Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for FFIV in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Gekko Brief
AI summaryF5 shares moved this week on a strong fiscal Q3 2026 report, with revenue of $865.08 million, up 10.9% year over year, and EPS ahead of consensus, prompting a lifted full-year revenue outlook. Coverage also pointed to a critical BIG-IP APM vulnerability, CVE-2026-94127, under active exploitation, for which F5 has issued emergency hotfixes. Separate commentary noted shares up 75% year-to-date on institutional demand and AI-security momentum, alongside questions over whether the rally already reflects the improved guidance, even as the stock slipped in after-hours trading following the print.
F5 closed at $435.56, down 1.7% on the day, with the price sitting above both its 50-day average of $407.98 and its 200-day average of $341.41, reflecting a supportive longer-term trend. The GekkoIndex reads 50.9, placing the stock in the Neutral zone, up 5.3 over the past five sessions. Against a Gekko Fair Value of $396.66, the current price sits 9.8% above that level.
The next earnings date falls on 26 October 2026, 27 days away and inside a typical 20-trading-day holding window, with the last report showing an 8.1% average absolute reaction and eight consecutive EPS beats. No insider, Congress or unusual options activity appears in the current window. Seasonality over the next 20 trading days has averaged -3.2% across 5 years, with gains in 1 of them, a pattern worth noting alongside the consensus target near $436.10.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
F5 price vs fair value
Close $435.56200-day averageGekko Fair Value $396.66
F5 quick facts
- Market cap
- $24.57B
- P/E ratio
- 35.3
- Forward P/E
- 24.6
- EPS, TTM
- $12.54
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.31B
- Profit margin
- 22%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.03
- Volume
- 468,436 avg 549,528
- 1-year return
- +34.4%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.5%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5%
- 50-day average
- $407.98
- 200-day average
- $341.41
- Next earnings
- Oct 26 after close
- Shares outstanding
- 56.63M
F5 swing-trade checklist
F5 scores 1 supportive, 1 mixed and 3 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
1 supportive1 mixed3 headwinds
- Trendsupportive
Above 50 and 200-day
Close $435.56 is above the 50-day ($407.98) and 200-day ($341.41) averages, and the 50-day is above the 200-day.
See the chart - GekkoIndexmixed
50.9, Neutral
Reading 50.9 is in the Neutral zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valueheadwind
9.8% above
Price is 9.8% above Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% above).
See fair value - Smart moneyno data
No data
No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 27 days
Reports on Oct 26, 2026, 27 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalityheadwind
−3.2% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged −3.2% over 5 years, rising in 1 of them.
See seasonality
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F5 stock chart and price history
F5 closed at $435.56 on Sep 28, 2026, +34.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $223.76 to $462.00.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- +6.2%
- 3 months
- +6.1%
- 6 months
- +54.5%
- 1 year
- +34.4%
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About F5
F5 builds tools that help organizations keep their applications running securely and reliably, whether those applications sit in a company's own data center or in the public cloud. It is known for helping businesses manage the delivery of critical software and network services so that performance and protection are maintained no matter where the workload lives. Its product line covers hardware appliances, software modules, traffic management systems, firewall and access control tools, and offerings under the NGINX name for serving and delivering web applications, along with defenses against fraud and denial-of-service attacks.
Alongside these products, F5 provides consulting, training, installation, maintenance and technical support. Its customers range from large enterprises to public sector and government bodies and service providers, and it reaches them through distributors, resellers, managed service providers and systems integrators across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. It also works with major public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
F5 was established in Seattle, Washington, in 1996, and was known as F5 Networks, Inc. before adopting its current name in November 2021. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker FFIV.
- Listed
- NASDAQ
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Website
- f5.com
F5 GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
F5’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 50.9, in the Neutral zone, up 5.3 points over five sessions.
50.9Neutral
Up 5.3 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 23 | +1.1% | −0.3% | ||
| Accumulation | 120 | −0.5% | +1.1% | ||
| Neutral (current zone) | 450 | +1.0% | +4.0% | ||
| Distribution | 72 | +1.2% | +0.5% | ||
| Selling | 7 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average FFIV share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Neutral readings averaged +1.1% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
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Is F5 stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
F5 trades 9.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $396.66, so the shares are overvalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what F5 shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$396.66
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
9.8% Overvalued
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F5 insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for F5, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in FFIV were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
Congress disclosures for FFIV, plotted on the chart in Gekko.Open FFIV in Gekko
Buybacks
F5 has been buying back its own shares.
- Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2026
- $100.0M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.41%
- Trailing four quarters
- $626.1M
From company filings.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
4of the funds Gekko tracks hold FFIV.
1added2opened1trimmed0sold out
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F5 earnings: next date and track record
F5 reports on Oct 26, 2026, after the close (27 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 26, 2026
Expected after the close, 27 days away
- EPS estimate
- $4.24
- Revenue estimate
- $884.0M
8 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±8.1%average move across the report
6 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 27, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- F5 delivered Q3 fiscal 2026 with 19% product revenue growth and 11% total revenue growth, marking 8 consecutive quarters of double-digit product growth. Non-GAAP earnings grew 14% while the company continued investing in innovation. Growth was driven by hybrid multi-cloud adoption, application security demand, and AI-related wins including AI data delivery, runtime security, and AI factory load balancing.
