F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Receives Average Recommendation of "Hold" from Analysts

Key Points

• F5, Inc. has received an average analyst rating of "Hold", with one sell rating, eight hold ratings, and four buy ratings among thirteen analysts.
• The company's recent insider trading includes the sale of shares by CEO Francois Locoh-Donou and other insiders, totaling $3.8 million in the last 90 days.
• F5 reported an impressive quarterly earnings beat of 4.16 EPS, surpassing expectations, with revenue of $780.37 million, marking a year-over-year increase of 12.2%.

Shares of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV - Get Free Report) have been assigned an average rating of "Hold" from the thirteen analysts that are presently covering the stock, Marketbeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokerages that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $314.3333.

A number of analysts have recently commented on FFIV shares. Weiss Ratings reissued a "buy (b)" rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Wednesday, October 8th. Zacks Research cut shares of F5 from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Monday, October 13th. Piper Sandler boosted their target price on shares of F5 from $304.00 to $355.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. Barclays boosted their target price on shares of F5 from $274.00 to $321.00 and gave the stock an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Thursday, July 31st. Finally, Wolfe Research began coverage on shares of F5 in a research note on Monday, July 7th. They set an "outperform" rating for the company.

Insider Buying and Selling at F5

In related news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 2,701 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Monday, September 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $316.57, for a total transaction of $855,055.57. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 1,300 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, October 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $320.61, for a total transaction of $416,793.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer directly owned 107,553 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $34,482,567.33. This represents a 1.19% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 11,945 shares of company stock worth $3,796,542 in the last 90 days. 0.52% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Trading of F5

Large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Whipplewood Advisors LLC grew its stake in F5 by 275.0% during the 2nd quarter. Whipplewood Advisors LLC now owns 90 shares of the network technology company's stock valued at $26,000 after acquiring an additional 66 shares in the last quarter. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of F5 by 134.1% in the 1st quarter. Annis Gardner Whiting Capital Advisors LLC now owns 103 shares of the network technology company's stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 59 shares during the period. Golden State Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in shares of F5 by 275.0% in the 1st quarter. Golden State Wealth Management LLC now owns 105 shares of the network technology company's stock valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 77 shares during the period. Groupe la Francaise purchased a new stake in shares of F5 in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $34,000. Finally, Flaharty Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of F5 in the 1st quarter valued at approximately $35,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company's stock.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of F5 stock opened at $296.50 on Tuesday. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $322.06 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $298.15. The company has a market cap of $17.03 billion, a P/E ratio of 26.12, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.30 and a beta of 1.06. F5 has a fifty-two week low of $213.24 and a fifty-two week high of $346.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV - Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The network technology company reported $4.16 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.49 by $0.67. The business had revenue of $780.37 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $750.64 million. F5 had a net margin of 22.06% and a return on equity of 21.77%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 12.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $3.36 earnings per share. F5 has set its FY 2025 guidance at 15.240-15.380 EPS. Q4 2025 guidance at 3.870-3.990 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that F5 will post 11.2 EPS for the current year.

About F5

F5, Inc provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company's distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud.

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