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Fastly, Inc. (XNYS:FSLY) In-Depth Stock/Fundamental/Options Analysis Today

Primary Facts

FSLY

Name:

FASTLY, INC. (XNYS:FSLY)

Sector:

- 19387.00K

Industry:

Software�Application

CEO:

Mr. Joshua Bixby

Total Employees:

976

Our Technological Advancement Rating

Our Rating:

D

Technological advancement compared to industry is -100.47% lower

ANALYSIS OF ALL CRITICAL FACTORS & RISKS RELATED TO THE STOCK & FUNDAMENTAL/LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF FASTLY, INC.(FSLY) AS PER DATA ANALYSIS OF LAST 3 YEARS AND COMPARISON WITH COMPETITORS/PEERS, AND SOFTWARE�APPLICATION INDUSTRY. DATE: 07/09/2022

Primary Targets/Price Insights

Previous Close ($) :

8.47

One Month Price Target:

$8.54

Six Month Price Target :

$8.88

Likely Price in One Year's Time:

Ticker:

$9.29

Likely Trading Range Today Under (Normal Volatility)
 

$8.39

Price Upper limit ($) :

$8.55

Price Lower limit ($) :

Crash Risk Prep/Key Price Levels (High Volatility/Risk)

Price, as per data analysis, isn't likely to fall below:

Today:

$7.49

                                                               This week:

$6.29

                                                        This month :

$4.11

Other Primary facts

Market Cap:

1.10B

Market Cap Classification:

Small Cap

Number of Shares

IPO Date:

122.20M

Best/Worst Daily Performance (Last 3+ Years)
 

Highest Daily Appreciation:

45.68%

-33.63%

Worst Daily Decline:

Our Options Trading Entry Points

Iron Condor entry points for options expiring in 1 week's time

Low risk (<2%) entry points

Buy Call:

Sell Call:

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$13.00

$10.93

$3.94

$6.01

Medium risk (<10%) entry points

Buy Call

Sell Call

$10.26

Buy Put:

Sell Put:

$9.82

$6.67

$7.12

These entry points can be used for other strategies, such as butterflies, straddles, etc.

Risk-Adjusted returns (Sharpe Ratio) of

FSLY

Sharpe Ratio:

0.43%

Comparison:

FSLY, is amongst the top 60% stocks with highest risk-adjusted returns

Sharpe ratio is -55.87% lower than the industry

& is -81.34% lower than the market/S&P 500 average

Average Returns/Yield of

FSLY

Daily returns:

0.03%

Weekly returns:

0.16%

Monthly returns:

0.66%

Yearly returns:

9.94%

Comparison of returns:

Average annual returns/yield (last 3 years) is -20.85% below industry average

Classification:

FSLY, is amongst the top 60% highest yielding stocks in terms of daily returns

Results of T-Test of Returns:

0.48

Statistical test of Returns:

FSLY has yielded returns statistically similar to the market

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Volatility (measured by Standard Deviation)

Daily Volatility:

5.62%

Weekly Volatility:

12.58%

Monthly Volatility:

25.15%

Yearly Volatility:

87.13%

Volitlilty of last five days (Measured by Standard Deviation) 

Average Volatility of this Week:

4.18%

Volatility in last five trading days has been -25.60% below long-term volatility

Value at Risk Analysis (VaR)

Daily VaR:

-11.52%

Weekly VaR:

-25.76%

Monthly VaR:

-51.51%

How Much Can the price of

FSLY

Decline in a Recession?

Likely price decline in a recession: 

Base case (decline):

-45%

Worst case (decline):

>85%

This translates to price declining to:

$4.64

This translates to price declining to:

$1.27

Severe Crash Probability

Risk of crash in next 6/12 months: Low (<25%)

What is Value at Risk (VaR)?

VaR explained figure

Risk Fundamentals

FSLY is a 263.56% riskier investment compared to the market/S&P 500 & is 211.46% riskier than Nasdaq (IXIC)

Risk (measured by volatility) is 56.47% above industry average

Overall, it is amongst the top 50% most risky stocks

Beta Examination of

FSLY

Beta in relation to market/S&P 500--1.44

Expected beta in 1 year's time:

1.202

Expected beta in 3 year's time:

1.699

Unlevered (debt free) Beta:

0.704

Beta in relation to Nasdaq (XNAS):

1.619

Beta in relation to all global stocks::

0.821

Beta Comparison & Analysis

Beta of competitors/peers::

1.31

Beta is 9.58% higher than peers

Average Industry Beta: 

