F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) CEO Francois Locoh-Donou Sells 3,783 Shares
by Doug Wharley · The Cerbat GemF5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,783 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $337.39, for a total value of $1,276,346.37. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 146,989 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $49,592,618.71. This trade represents a 2.51% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.
Francois Locoh-Donou also recently made the following trade(s):
- On Wednesday, March 4th, Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,755 shares of F5 stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $283.53, for a total value of $1,064,655.15.
F5 Stock Performance
F5 stock traded up $4.00 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $345.02. 713,414 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 841,937. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $295.87 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $273.70. F5, Inc. has a 52-week low of $223.76 and a 52-week high of $347.47. The company has a market cap of $19.50 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.30, a PEG ratio of 7.86 and a beta of 1.00.
F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 28th. The network technology company reported $3.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates 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 quarter last year, the company posted $3.42 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 11.0% on a year-over-year basis. 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 expect that F5, Inc. will post 12.71 earnings per share for the current year.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
FFIV has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Piper Sandler reissued an “overweight” rating on shares of F5 in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Zacks Research raised F5 from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, January 9th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their price objective on F5 from $355.00 to $365.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Barclays upped their price objective on F5 from $283.00 to $292.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada upped their price objective on F5 from $345.00 to $375.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, April 29th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, five have assigned a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $316.44.
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Institutional Investors Weigh In On F5
Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Barclays PLC raised its position in F5 by 51.7% during the 3rd quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 310,368 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $100,308,000 after purchasing an additional 105,738 shares during the last quarter. Convergence Investment Partners LLC raised its position in F5 by 128.1% during the 3rd quarter. Convergence Investment Partners LLC now owns 7,931 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,563,000 after purchasing an additional 4,454 shares during the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its position in F5 by 217.7% during the 3rd quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 229,591 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $74,142,000 after purchasing an additional 157,318 shares during the last quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp raised its position in F5 by 173.3% during the 3rd quarter. Alberta Investment Management Corp now owns 8,200 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,650,000 after purchasing an additional 5,200 shares during the last quarter. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its position in F5 by 11.5% during the 3rd quarter. JPMorgan Chase & Co. now owns 381,350 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $123,249,000 after purchasing an additional 39,445 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.
About F5
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.