F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Issues Q1 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) updated its first quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Monday. The company provided EPS guidance of 3.290-3.410 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 3.370. The company issued revenue guidance of $705.0 million-$725.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $707.1 million. F5 also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 14.040-14.310 EPS.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have issued reports on FFIV. The Goldman Sachs Group raised their price target on F5 from $185.00 to $212.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Tuesday, September 24th. Royal Bank of Canada increased their price objective on F5 from $182.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 30th. Piper Sandler increased their price objective on F5 from $186.00 to $246.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday. Needham & Company LLC increased their price objective on F5 from $220.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 30th. Finally, StockNews.com cut F5 from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, September 10th. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, F5 has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $222.56.

F5 Stock Performance

Shares of NASDAQ FFIV traded up $27.93 during mid-day trading on Tuesday, reaching $246.29. The company had a trading volume of 1,000,942 shares, compared to its average volume of 522,088. F5 has a one year low of $148.10 and a one year high of $250.46. The firm has a market cap of $14.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 29.50, a PEG ratio of 2.54 and a beta of 1.06. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $211.73 and its 200 day simple moving average is $188.60.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Monday, July 29th. The network technology company reported $3.36 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $2.97 by $0.39. F5 had a return on equity of 21.03% and a net margin of 19.94%. The company had revenue of $695.50 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $686.06 million. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.46 earnings per share. F5’s revenue was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that F5 will post 10.17 EPS for the current year.

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

Insider Buying and Selling at F5

In other F5 news, CFO Francis J. Pelzer sold 600 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, October 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $217.67, for a total transaction of $130,602.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now owns 29,825 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,492,007.75. This represents a 0.00 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. In other F5 news, CFO Francis J. Pelzer sold 600 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, October 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $217.67, for a total transaction of $130,602.00. Following the transaction, the chief financial officer now directly owns 29,825 shares in the company, valued at approximately $6,492,007.75. This represents a 0.00 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 851 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, August 2nd. The stock was sold at an average price of $192.71, for a total value of $163,996.21. Following the transaction, the executive vice president now owns 16,000 shares in the company, valued at $3,083,360. The trade was a 0.00 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last 90 days, insiders sold 6,551 shares of company stock valued at $1,334,698. 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.