Stock · FFIV · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1999 · Revenue 12 mo. $3.3B
Price as of 11/06/2026
F5, Inc. provides multicloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region.
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 also 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. In addition, the company provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX One Console; NGINX Ingress Controller; WAF for NGINX; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. Further, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. The company sells its products to large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers through distributors, value-added resellers, managed service providers, systems integrators, and other indirect channel partners. It has partnerships with public cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The company was formerly known as F5 Networks, Inc. and changed its name to F5, Inc. in November 2021. F5, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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Summary
59.1 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €779.8M (2025), it supports €8.7B. The remaining €7.9B of the market value assume it grows 9.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
9.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 17.1×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 16.3× to 19.2×, median 17.2×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No anomaly in the stored figures.
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 18.03% | 14.60% | Rank 61 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 47.70% | 29.77% | Rank 65 |
| EBIT margin | 23.94% | 17.40% | Rank 68 |
| FCF margin | 25.43% | 18.54% | Rank 72 |
| Gross margin | 82.21% | 48.47% | Rank 92 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 10.64% | 12.70% | Rank 43 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 24.10% | 9.54% | Rank 79 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 18.60% | 14.07% | Rank 63 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 2.65% | 2.87% | Rank 46 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 4.03% | 2.64% | Rank 69 |
| FCF yield | 4.72% | 3.06% | Rank 67 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.98 | 5.18 | Rank 53 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 20.82 | 26.24 | Rank 63 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 15.69% | −0.59% | Rank 72 |
| Share price, 6 months | −11.72% | −4.46% | Rank 42 |
| Share price, 3 months | −17.20% | −5.84% | Rank 32 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −35.22% | −33.23% | Rank 48 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −1.40% | 1.65% | Rank 70 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −1.75% | −0.17% | Rank 75 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −20.66% | −1.57% | Rank 2 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 56.71% | 53.98% | Rank 58 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −1.45 | −0.20 | Rank 80 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.05 | 0.33 | Rank 80 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 40.43% | 50.37% | Rank 75 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $M | Shares | Net debt, $M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2.0 | 27.4% | 643.3 | 68.0M | −514.6 |
| 2017 | 2.1 | 27.0% | 697.6 | 64.8M | −673.2 |
| 2018 | 2.2 | 28.2% | 707.6 | 62.0M | −424.7 |
| 2019 | 2.2 | 23.1% | 644.3 | 60.5M | −599.2 |
| 2020 | 2.4 | 16.7% | 601.0 | 61.4M | 262.2 |
| 2021 | 2.6 | 15.1% | 614.5 | 62.1M | 431.2 |
| 2022 | 2.7 | 15.0% | 409.0 | 61.1M | 179.0 |
| 2023 | 2.8 | 16.8% | 599.2 | 60.3M | −276.6 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 23.4% | 762.0 | 59.4M | −609.3 |
| 2025 | 3.1 | 24.8% | 906.4 | 58.7M | −851.7 |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
F5 Networks Inc mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
F5 Networks Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
8 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for F5 Networks Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 24.8 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 4.5 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 18.0% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 56.7% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.05 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 0.0% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| FFIV | F5 Networks Incthis page | |
| NTNX | Nutanix Inc | locked |
| GEN | Gen Digital Inc. | High8.2 |
| TOST | Toast Inc | locked |
| GDDY | Godaddy Inc | locked |
| AKAM | Akamai Technologies Inc | locked |
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