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$86.69
-6.50%

Security and cloud, market cap $14BCybersecurity

After-hours $86.88 +0.22%

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Why is AKAM down?

Down 6.5% today with cybersecurity stocks: 23 of 24 are down, 5.6% on average; the S&P 500 is down 0.5%.

Down

Down 21% in 3 months while the S&P 500 was flat.

  • It fell 7% on Aug 7, the session after its Aug 6 SEC filing.

Sources: Price history, Oct 30, 2026; Company release, Aug 6, 2026

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Quality Score
1
Below Average
In its industry
#53of 67

AKAM's Quality Score fell 3 points on Fri, Oct 30, to 1. Buying volume slipped off its 20-day high (3 chart checks stopped).

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Key facts on AKAM

Key facts on AKAM
Long-term trend−2 below its 200-day since September and down over two years
Latest filing8-K, Sep 24 Sold shares in an unregistered sale and changed its bylaws or fiscal year
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AKAM in the news

TodayWith its group.

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AKAM catalysts

Coming up

After its last 4 reports it closed +5.1% on average, higher 2 of 4 times.

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AKAM has 1 of 14 chart checks firing

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AKAM RSI today: 35.3, below its 50-day and 200-day averages

Not scored

Not in the Quality Score: over 20 years of tests, 2006 to 2026, they added no edge.

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How AKAM ranks in Business Services

AKAM is #53 of 67 by Quality Score among Services-⁠Business Services.

How AKAM ranks in Business Services
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Net income over four quarters: AKAM $411M, FTNT $2.12B, QLYS $207M, ATEN $43.0M.

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When does AKAM report earnings, and what happens after?

Reports Thu Nov 5, after the close (in 3 days). Confirmed.

What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.

ReportedGapReaction5
sessions
Aug 6, 2026After close+4.6%-6.8%+5.7%
May 7, 2026After close+24.6%+26.6%+33.4%
Feb 19, 2026After close-9.0%-14.1%-8.8%

AKAM closed higher after 2 of its last 4 reports.

All 4 reports, and AKAM's Quality Score going into each

Everyone reporting earnings this week

AKAM sales and profit by year

Sales and profit by year

Sales grew every year from 2018 to 2025, to $4.2B. It made a profit in each of the eight years.

Insiders trading AKAM

AKAM trades by Congress and the executive branch

6 trades disclosed in the last six months. The newest:

SellDonald Trump$1K to $15KPresident (R)traded Aug 28, disclosed Oct 8(41 days later)
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AKAM's officers and directors

Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.

7 more officers and directors file at AKAM. Each page above names the rest.

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Which ETFs hold AKAM?

In ETFs: AKAM is under 0.1% of FTEC, under 0.1% of VGT, and under 0.1% of XLK, the most of the 24 funds Breakaway covers, by each fund's latest filing, Jun 30 to Aug 31, 2026.

About Akamai Technologies

Akamai operates a content delivery network, in which customers store content on distributed servers to deliver it to their own customers more quickly. Akamai has over 350,000 servers distributed over 4,350 points of presence in more than 700 cities globally. This network supports upward of 20% of global internet traffic, generating massive amounts of data. Using data generated by the delivery network, the firm offers cybersecurity products and cloud computing services, ranging from API security to zero-trust enterprise access, which has surpassed the delivery network in revenue and importance. As of 2026, the primary focus has shifted to offering computing hardware as a service, with an emphasis on serving large language model providers such as Anthropic.

11,000 employeesCambridge, MAakamai.com

What Akamai Technologies says it competes with

“The market for our solutions is intensely competitive and characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and frequent new product and service innovations.”

From its annual report, SEC filing · Feb 20, 2026

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AKAM's score card

Akamai Technologies (AKAM): Quality Score 1, Below Average, #53 of 67 in Business Services, with its price, on Breakaway
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BreakawayJul 21Alan Armstrong bought AKAM$1K to $15K, disclosed Jul 21

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Straight Answers

As of Nov 2, 2026: AKAM's Quality Score is 1 (Below Average), #53 of 67 in Services-Business Services.

Is AKAM a good stock to buy? What its Quality Score says

AKAM scores 1 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average. It is #53 of 67 in Services-⁠Business Services by Quality Score, with 1 of 14 chart checks firing. Down 21% in 3 months while the S&P 500 was flat. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.

What is AKAM's Quality Score?

AKAM scores 1 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average (0 to 5). That is #53 of 67 in Services-⁠Business Services by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind AKAM's 1.

When does AKAM report earnings?

Reports Thu Nov 5, after the close, a date the company confirmed. AKAM closed higher after 2 of its last 4 reports. Past behavior, not a forecast.

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