F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 14.440-14.707 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 14.390. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.0 billion-$3.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.0 billion. F5 also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 3.410-3.530 EPS.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of FFIV traded down $3.66 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, hitting $261.42. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 177,802 shares, compared to its average volume of 581,101. F5 has a fifty-two week low of $159.01 and a fifty-two week high of $313.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $15.07 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.01, a PEG ratio of 3.85 and a beta of 1.14. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $268.38 and a 200 day moving average price of $261.30.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.42 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.11 by $0.31. The business had revenue of $590.16 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $719.91 million. F5 had a return on equity of 20.98% and a net margin of 20.58%. F5’s revenue for the quarter was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $2.91 EPS. As a group, equities analysts anticipate that F5 will post 11.2 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of research analysts have commented on the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on F5 from $296.00 to $285.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, April 17th. Barclays lowered their target price on shares of F5 from $296.00 to $274.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday. Bank of America raised their price target on shares of F5 from $180.00 to $260.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Friday, January 31st. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on F5 from $269.00 to $280.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on F5 from $257.00 to $295.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 29th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have assigned a hold rating, one has assigned a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, F5 currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $284.00.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 253 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Saturday, February 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $297.26, for a total transaction of $75,206.78. Following the transaction, the insider now directly owns 200 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $59,452. The trade was a 55.85 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 1,300 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, April 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $265.37, for a total value of $344,981.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 148,647 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $39,446,454.39. The trade was a 0.87 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold 18,232 shares of company stock worth $5,310,131 over the last ninety days. Corporate insiders own 0.52% of the company’s stock.

F5 Company Profile

F5, Inc provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud.