(AKAM) Akamai Technologies - Overview

Exchange: NASDAQ • Country: United States • Currency: USD • Type: Common Stock • ISIN: US00971T1016

Stock:

Total Rating 65

Risk 89

Buy Signal 0.35

Software - Infrastructure +1.6
Internet Services & Infrastructure +1.4

Market Cap: 14,207m
Avg Trading Vol: 356M USD

ATR: 5.20%
Peers RS (IBD): 63.16

Risk 5d forecast
Volatility	45.6%
Relative Tail Risk	-26.3%

Reward TTM
Sharpe Ratio	0.65
Alpha	17.46

Character TTM
Beta	0.485
Beta Downside	1.031

Drawdowns 3y
Max DD	46.84%
CAGR/Max DD	0.23

EPS (Earnings per Share)

EPS CAGR: 7.77%
EPS Trend: 89.0%

Last SUE: 1.16
Qual. Beats: 5

Revenue

Rev. CAGR: 5.25%
Rev. Trend: 96.9%

Last SUE: 2.13
Qual. Beats: 3

Description: AKAM Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers security solutions that include web application and application programming interfaces (API) protection solutions, which protect web, API, and mobile app traffic from attacks; Bot & Abuse portfolio, which provides solutions to help customers protect against threats; Akamai Account Protector, which offers full account lifecycle protections including the ability to defend against account takeover and opening abuse, adversarial bot protection, protection against credential stuffing, inventory scalping, and hoarding; Akamai Content Protector, which provides solutions designed to stop persistent scrapers from stealing content; API security, which discovers, audits, and monitors API; and microservice and application component protection that analyzes and protects application traffic that moves between application components. It also offers cloud computing services, which include compute, storage, networking, database, and container management services; and Akamai App Platform, provides ready-to-run templates that address challenges in deploying, managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale. In addition, the company offers delivery solutions that include web and mobile performance solutions, which enables dynamic websites and applications, as well as global traffic management, site acceleration, application load balancing, large-scale load testing, and real-user monitoring; and media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics. The company has a technical alliances with TollBit and Skyfire for publishers and content owners to monetize AI bot traffic. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Piotroski VR‑10 (Strict, 0-10) 7.0

Net Income: 452.0m TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue
FCF/TA: 0.06 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA -1.95 > 1.0
NWC/Revenue: 31.35% < 20% (prev 12.20%; Δ 19.15% < -1%)
CFO/TA 0.13 > 3% & CFO 1.52b > Net Income 452.0m
Net Debt (4.75b) to EBITDA (1.41b): 3.37 < 3
Current Ratio: 2.36 > 1.5 & < 3
Outstanding Shares: last quarter (147.0m) vs 12m ago -4.00% < -2%
Gross Margin: 57.88% > 18% (prev 0.59%; Δ 5729 % > 0.5%)
Asset Turnover: 38.52% > 50% (prev 38.49%; Δ 0.03% > 0%)
Interest Coverage Ratio: 9.90 > 6 (EBITDA TTM 1.41b / Interest Expense TTM 70.7m)

Altman Z'' 2.70

A: 0.11 (Total Current Assets 2.29b - Total Current Liabilities 967.5m) / Total Assets 11.48b
B: 0.30 (Retained Earnings 3.42b / Total Assets 11.48b)
C: 0.06 (EBIT TTM 700.6m / Avg Total Assets 10.92b)
D: 0.51 (Book Value of Equity 3.33b / Total Liabilities 6.50b)
Altman-Z'' Score: 2.70 = A

Beneish M -3.02

DSRI: 1.03 (Receivables 793.7m/727.7m, Revenue 4.21b/3.99b)
GMI: 1.03 (GM 57.88% / 59.39%)
AQI: 1.02 (AQ_t 0.47 / AQ_t-1 0.46)
SGI: 1.05 (Revenue 4.21b / 3.99b)
TATA: -0.09 (NI 452.0m - CFO 1.52b) / TA 11.48b)
Beneish M-Score: -3.02 (Cap -4..+1) = AA

What is the price of AKAM shares?

As of February 27, 2026, the stock is trading at USD 99.90 with a total of 2,814,416 shares traded.
Over the past week, the price has changed by -8.84%, over one month by +1.26%, over three months by +11.68% and over the past year by +25.53%.

Is AKAM a buy, sell or hold?

Akamai Technologies has received a consensus analysts rating of 4.09. Therefore, it is recommended to buy AKAM.

