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 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. The company also provides application security and delivery products, including NGINX Plus; NGINX Management Suite; NGINX Ingress Controller; NGINX App Protect; BIG-IP Packaged Software; and BIG-IP Systems. In addition, it provides a range of professional services, including maintenance, consulting, training, and other technical support services. F5, Inc. 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.
| Revenue | $2,816,120,000 |
| Net Income | $566,778,000 |
| Free Cash Flow | $762,007,000 |
| Book Value / Share | $53.29 |
| Total Liabilities | $2,483,626,000 |
| Total Equity | $3,129,378,000 |
| Debt / Equity | 0.08 |
| Current Ratio | 1.42 |
| Interest Coverage | N/A |
| Working Capital | $619,818,000 |
Core multiples and valuation signals — useful to compare vs peers.
| P/E (TTM) | 22.81 |
| Industry P/E | N/A |
| Forward P/E | 21.48 |
| P/B | 4.13 |
| Price / Sales | 4.59 |
| P / FCF | 16.97 |
| EV / EBITDA | 15.63 |
| Graham Number | $107.58 |
| DCF (placeholder) | — |
| Gross Margin | 80.20% |
| Operating Margin | 23.39% |
| Net Margin | 20.13% |
| ROIC | 12.91% |
| Asset Turnover | 0.50 |
| RSI (14) | 51.53 |
| SMA 50 | 323.51 |
| SMA 200 | 291.85 |
| MACD | 4.48 |
| Signal | BULLISH |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mr. Francois Locoh-Donou | President, CEO & Director (1971) |
| Dr. Thomas Dean Fountain Ph.D. | Executive VP & COO (1977) |
| Mr. Chad Michael Whalen Esq. | Executive VP & Chief Revenue Officer (1972) |
| Mr. Edward Cooper Werner | Chief Financial Officer (—) |
| Ms. Yvette H. Smith | Chief Information Officer & SVP of Customer Success and Business Transformation (1968) |
| Ms. Suzanne DuLong | Vice President of Investor Relations (—) |
| Ms. Angelique M. Okeke | Executive VP & General Counsel (—) |
| Mr. Rob Gruening | Director of Corporate Communications (—) |
Seattle-based F5 Inc. disclosed on Wednesday morning in a regulatory filing that nation-state hackers had breached its networks and gained “long-term, persistent access” to certain systems. The intruders stole files including portions of source code from the company’s BIG-IP suite of application services, which are widely used by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, in addition to details about some flaws that could be used to target the company’s customers. Representatives for F5 have told customers that the hackers were in the company’s network for at least 12 months, according to the people, who asked not to be named as they aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the incident.
Shares of application security provider F5 (NASDAQ:FFIV) fell 3.9% in the afternoon session after the company disclosed a major cybersecurity incident involving a sophisticated nation-state actor.
F5 (FFIV) said Wednesday that a "highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor" breached certain of