F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Updates Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) issued an update on its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 3.020-3.140 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 3.220. The company issued revenue guidance of $705.0 million-$725.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $703.6 million. F5 also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 14.240-14.550 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

FFIV has been the topic of several analyst reports. Barclays raised their target price on F5 from $214.00 to $246.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on F5 from $225.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on shares of F5 from $230.00 to $262.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 17th. Royal Bank of Canada increased their price target on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $260.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, January 3rd. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group raised their price target on shares of F5 from $212.00 to $241.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, one has assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $251.25.

F5 Trading Up 2.6 %

NASDAQ FFIV traded up $6.71 on Tuesday, reaching $269.72. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,252,850 shares, compared to its average volume of 530,531. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $256.34 and a 200 day moving average price of $225.37. F5 has a 52 week low of $159.01 and a 52 week high of $274.64. The firm has a market cap of $15.81 billion, a PE ratio of 28.21, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 28th. The network technology company reported $3.11 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.36 by ($0.25). F5 had a net margin of 20.13% and a return on equity of 20.80%. Analysts anticipate that F5 will post 11.01 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

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

Insider Activity

In related news, Director Alan Higginson sold 825 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $239.77, for a total value of $197,810.25. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 9,882 shares in the company, valued at $2,369,407.14. This represents a 7.71 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Insiders own 0.58% of the company’s stock.

About F5

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.