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Company Dossier · Information Technology

F5, Inc.

FFIVNasdaqCommunications EquipmentUSLarge capWebsite ↗
  • S&P 500
  • Russell 1000

What F5, Inc. is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.

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The latest read

Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.

  • Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $3.31 billion, up 9.6% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.97 billion, up 2.1% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.08 billion, up 167% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
  • Share buybacks in the fiscal year to September 30, 2025: $0.50 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
  • Latest earnings call or results release (July 27, 2026): sentiment 0.80 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.90 of 1.Palanor Discourse
  • Guidance in the last 90 days: 2 outlook figures raised, 0 lowered, 0 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
  • Latest annual report (filed November 25, 2025): 1 risk factor added, 0 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
  • Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $6.8 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
  • 834 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (+107 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
  • H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 69 (62 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)

Company Posture

How Company Posture is measured →

What F5, Inc. is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.

Expanding · Confident

Expanding ↔ Retrenching

Expanding

RetrenchingExpanding

Confident ↔ Hedging

Confident

HedgingConfident

Pressure

Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).

Credit

How these are built →

F5, Inc.'s borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.

Debt on the balance sheet

$0.0B

  • Due within a year $0.0B
  • Longer term $0.0B
  • Default point $0.0B (short + ½ long)

Finance leases included · Sep 30, 2023 filing

Bonds priced, last 12 months

None

U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.

Charts

Live charts: each one redraws from today’s data and has an image link to paste into a document or slide.

Cash flow

Business

F5, Inc.: free cash flow, trailing twelve months

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, $ billions, from SEC filings

$0.97BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: operating cash flow and capital expenditure

Trailing twelve months, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: revenue, trailing twelve months

$ billions, from SEC filings

$3.3BData to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Capital returned and raised

Business

F5, Inc.: share buybacks by fiscal year

Cash paid to repurchase common stock, $ billions, from the 10-K

$0.50BData to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: debt issued and repaid by fiscal year

Long-term debt, $ billions, from the 10-K

Data to Sep 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: debt due within a year and cash

At each balance-sheet date, $ billions, from SEC filings

Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: interest coverage

Operating income ÷ interest expense, trailing twelve months, from SEC filings

159.1Data to Sep 2023
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

What the company says

Business

F5, Inc.: guidance raised minus lowered

Guidance Ledger statements by quarter

2.0Data 23 days ago
ImageDataGuidance Ledger by Palanor · source: SEC EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: earnings call sentiment

Palanor Discourse score per call, −1 to +1

0.80Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

F5, Inc.: earnings call confidence

Palanor Discourse score per call, 0 to 1

0.90Data to Jul 2026
ImageDataPalanor calculation
Business

F5, Inc.: risk factors added per annual report

New Item 1A risk factors in each 10-K

1.0Data to Nov 2025
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Hiring and ownership

Business

F5, Inc.: H-1B filings certified

Labor Condition Applications by quarter received

69.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data, dol.gov
Business

F5, Inc.: insider net buying

Open-market purchases minus sales by officers and directors, $ millions, by quarter

−$6.8MData 23 days ago
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
Business

F5, Inc.: institutional holders

Managers reporting a position on Form 13F, by quarter

834.0Data to Jun 2026
ImageDataU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR

Filings and records

The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.

  1. Sep 15, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: METHODS FOR FACILITATING DYNAMIC SERVICE-ORIENTED AND SOFTWARE-DEFINED HARDWARE AND DEVICES THEREOFUS 12739169
  2. Jun 23, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  3. Jun 23, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: AUTHENTICATION USING AN INTERMEDIARYUS 12665769
  4. May 12, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: DETECTING COMPROMISED WEB PAGES IN A RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTUS 12627709
  5. May 5, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: GROUP-BASED AFFINITY SCORING FOR AFFILIATE WEBSITESUS 12619762
  6. Apr 28, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  7. Mar 31, 2026Patent
    Patent granted: EXECUTION OF TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS USING A DATABASE SYSTEMUS 12591761
  8. Mar 13, 20268-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  9. Mar 13, 20268-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  10. Nov 25, 202510-K
    Annual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 0 removed
  11. Oct 27, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  12. Oct 15, 20258-K
    Cybersecurity incidentItem 1.05
  13. Oct 15, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  14. Jul 30, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  15. Apr 28, 20258-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  16. Mar 17, 20258-K
    Shareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
  17. Nov 18, 202410-K
    Annual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 0 removed
  18. Nov 5, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  19. Oct 28, 20248-K
    Director or officer changeItem 5.02
  20. Nov 14, 202310-K
    Annual report (10-K)3 risk factors added, 3 removed

Peers

Companies in the same industry in the S&P 500, Russell 1000 or MidCap 400, closest in revenue first. Trailing twelve months, from SEC filings.

CompanyRevenueFree cash flowThrough
Ciena CIEN$6.0B$0.8BAug 1, 2026
Arista Networks ANET$10.5B—Jun 30, 2026
Motorola Solutions MSI$12.2B$2.7BJul 4, 2026
Lumentum LITE—$0.3BJun 27, 2026
Entegris ENTG$3.3B$0.6BJun 27, 2026
Zscaler ZS$3.4B$0.8BJul 31, 2026
Monolithic Power Systems MPWR$3.3B$0.6BJun 30, 2026
Ubiquiti UI$3.3B$0.9BJun 30, 2026

Identity

SEC CIK
1048695
Wikidata
Q3029296
SAM UEI
LPH1U4GHAVY9

Built from SEC EDGAR filings (public domain), the Guidance and KPI Ledgers, Palanor Discourse, U.S. Department of Labor filings, USPTO, USAspending and Senate lobbying records, and rights-checked news headlines. Updated nightly; this page was built Oct 22, 2026. How the Dossier is built

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