Prudential PLC Lowers Stock Holdings in F5, Inc. $FFIV

Prudential PLC reduced its stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) by 93.8% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 1,964 shares of the network technology company’s stock after selling 29,799 shares during the period. Prudential PLC’s holdings in F5 were worth $501,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Barclays PLC lifted its holdings in shares of F5 by 51.7% in the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 310,368 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $100,308,000 after buying an additional 105,738 shares during the period. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in shares of F5 in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $205,706,000. Alberta Investment Management Corp lifted its holdings 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 valued at $2,650,000 after buying an additional 5,200 shares during the period. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its holdings 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 valued at $123,249,000 after buying an additional 39,445 shares during the period. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC acquired a new stake in shares of F5 in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $1,571,000. 90.66% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Insider Activity

In related news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 3,123 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Monday, May 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $322.33, for a total transaction of $1,006,636.59. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 12,194 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,930,492.02. The trade was a 20.39% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,328 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $330.58, for a total value of $439,010.24. Following the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,664,474.80. This represents a 14.15% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 21,579 shares of company stock valued at $7,437,510 in the last 90 days. Insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

FFIV has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Evercore raised F5 from an “in-line” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $475.00 price target for the company in a report on Monday, May 18th. Piper Sandler raised their price target on F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, May 29th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on F5 from $340.00 to $380.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $425.00 price target on shares of F5 in a report on Friday, May 29th. Finally, Weiss Ratings raised F5 from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a report on Monday, March 30th. Six research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, F5 presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $379.89.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of FFIV stock opened at $396.19 on Tuesday. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $340.47 and a 200 day moving average price of $293.23. The stock has a market cap of $22.35 billion, a PE ratio of 32.50, a P/E/G ratio of 9.05 and a beta of 1.04. F5, Inc. has a 1 year low of $223.76 and a 1 year high of $411.52.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings data 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. The firm had revenue of $811.70 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $783.82 million. F5 had a return on equity of 21.50% and a net margin of 21.96%.F5’s revenue was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $3.42 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 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.