F5 (FFIV) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

F5, Inc. provides application delivery and security solutions that help organizations manage, protect and optimize applications across data centers, public clouds and edge environments. Its offerings serve businesses, government agencies and service providers around the world.

The company’s products and services include BIG-IP application delivery and security software, NGINX technologies for application development and delivery, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services. These offerings support functions such as traffic management, web and API protection, application security and multicloud connectivity.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, F5 was previously known as F5 Networks before adopting the F5 name in 2021. François Locoh-Donou has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2017.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $305.40 to $320.69
• 50-Day Range: $309.14 to $479.83
• 52-Week Range: $223.76 to $483.30
• Volume: 1.23 million shs
• Average Volume: 1.13 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $17.51 billion
• P/E Ratio: 24.67
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $443.00
• Consensus Rating: Hold

F5 Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

F5 scored higher than 89% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 128th out of 593 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 4.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

F5 has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.25, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 4 buy ratings, 7 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Upside Potential

F5 has a consensus price target of $443.00, representing about 43.3% upside from its current price of $309.14.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

F5 has been the subject of 7 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 2.5 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 12.03%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for F5 are expected to grow by 12.03% in the coming year, from $14.21 to $15.92 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of F5 is 24.67, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 26.40.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of F5 is 24.67, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 45.31.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

F5 has a PEG Ratio of 2.81. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

F5 has a P/B Ratio of 4.37. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 3.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.24% of the float of F5 has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

F5 has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.04, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in F5 has recently increased by 17.63%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

F5 does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

F5 does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.4 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.40

News Sentiment

F5 has a news sentiment score of 0.40. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.62 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 24 news articles for F5 this week, compared to 10 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

22 people have searched for FFIV on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 144% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

14 people have added F5 to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 1,300% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.4 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, F5 insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $10,263,863.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

0.48% of the stock of F5 is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

90.66% of the stock of F5 is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 10/27/2026
• Today: 11/15/2026
• RBC Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference: 11/18/2026
• Next Earnings (Estimated): 1/26/2027
• Fiscal Year End: 9/30/2027

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Communications Equipment
• Sub-Industry: Communications Equipment
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:FFIV
• CIK: 1048695
• Web: www.f5.com
• Phone: (206) 272-5555
• Fax: 206-272-5556
• Employees: 6,578
• Year Founded: 1996

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for F5: $443.00
• High Price Target: $540.00
• Low Price Target: $300.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +43.3%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.25
• Research Coverage: 12 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $12.53
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 24.67
• Forward P/E Ratio: 19.42
• P/E Growth: 2.81
• Net Income: $722.15 million
• Net Margins: 21.14%
• Pretax Margin: 25.40%
• Return on Equity: 21.00%
• Return on Assets: 11.85%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.23
• Current Ratio: 1.73
• Quick Ratio: 1.59

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $3.42 billion
• Price / Sales: 5.12
• Cash Flow: $15.45 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 20.01
• Book Value: $70.73 per share
• Price / Book: 4.37

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 56,630,000
• Free Float: 56,355,000
• Market Cap: $17.51 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.07