F5, Inc.
F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a multicloud application delivery and security provider headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company's website is www.f5.com. From the company’s description.
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What F5, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) is a multicloud application delivery and security provider headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company's website is www.f5.com.
F5 delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions designed to optimize and secure applications and APIs across hybrid and multicloud environments, including on-premises, cloud, and network edge deployments. The company serves large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers globally.
The company's core product families include F5 BIG-IP, which provides feature-rich application delivery and security solutions optimized for legacy and traditional applications; F5 NGINX, a lightweight, agile application delivery controller and API connectivity solution built for modern, container-native, and microservices-based applications; and F5 Distributed Cloud Services, a unified SaaS and managed services platform that enables customers to deploy, secure, and operate applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. Within Distributed Cloud Services, F5 offers specialized solutions including Web App and API Protection, Multi-Cloud Networking, DNS, CDN, and App Stack offerings.
F5 operates through three primary geographic segments: Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. The company employs 6,578 full-time employees across 47 countries, with 47 percent based in the United States. F5 outsources hardware manufacturing to third-party partners, primarily Flex Ltd., which operates manufacturing facilities in Mexico and China.
The company's strategy centers on solving multicloud application delivery and security challenges, transforming customer experience through digital sales and SaaS capabilities, and capturing growth in security and SaaS markets. F5 has integrated artificial intelligence throughout its platform to support performance, security, and emerging AI workload requirements. In 2025, F5 introduced the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform to unify traffic management with advanced application and API security across hybrid and multicloud environments.
F5 competes with vendors offering application delivery, application security, and multicloud networking solutions, including Akamai, Cisco, Cloudflare, Fortinet, and public cloud providers. The company differentiates through its platform approach, infrastructure-agnostic capabilities, and ability to support both legacy and modern application architectures.
Company details
- Sector
- Information Technology
- Industry (SIC)
- Industrial Machinery
- Headquarters
- SEATTLE, WA
- Fiscal year end
- September
- CIK
- 1048695
- SIC
- 3576
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns F5, Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in F5, Inc. · what they did last quarter
Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.
Largest fund holders · F5, Inc.’s weight in each
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Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.
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Recent filings
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