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What Is The Best Performing Tech Stock During The Pandemic? (Hint: It’s Not Zoom)
By The Smart Investor  •  July 6, 2020
A smaller and lesser known company has dethroned Zoom Video Communications (NASDAQ: ZM) as the best performing tech stock during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a market capitalization of US$8.7 billion, Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) is a mere one-tenth the size of Zoom but it is rapidly gaining investors’ attention as demonstrated by its meteoric share price rise. The stock market peaked on February 19 (the S&P 500 index closed that day at its all-time high). Over the same period, Zoom is up 152% while Fastly has surged 249%. Today, we examine Fastly’s business and growth outlook and opine as to whether it remains a good buy despite its recent share price surge.

A content delivery provider

Founded in 2011, Fastly is a cloud-based content delivery network (CDN) provider that helps businesses speed up their internet traffic in a scalable and secure way. Businesses use the company’s system of strategically-placed data center infrastructure across 53 markets to shorten the response time and delivery of digital experiences such as video streaming, mobile...
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By The Smart Investor
The Smart Investor is co-founded by David Kuo, Joanna Sng, and Chin Hui Leong. The company was formed in late 2019 from the ashes of the Motley Fool Singapore. The Smart Investor believes that everybody can learn how to invest, smartly. We aim to educate people on how to invest smartly by providing investing education, stock commentary and market coverage for Singapore and around the world.
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