1.335

Beta is 7.48% above industry average

Sustainable Growth Rate Analysis

Sustainable growth rate for this stock/firm:

-

-

Alpha provided | Alpha Analysis 

Alpha provided:

-0.051

Alpha is 116.74% above industry average alpha yield

Alpha is -326% below the market average

Analysis of Cost of Capital of

FSLY

Equity cost of capital:

0.130

Equity cost of capital is 5.56% above industry mean WACC

Unlevered (without debt) cost of capital:  

6.37%

Before-tax cost of debt:

0.59%

After-tax cost of debt:

0.46%

Overall debt rating:

Highest AAA investment grade

Weighted average cost of capital (WACC):

0.46%

WACC is -25.31% below industry mean WACC

Key Per-Share Metrics & Analysis

Revenue per share:

$3.04

Revenue growth rate per share of (3Y):

1.06

Annual revenue growth rate is -49.77% below industry average

EPS:

-$2.01

Expected Annual growth rate of  EPS (3Y):

36.80%

Expected future EPS growth rate is 34.53% higher than the Software�Application industry

Free cash flow (FCF) per share:

-

-

-

Debt per share

$8.31

EBITDA per share

-$1.28

Valuation Analysis Today of

FSLY

P/E Ratio:

0

P/E Ratio of Competitors/Peers:

172.32

P/E ratio is -100.00% lower than main peers & is higher than the industry

-

FSLY is -102.37% undervalued if valued using industry average P/E ratio

-

-

P/S (Price to Sales ratio):

2.78

Price to sales ratio is -75.73% below the industry mean

P/B (Price to book value ratio):

1.06

-

-

Net income growth rate (3Y):

371.97%

Net income growth rate is 52.34% higher than the average industry net income growth rate

Dividend Analysis

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-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Dividend History:

--$0.00

--$0.00

--$0.00

--$0.00

--$0.00

--$0.00

-

In-depth Debt & Leverage Analysis

Debt to equity ratio:

103.95%

Net debt to equity ratio:

83.44%

Debt to assets ratio:

47.57%

Net debt to assets ratio:

38.18%

Debt-to-asset ratio is -13.30% below industry average

Ability to repay debt:

Interest coverage ratio:

-25.17

Interest coverage ratio is -147.38% less than industry average

Looking forward:

Debt growth rate:

2205.27%

Annual debt growth is 136% higher than industry average debt growth rate

Debt repayment rate in last quarter: 0.70%

Analysis of Key Statistics  

Correlation of price movement with the market:

0.396

Statistical significance of correlation:

FSLY has a statistically significant correlation with the market

Average Correlation of  the industry with the market:

0.503

Stock price is -21.24% less correlated with the market compared to the industry average correlation

R Squared (percentage of price movement explained by movement of the market): 

0.503

Correlation of price movement with Nasdaq (^IXIC):

-0.103

Covariance  of price movement with the market:

-0.336

Kurtosis 

9.897

Returns have a significant fat-tails (leptokurtic), i.e., returns considerably higher or lower than the mean returns are more probable, compared to assets with normally distributed returns

Skewness of returns:

0.213

Returns are, approximately, symmetrical

Fundamental Analysis & Dupont Analysis of

FSLY

Gross Profit Margin Ratio:

203%

Operating Profit Margin Ratio:

-62.41%

Operating profit margin is 225.68% higher than the industry

Net Profit Margin Ratio:

203%

Effective Tax Rate:

0.03%

Effective tax rate is -99.90% lower than the industry

Dupont Method

Net Profit Margin

Return on Equity Ratio (ROE):

×

ROA

=

×

-24.19%

Return on equity (ROE) is 84.96% higher than the industry

Financial Leverage

Asset Turnover Ratio (ROA):

-11.07%

Return on assets (ROA) is 188.23% higher than the industry

Financial Leverage:

1.9x

Current Ratio:

5.26

Current ratio is 75.54% above industry average

Cash Conversion Cycle (days):

46.3

Cash conversion cycle is -51.10% below industry average

The remaining useful life of property plant & equipment is: 7.6 years

Stock based compensation to net income ratio:

-16.94%

In-depth Efficiency  Analysis

Revenue generated per employee:

381.0K

Each employee generates 10% more revenue than industry average revenue per employee

EBITDA generated per employee: 

- 160.0K

Each employee generates -1589% less EBITDA than industry average revenue per employee

Profit generated per employee: 

- 242.1K

Each employee generates 1288% more net income/profit than industry average revenue per employee

Free cash flow (FCF) generated per employee: 

