F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) CEO Sells $1,559,848.08 in Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $412.44, for a total transaction of $1,559,848.08. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 146,989 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $60,624,143.16. The trade was a 2.51% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

F5 Price Performance

FFIV opened at $400.23 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $22.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.87, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.94 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a one year low of $223.76 and a one year high of $435.00. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $403.52 and a 200-day moving average price of $338.76.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $4.00 by $0.73. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.The company had revenue of $865.08 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $834.60 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $4.16 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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, analysts expect that F5, Inc. will post 13.53 earnings per share for the current year.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On F5

Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Millennium Management LLC boosted its stake in F5 by 166.5% in the first quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 62,906 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $16,750,000 after buying an additional 39,305 shares in the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its stake in shares of F5 by 1,281.4% during the first quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 967 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $257,000 after acquiring an additional 897 shares in the last quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of F5 by 38.4% in the 1st quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 298,297 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $79,428,000 after acquiring an additional 82,835 shares during the last quarter. Focus Partners Wealth bought a new stake in shares of F5 in the 1st quarter worth approximately $257,000. Finally, Geneos Wealth Management Inc. boosted its stake in shares of F5 by 288.1% in the 1st quarter. Geneos Wealth Management Inc. now owns 163 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $43,000 after purchasing an additional 121 shares in the last quarter. 90.66% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

FFIV has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Wall Street Zen raised F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, August 1st. Piper Sandler reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $461.00 target price (up from $423.00) on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, July 28th. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of F5 from $380.00 to $415.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Bank of America boosted their price target on shares of F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, May 26th. Finally, Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b-)” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Friday, June 26th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, F5 presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $416.62.

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.