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F5 Inc.: Regulation Is Forcing Hybrid Multicloud Adoption—and It’s Reshaping Demand for Its Platform!
The first quarter results for F5 Inc reflected solid top-line growth, strong profitability, and improving visibility into several structural demand drivers, while also highlighting areas of mix pressure and emerging cost headwinds. Revenue increased year over year, driven primarily by product growth, with systems revenue expanding sharply due to technology refresh activity, capacity expansion, and demand tied to hybrid multicloud architectures and AI-related infrastructure upgrades. Services revenue continued to grow at a slower pace, while software revenue declined year over year, largely due to difficult comparisons against an unusually strong prior-period renewal and deal activity. Subscription-based software showed modest growth, supporting a high proportion of recurring revenue, though near-term software momentum remains more moderate than hardware-led growth. Geographically, performance was uneven. EMEA delivered strong growth, benefiting from regulatory-driven investments around resilience, digital sovereignty, and hybrid multicloud deployment requirements.
