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AKAM (Akamai Technologies) 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio : 1.70% (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is Akamai Technologies 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio?

Shares Outstanding (EOP) are shares that have been authorized, issued, and purchased by investors and are held by them.

10-Year Share Buyback Ratio measures the average annual proportion of a company's outstanding shares repurchased over the past ten years. It is calculated as the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from ten years ago to the current year. A positive ratio may indicate share buybacks over the period, while a zero or negative ratio may reflect no repurchases or potential share issuance. Akamai Technologies's current 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio was 1.70%.

AKAM's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio is ranked better than
96.55% of 1304 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: -2.7 vs AKAM: 1.70

Competitive Comparison of Akamai Technologies's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Akamai Technologies's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Akamai Technologies's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Akamai Technologies's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Akamai Technologies's 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio falls into.


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Akamai Technologies 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio Calculation

This is the annualized percentage change in shares outstanding from ten years ago to the current year. The annualized percentage change is calculated with least-square regression based on the eleven years of annual data on Shares Outstanding (EOP).

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Akamai Technologies (NAS:AKAM) 10-Year Share Buyback Ratio Explanation

A negative number means the company might be issuing new shares. A positive number indicates that the company is buying back shares.

Be Aware

Investors usually like share buybacks. But as pointed by Warren Buffett, only if a company buys back shares at the prices below the stock's intrinsic value, it rewards remaining shareholders. If a company buys its overvalued stocks back, it destroys shareholder value.

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Akamai Technologies Business Description

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Address
145 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02142
Website
https://www.akamai.com
Akamai operates a content delivery network, which entails locating servers at the edges of networks so its customers, which store content on Akamai servers, can reach their own customers faster, more securely, and with better quality. Akamai has over 325,000 servers distributed over 4,100 points of presence in more than 1,000 cities worldwide. The firm also offers security and cloud computing for its customers, and those businesses have grown to be bigger than the legacy CDN.
Executives
Kim Salem-jackson officer: EVP, Chief Marketing Officer C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Adam Karon officer: EVP & GM Media Division C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 150 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Paul C Joseph officer: EVP - Global Sales C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Anthony P Williams officer: EVP and CHRO C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Aaron Ahola officer: SVP & General Counsel C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 150 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Edward J Mcgowan officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 150 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Mani Sundaram officer: EVP GSS and CIO C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
F Thomson Leighton director, officer: Chief Scientist 500 TECHNOLOGY SQUARE, FIFTH FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
William Raymond Wagner director C/O VOCUS, INC., 4296 FORBES BOULEVARD, LANHAM MD 20706
Robert Blumofe officer: EVP Platform C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 8 CAMBRIDGE CENTER, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Madhu Ranganathan director 760 MARKET STREET, 4TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102
Verwaayen Bernardus Johannes Maria director 55 GLENLAKE PARKWAY NE, ATLANTA GA 30328
Rick M Mcconnell officer: EVP - Products and Development LATITUDE, 2121 TASMAN DRIVE, SANTA CLARA CA 4089887256
Monte E Ford director C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 8 CAMBRIDGE CENTER, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Laura Howell officer: VP, Chief Accounting Officer C/O AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 145 BROADWAY, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142