Elizabeth Buse Sells 1,000 Shares of F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Elizabeth Buse sold 1,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $399.35, for a total value of $399,350.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 4,947 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,975,584.45. This represents a 16.82% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV opened at $396.16 on Friday. F5, Inc. has a 52-week low of $223.76 and a 52-week high of $411.52. The firm has a market capitalization of $22.35 billion, a P/E ratio of 32.50, a P/E/G ratio of 4.65 and a beta of 1.04. The stock has a 50 day moving average price of $349.06 and a 200-day moving average price of $297.42.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $3.47 by $0.43. F5 had a return on equity of 21.50% and a net margin of 21.96%.The firm had revenue of $811.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $783.82 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $3.42 EPS. The business’s revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

FFIV has been the subject of several research reports. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Evercore raised F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Monday, May 18th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, April 29th. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price objective on F5 from $425.00 to $450.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Finally, Bank of America raised their price objective on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 26th. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $382.67.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Barclays PLC boosted its stake in F5 by 51.7% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 310,368 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $100,308,000 after purchasing an additional 105,738 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of F5 in the 4th quarter worth $205,706,000. Alberta Investment Management Corp boosted its stake in shares of F5 by 173.3% in the 3rd quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 8,200 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $2,650,000 after buying an additional 5,200 shares during the last quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted its stake in shares of F5 by 11.5% in the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 381,350 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $123,249,000 after buying an additional 39,445 shares during the last quarter. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of F5 in the 3rd quarter worth $1,571,000. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

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.