F5 Networks is a software - infrastructure business based in the US. F5 Networks shares (FFIV) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $268.81 – an increase of 1.41% over the previous week. F5 Networks employs 6,491 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.9 billion.
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| Latest market close | $268.81 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $164.45 - $313.00 |
| 50-day moving average | $269.85 |
| 200-day moving average | $241.86 |
| Wall St. target price | $289.69 |
| PE ratio | 25.2633 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $10.52 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $268.81 from 2025-05-02
| 1 week (2025-04-25) | -0.45% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-04) | 12.36% |
| 3 months (2025-02-05) | -11.38% |
| 6 months (2024-11-05) | 15.41% |
| 1 year (2024-05-03) | 61.99% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-04) | 105.00% |
| 3 years (2022-05-04) | 51.08% |
| 5 years (2020-05-04) | 98.53% |
Valuing F5 Networks stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of F5 Networks's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
F5 Networks's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 25x. In other words, F5 Networks shares trade at around 25x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
F5 Networks's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.3527. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into F5 Networks's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
F5 Networks's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $824.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a F5 Networks's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $2.9 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 21.79% |
| Gross profit TTM | $2.4 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 8.08% |
| Return on equity TTM | 19.89% |
| Profit margin | 21.14% |
| Book value | $57.22 |
| Market Capitalization | $15.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting F5 Networks to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
F5 Networks's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 20 August 2007 . So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your F5 Networks shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for F5 Networks shares which in turn could have impacted F5 Networks's share price.
Over the last 12 months, F5 Networks's shares have ranged in value from as little as $164.45 up to $312.9999. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while F5 Networks's is 1.141. This would suggest that F5 Networks's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
F5, Inc. provides multicloud 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. It offers unified, security, networking, and application management solutions, such as web app and API protection; multi-cloud networking; application delivery and deployment; domain name system; content delivery network; and application deployment and orchestration. The company also provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX Management Suite; NGINX Ingress Controller; NGINX App Protect; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. In addition, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. F5, Inc.
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