Insider Selling: F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells 1,208 Shares

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,208 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $414.63, for a total transaction of $500,873.04. Following the transaction, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,341,917.80. The trade was a 13.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV traded up $1.75 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $413.07. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 540,637 shares, compared to its average volume of 776,640. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $402.59 and its 200 day moving average price is $337.31. F5, Inc. has a 52 week low of $223.76 and a 52 week high of $435.00. The company has a market capitalization of $23.30 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.89, a P/E/G ratio of 4.06 and a beta of 1.03.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its quarterly earnings data 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 firm had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $834.60 million. F5 had a net margin of 21.95% and a return on equity of 21.54%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $4.16 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. On average, equities research analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms have recently commented on FFIV. Weiss Ratings reissued a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Friday, June 26th. Wall Street Zen raised F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 1st. Bank of America boosted their target price on shares of F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, May 26th. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating and set a $461.00 price target (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Thursday, July 16th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $416.62.

Institutional Trading of F5

Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Norges Bank acquired a new position in F5 in the 4th quarter worth approximately $205,706,000. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. lifted its stake in F5 by 127.0% during the 4th quarter. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. now owns 34,529 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $8,814,000 after acquiring an additional 19,315 shares during the period. iA Global Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in F5 during the 1st quarter valued at approximately $6,469,000. William Blair Investment Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of F5 in the 4th quarter valued at $140,460,000. Finally, Tredje AP fonden boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 98.2% in the 4th quarter. Tredje AP fonden now owns 7,683 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,961,000 after acquiring an additional 3,807 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

F5 Company Profile

F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) specializes in application services and delivery networking, helping organizations ensure the availability, performance and security of their applications. The company’s core offerings include advanced load balancing, traffic management and application security solutions designed to optimize user experiences and protect against threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and web application exploits.

At the heart of F5’s product portfolio is the BIG-IP platform, which provides a suite of software modules for local and global traffic management, secure web application firewalling and DNS service delivery.