Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd Purchases Shares of 3,845 F5, Inc. $FFIV

Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd purchased a new stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm purchased 3,845 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $981,000.

Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Barclays PLC grew its position in F5 by 51.7% in the third quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 310,368 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $100,308,000 after acquiring an additional 105,738 shares during the period. Convergence Investment Partners LLC grew its position in F5 by 128.1% in the third quarter. Convergence Investment Partners LLC now owns 7,931 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,563,000 after acquiring an additional 4,454 shares during the period. Alberta Investment Management Corp grew its position in F5 by 173.3% in the third quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 8,200 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,650,000 after acquiring an additional 5,200 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. grew its position in F5 by 11.5% in the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 381,350 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $123,249,000 after acquiring an additional 39,445 shares during the period. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC bought a new stake in F5 in the third quarter valued at $1,571,000. 90.66% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several analysts have recently commented on FFIV shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their target price on F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Bank of America increased their target price on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday. Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating and set a $425.00 target price on shares of F5 in a report on Friday. Evercore upgraded F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 target price on the stock in a report on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Piper Sandler increased their target price on F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, F5 presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $379.89.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 3,123 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, May 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $322.33, for a total value of $1,006,636.59. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 12,194 shares in the company, valued at $3,930,492.02. This trade represents a 20.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,328 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $330.58, for a total value of $439,010.24. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,664,474.80. This represents a 14.15% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 24,491 shares of company stock valued at $7,966,227 over the last 90 days. Corporate insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of FFIV stock opened at $383.45 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $327.19 and its 200-day moving average is $285.86. The stock has a market capitalization of $21.63 billion, a PE ratio of 31.46, a PEG ratio of 8.82 and a beta of 1.00. F5, Inc. has a 52 week low of $223.76 and a 52 week high of $399.59.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.47 by $0.43. The company 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 business’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $3.42 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. As a group, analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 12.79 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

F5 Profile

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.