01:50 PM EDT, 10/29/2025 (MT Newswires) -- CFRA, an independent research provider, has provided MT Newswires with the following research alert. Analysts at CFRA have summarized their opinion as follows:

We trim our 12-month target price by $20 to $330, 21.7x our FY 26 (Sep.) EPS estimate, comparable to its three-year historical average P/E of 21.8x, reflecting our slower growth outlook and fallout from the cyberattack. We lower our FY 26 EPS estimate by $0.91 to $15.20 and set FY 27's at $16.37. The company addressed near-term disruption to sales cycles caused by a recent security incident. Both F5's field resources and customers have needed to focus on incident response and upgrading environments, which takes time away from regular sales activities and consideration of new projects. This is expected to impact new project and footprint acquisition in the short term. Delays in deal approvals or additional internal scrutiny within customer organizations were anticipated due to increased visibility of the security incident. This could result in postponed projects or more complex approval processes at the executive level for customers.