F5 (FFIV) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

F5, Inc. develops application delivery, security and management technologies that help organizations deploy, protect and optimize applications across data centers, public clouds, edge environments and distributed networks. Its offerings are designed to support application availability, performance, scalability and security across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

The company’s portfolio includes BIG-IP application delivery and security solutions, NGINX web and application delivery technologies, and F5 Distributed Cloud services. These products and services address needs such as traffic management, web application and API protection, bot defense, load balancing, application modernization and Kubernetes-based application operations. F5 also provides consulting, support and other professional services.

Founded in 1996 and originally known as F5 Networks, the company changed its name to F5, Inc. in 2017. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, F5 serves enterprises, service providers and public-sector organizations worldwide. François Locoh-Donou has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since 2017.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $473.26 to $483.30
• 50-Day Range: $377.79 to $479.83
• 52-Week Range: $223.76 to $483.30
• Volume: 67,341 shs
• Average Volume: 713,493 shs
• Market Capitalization: $26.93 billion
• P/E Ratio: 37.86
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $426.00
• Consensus Rating: Hold

F5 Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

F5 scored higher than 59% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 271st out of 596 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: 2.2 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

F5 has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.36, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 5 buy ratings, 5 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Downside Risk

F5 has a consensus price target of $416.63, representing about 13.2% downside from its current price of $479.83.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

F5 has been the subject of 8 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 3.08%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for F5 are expected to grow by 3.08% in the coming year, from $13.65 to $14.07 per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of F5 is 38.20, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 39.05.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of F5 is 38.20, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 81.40.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

F5 has a PEG Ratio of 4.55. 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 7.67. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 5.0 / 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 2.13, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in F5 has recently decreased by 6.64%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving 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: 2.8 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.49

News Sentiment

F5 has a news sentiment score of 0.49. 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 0.63 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 15 news articles for F5 this week, compared to 10 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 9 people have searched for FFIV on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -10% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

13 people have added F5 to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 225% 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 $6,815,302.00 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: 7/27/2026
• Today: 10/12/2026
• Next Earnings (Confirmed): 10/27/2026
• 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: $426.00
• High Price Target: $525.00
• Low Price Target: $300.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: -10.4%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.36
• Research Coverage: 11 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): $12.56
• Trailing P/E Ratio: 37.84
• Forward P/E Ratio: 34.85
• P/E Growth: 4.55
• Net Income: $692.38 million
• Net Margins: 21.95%
• Pretax Margin: 25.79%
• Return on Equity: 21.54%
• Return on Assets: 12.16%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: N/A
• Current Ratio: 1.66
• Quick Ratio: 1.59

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $3.31 billion
• Price / Sales: 8.14
• Cash Flow: $13.61 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 34.94
• Book Value: $62.53 per share
• Price / Book: 7.61

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 56,627,000
• Free Float: 56,355,000
• Market Cap: $26.94 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.03