2,466 Shares in F5, Inc. $FFIV Acquired by Plato Investment Management Ltd

Plato Investment Management Ltd purchased a new stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 2,466 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,020,000.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in FFIV. Bell Investment Advisors Inc acquired a new position in shares of F5 in the second quarter valued at $49,000. HBK Sorce Advisory LLC bought a new position in shares of F5 in the second quarter valued at about $296,000. Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc. bought a new position in shares of F5 in the second quarter valued at about $61,683,000. Bank of New York Mellon Corp acquired a new stake in shares of F5 during the 2nd quarter worth about $154,007,000. Finally, Focus Partners Advisor Solutions LLC bought a new stake in shares of F5 during the 2nd quarter worth about $582,000. 90.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages recently commented on FFIV. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on shares of F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Weiss Ratings upgraded F5 from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a report on Tuesday, August 11th. Wall Street Zen raised F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 1st. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on F5 from $380.00 to $415.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Finally, Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $416.62.

F5 Stock Down 0.5%

Shares of F5 stock opened at $393.62 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 31.34, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.94 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a twelve month low of $223.76 and a twelve month high of $435.00. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $404.55 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $346.18.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $4.00 by $0.73. The company had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $834.60 million. F5 had a net margin of 21.95% and a return on equity of 21.54%. The business’s revenue for the quarter 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, sell-side analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Insider Activity

In other F5 news, CFO Edward Cooper Werner sold 2,500 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $400.00, for a total value of $1,000,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 406 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $162,400. The trade was a 86.03% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,208 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $414.63, for a total value of $500,873.04. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,341,917.80. The trade was a 13.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 15,699 shares of company stock worth $6,316,411. 0.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

About F5

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.