A number of research firms have changed their ratings and price targets for F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV):

• 8/1/2026 – F5 was upgraded by Wall Street Zen from “hold” to “buy”.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its “hold” rating reaffirmed by Needham & Company LLC.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by Piper Sandler. They now have a $461.00 price target on the stock, up from $423.00.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by Piper Sandler. They now have a $461.00 price target on the stock, up from $423.00.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Morgan Stanley from $380.00 to $415.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $500.00 to $515.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 7/28/2026 – F5 had its price target raised by Barclays PLC from $386.00 to $397.00. They now have an “equal weight” rating on the stock.
• 7/27/2026 – F5 was downgraded by Zacks Research from “strong-buy” to “hold”.
• 7/16/2026 – F5 had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by Royal Bank Of Canada.
• 6/26/2026 – F5 had its “buy (b-)” rating reaffirmed by Weiss Ratings.
• 6/26/2026 – F5 was upgraded by Zacks Research from “hold” to “strong-buy”.

In other news, CEO Francois Locoh-Donou sold 3,782 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $412.44, for a total transaction of $1,559,848.08. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer directly owned 146,989 shares in the company, valued at $60,624,143.16. The trade was a 2.51% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Thomas Dean Fountain sold 1,208 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 5th. The shares were sold at an average price of $414.63, for a total transaction of $500,873.04. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president owned 8,060 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $3,341,917.80. The trade was a 13.03% decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale is available in the SEC filing. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders sold a total of 15,699 shares of company stock worth $6,316,411 in the last ninety days. Insiders own 0.48% of the company’s stock.

F5 Inc (NASDAQ:FFIV) specializes in application services and delivery networking, helping organizations ensure the availability, performance and security of their applications. The company’s core offerings include advanced load balancing, traffic management and application security solutions designed to optimize user experiences and protect against threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and web application exploits.

At the heart of F5’s product portfolio is the BIG-IP platform, which provides a suite of software modules for local and global traffic management, secure web application firewalling and DNS service delivery.

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