Recent Analysts’ Ratings Updates for Akamai Technologies (AKAM)

A number of firms have modified their ratings and price targets on shares of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) recently:

• 11/2/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target lowered by Morgan Stanley from $165.00 to $149.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 10/30/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by Guggenheim.
• 10/22/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target lowered by UBS Group from $148.00 to $100.00. They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
• 10/21/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target lowered by Piper Sandler from $158.00 to $120.00. They now have an “overweight” rating on the stock.
• 10/20/2026 – Akamai Technologies was upgraded by Raymond James Financial from “outperform” to “strong-buy”. They now have a $170.00 price target on the stock.
• 10/19/2026 – Akamai Technologies was downgraded by Weiss Ratings from “hold (c)” to “hold (c-)”.
• 10/17/2026 – Akamai Technologies was upgraded by Wall Street Zen from “sell” to “hold”.
• 9/30/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by President Capital from $150.00 to $168.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 9/29/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by Raymond James Financial. They now have a $170.00 price target on the stock.
• 9/28/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target lowered by DA Davidson from $185.00 to $150.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 9/26/2026 – Akamai Technologies was downgraded by Wall Street Zen from “hold” to “sell”.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by Bank of America from $175.00 to $185.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “outperform” rating reaffirmed by Evercore.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by Guggenheim from $190.00 to $225.00. They now have a “buy” rating on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by UBS Group from $143.00 to $148.00. They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by TD Cowen from $140.00 to $149.00. They now have a “hold” rating on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by Piper Sandler. They now have a $158.00 price target on the stock, up from $125.00.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by DA Davidson. They now have a $185.00 price target on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its price target raised by JPMorgan Chase & Co. from $158.00 to $167.00. They now have a “neutral” rating on the stock.
• 9/25/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “sector perform” rating reaffirmed by Royal Bank Of Canada. They now have a $135.00 price target on the stock.
• 9/21/2026 – Akamai Technologies had its “hold (c)” rating reaffirmed by Weiss Ratings.

Akamai Technologies Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ:AKAM opened at $86.53 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50 day moving average is $103.11 and its two-hundred day moving average is $112.38. Akamai Technologies, Inc. has a 52 week low of $70.82 and a 52 week high of $165.45. The firm has a market capitalization of $12.44 billion, a P/E ratio of 31.13, a PEG ratio of 4.08 and a beta of 0.65. The company has a current ratio of 1.64, a quick ratio of 1.64 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.23.

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August 6th. The technology infrastructure company reported $1.59 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.57 by $0.02. Akamai Technologies had a return on equity of 11.32% and a net margin of 9.51%. The business had revenue of $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.09 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 5.4% on a year-over-year basis. Akamai Technologies has set its Q3 2026 guidance at 1.600-1.800 EPS and its FY 2026 guidance at 6.400-7.050 EPS. Analysts anticipate that Akamai Technologies, Inc. will post 3.58 earnings per share for the current year.

Insider Buying and Selling at Akamai Technologies

In other Akamai Technologies news, EVP Paul Joseph sold 3,100 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, September 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $105.63, for a total transaction of $327,453.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president owned 28,472 shares in the company, valued at approximately $3,007,497.36. The trade was a 9.82% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, EVP Mani Sundaram sold 7,022 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, September 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $125.62, for a total value of $882,103.64. Following the completion of the transaction, the executive vice president directly owned 14,625 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,837,192.50. The trade was a 32.44% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Insiders have sold 12,135 shares of company stock valued at $1,467,221 in the last quarter. Corporate insiders own 2.30% of the company’s stock.

Akamai Technologies, Inc provides cloud, cybersecurity and content-delivery services that help organizations operate and protect applications, websites and digital media over the internet. Its distributed edge platform is designed to deliver online content closer to end users while improving performance, availability and resilience.

The company’s services include content delivery and application performance solutions, cloud computing capabilities, web and application security, distributed denial-of-service protection, bot management and zero-trust security tools.