NASDAQ:FFIV F5 (FFIV) Stock Price, News & Analysis $461.60 +6.18 (+1.36%) Closing price 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$459.93 -1.67 (-0.36%) As of 06:17 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. Add Compare Share Share Stock Analysis Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesNews and TrendsOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort Interest About F5 Stock (NASDAQ:FFIV) View Price History Chart DataSkip Price History Chart 1 Day 5 Days 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year Advanced 1 Day 1 Day 5 Days 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year Advanced Show volume Show extended hours Get F5 alerts:Sign Up Key Stats Today's Range$452.33▼$465.9550-Day Range$377.79▼$479.8352-Week Range$223.76▼$483.30Volume553,354 shsAverage Volume708,256 shsMarket Capitalization$26.14 billionP/E Ratio36.75Dividend YieldN/APrice Target$426.00Consensus RatingHold Company Overview F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides application delivery, security and traffic management solutions for enterprises, service providers and public-sector organizations. Its offerings are designed to help customers secure, optimize and manage applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) across data centers, private and public clouds, and edge environments. The company’s portfolio includes BIG-IP software and appliances, NGINX application delivery and web server technologies, and F5 Distributed Cloud services. These products support functions such as load balancing, web application and API security, bot and fraud protection, application performance management, and multi-cloud networking. F5 was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company expanded beyond its traditional application delivery business through acquisitions including NGINX, completed in 2019, Shape Security in 2020, and Volterra in 2021. F5 serves customers worldwide, and its chief executive officer is François Locoh-Donou, who has led the company since 2017.AI Generated. May Contain Errors. Read More F5 Stock Analysis - MarketRank™See Top-Rated MarketRank™ Stocks61st Percentile Overall ScoreFFIV MarketRank™: 3.05634182504 of 5 starsF5 scored higher than 61% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 301st out of 591 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation. Analyst's Opinion2.2 / 5Analyst RatingHold Consensus RatingF5 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 RiskF5 has a consensus price target of $426.00, representing about 7.6% downside from its current price of $460.98.Amount of Analyst CoverageF5 has been the subject of 7 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.Read more about F5's stock forecast and price target. Earnings and Valuation1.9 / 5Proj. Earnings Growth3.08% Earnings GrowthEarnings 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 MarketThe P/E ratio of F5 is 36.81, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.83.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of F5 is 36.81, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 79.41.Price to Earnings Growth RatioF5 has a PEG Ratio of 4.31. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.Price to Book Value per Share RatioF5 has a P/B Ratio of 7.37. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.Read more about F5's valuation and earnings. Short Interest5.0 / 5Short Interest LevelHealthy Percentage of Shares Shorted2.24% of the float of F5 has been sold short.Short Interest Ratio / Days to CoverF5 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 monthShort interest in F5 has recently decreased by 6.64%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving significantly. Dividend0.0 / 5Dividend StrengthN/A Dividend YieldF5 does not currently pay a dividend.Dividend GrowthF5 does not have a long track record of dividend growth. News and Social Media2.8 / 5News Sentiment0.42 News SentimentF5 has a news sentiment score of 0.42. 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 news sentiment score is similar to the average news sentiment of Technology companies.News Coverage This WeekMarketBeat has tracked 8 news articles for F5 this week, compared to 10 articles on an average week.Search Interest12 people have searched for FFIV on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 33% compared to the previous 30 days.MarketBeat Follows10 people have added F5 to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 100% compared to the previous 30 days. Company Ownership1.4 / 5Insider TradingSelling Shares Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn 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 Insiders0.48% of the stock of F5 is held by insiders.Percentage Held by Institutions90.66% of the stock of F5 is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.Read more about F5's insider trading history. Receive FFIV Stock News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for F5 and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Submit View SMS TermsSMS is currently available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. By entering your phone number and clicking the sign-up button, you agree to receive periodic text messages from MarketBeat at the phone number you submitted, including texts that may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary. Messages will consist of stock alerts, news stories, and partner advertisements/offers. Consent is not a condition of the purchase of any goods or services. Text HELP for help/customer support. Unsubscribe at any time