Akamai's third-quarter sales rose 6% on modest security and cloud-compute revenue. Management announced targets of $1.2 billion in cloud-computing revenue in 2027, and over $7 billion in total revenue for 2028, implying a faster path to its previously stated $2.2 billion annualized run rate.
Wireless network enhancements and Internet of Things deployments will increase data traffic, adding demand to house content and services as close to customers as possible.
Media customers of CDNs will continue to insource the transmission of their content, making a content segment turnaround more difficult.
Metric | AKAM | NET | VZ |
|---|---|---|---|
Price/Earnings (Normalized) | 12.04 | 1,679.51 | 11.92 |
Price/Book Value | 2.32 | 65.73 | 1.80 |
Price/Sales | 2.85 | 34.79 | 1.37 |
Price/Cash Flow | 7.34 | 125.09 | 4.70 |
Metric | AKAM | NET | VZ |
|---|---|---|---|
Quick Ratio | 1.98 | 3.66 | 0.47 |
Current Ratio | 2.13 | 3.80 | 0.63 |
Interest Coverage | 12.35 | −31.65 | 3.82 |
Metric | AKAM | NET | VZ |
|---|---|---|---|
Return on Assets (Normalized) | 6.81% | 4.70% | 4.05% |
Return on Equity (Normalized) | 17.93% | 20.36% | 15.88% |
Return on Invested Capital (Normalized) | 6.78% | 3.56% | 7.57% |
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