Fastly (FSLY) Receives Upgrade to Buy: Key Information You Need to Know
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Nov 10 2025
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Source: NASDAQ.COM
Fastly's Upgrade: Fastly (FSLY) has received a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) upgrade, indicating a positive outlook on its earnings estimates, which could lead to increased stock prices.
Earnings Estimate Revisions: The Zacks rating system, which correlates earnings estimate revisions with stock price movements, suggests that Fastly's rising earnings estimates reflect an improvement in its underlying business.
Zacks Rank System: The Zacks Rank system classifies stocks based on earnings estimates, with only the top 20% receiving a "Strong Buy" or "Buy" rating, indicating potential for market-beating returns.
Future Earnings Projections: For the fiscal year ending December 2025, Fastly is expected to earn -$0.01 per share, with analysts raising their estimates by 2.7% over the past three months, signaling investor confidence.
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Analyst Views on FSLY
Wall Street analysts forecast FSLY stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for FSLY is 11.70 USD with a low forecast of 10.00 USD and a high forecast of 14.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
10 Analyst Rating
2 Buy
7 Hold
1 Sell
Hold
Current: 9.920
Low
10.00
Averages
11.70
High
14.00
Current: 9.920
Low
10.00
Averages
11.70
High
14.00
About FSLY
Fastly, Inc. provides a programmable edge cloud platform that helps the world’s brands deliver online experiences through edge compute, delivery, security, and observability offerings, improving site performance, and enhancing security at a global scale. The Company enables developers to deliver secure Websites and apps. The edge cloud is a category of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that enables developers to build, secure, and deliver digital experiences at the edge of the Internet. The Company’s products and services includes Programmable Edge Platform, Network Services, Security, Compute, Observability, and Services. Its Network services include content delivery network, video / streaming, load balancing, image optimization, and origin connect. Its Security service includes Next-Gen WAF, bot management, DDoS protection, and others. The Company’s professional services include network services, managed security service, and response security service.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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