by replying "STOP" to any text message that you receive from MarketBeat or by visiting our mailing preferences page. Read our full terms of service and privacy policy. FFIV Stock News HeadlinesF5 (FFIV) reports Q3: Everything you need to know ahead of earningsOctober 25 at 12:33 AM | msn.comF5 Inc. stock underperforms Tuesday when compared to competitors despite daily gainsOctober 21, 2026 | marketwatch.comExecutive Order 14241 Unleashes Trump’s New DollarA landmark executive order, 14241, is reportedly set to reshape how Americans use money starting this December. The agenda at the upcoming G20 Summit in Miami has shifted, and new research points to a major monetary announcement from President Trump. A new documentary breaks down what this shift could mean for savings, investments, and the assets tied to it.October 26 at 1:00 AM | Porter & Company (Ad)Telenor Ai Factory Selects F5, Inc. Big-Ip Next for Kubernetes as an Intelligent Ai Service Plane for Its Nvidia-Powered Sovereign Ai InfrastructureOctober 21, 2026 | marketscreener.comMF5 Selected for Telenor's Nvidia-Backed AI InfrastructureOctober 21, 2026 | finance.yahoo.comF5 and Telenor Partner to Build the AI Service Plane for Sovereign AI on NVIDIA-powered AI Factory InfrastructureOctober 20, 2026 | businesswire.comF5 (FFIV) Projected to Post Earnings on TuesdayOctober 20, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comComparing Comtech Telecommunications (NASDAQ:CMTL) and F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV)October 19, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comSee More Headlines FFIV Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions How have FFIV shares performed this year? F5's stock was trading at $255.26 at the start of the year. Since then, FFIV shares have increased by 80.6% and is now trading at $460.9810. How were F5's earnings last quarter? F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July, 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. The company's quarterly revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. Read the conference call transcript. How will F5's stock buyback program work? F5's Board of Directors authorized a stock buyback program on Monday, October 28th 2024, which allows the company to repurchase $1 billion in shares, according to EventVestor. This means that the company could buy up to 7.9% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued. Does F5 have any subsidiaries? The following companies are subsidiaries of F5: Threat Stack, Volterra, Shape Security, NGINX, Defense.Net Inc, Versafe Ltd, LineRate Systems Inc, and others. Who are F5's major shareholders? Top institutional investors of F5 include Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (1.29%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.28%), Cardinal Capital Management (0.04%) and Sterling Capital Management LLC (0.03%). Insiders that own company stock include Francois Locoh-Donou, Francis J Pelzer, Chad Michael Whalen, Scot Frazier Rogers, Kunal Anand, Thomas Dean Fountain, Nikhil Ramesh Mehta, Alan Higginson, Elizabeth Buse, Angelique M Okeke, Michael L Dreyer, Michael F Montoya, Marianne Budnik, John Anthony Maddison, Edward Cooper Werner and Lyra Amber Schramm. View institutional ownership trends. How do I buy shares of F5? Shares of FFIV stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services. What other stocks do shareholders of F5 own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that F5 investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Salesforce (CRM), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Micron Technology (MU), Netflix (NFLX) and Intel (INTC). Company Calendar Last Earnings7/27/2026Today10/26/2026Next Earnings (Confirmed)10/27/2026Fiscal Year End9/30/2027Get Stock Alerts Health Indicator TradeSmith's Health IndicatorA long-term volatility-based measure designed for securities held 12 months or longer.Green: Strong and healthy uptrend with normal pullbacks.Yellow: Significant pullback but still within expected volatility.Red: Dropped beyond expected volatility; considered unhealthy. Green Zone (2m+) 1-Year History Oct 25 Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26 FFIV's financial health is in the Green zone, according to TradeSmith. FFIV has been in this zone for over 2 months. Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock ExchangeNASDAQ SectorTechnology Industry Communications Equipment Sub-IndustryCommunications Equipment Current SymbolNASDAQ:FFIV CIK1048695 Webwww.f5.com Phone(206) 272-5555Fax206-272-5556Employees6,578Year Founded1996Price Target and Rating Average Price Target for F5$426.00 High Price Target$525.00 Low Price Target$300.00 Potential Upside/Downside-7.7%Consensus RatingHold Rating Score (0-4)2.36 Research Coverage11 Analysts Profitability EPS (Trailing Twelve Months)$12.56 Trailing P/E Ratio36.75 Forward P/E Ratio33.82 P/E Growth4.31Net Income$692.38 million Net Margins21.95% Pretax Margin25.79% Return on Equity21.54% Return on Assets12.16% Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current Ratio1.66 Quick Ratio1.59 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$3.09 billion Price / Sales8.46 Cash Flow$13.92 per share Price / Cash Flow33.17 Book Value$62.53 per share Price / Book7.38Miscellaneous Outstanding Shares56,630,000Free Float56,355,000Market Cap$26.14 billion OptionableOptionable Beta1.03 Social Links The Infrastructure's Backbone: 10 Stocks Powering the AI BuildoutThe AI boom extends far beyond the biggest tech names. 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