Insider Selling: F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Sells 688 Shares of Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) EVP Chad Michael Whalen sold 688 shares of the business’s 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 approximately $7,294,449.45. This represents a 2.55% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this link.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV traded down $0.89 during trading hours on Monday, reaching $285.33. The stock had a trading volume of 608,582 shares, compared to its average volume of 907,946. The company has a market cap of $16.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.60, a PEG ratio of 8.11 and a beta of 1.01. F5, Inc. has a twelve month low of $223.76 and a twelve month high of $346.00. The business’s fifty day moving average is $272.16 and its two-hundred day moving average is $280.69.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly 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. The firm had revenue of $822.47 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $755.97 million. F5 had a net margin of 22.45% and a return on equity of 22.08%. The business’s revenue was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $3.84 earnings per share. F5 has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.340-3.460 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 15.650-16.050 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

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

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts recently commented on FFIV shares. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded F5 from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and raised their target price for the stock from $295.00 to $345.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Zacks Research upgraded F5 from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, January 9th. Weiss Ratings lowered F5 from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research note on Tuesday, January 27th. Morgan Stanley reduced their target price on shares of F5 from $336.00 to $296.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, December 17th. Finally, Wall Street Zen lowered shares of F5 from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, November 28th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, F5 has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $309.89.

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.