A new trading day began on Friday, with Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM) stock price down -5.66% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $74.76. AKAM’s price has ranged from $67.51 to $106.80 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Technology sector company grew by 2.41% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 2.54%. With a float of $143.29 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $146.21 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 10700 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 59.07%, operating margin of 12.97%, and the pretax margin is 14.23%.
Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) Insider and Institutional Ownership
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Software – Infrastructure Industry. The insider ownership of Akamai Technologies Inc is 2.00%, while institutional ownership is 96.83%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jul 15 ’25, was worth 388,700. In this transaction EVP – Global Sales of this company sold 5,000 shares at a rate of $77.74, taking the stock ownership to the 32,349 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 15 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 5,000 for $77.74, making the entire transaction worth $388,700.
Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) Latest Financial update
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 1.59 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.64 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 2.54% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.10% during the next five years compared to 2.41% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Akamai Technologies Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 2.24. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.53. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.19.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.82, a number that is poised to hit 1.62 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.96 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM)
Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: AKAM) saw its 5-day average volume 3.17 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 2.42 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 14.98%.
During the past 100 days, Akamai Technologies Inc’s (AKAM) raw stochastic average was set at 16.20%, which indicates a significant increase from 6.51% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 2.12 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 2.00 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $78.01, while its 200-day Moving Average is $86.11.
