AKAM (Akamai Technologies) Quality Rank

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AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc AKAM
85 GF Score
Price $120.19
GF Value $112.29
Valuation Fairly Valued
! 5 Warning Signs
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What is Akamai Technologies Quality Rank?

The Quality Rank measures the business quality of a company relative to other companies. It is ranked based on the strength of the balance sheet, as well as the profitability and growth of the business. The ranked companies are split in equal numbers and then ranked from 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest.

The rank of balance sheet (30%)

The rank of balance sheet is done through the ranking of:
  • Interest coverage
  • Zscore
  • Debt to revenue
  • Equity to asset
  • Cash to debt

The rank of Profitability (70%)

The ranking of Profitability is done by ranking:
  • Operating margin mean rank (10-year mean average profit margine)
  • Operating margin growth rank
  • Fscore
  • Predictability rank
  • Revenue growth rank (5 year), when the growth is higher than 25%, set it as 25%
  • Num of year profit (number of years that is profitable within the last 10 years)
  • ROIC median (10-year median of ROIC)

Akamai Technologies Quality Rank Related Terms

AKAM
85GF Score
Akamai Technologies Inc AKAM
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Is Akamai Technologies (AKAM) Overvalued in 2026?

Based on GuruFocus' analysis, Akamai Technologies stock appears to be overvalued. The current stock price of $120.19 is trading 7% above its estimated GF Value™ of $112.29. GuruFocus considers Akamai Technologies to be Fairly Valued.

Key valuation signals for AKAM:

  • Quality Rank:
  • GF Value™: $112.29 vs. price of $120.19 (7% above fair value)
  • GF Score™: 85/100 with 5 warning signs

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Akamai Technologies Business Description

Address 145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02142
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.
85GF Score

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$120.19
Price
$112.29
GF Value