- 19.9K

Each employee generates 156% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Assets/Capital per employee

1.4M

Each employee generates 156% more free cash flow than industry average revenue per employee

Research & Development (R&D) Analysis

Research & development (R&D) investment growth rate-- 69.57%

Growth rate in R&D investment/expenditure is 4450.11% higher than the industry

Competitors/Peer firms of 

FSLY

VIZIO HOLDING CORP. (XNYS:VZIO)

BLACKBERRY LIMITED (XNYS:BB)

PRSP

XEROX HOLDINGS CORPORATION (XNAS:XRX)

WORKIVA INC. (XNYS:WK)

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (XNYS:DOCN)

ALTERYX, INC. (XNYS:AYX)

SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (XNYS:SAIC)

TERADATA CORPORATION (XNYS:TDC)

Current Analyst Ratings

Strong buy�0%

Buy�0%

Hold�0%

Sell�0%

Strong sell�4%

Overall analyst sentiment is: Strong sell

Income Statement

Period:

TTM

Date:

3/31/22

Revenue:

371.86M

Cost of Revenue:

Gross Profit:

R&D Expense

General & Admin Expenses:

Selling, General & Admin Expenses

Sales and Marketing Expenses

Other Expenses :

Operating Expenses :

Cost & Expenses :

Interest Income:

Interest Expenses:

Depreciation & Amortization:

EBITDA:

Operating Income:

Other Income Expenses:

Income Before Tax:

Income Tax Expense:

Net Income:

Balance Sheet

Date:

Calendar Year:

Period:

Cash & Cash Equivalents:

Short Term Investments:

Cash & Short Term Investments:

Net Receivables:

Inventory:

Other Current Assets:

Total Current Assets:

PP&E:

Goodwill: 

Intangible Assets: 

Long Term Investments: 

Tax Assets: 

Other Non-Current Assets: 

Total Non-Current Assets: 

Other Assets: 

Total Assets: 

Accounts Payable: 

Short Term Debt:

Tax Payables:

Deferred Revenue:

Other Current Liabilities:

Total Current Liabilities:

Long Term Debt:

Other Non-Current Liabilities:

Total Non Current Liabilities:

Other Liabilities:

Total Liabilities:

Common Stock:

Retained Earnings:

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss:

Other Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Stockholders' Equity:

Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity:

Total Investments:

Total Debt:

Net Debt:

183.42M

188.44M

138.31M

122.94M

282.19M

159.25M

-

420.50M

1.79M

6.21M

73.94M

- 156192.00K

- 232062.00K

- 236278.00K

- 236338.00K

- 60.00K

- 236278.00K

Statement of Cash Flow

Date:

Period:

15.16M

Differed Income Tax :

-

Stock Based Compensation :

40.02M

Change in Working Capital :

- 4107.00K

Accounts Receivables:

- 9219.00K

Other Working Capital:

-

Other Non-Cash Items:

-

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:

- 13190.00K

Investments in PP&E:

- 2387.00K

Net Acquisitions:

- 775.00K

Purchases of Investments:

- 148193.00K

Sales/Maturities of Investments:

Other Investing Activities:

​Net Cash Used for Investing Activities:

Debt Repayment:

Common Stock Issued:

Common Stock Repurchased:

Dividend Paid:

Other Financing Activities:

Net Cash Used Provided by Financing Activities:

Effect of FOREX on Changes in Cash:

Net Changes in Cash:

Cash at End of Period:

Cash at Beginning of Period:

Operating Cash Flow:

Capital Expenditure:

Free Cash Flow (FCF):

3/31/22

2022

Q1

245.79M

393.95M

639.74M

73.72M

-

23.62M

737.08M

238.01M

637.57M

97.29M

394.46M

-

30.02M

1.40B

-

2.13B

8.25M

45.45M

-

-

86.47M

140.17M

1.02B

2.21M

1.02B

-

1.16B

2.00K

- 575154.00K

- 9496.0K

1.56B

March 31, 2022 at 6:00:00 AM

603.92M

976.72M

2.13B

788.41M

1.06B

815.0M

242.85M

- 3810.00K

87.68M

- 7159.00K

-

-

-

12.61M

5.45M

- 219.00K

79.73M

246.69M

166.96M

- 13190.00K

- 6197.00K

- 19387.00K

Our Proprietary Portfolio Rating

Our Rating:

D

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Price Forecast/Expected Price in Next 5 Years of

FSLY

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

$9.32

$10.22

$11.20

$12.28

$13.47

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