F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Monday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 14.440-14.707 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS 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.

F5 Trading Down 1.4 %

Shares of F5 stock traded down $3.66 during trading on Tuesday, reaching $261.42. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 177,802 shares, compared to its average volume of 581,101. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $268.38 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $261.30. The firm has a market cap of $15.07 billion, a PE ratio of 26.01, a P/E/G ratio of 3.85 and a beta of 1.14. F5 has a fifty-two week low of $159.01 and a fifty-two week high of $313.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its quarterly earnings data on Monday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.42 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.11 by $0.31. The firm had revenue of $590.16 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $719.91 million. F5 had a net margin of 20.58% and a return on equity of 20.98%. The firm’s revenue was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $2.91 earnings per share. On average, analysts predict that F5 will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages have recently commented on FFIV. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price target on F5 from $296.00 to $285.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, April 17th. Evercore ISI boosted their price target on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Piper Sandler decreased their target price on shares of F5 from $304.00 to $262.00 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, April 8th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “buy” rating and set a $320.00 price target on shares of F5 in a report on Tuesday. Finally, Bank of America boosted their target price on shares of F5 from $180.00 to $260.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a report on Friday, January 31st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, seven have given a hold rating, one has given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $284.00.

Insider Activity

In related news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 253 shares of the firm’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 in the company, valued at $59,452. This trade represents a 55.85 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, Director Marianne Budnik sold 728 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Thursday, January 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $304.45, for a total value of $221,639.60. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 1,770 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $538,876.50. This trade represents a 29.14 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders sold 18,232 shares of company stock valued at $5,310,131. 0.52% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About F5

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.