F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV - Get Free Report) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 14.440-14.707 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 14.390. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.0 billion-$3.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.0 billion. F5 also updated its Q3 2025 guidance to 3.410-3.530 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have commented on FFIV shares. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price target on shares of F5 from $257.00 to $295.00 and gave the stock a "neutral" rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 29th. Barclays decreased their price target on F5 from $296.00 to $274.00 and set an "equal weight" rating for the company in a research note on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on F5 from $269.00 to $280.00 and gave the stock an "equal weight" rating in a research note on Tuesday. Bank of America raised their target price on shares of F5 from $180.00 to $260.00 and gave the company an "underperform" rating in a research note on Friday, January 31st. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a "sector perform" rating and set a $290.00 price target on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have issued a hold rating and two have issued a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average target price of $282.56.

F5 Trading Up 1.4 %

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV traded up $3.65 on Friday, hitting $269.42. The company had a trading volume of 68,526 shares, compared to its average volume of 575,074. The stock has a market cap of $15.53 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.78, a P/E/G ratio of 3.85 and a beta of 1.14. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $266.38 and a 200 day moving average price of $261.65. F5 has a 1-year low of $163.12 and a 1-year high of $313.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.42 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.11 by $0.31. F5 had a net margin of 20.58% and a return on equity of 20.98%. The firm had revenue of $590.16 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $719.91 million. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.91 earnings per share. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. Sell-side analysts anticipate that F5 will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity at F5

In other F5 news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 253 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Saturday, February 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $297.26, for a total value of $75,206.78. Following the completion of the sale, the insider now owns 200 shares of the company's stock, valued at $59,452. The trade was a 55.85 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, EVP Scot Frazier Rogers sold 3,486 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, February 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $293.18, for a total transaction of $1,022,025.48. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now directly owns 20,075 shares in the company, valued at $5,885,588.50. This represents a 14.80 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold 17,504 shares of company stock worth $5,088,492 in the last ninety days. 0.52% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

F5 Company Profile

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.