StrongBuy: 12
Buy: 2
Hold: 8
Sell: 1
StrongSell: 0

What are the forecasts/targets for the AKAM price?

Issuer	Target	Up/Down from current
Wallstreet Target Price	108.6	8.7%
Analysts Target Price	108.6	8.7%

AKAM Fundamental Data Overview February 25, 2026

P/E Trailing = 28.9604
P/E Forward = 11.0742
P/S = 3.3761
P/B = 2.5037
P/EG = 0.6709
Revenue TTM = 4.21b USD
EBIT TTM = 700.6m USD
EBITDA TTM = 1.41b USD
Long Term Debt = 4.10b USD (from longTermDebt, two quarters ago)
Short Term Debt = 336.6m USD (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 5.68b USD (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter)
Net Debt = 4.75b USD (from netDebt column, last quarter)
Enterprise Value = 18.70b USD (14.21b + Debt 5.68b - CCE 1.19b)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 9.90 (Ebit TTM 700.6m / Interest Expense TTM 70.7m)
EV/FCF = 26.74x (Enterprise Value 18.70b / FCF TTM 699.3m)
FCF Yield = 3.74% (FCF TTM 699.3m / Enterprise Value 18.70b)
FCF Margin = 16.62% (FCF TTM 699.3m / Revenue TTM 4.21b)
Net Margin = 10.74% (Net Income TTM 452.0m / Revenue TTM 4.21b)
Gross Margin = 57.88% ((Revenue TTM 4.21b - Cost of Revenue TTM 1.77b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 54.56% (prev 59.27%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 1.63 (Enterprise Value 18.70b / Total Assets 11.48b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 0.35% (Interest Expense 20.0m / Debt 5.68b)
Taxrate = 18.14% (18.8m / 103.9m)
NOPAT = 573.5m (EBIT 700.6m * (1 - 18.14%))
Current Ratio = 2.36 (Total Current Assets 2.29b / Total Current Liabilities 967.5m)
Debt / Equity = 1.14 (Debt 5.68b / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 4.98b)
Debt / EBITDA = 3.37 (Net Debt 4.75b / EBITDA 1.41b)
Debt / FCF = 6.79 (Net Debt 4.75b / FCF TTM 699.3m)
Total Stockholder Equity = 4.69b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 4.14% (Net Income 452.0m / Total Assets 11.48b)
RoE = 9.64% (Net Income TTM 452.0m / Total Stockholder Equity 4.69b)
RoCE = 7.97% (EBIT 700.6m / Capital Employed (Equity 4.69b + L.T.Debt 4.10b))
RoIC = 6.74% (NOPAT 573.5m / Invested Capital 8.51b)
WACC = 5.58% (E(14.21b)/V(19.88b) * Re(7.70%) + D(5.68b)/V(19.88b) * Rd(0.35%) * (1-Tc(0.18)))
Discount Rate = 7.70% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.) -> floored to rf + 0.7*ERP = 7.95%
Shares Correlation 3-Years: -100.0 | Cagr: -3.25%
[DCF] Terminal Value 84.86% ; FCFF base≈753.1m ; Y1≈657.5m ; Y5≈530.7m
[DCF] Fair Price = 78.96 (EV 16.10b - Net Debt 4.75b = Equity 11.36b / Shares 143.9m; r=5.90% [WACC]; 5y FCF grow -15.52% → 2.90% )
EPS Correlation: 88.97 | EPS CAGR: 7.77% | SUE: 1.16 | # QB: 5
Revenue Correlation: 96.92 | Revenue CAGR: 5.25% | SUE: 2.13 | # QB: 3
EPS next Quarter (2026-03-31): EPS=1.60 | Chg7d=-0.160 | Chg30d=-0.161 | Revisions Net=-15 | Analysts=20
EPS current Year (2026-12-31): EPS=6.88 | Chg7d=-0.462 | Chg30d=-0.461 | Revisions Net=-18 | Growth EPS=-3.4% | Growth Revenue=+6.3%
EPS next Year (2027-12-31): EPS=7.60 | Chg7d=-0.525 | Chg30d=-0.527 | Revisions Net=+1 | Growth EPS=+10.5% | Growth Revenue=+7.0%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: -1.00 (0 Up / 15 Down within 30d for Next Quarter)
[Growth] Implied Growth Rate = 4.5% (Discount Rate 7.9% - Earnings Yield 3.5%)
[Growth] Growth Spread = +1.2% (Analyst 5.7% - Implied 4.5%)

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