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Analysts Slash Price Target on Fortinet (FTNT) as Earnings Disappoint

October 17, 2012 11:42 AM EDT
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Price: $63.69 +0.46%

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    Up: 15 | Down: 8 | New: 36
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Needham & Company maintained a Buy rating on Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) and slashed its price target to $34.00 (from $24.00).

"The Fortinet September quarter results were a disappointment," said analyst Scott Zeller. "It was well understood coming into earnings season that FTNT had difficult compares y/y for SeptQ and DecQ for billings growth."

"However, the secular strength of FTNT’s Unified Threat Management (UTM) network security offering was thought to be part of a more resilient group of security software companies, which includes Sourcefire, Inc (Nasdaq: FIRE) and Palo Alto (NYSE: PANW), but FTNT was a disappointment,” he said.

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Shares of Fortinet closed at $24.80 yesterday.


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