Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. Buys 141,131 Shares of F5, Inc. $FFIV

Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. raised its stake in shares of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) by 23.9% during the 3rd quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 732,219 shares of the network technology company’s stock after purchasing an additional 141,131 shares during the period. Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.’s holdings in F5 were worth $325,969,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the company. Persistent Asset Partners Ltd purchased a new position in shares of F5 in the 2nd quarter valued at $36,000. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. raised its position in shares of F5 by 963.6% in the 1st quarter. SJS Investment Consulting Inc. now owns 117 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $34,000 after acquiring an additional 106 shares in the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc purchased a new stake in shares of F5 during the 2nd quarter worth $49,000. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC lifted its stake in shares of F5 by 373.1% during the 2nd quarter. Elevation Wealth Partners LLC now owns 123 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $51,000 after purchasing an additional 97 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC lifted its stake in shares of F5 by 113.8% during the 1st quarter. Capital Advisors Ltd. LLC now owns 124 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $36,000 after purchasing an additional 66 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Insider Transactions at F5

In related news, CTO Michael Montoya sold 4,426 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $410.16, for a total transaction of $1,815,368.16. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 1,309 shares in the company, valued at $536,899.44. The trade was a 77.18% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, insider John Maddison sold 204 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $406.24, for a total value of $82,872.96. Following the transaction, the insider owned 1,149 shares in the company, valued at approximately $466,769.76. This trade represents a 15.08% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 16,829 shares of company stock worth $6,815,302. 0.48% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on FFIV shares. Barclays raised their price objective on F5 from $386.00 to $397.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Zacks Research downgraded shares of F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price target on shares of F5 from $500.00 to $515.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 28th. Morgan Stanley increased their price target 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. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of F5 from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Saturday, August 1st. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $426.00.

F5 Trading Up 1.3%

NASDAQ FFIV opened at $456.71 on Wednesday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $425.23 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $392.46. F5, Inc. has a 12-month low of $223.76 and a 12-month high of $483.30. The firm has a market capitalization of $25.86 billion, a P/E ratio of 36.36, a P/E/G ratio of 4.27 and a beta of 1.03.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 27th. The network technology company reported $4.73 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping 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%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 10.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm 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. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 13.65 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

F5 Profile

F5, Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) provides application delivery, security and traffic management solutions for enterprises, service providers and public-sector organizations. Its offerings are designed to help customers secure, optimize and manage applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) across data centers, private and public clouds, and edge environments.

The company’s portfolio includes BIG-IP software and appliances, NGINX application delivery and web server technologies, and F5 Distributed Cloud services.