Edward Cooper Werner Sells 599 Shares of F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) CFO Edward Cooper Werner sold 599 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $405.92, for a total transaction of $243,146.08. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 406 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $164,803.52. This represents a 59.60% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Edward Cooper Werner also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Tuesday, June 2nd, Edward Cooper Werner sold 2,500 shares of F5 stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $400.00, for a total transaction of $1,000,000.00.
• On Friday, May 8th, Edward Cooper Werner sold 1,500 shares of F5 stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $350.00, for a total value of $525,000.00.

F5 Price Performance

FFIV opened at $411.32 on Thursday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $402.59 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $337.31. The company has a market capitalization of $23.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a 1-year low of $223.76 and a 1-year high of $435.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $834.60 million. During the same period last year, the firm earned $4.16 EPS. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. Equities analysts expect that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Trading of F5

Hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its position in shares of F5 by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,357,293 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,878,023,000 after buying an additional 114,533 shares during the period. State Street Corp raised its position in F5 by 1.7% during the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,226,326 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,042,716,000 after buying an additional 53,712 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP raised its position in F5 by 68.5% during the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,753,652 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $702,897,000 after buying an additional 1,119,291 shares during the period. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. purchased a new stake in F5 in the 4th quarter worth about $579,699,000. Finally, Invesco Ltd. lifted its stake in F5 by 7.5% in the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,537,680 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $392,508,000 after acquiring an additional 106,616 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have weighed in on FFIV. Wall Street Zen raised shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, August 1st. Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Friday, June 26th. Barclays boosted their target price on shares of F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $461.00 target price (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Thursday, July 16th. Five 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 company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $416.62.

More F5 News

Here are the key news stories impacting F5 this week:

• Positive Sentiment: F5’s latest quarterly results were well above expectations: earnings per share reached $4.73 versus the $4.00 consensus, while revenue of $865.1 million exceeded the $834.6 million estimate. Revenue increased 10.9% year over year, and management maintained its fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 earnings guidance. F5 earnings information
• Positive Sentiment: F5 was ranked in the “Leader” tier of SecureIQLab’s 2026 Cloud WAAP CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, supporting the company’s competitive position in cloud-based web application and API protection. SecureIQLab report
• Positive Sentiment: Several analysts raised their targets after the earnings report. JPMorgan increased its target to $515 with an overweight rating, Piper Sandler raised its target to $461 while maintaining an overweight rating, and Morgan Stanley lifted its target to $415.
• Neutral Sentiment: Analyst opinion remains mixed, with five Buy ratings, five Hold ratings and one Sell rating. The consensus rating is Hold and the average price target is $416.62, suggesting limited upside from recent trading levels. F5’s valuation is also elevated at roughly 33 times earnings.
• Negative Sentiment: Multiple executives sold shares on August 3 under pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plans. The transactions included sales by the CFO, CTO and three executive vice presidents totaling approximately $1.30 million. In addition, Director Nikhil Ramesh Mehta sold 4,000 shares worth about $1.56 million on July 30. The planned nature of the transactions reduces their significance, but the cluster of sales may create a modest overhang. F5 insider selling report

About F5

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.