- Guidance
- F5 raised fiscal year 2026 revenue growth outlook to approximately 9%-10%, up from prior guidance of 7%-8%, citing strong demand driven by durable tailwinds in hybrid multi-cloud, security, and AI inference.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | $3.86 est $3.04 | $865.1M est $834.6M | +2.9% |
| Apr 28, 2026 | $3.90 est $3.46 | $811.7M est $783.8M | +10.2% |
| Jan 27, 2026 | $4.45 est $3.65 | $822.5M est $764.2M | +9.3% |
| Oct 27, 2025 | $4.39 est $3.96 | $810.1M est $794.9M | −10.3% |
| Jul 30, 2025 | $4.16 est $3.54 | $780.4M est $753.9M | +4.7% |
| Apr 28, 2025 | $3.42 est $3.09 | $731.1M est $718.5M | −2.7% |
| Jan 28, 2025 | $3.84 est $3.38 | $766.5M est $715.4M | +14.2% |
| Oct 28, 2024 | $3.67 est $3.45 | $746.7M est $730.4M | +10.8% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
F5 stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for F5 is $436.10, +0.1% from the last close, from 9 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$436.10consensus 12-month target, +0.1% from the last close
Now $435.56Avg $436.10
Low $300High $515
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 9 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28 | J.P. Morgan | $515 | +18.2% |
| Jul 28 | Morgan Stanley | $415 | −4.7% |
| Jul 28 | Bank of America Securities | $300 | −31.1% |
| Jul 28 | Piper Sandler | $461 | +5.8% |
| Jul 28 | Needham | — | — |
+4.0%average 20-day move after past Neutral readings
−3.2%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.5%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
F5 seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 29, F5 averaged −3.2% across the last 5 years, rising in 1 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | +0.1% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −1.0% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | −3.4% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | −3.2% | 1 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | −1.3% | 2 of 5 |
For scale, FFIV’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 5%.
F5 market cap and key statistics
F5’s market cap is $24.57B, with a P/E ratio of 35.3 and revenue of $3.31B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $24.57B
- P/E ratio
- 35.3
- Forward P/E
- 24.6
- EPS, TTM
- $12.54
- Gekko Fair Value
- $396.66
Trading
- Volume
- 468,436
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 549,528
- 52-week high
- $462.00
- 52-week low
- $223.76
- Shares outstanding
- 56.63M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $3.31B
- Profit margin
- 22%
- Return on equity
- 19.8%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +11.4%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.03
- Typical daily move
- ±3.5%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±5%
F5 stock news this week
Coverage of F5 this week reads negative: 6 positive, 7 neutral and 8 negative headlines.
- F5 stock reports 10.9 percent revenue growth after earnings beatAD HOC NEWS, Sep 28
- F5, Inc. $FFIV Shares Sold by NewEdge Advisors LLCMarketBeat, Sep 27
- F5 (FFIV) Following Its Q3 Beat And Outlook Lift, Is The Valuation Already Priced In?Simply Wall Street, Sep 26
- AI Security, Institutional Inflows Push F5 Shares Up 75% YTDYahoo Finance, Sep 26
- Contrasting F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) & ADTRAN (NASDAQ:ADTN)Defense World, Sep 26
- F5 Inc. stock slips 1.17 percent ahead of the openAD HOC NEWS, Sep 25
F5 peers
F5’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| MSFTMicrosoft | Neutral | 17.3% above |
| PLTRPalantir Technologies | Neutral | 15.7% above |
| ORCLOracle | Accumulation | 25.9% below |
| PANWPalo Alto Networks | Neutral | 16.1% above |
| CRWDCrowdStrike | Neutral | 27.2% above |
| CRMSalesforce | Neutral | 5.9% below |
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F5 stock FAQ
What is F5’s market cap?
F5’s market cap is $24.57B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $435.56, with 56.63M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 35.3.
What is the F5 stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for F5 is $436.10, +0.1% from the last close. Of the 9 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 3 rate it a buy, 5 a hold and 1 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is F5 stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate F5 is overvalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $435.56 is 9.8% above Gekko Fair Value of $396.66. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does F5 report earnings next?
F5 is expected to report on Oct 26, 2026, after the market closes (27 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $4.24 per share on revenue of $884.0M. F5 beat the earnings estimate in 8 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.1% on average across the report.
What is F5’s 52-week high and low?
F5’s 52-week high is $462.00 and its 52-week low is $223.76; it closed at $435.56 on Sep 28, 2026, +34.4% over the past year.
Is F5 stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 1 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (trend), 1 as mixed (gekkoindex) and 3 as headwinds (fair value, earnings risk and seasonality). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
How this page works
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