Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) earnings on May 7, 2026
More Akamai Technologies, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
The stock price surged after the earnings report, showing a strong positive reaction from the market. This significant increase happened without a clear prior trend.
AKAM price around the earnings
148.30
Change: +26.8%
2026-05-08, 23:58 UTC
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- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: No statistical edge
- Thesis published
Strong historical beats, but recent rally and negative analyst upside suggest high expectations.
Strong historical beats, but recent rally and negative analyst upside suggest high expectations.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Strong historical beats, but recent rally and negative analyst upside suggest high expectations.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.17
- Analysts covering the stock
- 23
- Average price target
- 114.24
- Lowest price target
- 72
- Highest price target
- 134
- Upside to price target
- -0.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -39.2%
- Revenue growth
- 7.4%
- Forward EPS
- 7.6
- Trailing EPS
- 3.07
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 3
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 10
- Hold: 9
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 10
- Hold
- 9
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 1
- April 14, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
- April 7, 2026 · Piper Sandler: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- April 2, 2026 · Baird: Downgrades rating (Outperform → Neutral)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (2)
- Akamai Adds MediaMelon To Qualified Compute Partner Program To Deliver Real-Time Streaming QoE And Advertising Analytics At Global Scale — Benzinga
- Cloudflare, ServiceNow, And Guardant Health Are Among Top 10 Large-Cap Losers Last Week (April 6-April 10): Are the Others in Your Portfolio? — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 5.3%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -5.7%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +17.8%
- 30-day change
- -2.0%
- 30-day relative strength
- -13.3%
- Benchmark change
- +11.3%
- Nearest support
- 88.5
- Nearest resistance
- 122.24
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.86
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +10.1%
- February 19, 2026: actual EPS 1.84 vs estimate 1.75 (surprise +5.1%)
- November 6, 2025: actual EPS 1.86 vs estimate 1.64 (surprise +13.7%)
- August 7, 2025: actual EPS 1.73 vs estimate 1.53 (surprise +13.2%)
- May 8, 2025: actual EPS 1.7 vs estimate 1.57 (surprise +8.6%)
Expected move
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 8.4%
- 75th percentile move
- 11%
- 90th percentile move
- 14.4%
- Up / down moves
- 8 / 11
- Average up move
- +7.1%
- Average down move
- -10.7%
Monitoring and close
What Akamai Technologies, Inc. reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Consolidated
- +25.7%
- Max move
- +29.1%
No verdict: the outlook took no direction, so there is nothing to score as a hit or a miss.