F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) released its earnings results on Tuesday. The network technology company reported $3.11 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.36 by ($0.25), Zacks reports. F5 had a return on equity of 20.80% and a net margin of 20.13%. F5 updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 3.020-3.140 EPS and its FY 2025 guidance to 14.240-14.550 EPS.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV traded up $6.71 during midday trading on Tuesday, hitting $269.72. The company had a trading volume of 1,259,008 shares, compared to its average volume of 530,531. F5 has a 12-month low of $159.01 and a 12-month high of $274.64. The company has a fifty day moving average of $256.34 and a two-hundred day moving average of $225.37. The company has a market cap of $15.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.21, a PEG ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06.

F5 announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a share repurchase plan on Monday, October 28th that allows the company to buyback $1.00 billion in shares. This buyback authorization allows the network technology company to reacquire up to 7.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are generally an indication that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Insider Activity at F5

In other F5 news, Director Alan Higginson sold 825 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $239.77, for a total transaction of $197,810.25. Following the sale, the director now owns 9,882 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,369,407.14. This trade represents a 7.71 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. 0.58% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

FFIV has been the topic of several recent analyst reports. Royal Bank of Canada increased their price objective on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $260.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, January 3rd. Piper Sandler increased their target price on F5 from $186.00 to $246.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 29th. StockNews.com upgraded F5 from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on F5 from $225.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price objective on F5 from $212.00 to $241.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, one has assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $251.25.

F5 Company Profile

F5, Inc provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company’s distributed cloud services enable its customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud.