F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Elizabeth Buse Sells 1,000 Shares

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Elizabeth Buse sold 1,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $399.35, for a total transaction of $399,350.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 4,947 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,975,584.45. This trade represents a 16.82% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

F5 Stock Up 0.6%

NASDAQ FFIV opened at $396.16 on Friday. F5, Inc. has a 52 week low of $223.76 and a 52 week high of $411.52. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.35 billion, a PE ratio of 32.50, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.62 and a beta of 1.04. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $349.06 and a two-hundred day moving average of $297.42.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $783.82 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $3.42 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. 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, equities research analysts expect that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their target price on shares of F5 from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday. Barclays upped their target price on shares of F5 from $292.00 to $386.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on shares of F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Piper Sandler upped their target price on shares of F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC restated a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, F5 presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $382.67.

Institutional Trading of F5

A number of large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in F5 by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,357,293 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,878,023,000 after purchasing an additional 114,533 shares during the period. State Street Corp boosted its stake in F5 by 1.7% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,226,326 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,042,716,000 after purchasing an additional 53,712 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its stake in F5 by 68.5% during the 4th quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,753,652 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $702,897,000 after purchasing an additional 1,119,291 shares during the period. Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. acquired a new stake in F5 during the 4th quarter worth $579,699,000. Finally, Invesco Ltd. boosted its stake in F5 by 7.5% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,537,680 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $392,508,000 after purchasing an additional 106,616 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

F5 Company 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.