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    Fortinet’s New AI Data Center Security Push Might Change The Case For Investing In Fortinet (FTNT)

    Simply Wall St·12/25/2025 04:54:11
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    • Earlier this month, Fortinet announced new AI-focused security offerings, including a Secure AI Data Center solution with Arista Networks and a FortiGate VM integration on NVIDIA’s BlueField-3 DPU to secure high-performance AI and private cloud workloads without sacrificing throughput.
    • Together, these moves push Fortinet deeper into the AI infrastructure stack, positioning its ASIC-driven and fabric-based security as a core building block for zero-trust, multivendor AI data centers.
    • Next, we’ll examine how Fortinet’s hardware-accelerated AI data center security blueprint could influence its investment narrative and future growth assumptions.

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    Fortinet Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Fortinet, you need to believe it can turn its firewall-installed base and ASIC advantage into durable, recurring security and AI infrastructure revenue, even after the current hardware refresh cycle fades. The new AI data center offerings reinforce that story but do not fundamentally change the near term catalyst around execution in SASE and AI-driven services, nor the key risk that growth slows once today’s upgrade wave rolls off if newer products do not scale fast enough.

    The FortiGate VM integration on NVIDIA’s BlueField-3 DPU looks especially relevant here, because it shows Fortinet pushing its firewall, zero trust and inspection capabilities directly into high performance AI and private cloud stacks where throughput is critical. If this kind of hardware-accelerated, infrastructure-embedded security wins meaningful adoption, it could help offset any eventual moderation in appliance-driven growth by deepening Fortinet’s role in AI-first architectures and expanding its service and subscription layers.

    Yet, while AI momentum is encouraging, investors should be aware that once the 2026 firewall refresh cohorts are largely upgraded...

    Read the full narrative on Fortinet (it's free!)

    Fortinet's narrative projects $9.2 billion revenue and $2.4 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 13.1% yearly revenue growth and about a $0.5 billion earnings increase from $1.9 billion today.

    Uncover how Fortinet's forecasts yield a $87.04 fair value, a 7% upside to its current price.

    Exploring Other Perspectives

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    Simply Wall St Community members place Fortinet’s fair value between US$82.99 and US$110.39 across 26 separate views, showing wide dispersion in expectations. Against that backdrop, the current firewall refresh tailwind and the risk of post cycle product growth deceleration make it especially important to compare several of these perspectives before forming a view on Fortinet’s longer term performance path.

    Explore 26 other fair value estimates on Fortinet - why the stock might be worth just $82.99!

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