F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Michael Dreyer Sells 3,067 Shares of Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) Director Michael Dreyer sold 3,067 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, February 20th. The shares were sold at an average price of $282.41, for a total transaction of $866,151.47. Following the completion of the transaction, the director directly owned 1,309 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $369,674.69. The trade was a 70.09% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink.

F5 Price Performance

F5 stock opened at $269.52 on Tuesday. The firm has a market cap of $15.23 billion, a P/E ratio of 22.29, a P/E/G ratio of 7.88 and a beta of 1.00. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $268.63 and its 200 day moving average is $283.22. F5, Inc. has a one year low of $223.76 and a one year high of $346.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 27th. The network technology company reported $4.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.63 by $0.82. The firm had revenue of $822.47 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $755.97 million. F5 had a return on equity of 22.08% and a net margin of 22.45%.The company’s revenue was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm 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. Equities analysts anticipate that F5, Inc. will post 11.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have recently commented on FFIV. Barclays upped their price target on F5 from $267.00 to $283.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Weiss Ratings downgraded F5 from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research report on Tuesday, January 27th. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price target on F5 from $325.00 to $345.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Needham & Company LLC reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Wednesday, January 28th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upgraded F5 from a “neutral” rating to an “overweight” rating and boosted their price objective for the company from $295.00 to $345.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and two have issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, F5 currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $309.89.

Institutional Trading of F5

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the business. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of F5 by 3.4% during the 4th quarter. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC now owns 1,190 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $309,000 after acquiring an additional 39 shares during the last quarter. Pacific Sage Partners LLC lifted its position in F5 by 0.6% during the fourth quarter. Pacific Sage Partners LLC now owns 7,122 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $1,818,000 after purchasing an additional 40 shares during the period. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. boosted its holdings in F5 by 4.4% in the fourth quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 968 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $247,000 after purchasing an additional 41 shares during the last quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd grew its position in F5 by 0.6% in the 3rd quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd now owns 7,386 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $2,387,000 after purchasing an additional 42 shares during the period. Finally, Coldstream Capital Management Inc. grew its position in F5 by 4.5% in the 3rd quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,047 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $338,000 after purchasing an additional 45 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

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.