EFTA Document EFTA01452958

2 March 2014 Wireless Equipment Signals to Noise (S2N) beta of 1.4, and an equity risk premium of 5%. Our growth rate is based on a long-term estimate of industry growth, consistent with F5's specialty communications equipment peer group. Key downside risks to our price target are around unanticipated shifts in enterprise and carrier IT spending, technology disruptions in the ADC space, and F5's competitors (e.g. Citrix, Radware, A10, etc) taking share in key ADC use cases such as Web 2.