Content Delivery Stocks Q1 In Review: Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) Vs Peers
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Content Delivery Stocks Q1 In Review: Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) Vs Peers
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Content Delivery Stocks Q1 In Review: Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) Vs Peers
Earnings results often indicate what direction a company will take in the months ahead. With Q1 behind us, let’s have a look at Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) and its peers.
The amount of content on the internet is exploding, whether it is music, movies and or e-commerce stores. Consumer demand for this content creates network congestion, much like a digital traffic jam which drives demand for specialized content delivery networks (CDN) services that alleviate potential network bottlenecks.
The 4 content delivery stocks we track reported a strong Q1. As a group, revenues beat analysts’ consensus estimates by 1.8% while next quarter’s revenue guidance was in line.
Thankfully, share prices of the companies have been resilient as they are up 6.3% on average since the latest earnings results.
Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY)
Taking its name from the core advantage it delivers to customers, Fastly (NASDAQ:FSLY) operates an edge cloud platform that processes, secures, and delivers web content as close to end users as possible, enabling faster digital experiences.
Fastly reported revenues of $173 million, up 19.8% year on year. This print exceeded analysts’ expectations by 0.6%. Overall, it was a strong quarter for the company with EPS guidance for next quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations.
Fastly achieved the highest full-year guidance raise of the whole group. Investor expectations, however, were likely higher than Wall Street’s published projections, leaving some wishing for even better results (analysts’ consensus estimates are those published by big banks and advisory firms, not the investors who make buy and sell decisions). The stock is down 35.8% since reporting and currently trades at $20.27.
Originally named after the F5 tornado, the most powerful on the meteorological scale, F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) provides security and delivery solutions that protect applications across cloud, data center, and edge environments for large organizations.
F5 reported revenues of $811.7 million, up 11% year on year, outperforming analysts’ expectations by 3.7%. The business had an exceptional quarter with a solid beat of analysts’ billings estimates and full-year EPS guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations.
F5 achieved the biggest analyst estimate beat and highest guidance raise among its peers. The market seems happy with the results as the stock is up 41.6% since reporting. It currently trades at $430.30.
With a massive distributed network spanning 4,100+ points of presence in nearly 130 countries, Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) provides a global distributed cloud platform that helps businesses deliver, secure, and optimize their digital experiences online.
Akamai reported revenues of $1.07 billion, up 5.8% year on year, in line with analysts’ expectations. It was a softer quarter as it posted EPS guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations and full-year EPS guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.
Akamai delivered the weakest performance against analyst estimates, weakest guidance update, and slowest revenue growth in the group. Interestingly, the stock is up 11.8% since the results and currently trades at $130.43.
With a massive network spanning more than 310 cities in over 120 countries, Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) provides a global network that delivers security, performance and reliability services to protect websites, applications, and corporate networks.
Cloudflare reported revenues of $639.8 million, up 33.5% year on year. This print surpassed analysts’ expectations by 3%. Overall, it was a very strong quarter as it also put up an impressive beat of analysts’ billings estimates and full-year EPS guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations.
Cloudflare delivered the fastest revenue growth but had the weakest full-year guidance update among its peers. The stock is up 7.6% since reporting and currently trades at $276.40.
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