F5 (FFIV) closed at $455.42 on Oct 23, 2026, up 1.2% on the day. The stock is up 2.0% over the past month, up 11.6% over three months, up 78.4% year to date and up 52.9% over the past year. It trades 5.8% below its 52-week high of $483.30 and 103.5% above its 52-week low of $223.76. The close sits above its 50-day moving average ($427.92) and above its 200-day moving average ($360.05).
Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 6.5% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 2 of 8.
Form 4 filings over the last 90 days show no open-market purchases and 19 open-market sales by insiders. Short interest was 2.9% of float (2.3 days to cover) as of Sep 30, 2026.
Over the last 8 reports, FFIV moved an average of 6.5% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 2 of 8 reports.
Yes — the Oct 23, 2026 close of $455.42 is 26.5% above the 200-day average of $360.05.
FFIV closed 5.8% below its 52-week high of $483.30.
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.
