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F5, Inc. FFIV

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$3.1B
▲ 9.7% YoY
$692.4M
▲ 22.2% YoY
$906.4M
▲ 18.9% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

F5 is a multicloud application delivery and security provider that optimizes and secures applications and Application Programming Interfaces anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, and at the network edge. It sells packaged software under perpetual, subscription, and usage-based consumption models. It also sells its solutions in software-as-a-service and managed services deployment models with subscription and usage-based consumption models. In addition, it sells high-performance systems, or hardware, as well as global services including maintenance, consulting, training and other technical support services. Its customers include large enterprise businesses, public sector institutions, governments, and service providers. As of September 30, 2025, it had 6,578 employees, based in 47 countries. It conducts its business globally and manages its business by geography, organized into three primary geographic regions: Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and the Asia Pacific region. F5 was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Written from the business description in F5, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 3.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.1 · Net income 0.7
2B3B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+4.6%
+5.6%
+4.9%
+8.7%
+29.0%
+17.6%
+6.6%
+10.7%
+30.8%
+18.7%
+8.9%
+13.1%
+0.1%
+38.1%
−1.9%
+13.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +5.6% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +17.6%, earnings per share at +18.7%.

The share count fell from 0.06B to 0.06B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

22 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 24.8% · Net 22.4%
10%20%30%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 20.6%
10%20%30%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Gross margin81.4%
Operating margin24.8%
Net margin22.4%
EBITDAUSD 858.3M

Each USD of equity produced 21 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 502.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 906.4
400M800M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 502.1
250.0M500.0M
2008201120142017202020232025
Dividends paid·
Net buybacksUSD 502.1M
Share of profit72.5%
Consecutive raises·

USD 502.1M in buybacks — 73% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 6.3B
CashUSD 1.3B
Current ratio1.56×

Not available: we don't have the total debt figure for this period.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
FFIV, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B3.12.82.82.72.62.42.22.22.12.01.91.71.51.41.20.90.70.7
Operating income $B0.80.70.50.40.40.40.50.60.60.50.60.50.40.40.40.20.10.1
EBITDA $B0.90.80.60.50.50.50.60.70.60.60.60.50.50.50.40.30.10.1
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.20.20.20.20.20.20.20.10.10.00.0
Net income $B0.70.60.40.30.30.30.40.50.40.40.40.30.30.30.20.20.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.90.80.60.40.60.60.60.70.70.60.60.50.50.50.40.30.20.2
EPS, diluted $11.809.556.555.275.345.017.087.326.505.385.034.093.503.452.961.861.140.89
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend——————————————————
ROE %20.619.115.013.314.415.428.136.134.929.227.221.419.322.622.916.812.110.3
Shares out B0.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.070.070.070.080.080.080.080.08◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityComputer Communications Equipment
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inWashington
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2008

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