# Akamai Technologies Inc (AKAM) — Stock CV

Akamai Technologies Inc is a $15.3B technology company. Revenue grew 5.9% over the last year, and it keeps 10¢ of every dollar of sales as profit. It trades at 37.4× earnings — near the highest of its own history.

> 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.

## Identity

- **Ticker**: AKAM
- **Sector**: Technology
- **Industry**: Services-Business Services, Nec
- **Headquarters**: CAMBRIDGE, MA
- **Employees**: 11 000
- **Website**: https://www.akamai.com
- **Market cap**: $15.3B
- **Last price**: $106.80
- **Financial profile**: Solid

## Vitals (TTM)

- **Revenue**: $4.32B
- **Net income**: $411M
- **Free cash flow**: $956M
- **P/E**: 37.4
- **Revenue growth (YoY)**: 5.9%

## Skills (profile scores, 0–100)

| Pillar | Score |
|---|---|
| Valuation | 45 |
| Growth | 37 |
| Profitability | 49 |
| Health | 53 |
| Quality | 90 |
| Moat | 88 |

## Qualifications (beginner checklist) — 8 of 10 passed

- [x] Revenue growing — +5.9% YoY
- [x] Profitable — $411M TTM
- [ ] Profit growing — -2.0% YoY
- [x] Generates cash — $956M TTM
- [x] Debt under control — current ratio 1.64
- [x] Established company — $15.3B market cap
- [x] Not printing shares — -11.0% shares over ~5y
- [x] Proven track record — 10/10 profitable years
- [ ] Financially stable — Altman Z 1.6 — distress
- [x] Valuation not extreme — P/E 37.4

## Experience (career milestones)

- **2022** — The company's cloud infrastructure services primarily consist of compute and storage solutions developed based on…
- **FY2021** — Best year on record: $652M net income
- **FY2016** — Profitable every year on record: 10 consecutive profitable years in our data
- **FY2016** — Revenue already above $1B: $2.34B in first reported year
- **FY2016** — Positive free cash flow every year since: 10-year streak
- **Oct 29, 1999** — The company launched its commercial service in April 1999 and was listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market from October 29,…
- **Aug 20, 1998** — Thomson Leighton and Daniel Lewin as founders, and Akamai Technologies was incorporated on August 20, 1998
- **1998** — The team had developed a working prototype

## Strengths

- High gross margin (57.5%)
- Strong cash conversion — FCF is 22.1% of revenue
- Interest covered 85.4× by operating earnings

## Watch-outs

- Altman Z-Score 1.61 — elevated financial-distress risk
- Net debt would take ~6.3 years of free cash flow to repay

## Track record

| Year | Revenue | Net income | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | $3.46B | $652M | $1.08B |
| FY2022 | $3.62B | $524M | $1.03B |
| FY2023 | $3.81B | $548M | $891M |
| FY2024 | $3.99B | $505M | $1.13B |
| FY2025 | $4.21B | $452M | $1.01B |

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Source: https://stockcv.com/AKAM — derived from company filings; may be delayed or incomplete. Information, not investment advice.