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F5, Inc. filings document regulatory disclosures for an application delivery and security company with products and services used across enterprise, service provider, and government markets. Recent Form 8-K reports furnish quarterly results, financial-condition updates, Regulation FD materials, board appointments, director compensation arrangements, and material cybersecurity incident disclosures involving company systems and product-development environments.
The company’s proxy materials cover director elections, shareholder voting results, executive compensation, equity incentive plans, non-employee director compensation, auditor ratification, and governance practices. These filings also describe common-stock authorization for incentive awards, committee assignments, exhibits to earnings releases, and other public-company reporting matters.
F5, Inc. reported its financial results for the first quarter ended December 31, 2025 and released the details in an earnings press release. The company furnished this press release as Exhibit 99.1 to a current report, making the quarterly results publicly available without treating the release itself as filed under the Exchange Act. The filing confirms that F5 remains listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol FFIV and that the update was authorized by its President and Chief Executive Officer, François Locoh-Donou.
F5, Inc. (FFIV) received a Schedule 13G from First Trust Portfolios L.P., First Trust Advisors L.P., and The Charger Corporation reporting a passive ownership position. As of 12/31/2025, the group beneficially owned 2,956,143 shares of F5 common stock, representing 5.09% of the outstanding class. They report shared voting power over 2,755,115 shares and shared dispositive power over 2,956,143 shares, with no sole voting or dispositive authority.
The filing explains that many of these shares are held in unit investment trusts sponsored by First Trust Portfolios L.P. and in other investment vehicles advised by First Trust Advisors L.P., with no single unit investment trust holding more than 3% of any registered investment company issuer’s shares. Voting for the unit investment trusts is generally carried out by the trustee to mirror outside shareholders, and each reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership. The securities are stated to be held in the ordinary course of business and not for the purpose of influencing control of F5.
F5, Inc. is asking shareholders to vote at its virtual fiscal 2025 annual meeting on March 12, 2026 to elect eight directors, approve the 2026 Incentive Award Plan, approve executive pay on an advisory basis, and ratify PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor for 2026.
The Board plans to combine the Chair and CEO roles, with CEO François Locoh‑Donou becoming Chair if re‑elected, and has created a strengthened Lead Independent Director role filled by Michel Combes. Seven of eight nominees are independent and the Board highlights majority voting, robust stock ownership guidelines, a clawback policy, and prohibitions on hedging and pledging.
For fiscal 2025, F5 reports revenue of $3.1 billion, cash flow from operations of $950 million, GAAP net income of $692 million, and $500 million returned to shareholders via repurchases. The executive pay program is heavily performance‑based, tying bonuses and equity to revenue, non‑GAAP operating income, earnings per share, and relative total shareholder return, with changes to make performance stock units vest over three years.
The proxy details ESG and workforce initiatives, including 2030 emissions‑reduction targets, a 10% cut in total emissions from fiscal 2023 to 2024, strong employee engagement scores, and over $3.9 million in charitable giving directed by employees.
FFIV insider Thomas D. Fountain has filed a Form 144 notice to sell 3,343 shares of common stock through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, with an aggregate market value of $875,431.41. The planned sale is listed against total common shares outstanding of 58,089,614 and is expected around 01/26/2026 on the NASDAQ.
The shares to be sold were acquired on 11/01/2025 as performance shares from the issuer. The filing also outlines Fountain’s other open-market sales over the prior three months, including multiple transactions of 1,100–1,110 shares each and one larger sale of 8,318 shares, with disclosed gross proceeds for each trade. By signing the notice, Fountain represents that he is not aware of undisclosed material adverse information about the issuer’s operations.
F5, Inc. executive Thomas Dean Fountain, EVP Global Services & Strategy, reported a sale of company stock. On 01/20/2026, he sold 1,110 shares of F5 common stock at a price of $262.73 per share in a transaction classified as a sale. After this trade, he beneficially owned 11,403 shares of F5 common stock in direct ownership. The filing notes that this transaction was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that was adopted on 06/13/2025, indicating the sale was made pursuant to a pre-arranged trading program.
F5, Inc.'s Chief Technology Ops Officer reported an internal share transfer involving 4,252 shares of common stock on 09/30/2024. According to the filing, 4,252 shares were moved at a price of $0 from the officer's direct ownership to a family trust and are now reported as indirectly owned through that trust. The trust is for the benefit of the reporting person's children, and the officer serves as a co‑trustee. After the transaction, 1,309 shares remain directly owned, with 4,252 shares held indirectly via the family trust.
F5, Inc. insider Thomas D. Fountain filed a Form 144 indicating an intent to sell 1,110 shares of common stock. The shares are expected to be sold through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC on or about 01/20/2026 on the NASDAQ market, with an indicated aggregate market value of $291,630.30. The filing notes that 58,089,614 common shares were outstanding.
The 1,110 shares to be sold were acquired on 11/01/2025 as performance shares from the issuer, with the nature of payment listed as not applicable. The filing also lists prior sales by Fountain over the past three months, including multiple 1,110-share transactions and a sale of 8,318 shares of common stock on 11/03/2025 for gross proceeds of $2,077,662.56. This notice confirms compliance with Rule 144 resale requirements and includes a representation that the seller is not aware of undisclosed material adverse information about the company.
F5, Inc. executive Thomas Dean Fountain, EVP Global Services & Strategy, sold 1,110 shares of F5 common stock on 01/12/2026 at a price of $265 per share. After this transaction, he beneficially owned 12,513 shares directly. The sale was made under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan that was adopted on 06/13/2025, which allows scheduled trades to occur under preset conditions.
Thomas D. Fountain has filed a notice to sell 1,110 shares of common stock under Rule 144. The shares are to be sold through Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC on the NASDAQ, with an indicated aggregate market value of $294,150.00. The issuer had 58,089,614 common shares outstanding at the time referenced. The shares to be sold were acquired as performance shares from the issuer on 11/01/2025.
Over the prior three months, Fountain has sold additional common shares of the same issuer in multiple transactions. These include, for example, a sale of 8,318 shares on 11/03/2025 for gross proceeds of $2,077,662.56, along with several smaller sales of around 1,100–1,110 shares on various dates in November, December, and early January with disclosed gross proceeds for each trade.