Fastly is an American cloud computing services provider, which is designed to help developers extend their core cloud infrastructure to the edge of the network, closer to users. The stock had its IPO in the spring of 2019. After surging in its debut and eventually doubling from its IPO price in the early fall, shares went down over 35% from their highs in the fourth quarter, putting many post-IPO investors in the red. $FSLY stock started trading at $21 per share. Fastly said it had sold 11.25 million shares at $21 each, raising $180 million. Fastly investors are back to the initial stage.
Before the current downturn of Fastly, the IPO investors made over 6x since its IPO. The all-time high of Fastly was in October 2020 at $136.45. The price of Fastly is currently trading at $20.27, a few points below the IPO price of $21.50. At the beginning of this week, $FSLY opening price was $27.70. Fastly has lost over 27% of its value from the beginning of the week. Until certain measures are taken before $FSLY share price could rally, though a gap-down has occurred which might be filled soon. Since the January 2021 monthly candlestick finished with a bullish one, only June and October monthly candlesticks finished on a bullish note, all other ones have been bearish.
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