Weekly Investment Analysts’ Ratings Changes for F5 (FFIV)

F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) recently received a number of ratings updates from brokerages and research firms:

• 11/3/2026 – F5 was downgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b)” to “buy (b-)”.
• 10/29/2026 – F5 was downgraded by Wolfe Research from “strong-buy” to “hold”.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 had its “mixed” rating reaffirmed by Barclays.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 was given a new $500.00 price target by Wells Fargo & Company.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by Evercore.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 was downgraded by Piper Sandler from “overweight” to “neutral”. They now have a $461.00 price target on the stock.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Morgan Stanley from $415.00 to $448.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Royal Bank Of Canada from $525.00 to $540.00. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
• 10/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Barclays from $397.00 to $428.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
• 10/12/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Royal Bank Of Canada from $508.00 to $525.00. They now have an “outperform” rating on the stock.
• 10/9/2026 – F5 was upgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b-)” to “buy (b)”.
• 9/25/2026 – F5 was downgraded by Weiss Ratings from “buy (b)” to “buy (b-)”.

F5 Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:FFIV traded down $0.99 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $319.02. 239,526 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 750,546. F5, Inc. has a twelve month low of $223.76 and a twelve month high of $483.30. The company has a current ratio of 1.73, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.23. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $416.83 and a 200-day moving average price of $364.89. The stock has a market cap of $18.07 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.46, a PEG ratio of 2.81 and a beta of 1.07.

F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October 27th. The network technology company reported $4.42 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $4.26 by $0.16. F5 had a net margin of 21.14% and a return on equity of 21.00%. The firm had revenue of $917.43 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $884.03 million. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $4.39 EPS. The firm’s revenue was up 13.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, research analysts forecast that F5, Inc. will post 14.19 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Activity at F5

In other news, EVP Chad Whalen sold 6,950 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, November 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $329.56, for a total value of $2,290,442.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 25,467 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $8,392,904.52. The trade was a 21.44% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, CTO Michael Montoya sold 4,426 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, September 14th. The shares were sold at an average price of $410.16, for a total value of $1,815,368.16. Following the completion of the sale, the chief technology officer owned 1,309 shares in the company, valued at $536,899.44. This represents a 77.18% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold a total of 30,261 shares of company stock valued at $10,263,863 in the last ninety days. 0.48% of the stock is owned by insiders.

F5, Inc. provides application delivery and security solutions that help organizations manage, protect and optimize applications across data centers, public clouds and edge environments. Its offerings serve businesses, government agencies and service providers around the world. The company’s products and services include BIG-IP application delivery and security software, NGINX technologies for application development and delivery, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services. These offerings support functions such as traffic management, web and API protection, application security and multicloud connectivity.