Akamai (AKAM) Gets a Buy Rating from Oppenheimer


Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan maintained a Buy rating on Akamai (AKAM) yesterday and set a price target of $130.00. The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $105.19.

According to TipRanks.com, Horan is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 18.0% and a 68.7% success rate. Horan covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Rackspace Technology, Lumen Technologies, and Vonage Holdings.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Akamai is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $125.70.

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Akamai’s market cap is currently $17.47B and has a P/E ratio of 56.70. The company has a Price to Book ratio of 7.58.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 64 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of AKAM in relation to earlier this year.

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Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud services for delivering, optimizing and securing content and business applications over the Internet. Its products offers web and mobile performance solutions, cloud security solutions, enterprise solutions, network operator solutions, media delivery solutions and services and support solutions. It also engages in content delivery network, or CDN, services to make the Internet fast, reliable and secure. The company was founded by Frank Thomson Leighton, Jonathan Seelig, Randall S. Kaplan, and Daniel Mark Lewin on August 20, 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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