Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $77.08, with 3.17 million shares of worth about $244.01 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -10.33% during that period and on May 22, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.86%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 146.09M shares, out of which, 143.17M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 0.74% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.59%. Year-to-date (YTD), AKAM shares are showing a performance of -19.41% which decreased to -18.78% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $67.51 but also hit the highest price of $106.80 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Akamai Technologies Inc shares is 2.78 million. The stock is currently trading -3.31% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -1.81% for SMA50 and it goes to -16.21% lower than SMA200.
Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM) currently have 146.09M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 95.70% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $11.27B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.78. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 26.00, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.96 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.43 and has Quick Ratio of 1.15 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.01. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for AKAM, volatility over the week remained 0.93% while standing at 2.97% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -2.64% while it is estimated to increase by 5.99% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 4.79% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 2.41% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Oppenheimer on March 20, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $116 and $100 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on February 21, 2025, suggesting a price target of $98 for the stock. On February 21, 2025, Piper Sandler Downgrade their recommendations, while on February 21, 2025, Craig Hallum Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $90. Stock get a Neutral rating from BofA Securities on February 21, 2025.
