F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.16 EPS

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The network technology company reported $4.42 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.26 by $0.16, FiscalAI reports. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%. The firm had revenue of $917.43 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $884.03 million.

F5 Stock Performance

NASDAQ:FFIV traded down $2.24 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $459.36. The stock had a trading volume of 1,488,513 shares, compared to its average volume of 709,290. The stock has a market cap of $26.01 billion, a P/E ratio of 36.57, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.31 and a beta of 1.03. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $429.09 and a 200 day simple moving average of $360.44. F5 has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $483.30.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

FFIV has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $461.00 price target (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Zacks Research lowered F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. Wall Street Zen raised shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, August 1st. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of F5 from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a research report on Friday, October 9th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price target on shares of F5 from $508.00 to $525.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, October 12th. Five equities 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 data from MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $426.00.

Insider Transactions at F5

In related news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 392 shares of F5 stock in a transaction dated Monday, August 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $404.63, for a total value of $158,614.96. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer owned 12,586 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $5,092,673.18. This trade represents a 3.02% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of F5 stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $412.44, for a total value of $1,559,848.08. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly 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. 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. Over the last 90 days, insiders sold 16,829 shares of company stock valued at $6,815,302. 0.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About F5

F5, Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides application delivery, security and traffic management solutions for enterprises, service providers and public-sector organizations. Its offerings are designed to help customers secure, optimize and manage applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) across data centers, private and 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.