Long Position on FTNT @ $67.00 on 6/8/2023 (Momentum)

Fortinet, Inc. (FTNT) provides cybersecurity and networking solutions worldwide. Stockwinners

It offers FortiGate hardware and software licenses that provide various security and networking functions, including firewall, intrusion prevention, anti-malware, virtual private network, application control, web filtering, anti-spam, and wide area network acceleration.

The company also provides FortiSwitch product family that offers secure switching solutions for connecting customers their end devices; FortiAP product family, which provides secure wireless networking solutions; FortiExtender, a hardware appliance; FortiAnalyzer product family, which offers centralized network logging, analyzing, and reporting solutions; and FortiManager product family that provides centralized network logging, analyzing and reporting solutions.

It offers FortiWeb product family provides web application firewall solutions; FortiMail product family that secure email gateway solutions; FortiSandbox technology that delivers proactive detection and mitigation services; FortiClient that provides endpoint protection with pattern-based anti-malware, behavior-based exploit protection, web-filtering, and an application firewall; FortiAuthenticator, a zero trust access solution.

Shares are heading higher in an upward trading channel. The lower boundary of the channel coincides with the stock's 50-day moving average. Higher share prices are expected. On May 4th, FTNT reported 1st Quarter March 2023 earnings of $0.36 per share on revenue of $1.3 billion. The consensus earnings estimate was $0.29 per share on revenue of $1.2 billion.  Revenue grew 32.2% on a year-over-year basis.

Guided Higher: The company said it expects second quarter non-GAAP earnings of $0.33 to $0.35 per share on revenue of $1.28 billion to $1.32 billion. The previous consensus earnings estimate was $0.31 per share on revenue of $1.27 billion for the quarter ending June 30, 2023. The company said it expects 2023 non-GAAP earnings of $1.44 to $1.48 per share on revenue of $5.425 billion to $5.485 billion. The company's previous guidance was earnings of $1.39 to $1.41 per share on revenue of $5.37 billion to $5.43 billion.

 

Entry Point: $67.00

Stop Loss: $64.50

Trading Range: $42.61  to $71.63

Target Price: $73.60  

Position closed on 6/28/2023 at price of $73.66 with a 9.94% gain in 19 days.

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