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6 months
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Year to date
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1 year
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5 years
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10 years
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About: Akamai operates a content delivery network, 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. The firm also offers security and cloud computing for its customers, and those businesses have grown to be bigger than the legacy CDN.

Employees: 10,700

0
Funds holding %
of 7,407 funds
0
Analysts bullish %
of 10 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

25% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 4 [Q3] → 5 (+1) [Q4]

23% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $1.03B | Put options by funds: $843M

3.78% more ownership

Funds ownership: 90.56% [Q3] → 94.34% (+3.78%) [Q4]

9% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 83 | Existing positions closed: 76

3% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $13.9B [Q3] → $14.3B (+$438M) [Q4]

1% less funds holding

Funds holding: 673 [Q3] → 666 (-7) [Q4]

17% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 224 | Existing positions reduced: 269

Research analyst outlook

10 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target
$72
2%
downside
Avg. target
$95
29%
upside
High target
$110
50%
upside

10 analyst ratings

positive
40%
neutral
50%
negative
10%
Morgan Stanley
Keith Weiss
28% 1-year accuracy
10 / 36 met price target
23%upside
$90
Equal-Weight
Maintained
16 Apr 2025
Piper Sandler
James Fish
34% 1-year accuracy
10 / 29 met price target
9%upside
$80
Neutral
Maintained
8 Apr 2025
Oppenheimer
Param Singh
0% 1-year accuracy
0 / 6 met price target
36%upside
$100
Outperform
Assumed
20 Mar 2025
Citigroup
Fatima Boolani
48% 1-year accuracy
16 / 33 met price target
29%upside
$95
Neutral
Maintained
24 Feb 2025
RBC Capital
Rishi Jaluria
38% 1-year accuracy
27 / 72 met price target
23%upside
$90
Sector Perform
Maintained
21 Feb 2025

Financial journalist opinion

Based on 10 articles about AKAM published over the past 30 days

Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Akamai Technologies To Hold First Quarter 2025 Investor Conference Call On Thursday, May 8, at 4:30 PM ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --  Akamai Technologies , Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers business online, announced today that the company will hold a conference call for investors on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 4:30 p.m.
Akamai Technologies To Hold First Quarter 2025 Investor Conference Call On Thursday, May 8, at 4:30 PM ET
Neutral
PRNewsWire
1 week ago
Akamai Announces App & API Protector Hybrid for Expanded WAF Defense
Hybrid solution delivers consistent, scalable security for applications and APIs across multicloud, on-premises, and CDN-agnostic infrastructures CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , April 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies, Inc.  (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today introduced App & API Protector Hybrid.
Akamai Announces App & API Protector Hybrid for Expanded WAF Defense
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
2 weeks ago
AKAM to Boost Devsisters' Gaming Infrastructure: Will the Stock Gain?
Devsisters selects Akamai's cloud solution to expand and bolster its global gaming infrastructure.
AKAM to Boost Devsisters' Gaming Infrastructure: Will the Stock Gain?
Neutral
PRNewsWire
2 weeks ago
Queue-it Joins Elite Group of Qualified Compute Partners at Akamai
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, announced today that Queue-it is the latest organization to join the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
Queue-it Joins Elite Group of Qualified Compute Partners at Akamai
Positive
Zacks Investment Research
3 weeks ago
Will the Launch of Cloud Inference Platform Benefit AKAM Stock?
Akamai to revolutionize AI inference and data-intensive workloads with the newly launched Cloud Inference platform.
Will the Launch of Cloud Inference Platform Benefit AKAM Stock?
Positive
24/7 Wall Street
3 weeks ago
Insiders Just Made Substantial Purchases of These 3 Stocks
Also, in its most recent quarter, the company's EPS of $3.13 beat estimates by nine cents.
Insiders Just Made Substantial Purchases of These 3 Stocks
Neutral
PRNewsWire
3 weeks ago
Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development
Akamai picks up the hosting of kernel.org, bringing long-term stability to development and maintenance of the open source Linux operating system CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Development work on the Linux kernel — the core software that underpins the open source Linux operating system — has a new infrastructure partner in Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online.
Akamai Delivers Infrastructure Support to Ensure Uninterrupted Linux Kernel Development
Neutral
PRNewsWire
3 weeks ago
Akamai First to Offer VPUs in the Cloud
Akamai launches new category of cloud-based compute powered by NETINT video processing units CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today launched Akamai Cloud Accelerated Compute Instances, a new compute category built on specialized computer chips designed to perform specific tasks more efficiently than general-purpose processors.
Akamai First to Offer VPUs in the Cloud
Neutral
PRNewsWire
3 weeks ago
Akamai Sharpens Its AI Edge with Launch of Akamai Cloud Inference
New service gives companies the ability to realize a 3x improvement in throughput, 60% less latency, and 86% lower cost than traditional hyperscale infrastructure CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online, today unveiled Akamai Cloud Inference, to usher in a faster, more efficient wave of innovation for organizations looking to turn predictive and large language models (LLMs) into real-world action.
Akamai Sharpens Its AI Edge with Launch of Akamai Cloud Inference
Neutral
PRNewsWire
4 weeks ago
Akamai Named a Web Application Firewall Leader
'Reference customers loved Akamai's detection capabilities and appreciated how easy it is to automate functionality.' CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Akamai Named a Web Application Firewall Leader
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