Akamai Technologies - AKAM Stock Forecast, Price & News

10 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Akamai Technologies in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research 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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10 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Akamai Technologies' stock. Their AKAM share price forecasts range from $90.00 to $137.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $110.53 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.3% from the stock's current price.
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Akamai Technologies' stock was trading at $117.04 at the start of the year. Since then, AKAM shares have decreased by 23.4% and is now trading at $89.66.
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Akamai Technologies saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 11,350,000 shares, an increase of 7.3% from the October 31st total of 10,580,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,550,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 7.3 days. Approximately 7.3% 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 21st 2023.
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 8th. The technology infrastructure company reported $0.89 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.96 by $0.07. The technology infrastructure company earned $881.90 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $875.99 million. Akamai Technologies had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 16.00% and a net margin of 14.12%. The company's revenue was up 2.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.20 earnings per share.
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Akamai Technologies declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase program on Tuesday, November 2nd 2021, which permits the company to repurchase $1,800,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 10% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Akamai Technologies issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 9th. The company provided EPS 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.41%), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (4.68%), Nordea Investment Management AB (3.28%), First Trust Advisors LP (2.48%), Alliancebernstein L.P. (2.05%) and King Luther Capital Management Corp (1.71%). Insiders that own company stock include Aaron Ahola, Adam Karon, Anthony P Williams, Bernardus Johannes M Verwaayen, Edward J Mcgowan, 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 $89.66.

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) has a market capitalization of $14.10 billion and generates $3.46 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.