F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get 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:FFIV – Get 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.
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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.
About F5
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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