Fastly (FSLY) Climbs to 2-Year High on Earnings Blowout, Double-Digit Growth Targets
We recently published 10 Market Beasts Leaving Wall Street in the Dust. Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLY) was one of the best performers on Friday.
Fastly rallied to a new two-year high on Friday, as investors took heart from a strong earnings performance and a double-digit growth outlook for this year.
At intra-day trading, the stock climbed to its highest price of $19.14 before trimming gains to finish the session just up by 13.84 percent at $18.26 apiece.
In an earnings call, Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLY) said that it narrowed its net loss last year by 23 percent to $121.7 million from $158 million, while revenues grew by 14.7 percent to $624 million from $543.7 million.
In the fourth quarter alone, net loss shrank by 53 percent to $15.5 million from $32.9 million in the same period a year earlier.
Total revenues jumped by 22.7 percent to $172.6 million from $140.6 million year-on-year, thanks to a double-digit jump in contributions from network services, security, and compute and observability solutions.
Looking ahead, Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLY) is targeting full-year 2026 revenues to be in the range of $700 million to $720 million, or an implied growth of 12 percent to 15 percent year-on-year. Net income per share is also projected at $0.23 to $0.29.
For the first quarter alone, total revenues are pegged at a range of $168 million to $174 million, or a 16 percent to 20 percent implied growth from the $144.5 million reported in the same period last year.
Fastly Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLY) is a US-based cloud computing company providing edge computing and security services, whose major clients include Reddit, Shopify, and Stripe, among others.
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