Stock · AKAM · Technology
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1999 · Revenue 12 mo. $4.3B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and internationally.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and internationally. It 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; 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; and 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. The company also offers cloud computing services, which include compute, storage, and cloud native and networking services; and Akamai App Platform, provides ready-to-run templates that address challenges in deploying, managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale. In addition, it 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 strategic alliance with Deloitte Canada to help organizations achieve platform-based resilience against AI-accelerated cyberthreats. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Summary
40.6 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €627.5M (2025), it supports €7B. The remaining €4.5B of the market value assume it grows 7.0% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
7.0%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 8.8×, below its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 9.4× to 12.6×, median 10.5×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
3 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., Gross margin, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 9.08% | 14.60% | Rank 33 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 12.43% | 29.77% | Rank 24 |
| EBIT margin | 14.93% | 17.40% | Rank 46 |
| FCF margin | 16.62% | 18.54% | Rank 45 |
| Gross margin | 54.72% | 48.47% | Rank 59 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 5.44% | 12.70% | Rank 24 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | −1.97% | 9.54% | Rank 26 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | −1.83% | 14.07% | Rank 15 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 19.47% | 2.87% | Rank 92 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 3.70% | 2.64% | Rank 66 |
| FCF yield | 5.47% | 3.06% | Rank 74 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 4.39 | 5.18 | Rank 56 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 29.44 | 26.24 | Rank 43 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 4.22% | −0.59% | Rank 57 |
| Share price, 6 months | −43.26% | −4.46% | Rank 7 |
| Share price, 3 months | −19.70% | −5.84% | Rank 29 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −48.44% | −33.23% | Rank 25 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −4.81% | 1.65% | Rank 84 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −4.74% | −0.17% | Rank 92 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 8 | Rank 18 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −7.64% | −1.57% | Rank 18 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 43.36% | 53.98% | Rank 35 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 4.26 | −0.20 | Rank 4 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.39 | 0.33 | Rank 11 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 62.73% | 50.37% | Rank 32 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $M | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2.3 | 19.9% | 555.5 | 176M | $315.9M |
| 2017 | 2.5 | 12.6% | 386.2 | 173M | $349.5M |
| 2018 | 2.7 | 13.4% | 602.6 | 169M | $524.2M |
| 2019 | 2.9 | 19.0% | 496.2 | 165M | $2.3B |
| 2020 | 3.2 | 20.6% | 483.1 | 165M | $2.4B |
| 2021 | 3.5 | 22.6% | 859.3 | 166M | $2.3B |
| 2022 | 3.6 | 18.7% | 816.4 | 160M | $2.6B |
| 2023 | 3.8 | 16.7% | 618.4 | 155M | $4.0B |
| 2024 | 4.0 | 13.4% | 833.9 | 154M | $4.1B |
| 2025 | 4.2 | 14.9% | 699.3 | 147M | $6.0B |
1 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Akamai Technologies Inc mainly meets criteria in the Valuation category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Akamai Technologies Inc is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
1 of 7 rules met
2 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Akamai Technologies Inc.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 27.0 | 35.1 |
| P/B ratio | 2.5 | 5.5 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 9.1% | 14.6% |
| Equity ratio | 43.4% | 54.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.39 | 0.33 |
| Dividend yield | 0.0% | 0.9% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| AKAM | Akamai Technologies Incthis page | |
| SAIL | SailPoint, Inc. Common Stock | locked |
| GDDY | Godaddy Inc | High7.3 |
| GEN | Gen Digital Inc. | High8.2 |
| NTNX | Nutanix Inc | locked |
| FFIV | F5 Networks Inc | locked |
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