F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) CTO Michael Montoya sold 4,426 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Monday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $410.16, for a total transaction of $1,815,368.16. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 1,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $536,899.44. The trade was a 77.18% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a 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 Stock Up 2.6%
FFIV stock opened at $434.62 on Friday. The company’s 50-day simple moving average is $403.79 and its 200-day simple moving average is $365.31. F5, Inc. has a 52-week low of $223.76 and a 52-week high of $439.48. The firm has a market cap of $24.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.60, a PEG ratio of 4.14 and a beta of 1.03.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.The company had revenue of $865.08 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $834.60 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $4.16 EPS. F5’s quarterly revenue was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades
A number of research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target 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. Bank of America increased their target price on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Piper Sandler restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $461.00 target price (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on F5 from $380.00 to $415.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 1st. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $416.62.
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F5 Company Profile
F5, Inc is a technology company that provides application delivery, security and traffic-management solutions for enterprises, service providers and government organizations. Its offerings are designed to help customers ensure the availability, performance and security of applications across on-premises data centers, public clouds and edge environments.
The company’s portfolio includes BIG-IP software and appliances, NGINX application delivery and web server technologies, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
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