Profund Advisors LLC Decreases Stake in F5, Inc. $FFIV

Profund Advisors LLC cut its holdings in shares of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) by 25.9% during the 2nd quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The firm owned 3,213 shares of the network technology company’s stock after selling 1,122 shares during the quarter. Profund Advisors LLC’s holdings in F5 were worth $946,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Other large investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. Private Advisory Group LLC bought a new stake in F5 during the 1st quarter valued at $469,000. Vestcor Inc grew its position in shares of F5 by 689.3% in the first quarter. Vestcor Inc now owns 7,364 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,961,000 after purchasing an additional 6,431 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC raised its stake in shares of F5 by 17.4% during the 2nd quarter. Vanguard Personalized Indexing Management LLC now owns 9,622 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,832,000 after purchasing an additional 1,428 shares during the period. Morningstar Investment Management LLC purchased a new stake in F5 during the 2nd quarter worth about $240,000. Finally, Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC boosted its stake in F5 by 15.4% in the 2nd quarter. Sequoia Financial Advisors LLC now owns 18,477 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $5,438,000 after purchasing an additional 2,461 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at F5

In other F5 news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 2,701 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, September 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $316.57, for a total value of $855,055.57. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 1,300 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $252.98, for a total transaction of $328,874.00. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 151,623 shares in the company, valued at $38,357,586.54. This trade represents a 0.85% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 24,117 shares of company stock valued at $6,297,504 over the last quarter. 0.52% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

FFIV has been the topic of several analyst reports. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Piper Sandler reduced their price objective on shares of F5 from $355.00 to $277.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. Weiss Ratings reiterated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Bank of America cut their price target on shares of F5 from $260.00 to $250.00 and set an “underperform” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, October 28th. Finally, Zacks Research cut shares of F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, October 13th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have assigned a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $295.56.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV opened at $238.51 on Wednesday. The company’s fifty day moving average price is $305.43 and its 200-day moving average price is $299.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.22, a current ratio of 1.56 and a quick ratio of 1.56. The firm has a market capitalization of $13.70 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.20, a PEG ratio of 7.53 and a beta of 1.08. F5, Inc. has a one year low of $227.04 and a one year high of $346.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 27th. The network technology company reported $4.39 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.96 by $0.43. The company had revenue of $810.09 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $794.06 million. F5 had a net margin of 22.42% and a return on equity of 21.76%. The firm’s revenue was up 8.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $3.67 EPS. F5 has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.500-15.500 EPS. Q1 2026 guidance at 3.350-3.850 EPS. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

F5 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.