Initiating Coverage on No-Moat Fortinet With a $54 FVE; We Foresee Growth, but Risks in SMB Security
We are initiating coverage on Fortinet, a network security vendor, with a $54 per share fair value estimate, no-moat rating, stable trend, very high uncertainty, and stable stewardship. Our fair value estimate for Fortinet of $54 per share gives us nearly 35 times adjusted earnings and 29 times enterprise value to adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2018. Fortinet’s specialty is in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) space for small or medium sized businesses (SMBs), and the firm has successfully pushed ...Fortinet provides cybersecurity solutions. The company's product offerings consist of its FortiGate product family and its non-FortiGate products. The company's FortiGate hardware and software licenses are sold with a set of security services. These security services are enabled by FortiGuard, which provides threat research and artificial intelligence capabilities from a global cloud network to deliver protection services to each FortiGate appliance. The company's non-FortiGate products include the Fortinet Security Fabric (such as FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch and FortiManager), certain cloud security products (such as virtual machines and cloud services) and other products.
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