F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) EVP Angelique Okeke sold 515 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $404.49, for a total transaction of $208,312.35. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 2,240 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $906,057.60. The trade was a 18.69% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
F5 Price Performance
F5 stock opened at $411.32 on Thursday. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $435.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.75, a P/E/G ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.03. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $402.59 and its two-hundred day moving average is $337.31.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. The business had revenue of $865.08 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $834.60 million. F5 had a net margin of 21.95% and a return on equity of 21.54%. The company’s revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $4.16 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 EPS for the current year.
Institutional Trading of F5
Key Headlines Impacting F5
Here are the key news stories impacting F5 this week:
- Positive Sentiment: F5’s latest quarterly results were well above expectations: earnings per share reached $4.73 versus the $4.00 consensus, while revenue of $865.1 million exceeded the $834.6 million estimate. Revenue increased 10.9% year over year, and management maintained its fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 earnings guidance. F5 earnings information
- Positive Sentiment: F5 was ranked in the “Leader” tier of SecureIQLab’s 2026 Cloud WAAP CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, supporting the company’s competitive position in cloud-based web application and API protection. SecureIQLab report
- Positive Sentiment: Several analysts raised their targets after the earnings report. JPMorgan increased its target to $515 with an overweight rating, Piper Sandler raised its target to $461 while maintaining an overweight rating, and Morgan Stanley lifted its target to $415.
- Neutral Sentiment: Analyst opinion remains mixed, with five Buy ratings, five Hold ratings and one Sell rating. The consensus rating is Hold and the average price target is $416.62, suggesting limited upside from recent trading levels. F5’s valuation is also elevated at roughly 33 times earnings.
- Negative Sentiment: Multiple executives sold shares on August 3 under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. The transactions included sales by the CFO, CTO and three executive vice presidents totaling approximately $1.30 million. In addition, Director Nikhil Ramesh Mehta sold 4,000 shares worth about $1.56 million on July 30. The planned nature of the transactions reduces their significance, but the cluster of sales may create a modest overhang. F5 insider selling report
Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth
A number of brokerages have weighed in on FFIV. Evercore raised F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Barclays upped their target price on F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Friday, June 26th. Zacks Research cut F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on shares of F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, F5 has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $416.62.
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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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