FFIV
F5, INC.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · F5, INC.
F5, Inc. provides multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. The company's multi-cloud application security and delivery solutions enable its customers to develop, deploy, operate, secure, and govern applications in any architecture, from on-premises to the public cloud. It offers application security and delivery product…
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- Ms. Lyra Amber Schramm · Executive VP & Chief People OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Rob Gruening · Director of Corporate CommunicationsFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
+0.8 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
What the evidence shows
The evidence balance is constructive (+0.8 of a possible +2; was +0.8 before debate) with high confidence. Reported topline and profitability metrics rose across the most recent fiscal quarters: revenue of $766,489,000 in Q1 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-01-30), $731,123,000 in Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-30), and $865,077,000 in Q3 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-08-03), while gross profit climbed from $625,979,000 to $660,800,000 to $711,513,000 over the same sequence. Operating income and net income showed a dip in the middle quarter then recovered to $213,267,000 and $208,208,000 respectively in Q3 2026, and diluted EPS moved from $2.82 to $2.58 to $3.62 across those quarters. Balance-sheet and cash metrics strengthened in the period set: cash and equivalents rose to $1,605,782,000 as of 2026-06-30 and total assets increased to $6,829,074,000 as of the same date, while trailing twelve-month valuation multiples are reported at price/FCF 34.89, EV/EBITDA 22.65, and P/E 31.16 based on a $391.08 price date of 2026-09-02.
What the debate changed
The desk did not drop or weaken any surviving claims; 91% of what was raised survived and no item was removed in debate. Because nothing was weakened or abandoned, the read stayed aligned with the constructive balance driven by sequential revenue and profit growth, rising cash, and the valuation snapshot tied to the $391.08 market price.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue (RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax) was $766,489,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (period ended 31 Dec 2024), $731,123,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (period ended 31 Mar 2025), and $865,077,000 in fiscal Q3 2026 (period ended 30 Jun 2026).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001048695-26-000023Gross profit (GrossProfit) increased each reported quarter: $625,979,000 in fiscal Q1 2026 (period ended 31 Dec 2024), $660,800,000 in fiscal Q2 2026 (period ended 31 Mar 2025), and $711,513,000 in fiscal Q3 2026 (period ended 30 Jun 2026).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001048695-26-000023Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
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Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02T13:45:47.228469+00:00, FFIV appears as a holding in the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) at 0.04% weight of that fund.
ETF constituents · market dataThe provided evidence contains a single ETF membership record for FFIV (the IVV entry) with no other ETF memberships listed.
ETF constituents · market dataReads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
Several outlets reported that F5 announced enhancements to AI-powered security offerings, including upgrades to its web application firewall, virtual patching, anomaly detection, and tighter integration across Distributed Cloud and BIG-IP platforms, as described in coverage on 2026-09-02 and 2026-08-30.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-02Coverage noted a recent integration of the F5 AI Gateway into an F5 AI Security Platform, providing centralized controls over AI usage, policy enforcement, and cost visibility, in an article published 2026-08-30.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-08-30Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
No insider transactions on file in the trailing 180 days.
Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
As of price date 2026-09-02, the market price of $391.08 implies an FCF growth rate of 23.12% per year under the stated discount and terminal assumptions.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeweakened in debatePrice-to-free-cash-flow (price/FCF) on a trailing twelve-month basis is 34.89 as of 2026-09-02.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
The available company-specific fundamentals show sequential improvement across top-line and profitability metrics: revenue, gross profit, net income, and diluted EPS all rose from Q2 to Q3 2026, while operating income recovered in Q3 after a mid-quarter dip. Cash and cash equivalents and total assets increased materially across the same balance dates, and trailing twelve-month free cash flow is sizable with reported zero long-term debt, supporting an enterprise-value picture consistent with healthy cash generation. Recent coverage documents product-led progress on AI-powered security (upgrades and tighter platform integration) and an AI Gateway integration, which align with the higher R&D spend recorded sequentially — evidence of directed investment into growth areas. Institutional buying reported in Q2 adds another company-specific data point of demand from some fiduciaries, which together with the operational improvements provides a favorable read on company trajectory based on the supplied evidence.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.44
22 surviving claims rest on 9 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 41% of them, and 91% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read is based on a moderate number of distinct sources but leans on a single analyst for a large share of surviving claims, so the set of assertions carries concentration risk: if that analyst’s inputs are off, many claims could shift. The high survival rate from the desk debate means most findings were retained rather than filtered out, which increases persistence but also suggests fewer internal challenges — treat the bundle as informative but not highly robust without additional independent corroboration.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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What this was built from
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14 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+1.0 to the score
1 holdings record
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.5 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal — the gap is shown rather than hidden.
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