Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
Decision snapshot: AES stock price vs FSLY: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at FSLY's multiple
Needs FSLY P/E.
Implied fair value · at AES's multiple
Needs EPS (TTM) is negative, AES P/E.
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth lag
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: AES FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025) · FSLY FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025).
Trendline
Five fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
THE AES CORPORATION · implied price per share
Bear
$20.08
Base
$23.62
Bull
$27.16
Fastly, Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
-$1.65
Base
-$1.94
Bull
-$2.23
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
6.21x
0.39x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
4.96x
-0.69x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.56B
$361.76M
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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$25.22B
$361.84M
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If you believe AES’s leverage and weak quality metrics will remain manageable while its earnings base stays intact, then the current price can look attractive relative to FSLY-implied valuation, because AES is profitable and trades at only 0.8x P/S versus FSLY’s 4.5x; however, the more conservative read is to anchor on AES’s own historical band and DCF range rather than FSLY multiple.
On a P/S basis, AES at 0.8x is far below FSLY at 4.5x, which mechanically drives the large implied price of $78.06 versus the current $14.58. However, that gap reflects a very different mix of scale, profitability, and growth, so FSLY multiple is not a clean apples-to-apples benchmark.
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