FFIV

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F5 Inc. Common Stock
Technology · Software - Infrastructure · NASDAQ · United States
$432.03-0.60%
Market cap $24.5BNext earnings 2026-10-26Updated Sep 20, 2026
FAIR VALUE · CONSENSUS
$432.03+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 4 of 6 models
Now $432.03
$432.03
$129.77$479.40
AvoidSilver72
Price vs fair value
49.6% above
-33.2% to fair value
ACCE score
72
out of 100
Analysts
38% buy
13 covering
P/E
34.5x
forward 23.3x
1-year return
+30.2%
Dividend yield
0.00%
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Overview

⚠ Investor warnings · 2 flags
  • moderate
    Earnings growth deceleration
    Revenue grew 11% YoY but earnings only 4% YoY, and QoQ revenue declined 1.3%, signaling potential growth slowdown.
  • moderate
    Insider selling only
    Last 10 disclosed transactions show $0 buys vs $7.44M in sales, with no insider purchases to signal conviction.
Reports in 35 days, last quarter beat by 0.3%.

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Price

+30.8% · 1Y

Valuation

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Quality

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Analysts

Wall Street consensus

Bearish38% buy · 13 covering analysts
● Strong buy 2● Buy 3● Hold 7● Sell 1● Strong sell 0
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  • +Quarter-over-quarter institutional position changes
  • +Recent open-market insider transactions
  • +Active 13D activist filings and top holders

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Where it sits vs peers

This stock Peer Peer median weaker → stronger
P/Ebetter than 33% of peers
low 0.0x34.5xhigh 525.4x
ROEbetter than 67% of peers
low 0%20%high 37%
Div yieldbetter than 83% of peers
low 0.0%0.0%high 1.1%

Algorithmic peers (6)

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VRSNVeriSign Inc. Common Stock$27.4B32.90.0%-0.831.1%-Compare
MDBMongoDB Inc. Class A Common Stock$30.9B525.42.0%0.000.0%-Compare
NTNXNutanix Inc. Class A Common Stock$18.9B13.537.5%1.970.0%-Compare

Sector report card

Where FFIV ranks against its sector peers on each metric.

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News and Record

Reports in 35 days, last quarter beat by 0.3%.

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Recent performance

1 week
+4.9%
1 month
+12.9%
3 months
+12.1%
6 months
+52.0%
YTD
+69.3%
1 year
+30.2%

SEC filings

40 filings
September 2026
Sep 15
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-14
Sep 15
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-14
Sep 2
Form 4Insider transactionPeriod 2026-09-01
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