The trading price of F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $244.60, 12.02% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $240.2713 and $250.46. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 26.30. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $224.47 and a 52-week low of $148.10. Over the past month, the stock has gained 11.08% in value.
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F5 Inc, whose market valuation is $14.26 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Jan-27. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 3.37 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 14.21 for current year and 15.42 for next year.
Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 708.75M for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 697.59M and highs of 727.92M. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 2.91B.
On the technical side, indicators suggest FFIV has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned FFIV a recommendation rating is 10. Out of them, 7 rate it a Hold, while 3 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged F5 Inc (FFIV) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 3.36, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that FFIV’s price is currently 11.37% off the SMA20 and 15.07% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 79.59, and weekly volatility stands at 1.45%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 1.25%. F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.06, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 5.26. With analysts defining $113-$307 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $235 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about 53.8% off the estimated low and -25.51% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if FFIV’s share price rises to $235, which is the median consensus price. At that level, FFIV’s share price would be 3.92% above current price.
To see how F5 Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: FFIV stock’s performance was 12.02% at last check in today’s session, and 63.32% in the past year. F5 Inc has a P/E ratio of 26.30.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) indicates that the 3-month average is 606.59K. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 0.61.
Currently, records show that 59.21 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.69% of outstanding shares, whereas institutions hold 98.22%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-10-15, stood at 2.12 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 3.43 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 417.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in October were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 2.29 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 36.66% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
