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.

F5 Trading Up 2.6 %

NASDAQ FFIV traded up $6.71 during trading on Tuesday, hitting $269.72. The company had a trading volume of 1,252,850 shares, compared to its average volume of 530,531. The company’s fifty day moving average is $256.34 and its 200-day moving average is $225.37. The company has a market cap of $15.81 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 28.21, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06. F5 has a one year low of $159.01 and a one year high of $274.64.

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

F5 announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Monday, October 28th that permits the company to repurchase $1.00 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization permits the network technology company to reacquire up to 7.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company’s board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on FFIV. Morgan Stanley increased their price objective on shares of F5 from $230.00 to $262.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, December 17th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted 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. Barclays upped their price target on shares of F5 from $214.00 to $246.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, October 29th. Piper Sandler increased their price target on F5 from $186.00 to $246.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 29th. Finally, Evercore ISI upped their target price on F5 from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the company an “in-line” rating in a research note on Friday, January 17th. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, one has given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, F5 presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $251.25.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, Director Alan Higginson sold 825 shares of F5 stock in a transaction 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 completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 9,882 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,369,407.14. The trade was a 7.71 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. 0.58% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

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.