F5 (FFIV)

• Market cap: $18.6B
• 1 day: 0.02%
• 5 days: -0.88%
• 1 month: 2.39%
• 3 months: 12.2%
• 6 months: 21.07%
• Year to date: 28.62%
• 1 year: 50.86%
• 5 years: 162.7%
• 10 years: 173.9%
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: Software - Infrastructure

About: F5 is a market leader in the application delivery controller market. The company sells products for security, application performance, and automation. Its three customer verticals are enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Revenue is evenly split between its services business and products business with revenue trending toward products due to software adoption. The Seattle-based firm was incorporated in 1996, and went public in 1999.

Employees: 6,557

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

248% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $124M | Put options by funds: $35.5M

96% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 106 | Existing positions closed: 54

19% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 274 | Existing positions reduced: 230

17% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 6 [Q1] → 7 (+1) [Q2]

12% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $14.5B [Q1] → $16.2B (+$1.68B) [Q2]

6% more funds holding

Funds holding: 674 [Q1] → 715 (+41) [Q2]

1.19% more ownership

Funds ownership: 94.65% [Q1] → 95.84% (+1.19%) [Q2]

Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $305
• Avg. target: $327
• High target: $355

6 analyst ratings

• positive: 1 17%
• neutral: 5 83%
• negative: 0 0%

Barclays Tim Long	$321	Equal-Weight Maintained	31 Jul 2025
RBC Capital Matthew Hedberg	$326	Sector Perform Maintained	31 Jul 2025
Morgan Stanley Meta Marshall	$312	Equal-Weight Maintained	31 Jul 2025
Piper Sandler James Fish	$355	Neutral Maintained	31 Jul 2025
Needham Ryan Koontz	$345	Buy Maintained	31 Jul 2025