US Equities Analysis

FFIV — F5, Inc.

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 22.02%
Profit Margins 21.96%
Return on Equity 20.34%
Return on Assets 8.15%
Free Float 0.06B
Short Int % Utilisation 3.64%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 11.0%
Free Cash Flow 0.76B
EBITDA 23.1 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 20.86B
EV/Revenue 6.47
EV/EBITDA 23.1

Revenue growth of 11.0% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 36.19%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 34.94%
1-Year Price Return* 27.86%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $403.20
52-Week Range $223.76 – $435.00
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $395.54
Market capitalisation $22.40B
Enterprise value proxy $21.32B
Revenue $3.09B
EBIT $791.43M
EBITDA $883.83M
Reported free cash flow $906.41M
Unlevered free cash flow $695.85M
FCF yield 4.05%
EV / EBITDA proxy 24.12x
Net debt / EBITDA -1.22x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 1.03
Cost of equity 10.41%
Pre-tax cost of debt 7.72%
WACC 10.36%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:37:22.151548 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-09-30 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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