F5, Inc. $FFIV Shares Sold by American Century Companies Inc.

American Century Companies Inc. decreased its holdings in F5, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV) by 21.1% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 424,331 shares of the network technology company’s stock after selling 113,816 shares during the quarter. American Century Companies Inc.’s holdings in F5 were worth $137,140,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in FFIV. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd grew its position in shares of F5 by 0.6% in the third quarter. Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company Ltd now owns 7,386 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $2,387,000 after purchasing an additional 42 shares during the period. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. raised its position in F5 by 4.9% in the second quarter. Coldstream Capital Management Inc. now owns 1,002 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $295,000 after purchasing an additional 47 shares during the period. Allworth Financial LP lifted its position in F5 by 13.7% during the 2nd quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 414 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $122,000 after acquiring an additional 50 shares in the last quarter. Alps Advisors Inc. lifted its position in shares of F5 by 3.8% during the third quarter. Alps Advisors Inc. now owns 1,414 shares of the network technology company’s stock worth $457,000 after purchasing an additional 52 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Salomon & Ludwin LLC boosted its position in F5 by 42.1% in the 3rd quarter. Salomon & Ludwin LLC now owns 189 shares of the network technology company’s stock valued at $61,000 after buying an additional 56 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.66% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

FFIV has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Royal Bank Of Canada raised their price target on shares of F5 from $325.00 to $345.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on F5 from $285.00 to $320.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Piper Sandler restated an “overweight” rating and issued a $325.00 target price (up from $295.00) on shares of F5 in a research report on Wednesday, January 28th. Weiss Ratings lowered F5 from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a report on Tuesday, January 27th. Finally, Zacks Research upgraded F5 from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, January 9th. Five analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, six have given a Hold rating and two have assigned a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $309.89.

F5 Stock Down 2.2%

Shares of F5 stock opened at $271.36 on Monday. F5, Inc. has a 12 month low of $223.76 and a 12 month high of $346.00. The business has a fifty day simple moving average of $270.02 and a 200-day simple moving average of $281.86. The stock has a market cap of $15.34 billion, a PE ratio of 22.44, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 7.69 and a beta of 1.01.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 27th. The network technology company reported $4.45 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $3.63 by $0.82. F5 had a net margin of 22.45% and a return on equity of 22.08%. The business had revenue of $822.47 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $755.97 million. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $3.84 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. F5 has set its Q2 2026 guidance at 3.340-3.460 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 15.650-16.050 EPS. Analysts expect that F5, Inc. will post 11.2 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, CTO Kunal Anand sold 377 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, February 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $278.32, for a total value of $104,926.64. Following the transaction, the chief technology officer owned 8,971 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,496,808.72. This represents a 4.03% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,297 shares of F5 stock in a transaction on Tuesday, February 10th. The shares were sold at an average price of $278.32, for a total transaction of $360,981.04. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,243,259.20. The trade was a 13.86% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 20,508 shares of company stock worth $5,473,043 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 0.48% 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.