Fortinet bumped its initial public providing (IPO) at the eleventh hour, providing an additional five hundred,000 shares at a beginning worth of US$12.50 per share. That was on top of the $9-to-$11 vary the corporate had been expected to open at. The stock (FTNT) finished the day on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations at $16.62.
With 12.5 million shares sold-out, the Sunnyvale, California, company raised quite $156 million through the providing.
Fortinet sells unified-threat-management appliances, that provide customers one read of various security threats like spam, viruses and network intrusions.
The product might not be horny however they’re pretty much in demand owing to info security compliance mandates, aforesaid Nick Selby, director of security practice shaft Risk Management. “They’re the door hinges of the protection world,” he said. “Fortinet has a bonus therein they are doing some aggressive valuation and they are restive and smart at promoting.”
After a flurry of investment within the security-conscious setting when Sept. 11, 2001, the general public markets turned cool on security corporations, a trend that solely became additional forceful with the world recession. Last year, event management trafficker ArcSight’s stock barely emotional in its IPO. it’s quite doubled since then, however.
Now with the Obama administration occupation cybersecurity a priority, different vendors hope that Fortinet’s success may be a sign of higher times ahead.