F5, Inc. (FFIV) company profile

F5 provides multicloud application delivery and security solutions designed to manage and protect applications and application programming interfaces. The company delivers its capabilities through packaged software, software-as-a-service, managed services, and hardware systems, supported by global maintenance, consulting, and technical services. Its primary product suites include F5 BIG-IP for legacy architectures, F5 NGINX for container-native and microservices workloads, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services for cloud-based security and networking. The firm sells its offerings to large commercial enterprises, public sector organizations, government institutions, and service providers.

The enterprise manages operations globally across three designated regions: the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It maintains its corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The organization employs 6,578 workers situated across 47 nations, with 47 percent of its personnel based in the United States. In addition, its hardware manufacturing and testing activities are conducted through partner facilities in Mexico and China, with primary distribution centers in Tennessee and Zhuhai.

Summary of the business section of F5's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“As of September 30, 2025, we had 6,578 employees – over 99% of whom were full-time employees.”