Akamai Technologies

AKAM

Software - Infrastructure · Technology

Price

$120.19

+1.38 (+1.16%)

Market Cap

$17.47B

Exchange

NASDAQ

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−11.3% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 165.8M (2021) → 147.0M (2025)

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for securing, delivering, and optimizing content and business applications over the internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud solutions to keep infrastructure, websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and users safe from various cyberattacks and online threats while enhancing performance. It also provides web and mobile performance solutions to enable dynamic websites and applications; media de

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+5.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-12.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$514M/ year

↑ Rising (+9% vs prior year)

12.2% of revenue

In line with sector average (15%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

2.3%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$622M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

Akamai Technologies is growing revenue at 6% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

56.1%

Premium pricing power — 56.1% gross margin

Operating Margin

10.7%

Modest — 10.7% operating margin

ROCE

1.1%

Weak — 1.1% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+6.2%

Slow sales growth (6.2% YoY)

EPS YoY

+0.3%

Flat earnings

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency

2/8 quarters

Earnings rarely grow — volatile business

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

363%

Turns 363% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

17.9%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (17.9%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

1.20

Elevated debt (1.20)

Interest Cover

10.47x

Comfortably covers interest (10.5x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

39.9x

Pricey — P/E 39.9

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward

+23.6

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (39.9 → 16.4)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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