EP Wealth Advisors LLC Makes New $810,000 Investment in F5, Inc. $FFIV

EP Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) in the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund bought 1,948 shares of the network technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $810,000.

Several other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in FFIV. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of F5 by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 7,357,293 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,878,023,000 after purchasing an additional 114,533 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. bought a new position in F5 during the 2nd quarter worth $2,611,637,000. State Street Corp increased its position in F5 by 1.7% in the third quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,226,326 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,042,716,000 after buying an additional 53,712 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP increased its position in F5 by 68.5% in the fourth quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 2,753,652 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $702,897,000 after buying an additional 1,119,291 shares during the period. Finally, Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P. bought a new stake in F5 in the fourth quarter valued at $579,699,000. 90.66% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

FFIV has been the topic of several analyst reports. Zacks Research cut F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Bank of America boosted their price target on F5 from $250.00 to $300.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, May 26th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, July 28th. Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Thursday, July 16th. Finally, Morgan Stanley increased 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. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have issued a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $416.62.

Insider Activity at F5

In related news, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred 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 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 SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider John Anthony Maddison sold 1,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $405.85, for a total transaction of $405,850.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 1,353 shares in the company, valued at approximately $549,115.05. This represents a 42.50% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 15,699 shares of company stock worth $6,316,411. Company insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV opened at $384.63 on Monday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $403.83 and its two-hundred day moving average is $348.33. The company has a market cap of $21.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 30.62, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.76 and a beta of 1.03. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $435.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.00 by $0.73. The business had revenue of $865.08 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $834.60 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.54% and a net margin of 21.95%.F5’s revenue for the quarter was up 10.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $4.16 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q4 2026 guidance at 4.140-4.260 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 17.210-17.330 EPS. Equities research analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 earnings per share for the current 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.