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Fastly, Inc. FSLY
Fastly, Inc. (FSLY) earns a Piotroski F-score of 6/9 (mixed financial health), with an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. It does not currently pay a dividend. FY2025 revenue was $624.0M at a -19.5% net margin.
Quality score trend · recomputed for each fiscal year
Each year's score is computed from that year's filing — a rising Piotroski F or Altman Z″ means improving financial health, a fall is worth a look.
Analyst price target
Recent analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | Citigroup | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-05-07 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform (main) |
| 2026-05-07 | Keybanc | Overweight (main) |
| 2026-05-07 | Piper Sandler | Neutral (main) |
| 2026-04-14 | Evercore ISI Group | Outperform (init) |
| 2026-04-07 | Piper Sandler | Neutral (main) |
Wall Street analyst consensus — a sentiment gauge, not our scoring.
Smart money · insiders, last 12 months
Open-market insider purchases minus sells (SEC Form 4) — real buying with their own money is a bullish “smart money” signal; grants and option exercises are excluded.
How it ranks in Services · percentile among 982 companies
Percentile vs other Services companies we cover — e.g. “stronger than 90%” means only 10% score higher on that measure.
Piotroski F breakdown · 6/9 tests passed
- Positive return on assets
- Positive operating cash flow
- Rising ROA
- Cash flow exceeds net income
- Lower long-term debt
- Rising current ratio
- No share dilution
- Rising gross margin
- Rising asset turnover
Altman Z″ components · distress zone
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Working capital / assets | 0.209 |
| Retained earnings / assets | -0.743 |
| EBIT / assets | -0.079 |
| Equity / liabilities | 1.631 |
Sector peers · similar-size Services companies compare side by side →
| Ticker | Company | Piotroski F | Altman Z″ | P / E | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FSLY | Fastly, Inc. | 6/9 | 0.12 | — | +14.8% |
| VRNS | VARONIS SYSTEMS INC | 4/9 | 0.74 | — | +13.2% |
| MQ | Marqeta, Inc. | 5/9 | 1.2 | — | +23.3% |
| NCNO | nCino, Inc. | 7/9 | 1.18 | 330.6 | +10% |
| EVCM | EverCommerce Inc. | 7/9 | 0.45 | 93.6 | +4.8% |
| QLYS | QUALYS, INC. | 7/9 | 3.11 | 21.9 | +10.1% |
| BB | BLACKBERRY Ltd | 6/9 | -2.26 | 161.1 | +2.7% |
About Fastly, Inc.
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.
FAQ
Is FSLY financially healthy?
Fastly, Inc.'s Piotroski F-score is 6/9 (8–9 is excellent, 0–3 weak), and its Altman Z″ distress score is in the distress zone.
Does FSLY pay a dividend?
No, Fastly, Inc. does not currently pay a dividend.
How profitable is FSLY?
In FY2025, Fastly, Inc. had a net margin of -19.5% and a return on equity of -13.1%.
What is the analyst price target for FSLY?
The average Wall-Street price target for Fastly, Inc. is $24.11, about 15.5% below the recent price, from 9 analysts.
Is FSLY a good stock to buy?
Stocktoria doesn't give buy or sell advice, but here is the data on Fastly, Inc.: a Piotroski F-score of 6/9, an Altman Z″ in the distress zone. Weigh these quality and valuation signals against your own goals.
Computed from company filings · US · as of 2025-12-31. Facts plus Stocktoria's own computed scores — not investment advice.