The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

AKAM

Concerning the House

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. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

United States · www.akamai.com

The Long Run

FY 2009–2025 · 17 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$2.34B+13.3%
Operating income$566.94M+6.0%
Net income$452.03M+7.3%
Cash from ops$1.35B+7.5%
Quotation

$125.29

+2.51 (+2.0%)

52w hi$161.14
52w lo$71.97
Vol3.08M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Hold

Our score -0.21

Short-0.40
Medium-0.05
Long-0.14

computed 2026-08-12

By the Numbers

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Technology · Software - Infrastructure

Market cap$18.01B
Enterprise value$23.63B
Trailing P/E45.39x
Forward P/E17.49x
EV / EBITDA21.88x
P / S (ttm)4.17x
Profit margin9.5%
Return on equity8.9%
Revenue growth+5.4%
Earnings growth-26.8%
Debt / equity196.67
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX1.17
Corr SPX0.38
Annual vol50.6%
Annual ret+28.5%
Sharpe0.56
Max DD-36.1%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.04
Sector+0.14
Technical-0.21
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-12

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$124.92$127.04$123.31$125.293.08M
Aug 12$117.50$124.91$117.05$122.783.50M
Aug 11$118.01$119.21$116.28$116.672.34M
Aug 10$107.37$120.14$107.32$117.656.11M
Aug 7$124.00$125.55$110.02$110.548.15M