Insider Selling: F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Sells 1,000 Shares of Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIVGet Free Report) Director Elizabeth Buse sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, June 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $399.35, for a total value of $399,350.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 4,947 shares in the company, valued at $1,975,584.45. This represents a 16.82% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

F5 Trading Up 0.6%

NASDAQ FFIV traded up $2.32 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $396.16. 289,308 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 803,129. The firm has a market cap of $22.35 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.50, a PEG ratio of 4.58 and a beta of 1.04. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $347.05 and a 200 day simple moving average of $296.72. F5, Inc. has a 1-year low of $223.76 and a 1-year high of $411.52.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIVGet Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.47 by $0.43. The firm had revenue of $811.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $783.82 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.50% and a net margin of 21.96%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $3.42 EPS. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in FFIV. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in F5 by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,357,293 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,878,023,000 after acquiring an additional 114,533 shares in the last quarter. State Street Corp boosted its stake in F5 by 1.7% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,226,326 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,042,716,000 after purchasing an additional 53,712 shares during the last quarter. First Trust Advisors LP increased its holdings in F5 by 68.5% during the 4th quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,753,652 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $702,897,000 after purchasing an additional 1,119,291 shares in the last quarter. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. purchased a new stake in shares of F5 in the fourth quarter worth approximately $579,699,000. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in shares of F5 by 7.5% in the fourth quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,537,680 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $392,508,000 after purchasing an additional 106,616 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

FFIV has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Piper Sandler lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Evercore raised shares of F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price target for the company in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday. Finally, Barclays increased their price target on F5 from $292.00 to $386.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $382.67.

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F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) specializes in application services and delivery networking, helping organizations ensure the availability, performance and security of their applications. The company’s core offerings include advanced load balancing, traffic management and application security solutions designed to optimize user experiences and protect against threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and web application exploits.

At the heart of F5’s product portfolio is the BIG-IP platform, which provides a suite of software modules for local and global traffic management, secure web application firewalling and DNS service delivery.

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