Shares of F5 Inc. FFIV, +1.88% shed 2.98% to $135.27 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around dismal trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.36% falling 1.06% to 3,719.89 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.26% falling 0.46% to 32,001.25. This was the stock’s second consecutive day of losses. F5 Inc. closed $113.73 short of its 52-week high ($249.00), which the company reached on December 29th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +1.53% fell 1.62% to $43.85, Juniper Networks Inc. JNPR, +0.94% fell 0.90% to $29.84, and Radware Ltd. RDWR, +7.12% fell 8.71% to $18.13. Trading volume (575,713) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 542,222.