Currently, there are 59.21M common shares owned by the public and among those 58.40M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 102 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 45 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 178,250 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 57 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 106,189 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 184.45, down -0.65%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -2.28% and 10.68% over the past three months. FFIV shares are trading 1.88% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 23.59% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $127.05 and touched a high of $199.49 over the same period. FFIV has an average intraday trading volume of 532.35K shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by -0.86%, 1.87%, and 14.24% respectively.
Institutional ownership of F5 Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) shares accounts for 92.36% of the company’s 59.21M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $10.72B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.11. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 23.73, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $7.69. The company has a PEG of 2.52 and a Quick Ratio of 1.22 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.10. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.41% over the week and 1.73% over the month.
Analysts forecast that F5 Inc (FFIV) will achieve an EPS of $2.86 for the current quarter, $3.09 for the next quarter and $13.87 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $2.82 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $2.9. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $2.53 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 7.80%, and 9.89% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.40% over the next five years, compared to -2.18% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the FFIV, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Needham stated their Buy rating for the stock in a research note on January 30, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $200-$220.
