F5 (FFIV) Stock Price, News & Analysis

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for F5 in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FFIV shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FFIV, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 equities research analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for F5's stock. Their FFIV share price targets range from $155.00 to $220.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $186.82 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 5.3% from the stock's current price.
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F5's stock was trading at $178.98 at the start of the year. Since then, FFIV shares have decreased by 0.9% and is now trading at $177.45.
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F5 saw a decrease in short interest in the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,710,000 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the March 15th total of 1,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 445,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.8 days. Currently, 2.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, April 29th 2024.
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F5 will be holding an earnings conference call on Monday, April 29th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 201-612-7415 with passcode "13745541".

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, January, 29th. The network technology company reported $3.43 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.04 by $0.39. The network technology company earned $693 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $684.77 million. F5 had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 20.81% and a net margin of 16.43%. The company's revenue was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.65 EPS.
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F5 updated its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Monday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 12.400-12.640 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 12.640. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

433 employees have rated F5 Chief Executive Officer Francois Locoh-Donou on Glassdoor.com. Francois Locoh-Donou has an approval rating of 89% among the company's employees. 85.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at F5 to a friend.

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F5's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.28%), Nepsis Inc. (0.11%), Grimes & Company Inc. (0.10%), Centre Asset Management LLC (0.09%), Los Angeles Capital Management LLC (0.06%) and Touchstone Capital Inc. (0.05%). Insiders that own company stock include Alan Higginson, Ana Maria White, Chad Michael Whalen, Francis J Pelzer, Francois Locoh-Donou, Geng Lin, Marie Myers, Michael L Dreyer, Mika Yamamoto, Scot B Jarvis, Scot Frazier Rogers and Thomas Dean Fountain.
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