Edward Cooper Werner Sells 2,500 Shares of F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Stock

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) CFO Edward Cooper Werner sold 2,500 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, June 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $400.00, for a total value of $1,000,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 406 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $162,400. This represents a 86.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Edward Cooper Werner also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Friday, May 8th, Edward Cooper Werner sold 1,500 shares of F5 stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $350.00, for a total value of $525,000.00.
• On Monday, May 4th, Edward Cooper Werner sold 599 shares of F5 stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $322.33, for a total value of $193,075.67.

F5 Stock Performance

NASDAQ FFIV opened at $408.66 on Friday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $336.50 and a 200 day moving average price of $290.88. F5, Inc. has a one year low of $223.76 and a one year high of $411.52. The company has a market cap of $23.06 billion, a P/E ratio of 33.52, a P/E/G ratio of 9.33 and a beta of 1.04.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.47 by $0.43. F5 had a return on equity of 21.50% and a net margin of 21.96%.The firm had revenue of $811.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $783.82 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $3.42 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 11.0% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 3.910-4.030 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 16.250-16.550 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that F5, Inc. will post 12.78 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of FFIV. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of F5 by 244.3% during the 1st quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 5,747 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $1,663,000 after acquiring an additional 4,078 shares in the last quarter. Edgestream Partners L.P. acquired a new stake in shares of F5 during the 1st quarter worth about $2,491,000. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of F5 by 60.1% during the 1st quarter. EverSource Wealth Advisors LLC now owns 517 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $150,000 after acquiring an additional 194 shares in the last quarter. Royal Bank of Canada raised its position in shares of F5 by 54.2% during the 1st quarter. Royal Bank of Canada now owns 53,688 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $15,534,000 after acquiring an additional 18,864 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Quantinno Capital Management LP raised its position in shares of F5 by 127.3% during the 1st quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP now owns 242,882 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $70,273,000 after acquiring an additional 136,012 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research firms recently commented on FFIV. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price objective on F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Needham & Company LLC reissued a “hold” rating on shares of F5 in a research note on Wednesday, April 29th. Royal Bank Of Canada reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $425.00 price objective on shares of F5 in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Barclays increased their price objective on F5 from $292.00 to $386.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, May 29th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised their target price on F5 from $340.00 to $380.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 20th. Six analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $379.89.

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.