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  • Last Close 107.04
  • Sector Technology
  • Industry Software - Infrastructure
  • Investment Style Mid Blend
  • Day Range 106.47  –  107.67
  • Year Range 70.65  –  109.05
  • Market Cap 16.1635 Bil
  • Volume / Avg 1.2 Mil /  1.7 Mil
  • Price / Sales 4.58
  • Price / Book 3.79
  • Forward Div Yield —
  • Trailing Div Yield —

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As Content Delivery Continues To Fade, Security and Compute Form the Core of Akamai’s Business

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Business Strategy and Outlook

| Matthew Dolgin |

Facing stagnation in its core content delivery network business as its biggest media customers, such as Netflix, retreated in favor of bringing their CDNs in-house, Akamai has done an excellent job of pivoting to areas with growing demand, offering top-rate service, and making smart acquisitions. The key to Akamai's recent success has been the cybersecurity solutions it now offers. As the rest of its business lagged, security solutions grew by over 20% annually from 2017 through 2022, when security exceeded $1.5 billion in sales—over 40% of the company’s total.

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Company Profile AKAM

Business Description

Akamai operates a content delivery network, or CDN, which entails locating servers at the edges of networks so its customers, which store content on Akamai servers, can reach their own customers faster, more securely, and with better quality. Akamai has over 325,000 servers distributed over 4,100 points of presence in more than 1,000 cities worldwide. Its customers generally include media companies, which stream video content or make video games available for download, and other enterprises that run interactive or high-traffic websites, such as e-commerce firms and financial institutions. Akamai also has a significant security business, which is integrated with its core delivery and computing businesses to protect customers from cyberthreats.

Contact
145 Broadway
Cambridge, MA, 02142
Sector Technology
Industry Software - Infrastructure
Employees 9,800

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Competitors & Peers AKAM

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Price
106.541.4232.4119.17
Currency
USDUSDUSDUSD
Change
−$0.50 (0.47%) −$0.01 (0.70%) −$0.14 (0.43%) +$0.44 (2.35%)
Market Cap
16.16 Bil1.43 Bil136.25 Bil2.48 Bil
Industry
Software - Infrastructure Telecom Services Telecom Services Software - Application
Sector
Technology
Communication Services
Communication Services
Technology

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FAQs for Akamai Technologies Inc Stock

No. AKAM does not currently have a forward dividend yield.
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AKAM’s market cap is 16.16 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares. It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.

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AKAM’s stock style is Mid Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns. Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.

High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.

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AKAM’s price/sales is 4.58.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from a particular company’s sales or revenues.

AKAM’s price/forward earnings is 32.94.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates. The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.

AKAM’s price/book is 3.79.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets, based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.

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AKAM’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
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