F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells 1,208 Shares of Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,208 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $414.63, for a total transaction of $500,873.04. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 8,060 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,341,917.80. The trade was a 13.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction 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.

F5 Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV traded up $1.75 during trading on Thursday, reaching $413.07. 540,637 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 776,640. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $402.59 and its 200 day simple moving average is $337.31. The stock has a market cap of $23.30 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.89, a PEG ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $435.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates 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 company’s revenue was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $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, research analysts expect that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in FFIV. Millennium Management LLC increased its holdings in F5 by 166.5% in the 1st quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 62,906 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $16,750,000 after acquiring an additional 39,305 shares in the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of F5 by 1,281.4% in the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 967 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $257,000 after purchasing an additional 897 shares during the period. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. grew its position in shares of F5 by 38.4% in the first quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 298,297 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $79,428,000 after purchasing an additional 82,835 shares during the period. Focus Partners Wealth purchased a new stake in shares of F5 during the first quarter worth about $257,000. Finally, Geneos Wealth Management Inc. increased its stake in shares of F5 by 288.1% during the first quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 163 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $43,000 after purchasing an additional 121 shares in the last quarter. 90.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of brokerages have recently commented on FFIV. Evercore raised shares of F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $461.00 price target (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 1st. Morgan Stanley lifted their price objective 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. Finally, Zacks Research downgraded shares of F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, F5 currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $416.62.

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.