F5, Inc. (FFIV)

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F5, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a material cybersecurity incident (8-K item 1.05, the latest 2025-10-15) (its current reports).

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F5, Inc.'s 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.1 billion in fiscal 2017 to $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025, up 5% a year; it rose in 8 of 8 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 9 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, F5, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 56% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 117 sales (104 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-09 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, F5, Inc. earned about 19 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 40 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 43 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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F5, Inc.'s standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 17% by size; a net margin of 22.4% ranks in the top 10%; revenue growth of 4.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 37% (its annual reports).

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F5, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Locoh-Donou, Francois (President, CEO & Director, as filed), filing under that title since 2017-04-13, 9.6 years (bottom 44% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3 years (bottom 19%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (bottom 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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F5, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.3 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 21.3% of its assets as net cash, top 43% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 29.4% of revenue (top 10%); a gross margin of 81.4% (top 3%); research spending of 17.5% of revenue (top 42%) (its annual report).

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F5, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 4.6% a year over the last three filed years against 5% over all 9, slowing (top 39% of its family); the newest year grew 9.7% (bottom 37%); research spending grew -0.2% a year (bottom 39%); capital spending grew 8.8% a year (top 46%) (its annual reports). F5, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Service at $1.6 billion (51%), Product at $1.5 billion (49%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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F5, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.1 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 7.3% above the $2.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 50% of its family); net income of $692 million against a prior three-year average of $428 million (top 37%); a net margin of 22.4% against 15.4% before (top 30%) (its annual reports).