F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Releases Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.25 EPS

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday. The network technology company reported $3.11 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate 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 Trading Up 2.6 %

NASDAQ FFIV traded up $6.71 on Tuesday, reaching $269.72. The stock had a trading volume of 1,252,850 shares, compared to its average volume of 530,531. F5 has a 1 year low of $159.01 and a 1 year high of $274.64. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $256.34 and a 200 day moving average price of $225.37. The company has a market capitalization of $15.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.21, a P/E/G ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06.

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

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on FFIV shares. Royal Bank of Canada upped their target price on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $260.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Friday, January 3rd. Evercore ISI upped their target price on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. StockNews.com upgraded F5 from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. Morgan Stanley boosted their price target on F5 from $230.00 to $262.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, December 17th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on shares of F5 from $225.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Seven investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, one has issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $251.25.

Insider Activity

In related 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 transaction, the director now owns 9,882 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,369,407.14. This trade represents a 7.71 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through the SEC website. 0.58% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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.