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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Here's Why F5 Networks (FFIV) is a Strong Growth Stock
It doesn't matter your age or experience: taking full advantage of the stock market and investing with confidence are common goals for all investors. While you may have an investing style you rely on, finding great stocks is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores. These are complementary indicators that rate stocks based on value, growth, and/or momentum characteristics. 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. 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%. 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. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report F5, Inc. (FFIV) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Perth Now
4 days ago
- Health
- Perth Now
A northern suburbs bowling club making a change
North Perth Bowling Club is rallying for a second year to raise money for Neuromuscular WA, a not-for-profit organisation that supports families and people living with neuromuscular conditions. Last year, the club raised an astounding $52,000 and this year the aim is $55,000. Neuromuscular WA is a small, WA-based organisation that has been helping families in need since 1967. Your local paper, whenever you want it. The organisation provides support to people living with neuromuscular conditions so they can live the best life possible, offering families counselling, personal and national advocacy, support in navigating the medical system, education, and social connections. Neuromuscular conditions are rare, progressive and often life limiting. A person living with the condition can often see their vital organs, such as lungs and heart, affected due to the muscle deterioration. Neuromuscular WA operations and engagement manager Emma Kenton said the organisation currently supports about 700 people affected with neuromuscular conditions. 'We're often their first point of contact once they've spoken to their neurologist ... guiding them through that really difficult stage when they first get a diagnosis.' she said. 'It's not just the individual we support, it's siblings, grandparents, parents, carers; the whole family is part of our community. 'Social connection is so important. We run kids camps, school holiday programs, carers evenings and fund counselling for any point in their journey.' Ms Kenton said club volunteers collect prize donations from local businesses through community call-outs and doorknocking. 'They (the volunteers) even walk the streets and go into businesses and ask, it's such an amazing sense of community.' she said. 'It's not just North Perth, the fundraiser brings in people from clubs across WA. It's a massive, collective community effort.' The organisation has some involvement in research, however the money focuses more on social programs, counselling and education sessions. Angela Horwood, chair of the North Perth Bowling Club charity committee said the public can get involved in various ways, including donating vouchers and prizes to attending events and buying raffle tickets. The fundraiser made $52,000 last year. Credit: A DESIGN CREATIV 'No matter how you want to contribute or get involved, big or small, we are appreciative, and the people at Neuromuscular WA are as well,' she said. 'They're such a small WA charity that we can be really effective in helping them grow their programs and positively affect the lives of the people they work with.' Each Friday night in August, the club will be host a charity event, with money made on the night going directly to the cause. 'We have local breweries donate kegs, and we do charity kegs, there's beer specials, items to win through raffles,' Ms Horwood said. 'On the night, we've got our people from the club that cook in the kitchen and it all goes to charity,' 'You come down and purchase your dinner at the club and then that goes straight to charity. And we've also got a couple food trucks coming down that also donate a portion.' Charity beers on tap. Credit: A Design Creativ Photography Per On Sunday, August 31, North Perth Bowling club will be hosting a family friendly Sunday session charity event with barefoot bowls, face painting, flash tattoos, raffles and auctions. 'If you want to get involved or just come and see what it's about, then the best way to do it is come down on a Friday night or on Sunday, August 31,' Ms Horwood said. Donations can be made here.
The Age
15-06-2025
- Business
- The Age
Forrest calls for global fishing overhaul as Australia backs major treaties at UN summit
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has called for the United Nations to back a major overhaul of global fishing regulations and marine life protections following an international ocean summit last week. Australia's Environment Minister Murray Watt also attended the 2025 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France, and confirmed on Friday the federal government has joined 96 other nations in committing to end plastic pollution. Declaring 'the ocean is in freefall', Forrest made the comments following the summit on Saturday, saying his Minderoo Foundation will commit an additional $25 million towards implementing new marine protected areas and real-time vessel monitoring. 'We must lock in 30 per cent no-take marine protected areas by 2030 in every nation, in the high seas [international waters] and across at least 30 per cent of Antarctica – this must be the minimum, not the maximum – and it must be enforced, not just declared,' the WA-based magnate said in a statement. 'Thanks to science, enforcement is now possible. Satellites track vessels in real time. AI flags illegal behaviour. The excuses are gone.' Loading Forrest unveiled the foundation's Flourishing Oceans Commercial Fishing Act (FOCFA), a self-financing, enforcement-ready model for no-take MPAs and sustainable fisheries and said he would relaunch a Global Fishing Index in 2026. 'This flips enforcement incentives. Fishers, regulators, and even competitors are motivated to expose illegal actors. Governments reclaim lost revenue. Legal operators are protected. And the commercial risk of turning a blind eye rises – all the way up the supply chain,' he said of the proposed FOCFA. Minderoo has also partly funded a new documentary, Ocean with David Attenborough, about the devastation brought about by unregulated industrial fishing, which was released last month.
