Down 3.8% today with networking stocks: all 8 are down, 2.9% on average; the S&P 500 is down 0.4%.
Fell on Oct 28
Down 20% on Oct 28, and still 26% under its Oct 27 close.
FFIV's Quality Score fell 1 point on Fri, Oct 30, to 7. Its undercut and recovery dropped off.
We do the work for you. Every stock is scored and ranked, every 15 seconds while the market is open. Here it's 15 minutes behind. Pro members see it live.
| The company | A $727M profit |
| Latest filing | 8-K, Oct 27 |
TodayWith its group.
After its last 4 reports it closed -1.4% on average, higher 2 of 4 times.
FFIV is #5 of 8 by Quality Score among Computer Communications Equipment.
| 1 | ||
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ||
| Open for its score | ||
| Open for its score | ||
| Open for its score | ||
| 5 |
Expected to report Tue Jan 26, after the close (in 85 days). Expected.
What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.
Sales of $917.0M; a profit of $3.23 a share, from $3.26.
FFIV's results filing gives no sales by line in a table we read.
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Revenue growth | 8% to 9% |
Sales grew 5.6% a year over 5 years, fiscal 2020 to 2025.
Its share count fell 0.9% a year over 5 years.
| Reported | Gap | Reaction | 5 sessions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | -8.3% | -20.4% | open |
| Jul 27, 2026 | -3.4% | -1.1% | -0.4% |
| Apr 28, 2026 | +3.2% | +8.0% | +11.9% |
Sales grew every year from 2018 to 2025, to $3.1B. It made a profit in each of the eight years.
2 insiders sold $2M across 10 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest:
3 trades disclosed in the last six months. The newest:
Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.
In ETFs: FFIV is 0.1% of FTEC, 0.1% of VGT, and 0.1% of XLK, the most of the 24 funds Breakaway covers, by each fund's latest filing, Jun 30 to Aug 31, 2026.
F5 is a market leader in the application delivery controller market. The company sells security, application performance, and automation products. Its three customer verticals are enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Revenue is evenly split between its services and products businesses, with revenue trending toward products as software adoption grows. The Seattle-based firm was incorporated in 1996 and went public in 1999.
“As F5 expands its reach and role into a broader set of hybrid multicloud application delivery and security solutions, our competitive set evolves and includes vendors with capabilities associated with application delivery, application security, and multicloud networking.”
FFIV scores 7 today, which Breakaway calls Average. It is #5 of 8 in Computer Communications Equipment by Quality Score, with 1 of 14 chart checks firing. Down 20% on Oct 28, and still 26% under its Oct 27 close. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
FFIV scores 7 today, which Breakaway calls Average (6 to 10). That is #5 of 8 in Computer Communications Equipment by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind FFIV's 7.
2 insiders sold $2M across 10 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest is Nikhil Ramesh Mehta, Director, who sold $387K on Jul 30. Every filing, with the scored weight, for Pro members.
Only on the public pages, which run at least 15 minutes behind. Pro members, and anyone on a guest pass, see real-time prices: the scanner refreshes every 15 seconds, and your watchlist every few seconds, pre-market and after hours included.