Akamai Technologies - AKAM Stock Forecast, Price & News

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Akamai Technologies in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" AKAM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AKAM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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11 Wall Street research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Akamai Technologies' stock. Their AKAM share price forecasts range from $75.00 to $137.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $107.53 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 22.9% from the stock's current price.
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Akamai Technologies' stock was trading at $84.30 at the beginning of the year. Since then, AKAM stock has increased by 3.8% and is now trading at $87.49.
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Akamai Technologies saw a decline in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,820,000 shares, a decline of 6.3% from the December 31st total of 9,410,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,420,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.2 days. Approximately 5.7% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, February 14th 2023.
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Akamai Technologies will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, February 14th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-0088 with passcode "7241694".

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November, 8th. The technology infrastructure company reported $0.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.96 by $0.07. The technology infrastructure company earned $881.90 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $875.99 million. Akamai Technologies had a net margin of 14.12% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.00%. The company's revenue was up 2.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.20 EPS.
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Akamai Technologies announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share buyback program on Tuesday, November 2nd 2021, which permits the company to repurchase $1,800,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to purchase up to 10% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Akamai Technologies updated its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Friday, December, 9th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.23-$1.30 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $1.28. The company issued revenue guidance of $890.00 million-$915.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $910.28 million.

1,067 employees have rated Akamai Technologies Chief Executive Officer Tom Leighton on Glassdoor.com. Tom Leighton has an approval rating of 95% among the company's employees. This puts Tom Leighton in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Akamai Technologies trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AKAM."

Akamai Technologies' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include LGT Capital Partners LTD. (0.77%), Congress Asset Management Co. MA (0.62%), DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (0.42%), Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.39%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.36%) and Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.32%). Insiders that own company stock include Aaron Ahola, Adam Karon, Anthony P Williams, Bernardus Johannes M Verwaayen, Edward J Mcgowan, F Thomson Leighton, Frederic V Salerno, Jill A Greenthal, Kim Salem-Jackson, Madhu Ranganathan, Mani Sundaram, Monte E Ford, Paul C Joseph, Rick M Mcconnell, Rick M Mcconnell and Robert Blumofe.
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One share of AKAM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $87.49.

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) has a market capitalization of $13.76 billion and generates $3.59 billion in revenue each year. The technology infrastructure company earns $651.64 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.12 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,700 workers across the globe.

Akamai Technologies' mailing address is 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA, 02142. The official website for the company is www.akamai.com. The technology infrastructure company can be reached via phone at (617) 444-3000, via email at invrel@akamai.com, or via fax at 617-444-3001.