Can F5 Inc’s (FFIV) hike of 11.14% in a week be considered a lucky break?

On Tuesday, F5 Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) was 1.55% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $295.19. A 52-week range for FFIV has been $159.01 – $308.00.

A company in the Technology sector has jumped its sales by 4.72% annually for the last half of the decade. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 7.72%. With a float of $58.15 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $58.61 million.

In an organization with 6557 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 109.32%, operating margin of 32.82%, and the pretax margin is 34.26%.

F5 Inc (FFIV) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward F5 Inc stocks. The insider ownership of F5 Inc is 0.79%, while institutional ownership is 95.04%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 03 ’25, was worth 1,188,336. In this transaction EVP, Worldwide Sales of this company sold 4,093 shares at a rate of $290.33, taking the stock ownership to the 27,264 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 03 ’25, when Company’s EVP Global Services & Strategy sold 1,314 for $293.40, making the entire transaction worth $385,528. This insider now owns 20,528 shares in total.

F5 Inc (FFIV) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 3.55 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 7.72% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 7.07% during the next five years compared to 6.18% growth over the previous five years of trading.

F5 Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what F5 Inc (FFIV) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 1.43. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 6.02. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 21.73.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 10.05, a number that is poised to hit 3.10 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 15.51 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of F5 Inc (FFIV)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.14 million. That was better than the volume of 0.67 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 78.79%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 7.85.

During the past 100 days, F5 Inc’s (FFIV) raw stochastic average was set at 92.57%, which indicates a significant increase from 83.54% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 48.52% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 28.58% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $261.21, while its 200-day Moving Average is $211.09. However, in the short run, F5 Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $302.61. Second resistance stands at $305.44. The third major resistance level sits at $309.86. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $295.36, it is likely to go to the next support level at $290.94. The third support level lies at $288.11 if the price breaches the second support level.

F5 Inc (NASDAQ: FFIV) Key Stats

There are 58,015K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 17.39 billion. As of now, sales total 2,816 M while income totals 566,780 K. Its latest quarter income was 766,490 K while its last quarter net income were 166,450 K.