Fortinet, Inc. · FTNT · FY2025 Q4 · Calendar Q1 2026

Fortinet pairs strong billings growth with maintained FY2026 guidance

Fortinet's strong billings growth, expanding Unified SASE demand, and 37% operating margin support the company's positive outlook, while the investment case still depends on services recovery, cost control, and sustained differentiation in SASE and AI security.

Reported After market closeNASDAQTechnology $129.38B market cap
100quality score

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Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS $0.81 Consensus $0.74
EPS surprise +9.0% Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue $1.91B Consensus $1.86B
Revenue surprise +2.4% Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

event-close to next-session close
Stock move +4.9% Event window
SPY move +1.9% Same window
Abnormal move +2.9% Stock minus SPY
Volume 2.2× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +1.3% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Relative to the prior quarter, billings growth accelerated from 14% to 18%, Unified SASE billing growth increased from more than 100% for FortiSASE in the prior analysis to 40% for Unified SASE in the current analysis, and management maintained guidance while emphasizing AI security, Sovereign SASE, ASIC investment, and pricing actions.

Guidance delta

Guidance was maintained. FY2026 guidance calls for 13% billings growth and 12% revenue growth.

Key takeaways

  • Billings grew 18% year over year to $2.37 billion, while Unified SASE billings grew 40%.
  • Operating margin reached 37%, supported by product mix and cost discipline.
  • Management highlighted FortiASIC performance, AI security, OT security, and Sovereign SASE as differentiators.
  • The outlook remains positive, but services recovery and component-cost pressure remain important watchpoints.

Management priorities

  • Expand FortiSASE and Sovereign SASE across regions.
  • Launch FortiOS 8.0 with new AI security capabilities.
  • Roll out next-generation ASIC chips and continue investment in FortiCloud, AI, quantum readiness, and global infrastructure.
  • Develop AI-infrastructure security through the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU partnership.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
FTNT REVENUE earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 3 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $1B Q1 '24 actual $1B, beat Q2 '24 estimate $1B Q2 '24 actual $1B, beat Q3 '24 estimate $1B Q3 '24 actual $2B, beat Q2 '25 estimate $2B Q2 '25 actual $2B, beat Q3 '25 estimate $2B Q3 '25 actual $2B, beat Q4 '25 estimate $2B Q4 '25 actual $2B, beat Q1 '26 estimate $2B Q1 '26 actual $2B, beat Q2 '26 estimate $2B Q2 '26 actual $2B, beat Q3 '26 estimate $2B Q4 '26 estimate $2B Q1 '27 estimate $2B
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusHold67 ratings
Bullish2841.8%
Neutral3349.2%
Bearish69.0%

1 unmapped firm rating excluded from the percentages.

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$176.33Current
$55Low
$112.87Average
$203High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Sep 29, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

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FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
Bernstein Market Perform Market PerformMaintainSep 17, 2026
Susquehanna Neutral NeutralMaintainJul 31, 2026
Wells Fargo Underweight UnderweightMaintainJul 30, 2026
Stifel Hold HoldMaintainJul 30, 2026
Rosenblatt Buy BuyMaintainJul 30, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $176.33. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
BernsteinAnalyst unavailable$145$171.77 -17.8%Sep 17, 2026
WedbushAnalyst unavailable$155$158.85 -12.1%Sep 10, 2026
SusquehannaAnalyst unavailable$160$156.4 -9.3%Jul 31, 2026
RBC CapitalAnalyst unavailable$185$156.05 +4.9%Jul 30, 2026
Robert W. BairdAnalyst unavailable$165$156.26 -6.4%Jul 30, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Fortinet, Inc. specializes in delivering extensive, unified, and automated cybersecurity solutions to a global clientele, encompassing the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific regions. At its core, the company offers FortiGate, a powerful platform combining hardware and software licenses that provides a comprehensive suite of security and networking functionalities. This includes firewall capabilities, intrusion prevention, anti-malware defense, virtual private network (VPN) services, application control, web filtering, anti-spam measures, and wide area network (WAN) acceleration. Beyond its flagship product, Fortinet provides a diverse portfolio of specialized security tools. These range from FortiSwitch for secure network switching and FortiAP for robust wireless connectivity, to FortiExtender, a versatile hardware appliance. For centralized network visibility and control, clients utilize FortiAnalyzer for logging, analysis, and reporting, and FortiManager for scalable administration of FortiGate devices.…

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