Talos Eurisko Asset Management LP Takes $18.22 Million Position in F5, Inc. $FFIV

Talos Eurisko Asset Management LP bought a new stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) during the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund bought 71,360 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $18,215,000. F5 accounts for 3.2% of Talos Eurisko Asset Management LP’s holdings, making the stock its 15th biggest holding.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the company. Alberta Investment Management Corp boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 35.4% during the fourth quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 11,100 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $2,833,000 after acquiring an additional 2,900 shares during the period. OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 24.6% during the fourth quarter. OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp now owns 10,377 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $2,649,000 after acquiring an additional 2,046 shares during the period. Truvestments Capital LLC boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 22.5% during the fourth quarter. Truvestments Capital LLC now owns 1,603 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $409,000 after acquiring an additional 294 shares during the period. Verition Fund Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 189.7% during the fourth quarter. Verition Fund Management LLC now owns 18,867 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $4,816,000 after acquiring an additional 12,354 shares during the period. Finally, UMB Bank n.a. boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 64.5% during the fourth quarter. UMB Bank n.a. now owns 153 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $39,000 after acquiring an additional 60 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at F5

In related news, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,328 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $330.58, for a total transaction of $439,010.24. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,664,474.80. This trade represents a 14.15% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a 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, CTO Kunal Anand sold 3,123 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Monday, May 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $322.33, for a total transaction of $1,006,636.59. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 12,194 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,930,492.02. This represents a 20.39% 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 have sold 22,579 shares of company stock valued at $7,836,860 in the last quarter. Insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

F5 Stock Up 0.2%

FFIV stock opened at $396.81 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $22.39 billion, a PE ratio of 32.55, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.65 and a beta of 1.04. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $350.93 and a 200 day simple moving average of $298.96. F5, Inc. has a 52 week low of $223.76 and a 52 week high of $411.52.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.47 by $0.43. F5 had a net margin of 21.96% and a return on equity of 21.50%. The business had revenue of $811.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $783.82 million. During the same period last year, the firm posted $3.42 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

FFIV has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Bank of America boosted their price objective on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their target price on shares of F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Piper Sandler increased their target price on shares of F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, May 29th. Evercore upgraded shares of F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of F5 from $340.00 to $380.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $382.67.

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.