Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund Decreases Position in F5, Inc. $FFIV

Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund decreased its stake in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) by 14.1% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 50,400 shares of the network technology company’s stock after selling 8,280 shares during the quarter. Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund’s holdings in F5 were worth $12,865,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the company. Barclays PLC lifted its stake in shares of F5 by 51.7% in the third quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 310,368 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $100,308,000 after acquiring an additional 105,738 shares in the last quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp lifted its stake in shares of F5 by 173.3% in the third quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 8,200 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $2,650,000 after acquiring an additional 5,200 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new position in shares of F5 in the fourth quarter worth about $205,706,000. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted its stake in shares of F5 by 11.5% in the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 381,350 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $123,249,000 after acquiring an additional 39,445 shares in the last quarter. Finally, HighTower Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of F5 in the third quarter worth about $1,571,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several research firms recently commented on FFIV. Weiss Ratings upgraded F5 from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research note on Monday, March 30th. Piper Sandler boosted their price target on F5 from $356.00 to $423.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Barclays upped their price objective on F5 from $292.00 to $386.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $425.00 target price on shares of F5 in a report on Friday, May 29th. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $379.89.

F5 Trading Down 3.7%

Shares of F5 stock opened at $393.35 on Friday. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $338.41 and its 200-day simple moving average is $291.60. The stock has a market capitalization of $22.19 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 32.27, a PEG ratio of 9.05 and a beta of 1.04. F5, Inc. has a twelve month low of $223.76 and a twelve month high of $411.52.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.47 by $0.43. F5 had a return on equity of 21.50% and a net margin of 21.96%.The firm had revenue of $811.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $783.82 million. During the same period last year, the firm earned $3.42 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity

In other F5 news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 3,123 shares of the 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. This trade represents a 20.39% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,783 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $337.39, for a total value of $1,276,346.37. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 146,989 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $49,592,618.71. The trade was a 2.51% 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 worth $7,437,510 in the last quarter. 0.48% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

F5 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.