Insider Selling: F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells $284,616.58 in Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Chad Michael Whalen sold 703 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $404.86, for a total transaction of $284,616.58. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 21,536 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,719,064.96. The trade was a 3.16% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Chad Michael Whalen also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, May 8th, Chad Michael Whalen sold 6,200 shares of F5 stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $350.19, for a total value of $2,171,178.00.

F5 Trading Up 0.4%

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV opened at $413.07 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $23.31 billion, a PE ratio of 32.89, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.05 and a beta of 1.03. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $403.18 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $338.33. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $435.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. The business 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 business’s revenue was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $4.16 EPS. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. On average, equities analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have commented on FFIV shares. Royal Bank Of Canada reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Thursday, July 16th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on shares of F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Saturday, August 1st. Finally, Barclays lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. 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. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $416.62.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

Several institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in FFIV. Millennium Management LLC raised its position in shares of F5 by 166.5% in the 1st quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 62,906 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $16,750,000 after purchasing an additional 39,305 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its position in F5 by 1,281.4% during the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 967 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $257,000 after purchasing an additional 897 shares during the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its stake in F5 by 38.4% during the 1st 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 in the last quarter. Focus Partners Wealth acquired a new position in F5 during the 1st quarter valued at approximately $257,000. Finally, Geneos Wealth Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of F5 by 288.1% in the first quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 163 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $43,000 after buying an additional 121 shares during the last quarter. 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.