F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) Releases Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) updated its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Tuesday. The company provided EPS guidance of 3.020-3.140 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 3.220. The company issued revenue guidance of $705.0 million-$725.0 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $703.6 million. F5 also updated its FY 2025 guidance to 14.240-14.550 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on FFIV shares. Barclays boosted their target price on F5 from $246.00 to $296.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on shares of F5 from $262.00 to $310.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday. Evercore ISI lifted their price target on shares of F5 from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “in-line” rating in a research note on Friday, January 17th. Royal Bank of Canada upped their price objective on shares of F5 from $260.00 to $310.00 and gave the company a “sector perform” rating in a research note on Wednesday. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded F5 from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. Seven research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, one has issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $299.38.

F5 Trading Up 11.4 %

NASDAQ:FFIV opened at $300.46 on Thursday. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $258.11 and its 200-day simple moving average is $226.55. F5 has a 12-month low of $159.01 and a 12-month high of $308.00. The firm has a market cap of $17.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.43, a PEG ratio of 3.68 and a beta of 1.06.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 28th. The network technology company reported $3.67 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.45 by $0.22. F5 had a net margin of 20.13% and a return on equity of 20.80%. The company had revenue of $747.00 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $730.43 million. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $2.76 EPS. F5’s revenue was up 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts forecast that F5 will post 11.01 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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

Insider Buying and Selling

In other F5 news, Director Alan Higginson sold 825 shares of F5 stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $239.77, for a total value of $197,810.25. Following the sale, the director now owns 9,882 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,369,407.14. The trade was a 7.71 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through the SEC website. 0.58% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

F5 Company Profile

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.