols and performance services; staging environment; and video/ streaming solutions and services, including live streaming, live event monitoring, video on demand, cache reservation, and media shield. It also provides security solutions, such as DDoS protection, next-gen WAF, bot management, API and ATO protection, advanced rate limiting, privacy, and compliance services; load balancing; image optimization; and origin connect. In addition, the company offers professional services comprising managed and response security services; managed CDN; and support plans services. It serves customers operating in ecommerce, streaming media, gaming, digital publishing, and high tech to financial services industries. The company was formerly known as SkyCache, Inc. and changed its name to Fastly, Inc. in May 2012. Fastly, Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |
| Long Name | Fastly, Inc. |
| Market | us_market |
| Market Cap | 4,310,658,048 |
| Market State | REGULAR |
| Max Age | 86,400 |
| Message Board Id | finmb_144816347 |
| Most Recent Quarter | 1,782,777,600 |
| Net Income To Common | -81,103,000 |
| Next Fiscal Year End | 1,798,675,200 |
| Non Diluted Market Cap | 4,724,758,350 |
| Number Of Analyst Opinions | 11 |
| Open | 26.19 |
| Operating Cashflow | 119,558,000 |
| Operating Margins | -0.07873 |
| Overall Risk | 7 |
| Phone | 844 432 7859 |
| Previous Close | 26.43 |
| Price Eps Current Year | 51.517345 |
| Price Hint | 2 |
| Price To Book | 4.3441963 |
| Price To Sales Trailing12 Months | 6.2730317 |
| Profit Margins | -0.11802 |
| Quick Ratio | 3.169 |
| Quote Source Name | Nasdaq Real Time Price |
| Quote Type | EQUITY |
| Recommendation Key | buy |
| Recommendation Mean | 2.16667 |
| Region | US |
| Regular Market Change | 0.62999916 |
| Regular Market Change Percent | 2.3836517 |
| Regular Market Day High | 28.28 |
| Regular Market Day Low | 25.45 |
| Regular Market Day Range | 25.45 - 28.28 |
| Regular Market Open | 26.19 |
| Regular Market Previous Close | 26.43 |
| Regular Market Price | 27.06 |
| Regular Market Time | 1,791,916,389 |
| Regular Market Volume | 4,110,036 |
| Return On Assets | -0.03464 |
| Return On Equity | -0.08389 |
| Revenue Growth | 0.233 |
| Revenue Per Share | 4.508 |
| Sand P52 Week Change | 0.17502642 |
| Sector | Technology |
| Sector Disp | Technology |
| Sector Key | technology |
| Share Holder Rights Risk | 8 |
| Shares Outstanding | 159,300,000 |
| Shares Percent Shares Out | 0.133 |
| Shares Short | 21,187,254 |
| Shares Short Previous Month Date | 1,788,134,400 |
| Shares Short Prior Month | 20,213,781 |
| Short Name | Fastly, Inc. |
| Short Percent Of Float | 0.1546 |
| Short Ratio | 2.66 |
| Source Interval | 15 |
| State | CA |
| Symbol | FSLY |
| Target High Price | 37.0 |
| Target Low Price | 22.0 |
| Target Mean Price | 28.54545 |
| Target Median Price | 28.0 |
| Total Cash | 337,497,984 |
| Total Cash Per Share | 2.119 |
| Total Debt | 398,292,000 |
| Total Revenue | 687,172,992 |
| Tradeable | 0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Rate | 0.0 |
| Trailing Annual Dividend Yield | 0.0 |
| Trailing Eps | -0.53 |
| Trailing Peg Ratio | None |
| Triggerable | 1 |
| Two Hundred Day Average | 20.443226 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change | 6.6167736 |
| Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent | 0.32366583 |
| Type Disp | Equity |
| Volume | 4,110,036 |
| Website | https://www.fastly.com |
| Zip | 94,107 |