Insider Selling: F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells $190,610.40 in Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Chad Michael Whalen sold 688 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, March 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $277.05, for a total value of $190,610.40. Following the sale, the executive vice president owned 26,329 shares in the company, valued at $7,294,449.45. This represents a 2.55% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

F5 Trading Up 1.2%

FFIV opened at $289.52 on Thursday. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $273.90 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $280.33. The company has a market cap of $16.36 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.95, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 8.10 and a beta of 1.01. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $346.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, January 27th. The network technology company reported $4.45 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.63 by $0.82. F5 had a return on equity of 22.08% and a net margin of 22.45%.The business had revenue of $822.47 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $755.97 million. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $3.84 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 7.3% on a year-over-year basis. F5 has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.340-3.460 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 15.650-16.050 EPS. On average, analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 11.2 EPS for the current year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts recently commented on the stock. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised shares of F5 from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $295.00 to $345.00 in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their target price on shares of F5 from $285.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 28th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price target on F5 from $325.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 28th. Finally, Piper Sandler reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $325.00 price objective (up from $295.00) on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $309.89.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of FFIV. Hsbc Holdings PLC boosted its position in shares of F5 by 24.8% during the fourth quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 581,855 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $148,580,000 after buying an additional 115,639 shares during the last quarter. Invesco Ltd. raised its position in F5 by 7.5% in the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 1,537,680 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $392,508,000 after buying an additional 106,616 shares during the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC raised its position in F5 by 70.1% in the 4th quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 14,356 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $3,665,000 after buying an additional 5,917 shares during the last quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp lifted its stake in F5 by 35.4% during the 4th quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 11,100 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,833,000 after acquiring an additional 2,900 shares during the period. Finally, Caitlin John LLC lifted its stake in F5 by 15,212.0% during the 4th quarter. Caitlin John LLC now owns 3,828 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $977,000 after acquiring an additional 3,803 shares during the period. 90.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

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.