XNAS · Software - Infrastructure
Last stored close · Sep 18, 2026
Close · Sep 18, 2026
$104.52-2.39%
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TickerWhale Score
36/100
Weak
Score components
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Akamai Technologies scores 36 out of 100 overall, which we rate weak. Valuation is its strongest area and Technical its weakest.
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- Valuation
- Sentiment Signal
What to watch
- Technical
- Quality & growth
- Risk
Quality & growth
30%22Weak
- Revenue growth 5.9%
- EPS growth -1.4%
Valuation
25%67Positive
- P/E 39.1
- EV/Sales 5.1
Akamai operates a content delivery network, in which customers store content on distributed servers to deliver it to their own customers more quickly. Akamai has over 350,000 servers distributed over 4,350 points of presence in more than 700 cities globally. This network supports upward of 20% of global internet traffic, generating massive amounts of data. Using data generated by the delivery network, the firm offers cybersecurity products and cloud computing services, ranging from API security to zero-trust enterprise access, which has surpassed the delivery network in revenue and importance. As of 2026, the primary focus has shifted to offering computing hardware as a service, with an emphasis on serving large language model providers such as Anthropic.
#530 by market cap in our coverage · ~11,000 employees · Listed 1999-10-29 · www.akamai.com
Price history
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Market intelligence
Peer position
#188 / 207sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 36 vs sector average 53.5 (-17.5)
Revenue growth (industry)Top 93%
Gross margin (industry)Top 82%
Return on equity (industry)Top 53%
P/E (industry)Pricier than 51%
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
21/100Weak vs universe
Ranks 21st of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 31/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Strong Sell
1 buy · 4 sell · 3 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates AKAM's technical setup weak — 21st percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean sell, pointing the same way.
Moving averages
0 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day-5.3%
- vs 50-day-8.3%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)42 · neutral
- Stochasticsell
- CCIneutral
- Williams %Rneutral
Trend
Mixed
- ADX (14) trend strength34· trending
- MACD (12,26,9)buy(histogram 0.228)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on sell — 0 buy vs 9 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 1 buy · 3 sell · 3 neutral.
Result — 1 buy vs 4 sell of 8 votes = Strong Sell. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-09-18 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)39.1
- P/S (TTM)3.7
- P/B3.4
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales5.1
- PEG—
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin57.5%
- Net margin9.5%
- ROE8.5%
- Debt/Equity1.59
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)5.9%
- EPS growth (YoY)-1.4%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs industry peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $16.1B
Fundamentals history
Reported statement totals across recent periods.
| Metric | Dec '25 | Dec '24 | Dec '23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $4.2B | $4.0B | $3.8B |
| Gross profit | $2.5B | $2.4B | $2.3B |
| Operating income | $567M | $533M | $637M |
| Net income | $452M | $505M | $548M |
| EPS (diluted) | $3.07 | $3.27 | $3.52 |
| Free cash flow | $699M | $834M | $618M |
| Cash | $930M | $518M | $489M |
| Total debt | $5.7B | $4.6B | $4.5B |
| Equity | $5.0B | $4.9B | $4.6B |
| Net debt | $4.7B | $4.1B | $4.0B |
| Debt / equity | 1.14 | 0.95 | 0.99 |
| Liabilities / assets | 0.57 | 0.53 | 0.54 |
Fundamentals are stored revised/latest (ADR-009): each period reflects the most recent vendor refresh, NOT point-in-time as-reported values. Do not use this series to claim what was known on a past date.
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Peers
| Company | Score | Pulse | P/E | P/E fwd | P/B | EV/Sales | Price | Chg | Estimate | Upside | Rev. gr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKAMCurrentAkamai Technologies | 36 | 31 | 39.1 | — | 3.4 | 5.1 | $104.52 | -2.39% | +5.9% | ||
| MSFTMicrosoft | 79 | 67 | 27.5 | — | 8.3 | 11.1 | $493.78 | -0.80% | +17.8% | ||
| MUMicron Technology | 77 | 57 | 23.0 | — | 11.5 | 12.7 | $1,015.80 | +3.92% | +167.0% | ||
| NVDANVIDIA | 77 | 68 | 28.0 | — | 23.6 | 17.9 | $222.27 | +1.34% | +83.4% | ||
| NTNXNutanix Inc - | 76 | 73 | 13.6 | — | 29.1 | 7.4 | $69.80 | -0.24% | +12.4% | ||
| DUOLDuolingo Inc - | 75 | 50 | 17.3 | — | 5.0 | 5.2 | $141.90 | -3.54% | +29.4% |
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