The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Friday, August 14, 2026

Subject of the day

FFIV

Concerning the House

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.

United States · www.f5.com

The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$2.81B+8.0%
Gross profit$2.51B+11.2%
Operating income$472.57M+4.9%
Net income$692.38M+14.4%
Cash from ops$949.67M+7.7%
Quotation

$416.00

-6.95 (-1.6%)

52w hi$431.26
52w lo$223.99
Vol547.03K
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Buy

Our score +0.55

Short+0.32
Medium+0.76
Long+0.60

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

F5, Inc.

Technology · Software - Infrastructure

Market cap$23.56B
Enterprise value$22.60B
Trailing P/E33.12x
Forward P/E23.01x
EV / EBITDA24.47x
P / S (ttm)7.12x
Profit margin22.0%
Return on equity19.8%
Revenue growth+10.9%
Earnings growth+11.4%
Debt / equity6.55
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.03
Corr SPX0.52
Annual vol32.0%
Annual ret+44.5%
Sharpe1.39
Max DD-34.7%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.24
Sector+0.15
Technical+0.28
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$421.48$423.52$412.55$416.00547.03K
Aug 12$414.81$425.61$414.81$422.95593.10K
Aug 11$410.00$419.99$406.83$414.00534.20K
Aug 10$403.87$415.79$401.83$409.99689.90K
Aug 7$420.00$420.00$400.07$400.23588.80K