F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells $500,873.04 in Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,208 shares of the stock in a transaction dated 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 owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,341,917.80. This trade represents a 13.03% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of F5 stock opened at $400.23 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $22.58 billion, a PE ratio of 31.87, a P/E/G ratio of 3.94 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a 1 year low of $223.76 and a 1 year high of $435.00. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $403.52 and a 200-day moving average price of $338.76.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.00 by $0.73. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.The business had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $834.60 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $4.16 earnings per share. F5’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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, equities analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. grew its position in F5 by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,357,293 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,878,023,000 after acquiring an additional 114,533 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. bought a new stake in F5 in the second quarter valued at approximately $2,611,637,000. State Street Corp lifted its position in F5 by 1.7% in the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,226,326 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,042,716,000 after purchasing an additional 53,712 shares during the last quarter. First Trust Advisors LP boosted its stake in shares of F5 by 68.5% during the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,753,652 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $702,897,000 after purchasing an additional 1,119,291 shares during the period. Finally, Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. purchased a new stake in shares of F5 during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $579,699,000. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have commented on FFIV shares. Bank of America raised their price target on shares of F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Friday, June 26th. Zacks Research downgraded F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Finally, Evercore raised F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price objective for the company in a report on Monday, May 18th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, F5 currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $416.62.

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.