F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Receives $309.89 Average Price Target from Analysts

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) has been assigned an average rating of “Hold” from the thirteen ratings firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat.com reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12 month target price among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $311.00.

FFIV has been the topic of a number of research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of F5 from $345.00 to $355.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday. Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $325.00 to $345.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of F5 from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Monday, March 30th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $285.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th.

Insider Activity

In other news, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,755 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 4th. The shares were sold at an average price of $283.53, for a total transaction of $1,064,655.15. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 150,323 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $42,621,080.19. The trade was a 2.44% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Alan Higginson sold 1,770 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, February 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $275.25, for a total transaction of $487,192.50. Following the sale, the director directly owned 6,840 shares in the company, valued at approximately $1,882,710. The trade was a 20.56% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. In the last quarter, insiders have sold 17,961 shares of company stock worth $4,959,115. 0.48% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Institutional Trading of F5

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC raised its position in shares of F5 by 3.4% during the 4th quarter. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC now owns 1,190 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $309,000 after buying an additional 39 shares during the period. Pacific Sage Partners LLC increased its holdings in F5 by 0.6% in the 4th quarter. Pacific Sage Partners LLC now owns 7,122 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,818,000 after purchasing an additional 40 shares during the last quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. increased its holdings in F5 by 4.4% in the 4th quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 968 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $247,000 after purchasing an additional 41 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd increased its holdings in F5 by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd now owns 7,386 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,387,000 after purchasing an additional 42 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Coldstream Capital Management Inc. increased its holdings in F5 by 4.5% in the 3rd quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,047 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $338,000 after purchasing an additional 45 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

F5 Price Performance

FFIV opened at $310.87 on Tuesday. The company’s 50 day simple moving average is $286.88 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $275.19. F5 has a 1-year low of $223.76 and a 1-year high of $346.00. The firm has a market capitalization of $17.57 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.71, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 8.61 and a beta of 0.93.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its earnings results on Tuesday, January 27th. The network technology company reported $4.45 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.63 by $0.82. F5 had a net margin of 22.45% and a return on equity of 22.08%. The business had revenue of $822.47 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $755.97 million. During the same period last year, the company posted $3.84 EPS. The business’s revenue 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, equities analysts anticipate that F5 will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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.