F5 Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:FFIV)

14 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for F5 in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" FFIV shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FFIV, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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14 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for F5's shares. Their FFIV share price targets range from $155.00 to $186.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $167.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.5%.
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F5's stock was trading at $143.51 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, FFIV shares have increased by 17.5% and is now trading at $168.66.
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F5 saw a decrease in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,310,000 shares, a decrease of 5.1% from the October 31st total of 1,380,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 452,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.9 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 23rd 2024.
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F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 24th. The network technology company reported $3.50 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $3.21 by $0.29. The network technology company earned $707 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $701.44 million. F5 had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 19.14% and a net margin of 14.04%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.82 EPS.
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ETFs with the largest weight of F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) stock in their portfolio include iShares North American Tech-Multimedia Networking ETF (IGN), Alpha Intelligent - Large Cap Value ETF (AILV), SPDR S&P Telecom ETF (XTL), ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF (HACK), First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (CIBR), iShares Future Cloud 5G and Tech ETF (IDAT), American CenturyFocused Large Cap Value ETF (FLV) and SPDR Kensho Future Security ETF (FITE).

F5 updated its first quarter 2024 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 24th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.97-$3.09 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $3.03. The company issued revenue guidance of $675.00 million-$695.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $695.48 million.

433 employees have rated F5 Chief Executive Officer Francois Locoh-Donou on Glassdoor.com. Francois Locoh-Donou has an approval rating of 89% among the company's employees. 85.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at F5 to a friend.

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F5's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Invesco Ltd. (4.07%), Ameriprise Financial Inc. (3.06%), American Century Companies Inc. (2.84%), Wellington Management Group LLP (2.53%), Westfield Capital Management Co. LP (1.26%) and Northern Trust Corp (1.20%). Insiders that own company stock include Alan Higginson, Ana Maria White, Chad Michael Whalen, Deborah L Bevier, Francis J Pelzer, Francis J Pelzer, Francois Locoh-Donou, Geng Lin, Marie Myers, Michael L Dreyer, Mika Yamamoto, Scot B Jarvis, Scot Frazier Rogers and Thomas Dean Fountain.
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