F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Given Average Rating of “Hold” by Brokerages

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) has received an average recommendation of “Hold” from the eleven analysts that are covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and five have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $416.6250.

Several brokerages have commented on FFIV. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Bank of America boosted their target price on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on shares of F5 from $380.00 to $415.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 1st. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Thursday, July 16th.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, CTO Michael Montoya sold 4,426 shares of F5 stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $410.16, for a total transaction of $1,815,368.16. Following the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 1,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $536,899.44. The trade was a 77.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider John Maddison sold 204 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $406.24, for a total value of $82,872.96. Following the sale, the insider owned 1,149 shares in the company, valued at $466,769.76. This represents a 15.08% decrease in their ownership of the stock. 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 have sold 16,829 shares of company stock valued at $6,815,302 over the last three months. Company insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. BlackRock Inc. bought a new position in F5 during the 2nd quarter worth $2,611,637,000. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. bought a new stake in F5 in the fourth quarter valued at $579,699,000. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 15,103.5% during the fourth quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 1,170,216 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $298,709,000 after acquiring an additional 1,162,519 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of F5 during the fourth quarter valued at $205,706,000. Finally, UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC grew its position in shares of F5 by 24.8% during the second quarter. UBS AM a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC now owns 726,844 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $302,338,000 after acquiring an additional 144,534 shares during the last quarter. 90.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV opened at $434.62 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $24.61 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.60, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.14 and a beta of 1.03. F5 has a 1 year low of $223.76 and a 1 year high of $439.48. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $403.79 and its 200 day moving average price is $365.31.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.00 by $0.73. The firm had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $834.60 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior 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, equities analysts predict that F5 will post 13.65 EPS for the current year.

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.