FireEye, Inc. (FEYE, Financial) is the next generation network security company that pioneered Advanced Persistent Threat Protection. The company has grown its sales by more than 10x over the last four years. While FireEye reported strong second quarter results with a significant beat on profitability metrics, the stock gave up most of its earlier gains on the news that the company’s CFO was unexpectedly leaving. We believe that FireEye has the best post-breach incident response service, which minimizes remediation time and damage and is the reason it is frequently the first call for companies that have been victimized. This service consistently gets FireEye into the door and gives them an opportunity to introduce and sell their other security products, potentially allowing them to build a real cybersecurity platform of the future.
From Baron Funds' Fifth Avenue Growth Fund 3rd quarter 2015 commentary.
