F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Stock Rating Lowered by Wall Street Zen

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) was downgraded by research analysts at Wall Street Zen from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a report issued on Saturday.

FFIV has been the topic of a number of other research reports. Evercore ISI restated a “cautious” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Tuesday, October 28th. Piper Sandler dropped their price objective on F5 from $355.00 to $277.00 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Weiss Ratings restated a “buy (b)” rating on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, October 8th. Royal Bank Of Canada dropped their price objective on F5 from $350.00 to $315.00 and set a “sector perform” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Finally, Barclays dropped their price objective on F5 from $321.00 to $267.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a research report on Tuesday, October 28th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, eight have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $295.56.

F5 Price Performance

F5 stock opened at $253.05 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $315.24 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $300.02. F5 has a one year low of $227.04 and a one year high of $346.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.22, a current ratio of 1.56 and a quick ratio of 1.56. The firm has a market cap of $14.54 billion, a PE ratio of 21.43, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.53 and a beta of 1.06.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 27th. The network technology company reported $4.39 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.96 by $0.43. F5 had a return on equity of 21.76% and a net margin of 22.42%.The firm had revenue of $810.09 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $794.06 million. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $3.67 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 8.5% on a year-over-year basis. F5 has set its FY 2026 guidance at 14.500-15.500 EPS. Q1 2026 guidance at 3.350-3.850 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that F5 will post 11.2 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, insider Lyra Amber Schramm sold 2,701 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $316.57, for a total transaction of $855,055.57. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 1,300 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, October 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $320.61, for a total value of $416,793.00. Following the sale, the chief executive officer owned 107,553 shares in the company, valued at $34,482,567.33. This represents a 1.19% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 9,298 shares of company stock worth $2,978,754 in the last 90 days. Insiders own 0.52% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of FFIV. Norges Bank bought a new stake in F5 during the 2nd quarter worth $207,492,000. Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of F5 by 6.2% in the first quarter. Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC now owns 5,387,700 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,434,583,000 after buying an additional 312,415 shares during the period. Pacer Advisors Inc. increased its stake in shares of F5 by 659.3% in the first quarter. Pacer Advisors Inc. now owns 316,992 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $84,405,000 after buying an additional 275,244 shares during the period. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. increased its stake in shares of F5 by 40.8% in the second quarter. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. now owns 789,283 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $232,302,000 after buying an additional 228,790 shares during the period. Finally, AQR Capital Management LLC increased its stake in shares of F5 by 37.5% in the first quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 828,900 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $216,757,000 after buying an additional 226,231 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

F5 Company Profile

F5, Inc provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud.