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F5, Inc.

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Technology · Software - Infrastructure

411.71USD

+3.32%

Sep 14, 2026

FFIV overview ready

Multicloud application security and delivery solutions provider

F5 is an application-delivery and application-security infrastructure provider: its BIG-IP, NGINX, and Distributed Cloud offerings help enterprises route, optimize, secure, and govern applications and APIs across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments.

Strong narrative exposure

Exposed to the Enterprise Cybersecurity Modernization narrative through Identity, Cloud and Application Attack Surface — infrastructure supplier.

Advancing price action

Longer-term context reads mature trend, with a near-term setup of daily advance.

Fair valuation

The price broadly reflects the level and quality of its cash generation, with upside and risk reasonably balanced.

Unremarkable fundamentals

Primary risk

Intense competition in application delivery and security software.

Market Sep 11Filing Jun 30Price action Sep 13Research Sep 13

Conviction Level

Price

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Price Action

Advancing price action

Longer-term context reads mature trend, with a near-term setup of daily advance.

EntryReset + recovery

The stock remains extended from its long-term weekly base, but the recent reset toward the daily SMA100 aligned with support at the weekly EMA21. Daily structure is recovering above the fast averages, improving the current entry location.

Key Financials

Market Cap: $24.4B
Avg Volume (60D): 592.5K
Revenue Growth YoY: +9.7%
Gross Margin: +81.9%
Operating Margin: +24.5%
Free Cash Flow Yield: +4.0%
Distance from 200DMA: +24.5%
Next Earnings: 2026-10-26
P/E: 33.5x
EV / EBITDA: 25.0x
EV / Sales: 6.9x

Market metrics as of Jul 11, 2026

Financial results for the period ended Jun 30, 2026

Filed balance-sheet data as of Sep 30, 2023

Fundamentals & Valuation

Two of the three valuation perspectives say fair; own history is the dissenting view.

This company has a Fair valuation stance because the price broadly reflects the level and quality of its cash generation, with upside and risk reasonably balanced.

Company Research

Thesis

Opportunity

Moderate opportunity

Enterprise security budgets for protecting identity, cloud-connected workloads, web applications, APIs, and their runtime attack surface across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Key risk

Intense competition in application delivery and security software.

Narrative & Theme

Enterprise Cybersecurity Modernization

Part of Identity, Cloud and Application Attack Surface, with moderate fit.

So it cannot be a direct match. It is nevertheless a genuine adjacent fit within Enterprise Cybersecurity Modernization through the application/API attack-surface chapter.

Narrative HeatHeating up7.3 / 10

Theme HeatHeating up7.3 / 10

This is the company’s own research reading. The canonical heat measurement for this story has not run.

Business & Markets

Technology · Software - Infrastructure

What they do

F5, Inc. provides multicloud application security and delivery solutions that enable customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications across on-premises and public cloud environments globally.

How it earns

The company primarily generates revenue through subscription and licensing of its software and cloud services.

Products & services

Web application and API protection

Multi-cloud networking

Application delivery and deployment

Domain name system services

Content delivery network

Application orchestration

Customers & end markets

Enterprises requiring application security and delivery

Cloud service operators and IT infrastructure providers

Market position

F5 is a recognized leader in application security and delivery solutions with a broad product portfolio across cloud and on-premises environments.

Demand drivers

Low cyclicality

Driven by enterprise IT infrastructure needs and security requirements which are relatively stable and recurring.