E Fund Management Co. Ltd. Takes Position in F5, Inc. $FFIV

E Fund Management Co. Ltd. acquired a new position in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 1,545 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $643,000.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of FFIV. Persistent Asset Partners Ltd acquired a new stake in F5 in the second quarter valued at approximately $36,000. Hazlett Burt & Watson Inc. acquired a new position in shares of F5 during the fourth quarter worth $26,000. Hantz Financial Services Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of F5 by 109.8% during the 4th quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 107 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $27,000 after purchasing an additional 56 shares during the last quarter. Elyxium Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of F5 during the 4th quarter valued at $28,000. Finally, SJS Investment Consulting Inc. boosted its position in shares of F5 by 963.6% in the 1st quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 117 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $34,000 after purchasing an additional 106 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Insider Activity at F5

In other news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 392 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $404.63, for a total value of $158,614.96. Following the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 12,586 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $5,092,673.18. The trade was a 3.02% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $412.44, for a total value of $1,559,848.08. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 146,989 shares in the company, valued at $60,624,143.16. This represents a 2.51% 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. Insiders sold 15,699 shares of company stock worth $6,316,411 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

F5 Stock Performance

FFIV opened at $382.63 on Thursday. F5, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $223.76 and a fifty-two week high of $435.00. The company has a fifty day moving average of $404.38 and a two-hundred day moving average of $346.88. The stock has a market capitalization of $21.67 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 30.46, a PEG ratio of 3.85 and a beta of 1.03.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. The company had revenue of $865.08 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $834.60 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.F5’s quarterly revenue was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm 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 research analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 earnings per share for the current year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research firms have issued reports on FFIV. Evercore raised shares of F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price target for the company in a report on Monday, May 18th. Barclays boosted their price objective on shares of F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Piper Sandler restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $461.00 target price (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Thursday, July 16th. Five 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’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $416.62.

F5 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.