12:10 PM EDT, 05/03/2026 (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 raise our 12-month target price by $15 to $345, 20.9x our FY 26 EPS estimate, a slight premium to its one-year forward average P/E at 18.8x. We increase our FY 26 EPS estimate by $1.29 to $16.49 and raise FY 27's by $1.11 to $17.48. The expanding threat landscape, fueled in part by more frequent and sophisticated attacks enabled by AI, is resulting in greater demand for best-in-class application and API security solutions. F5 is experiencing substantial growth in its security offerings, with notable increases in customer adoption for web application firewalls, API security, and bot defense. F5 is gaining share from competitors who lack the breadth and depth of capabilities across on-premises, software, and SaaS, particularly as customers consolidate toward unified platforms to reduce complexity and improve security. F5 continues to innovate, rapidly integrating AI capabilities into its solutions, such as AI-powered web application firewalls, Agentic Bot Defense, and AI Remediate.