F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Issues FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) issued an update on its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday morning. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 14.240-14.550 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of 14.270. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.0 billion-$3.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.0 billion. F5 also updated its Q2 2025 guidance to 3.020-3.140 EPS.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Evercore ISI boosted their price objective on F5 from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a research report on Friday, January 17th. Morgan Stanley increased their price target on F5 from $262.00 to $310.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday. StockNews.com raised F5 from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Needham & Company LLC upped their price objective on shares of F5 from $285.00 to $360.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price target on shares of F5 from $257.00 to $295.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Seven 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. According to MarketBeat.com, F5 presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $299.38.

F5 Stock Performance

NASDAQ FFIV opened at $300.46 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $17.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.43, a P/E/G ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06. The business’s fifty day moving average is $258.11 and its two-hundred day moving average is $226.55. F5 has a 1 year low of $159.01 and a 1 year high of $308.00.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its earnings results on Monday, October 28th. The network technology company reported $3.67 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.45 by $0.22. The business had revenue of $747.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $730.43 million. F5 had a return on equity of 20.80% and a net margin of 20.13%. F5’s revenue was up 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $2.76 earnings per share. On average, research analysts forecast that F5 will post 11.01 earnings per share for the current year.

F5 announced that its board has approved 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 purchase up to 7.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are typically a sign that the company’s management believes its shares are undervalued.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Alan Higginson sold 825 shares of the company’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 value of $197,810.25. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 9,882 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,369,407.14. This represents a 7.71 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 0.58% of the company’s stock.

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.