Sydney Morning Herald
15-06-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Forrest calls for global fishing overhaul as Australia backs major treaties at UN summit
Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has called for the United Nations to back a major overhaul of global fishing regulations and marine life protections following an international ocean summit last week. Australia's Environment Minister Murray Watt also attended the 2025 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, France, and confirmed on Friday the federal government has joined 96 other nations in committing to end plastic pollution. Declaring 'the ocean is in freefall', Forrest made the comments following the summit on Saturday, saying his Minderoo Foundation will commit an additional $25 million towards implementing new marine protected areas and real-time vessel monitoring. 'We must lock in 30 per cent no-take marine protected areas by 2030 in every nation, in the high seas [international waters] and across at least 30 per cent of Antarctica – this must be the minimum, not the maximum – and it must be enforced, not just declared,' the WA-based magnate said in a statement. 'Thanks to science, enforcement is now possible. Satellites track vessels in real time. AI flags illegal behaviour. The excuses are gone.' Loading Forrest unveiled the foundation's Flourishing Oceans Commercial Fishing Act (FOCFA), a self-financing, enforcement-ready model for no-take MPAs and sustainable fisheries and said he would relaunch a Global Fishing Index in 2026. 'This flips enforcement incentives. Fishers, regulators, and even competitors are motivated to expose illegal actors. Governments reclaim lost revenue. Legal operators are protected. And the commercial risk of turning a blind eye rises – all the way up the supply chain,' he said of the proposed FOCFA. Minderoo has also partly funded a new documentary, Ocean with David Attenborough, about the devastation brought about by unregulated industrial fishing, which was released last month.
West Australian
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Coming to ABC: Comedy Legend Dawn French to star in Sean Tan's animated series about growing up in Perth
Comedy legend Dawn French is set to star in the animated series based on Sean Tan's best-selling illustrated anthology, Tales From Outer Suburbia. The celebrated comedian and actress, best known for her starring role in classic 90s sitcom The Vicar of Dibley and for being one half of the iconic 'French and Saunders' comedy duo, will join the voice cast for the 10 x 22-minute series, currently in development and coming soon to ABC. Described as 'a uniquely Western Australian take on growing up in Perth', the 10-episode series will make its world premiere this week at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. Created by Highly Spirited and Flying Bark Productions, the series was produced out of both Flying Bark in NSW and WA-based Siamese, with Tan, an Academy Award-winning writer/artist/filmmaker, overseeing the series as Creative Director. Based on Tan's memories of growing up in the northern suburbs of Perth, the story centres around 'almost 13 year-old' Klara and her six year-old brother Pim, who move to Outer Suburbia with their newly single mother, Lucy. 'The siblings' summer holiday turns into a series of unexpected and surreal adventures, with the family encountering weird and miraculous phenomena as they adapt to their new reality,' the release reads. Dawn French voices Klara and Pim's Grandma. 'Grandma is amazing. She's courageous and adventurous, she's quite chaotic, she's a bit bonkers,' French said. 'What drew me to the character, and the whole project, is it's quite possibly the strangest thing I've ever read! 'It's very surreal — you understand it on a visceral level but you also don't understand it, so you're drawn in to try and make sense of slightly surreal things. 'This is a series about big, big themes: themes of rejection, forgiveness, absence, loss, grief, judgment, friendships. 'I think it's absolutely crucial that we make good quality shows for children and for families because it's a shared experience when you watch something together.' 'Dawn brings a unique warmth, confidence and levity to a character that audiences really needed to trust during difficult moments, and I can't imagine a better performance,' Creative Director Shaun Tan said. 'She is the anchor of reassurance in a sea of animated weirdness, the hand you want to hold tight as the tide fills the room.' Alongside French, the series also stars Geraldine Hakewell (Lucy) and newcomers Brooklyn Davies (Klara) and Felix Oliver Vergés (Pim) as the family at the centre of the story — Austin and Love on the Spectrum's Michael Theo also lends his voice. Sreenwest Chief Executive Officer Rikki Lea Bestall said: 'Screenwest is beyond proud to support this quintessentially Western Australian take on growing up in the 'burbs of Perth — and what a coup to have Dawn French amongst the cast. 'Shaun Tan is an incredibly talented creative whose works resonate with young and old. 'We cannot wait to see this series on screen, and congratulate everyone involved for Tales From Outer Suburbia being selected to make its world premiere at Annecy.'
