USA Financial Formulas bought a new stake in shares of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV – Free Report) in the third quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund bought 1,705 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $759,000.
Other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Vontobel Holding Ltd. grew its holdings in shares of F5 by 1.3% in the third quarter. Vontobel Holding Ltd. now owns 15,319 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $6,820,000 after purchasing an additional 192 shares during the last quarter. V Square Quantitative Management LLC lifted its holdings in F5 by 8.0% during the 3rd quarter. V Square Quantitative Management LLC now owns 1,903 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $847,000 after buying an additional 141 shares in the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. lifted its holdings in F5 by 140.4% during the 3rd quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 158,674 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $70,638,000 after buying an additional 92,666 shares in the last quarter. WealthPlan Investment Management LLC bought a new stake in F5 during the 3rd quarter valued at about $228,000. Finally, Mather Group LLC. boosted its position in F5 by 2.5% in the 3rd quarter. Mather Group LLC. now owns 1,365 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $608,000 after buying an additional 33 shares during the period. 90.66% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
F5 Trading Down 3.2%
FFIV opened at $442.03 on Friday. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $483.30. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $423.56 and its 200-day simple moving average is $389.42. The company has a market capitalization of $25.03 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.19, a PEG ratio of 4.19 and a beta of 1.03.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.00 by $0.73. The firm had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $834.60 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm 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. On average, equities research analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 EPS for the current year.
Insider Buying and Selling
In other F5 news, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $412.44, for a total transaction of $1,559,848.08. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 146,989 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $60,624,143.16. This trade represents a 2.51% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider John Maddison sold 204 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $406.24, for a total transaction of $82,872.96. Following the completion of the sale, the insider owned 1,149 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $466,769.76. This represents a 15.08% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold 16,829 shares of company stock valued at $6,815,302 over the last quarter. 0.48% of the stock is owned by company insiders.
Analyst Ratings Changes
A number of brokerages have commented on FFIV. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on shares of F5 from $508.00 to $525.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, October 12th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Barclays boosted their price target on F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, August 1st. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $426.00.
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About F5
F5, Inc develops application delivery, security and management technologies that help organizations deploy, protect and optimize applications across data centers, public clouds, edge environments and distributed networks. Its offerings are designed to support application availability, performance, scalability and security across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
The company’s portfolio includes BIG-IP application delivery and security solutions, NGINX web and application delivery technologies, and F5 Distributed Cloud services.
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