Risk factor
Good trading liquidity
Profitability factor
Favourable analyst view
In Guru Portfolios
Manager | Fund | Portfolio Weight (%) | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Cohen | Point72 Asset Management, L.P. | 0.5% | +0.12% |
| Kenneth Griffin | CITADEL ADVISORS LLC | 0.1% | +0.03% |
About
Akamai Technologies, Inc. operates globally, providing comprehensive solutions in security, content delivery, and cloud computing. Their security offerings deliver robust protection for web applications, APIs, and mobile traffic against various cyber threats, including sophisticated bot attacks and account fraud, with specific tools like Akamai Account Protector to defend against account takeovers and opening abuse. They also safeguard digital content from scraping through Akamai Content Protector, ensure API integrity through discovery and monitoring, and secure traffic flowing between microservice components. In cloud computing, Akamai furnishes essential infrastructure services, encompassing compute, storage, networking, databases, and container management, alongside the Akamai App Platform which streamlines the deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters. Their delivery solutions focus on enhancing web and mobile performance through site acceleration, global traffic management, application load balancing, large-scale load testing, and real-user monitoring. They also specialize in media delivery, facilitating high-quality video streaming, game and software downloads, broadcast operations, and authoritative domain name system resolution, complemented by data and analytics capabilities. Furthermore, Akamai has forged technical alliances with TollBit and Skyfire, enabling publishers and content owners to monetize AI bot traffic. Established in 1998, Akamai Technologies, Inc. maintains its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Company Valuation
Based on key historical and expected multiples, the stock is slightly overvalued relative to its peers. Specifically, the stock is fairly valued on P/E, neutral on EV/EBI
Target Price
The average target price of AKAM is 160 and suggests 44.7% upside potential. Usually, this means a BUY recommendation among investment firms, or a recommendation to incre