Here's Why F5 Networks (FFIV) is a Strong Growth Stock

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For growth investors, a company's financial strength, overall health, and future outlook take precedence, so they'll want to zero in on the Growth Style Score. This Score examines things like projected and historical earnings, sales, and cash flow to find stocks that will generate sustainable growth over time.

F5 Networks (FFIV)

Seattle, WA-based F5 Networks Inc, founded in 1996, provides products and services to manage Internet traffic worldwide. Its application, delivery and networking products improve performance, availability and security of applications running on networks that use the Internet Protocol (IP).

FFIV boasts a Growth Style Score of B and VGM Score of B, and holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) rating. Its bottom-line is projected to rise 8.8% year-over-year for 2025, while Wall Street anticipates its top line to improve by 7%.

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Seven analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for fiscal 2025, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.22 to $14.55 per share. FFIV also boasts an average earnings surprise of 11%.

On a historic basis, F5 Networks has generated cash flow growth of 5.1%, and is expected to report cash flow expansion of 16.7% this year.

With solid fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and top-tier Growth and VGM Style Scores, FFIV should be on investors' short lists.

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