F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Bank of America Analyst Says

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) had its price objective hoisted by stock analysts at Bank of America from $250.00 to $300.00 in a report released on Tuesday,Benzinga reports. The brokerage currently has an “underperform” rating on the network technology company’s stock. Bank of America‘s price objective would suggest a potential downside of 24.62% from the stock’s current price.

Several other brokerages have also weighed in on FFIV. Needham & Company LLC restated a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Evercore upgraded shares of F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Monday, May 18th. Royal Bank Of Canada increased their price objective on shares of F5 from $375.00 to $425.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 19th. Barclays restated an “overweight” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Tuesday. Finally, Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of F5 from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a report on Monday, March 30th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, four have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, F5 has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $358.56.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of FFIV stock traded up $4.35 during trading hours on Tuesday, reaching $397.98. 194,442 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 815,824. F5 has a fifty-two week low of $223.76 and a fifty-two week high of $399.07. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $318.97 and its two-hundred day moving average is $282.16. The company has a market cap of $22.45 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.65, a P/E/G ratio of 9.05 and a beta of 1.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.47 by $0.43. F5 had a net margin of 21.96% and a return on equity of 21.50%. The company had revenue of $811.70 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $783.82 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $3.42 earnings per share. F5’s quarterly revenue 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, research analysts anticipate that F5 will post 12.79 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other F5 news, CFO Edward Cooper Werner sold 1,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $350.00, for a total value of $525,000.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer directly owned 2,906 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,017,100. This trade represents a 34.04% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,328 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $330.58, for a total transaction of $439,010.24. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,664,474.80. This trade represents a 14.15% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. In the last quarter, insiders sold 24,491 shares of company stock valued at $7,966,227. 0.48% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC increased its position in shares of F5 by 2.6% during the first quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC now owns 1,447 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $419,000 after acquiring an additional 36 shares in the last quarter. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC grew its position in F5 by 3.4% in the fourth quarter. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC now owns 1,190 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $309,000 after purchasing an additional 39 shares in the last quarter. Pacific Sage Partners LLC grew its position in F5 by 0.6% in the fourth quarter. Pacific Sage Partners LLC now owns 7,122 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,818,000 after purchasing an additional 40 shares in the last quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. grew its position in F5 by 4.4% in the fourth quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 968 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $247,000 after purchasing an additional 41 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Coldstream Capital Management Inc. grew its position in F5 by 4.5% in the third quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,047 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $338,000 after purchasing an additional 45 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

About F5

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.