---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001048695-26-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FFIV"
cik: "0001048695"
company_name: "F5, INC."
filed_at: "2026-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T12:18:11.205715+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# F5 shareholders approve 2026 Incentive Award Plan with 3.5M new shares; directors re-elected

## Summary
- 3,500,000 new shares authorized under 2026 Incentive Award Plan; passed with ~67% of votes cast (32.4M for, 16.1M against).
- All eight director nominees elected with >95% support; François Locoh-Donou received lowest 'for' at 45,986,595 votes.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with ~92.8% of votes cast (44.8M for, 3.5M against).
- Board adopted new Non-Employee Director Compensation Program on March 12, 2026.
- Ratification of PwC as auditor for FY2026 approved with ~91% of votes cast.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001048695-26-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FFIV
- cik: 0001048695
- company_name: F5, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869526000036/0001048695-26-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1048695/000104869526000036/ffiv-20260312.htm

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