Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) earnings on August 6, 2026
More Akamai Technologies, Inc. earnings
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial
Akamai's stock swung wildly after earnings, jumping as much as 15.7% before closing down 6.7%. Analysts adjusted their price targets in both directions.
AKAM price around the earnings
110.54
Change: -6.8%
2026-08-07, 20:00 UTC
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Optimistic Outcome: Partial
- Thesis published
- Results released
Strong analyst setup (+34% upside, 100% beat rate) but negative 14d trend strength and retail crowding create headwinds into earnings.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Trajectory score declined from 47.1 to 17.7, indicating a recent cooling off or slight selloff into earnings.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.12
- Analysts covering the stock
- 23
- Average price target
- 158.21
- Lowest price target
- 87
- Highest price target
- 195
- Upside to price target
- 34.2%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- -13.7%
- Revenue growth
- 5.8%
- Forward EPS
- 7.2
- Trailing EPS
- 2.96
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 1
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 11
- Hold: 9
- Sell: 1
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 11
- Hold
- 9
- Sell
- 1
- Strong sell
- 1
- July 27, 2026 · Evercore ISI Group: Maintains rating (Outperform → Outperform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- High
- Normalized volume
- 99%
News
Sources (2)
- Evercore ISI Group Maintains Outperform on Akamai Technologies, Raises Price Target to $175 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Akamai Selected As Strategic Partner For World Wide Technology’s AI Readiness Model For Operational Resilience (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Price when the context was analyzed
- 122.34
- Average true range (ATR)
- 4.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -26.8%
- 14-day change (14d)
- -1.6%
- 30-day change (30d)
- +8.5%
- 30-day relative strength
- +6.0%
- SPY change (30d)
- +2.5%
- Nearest support
- 121.4
- Distance to nearest support
- 0.8%
- Nearest resistance
- 123.06
- Distance to nearest resistance
- 0.6%
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 0.88
- Mid: 121.4 (0.8% away, 0.19 ATR, 13 touches)
- Mid: 120.17 (1.8% away, 0.43 ATR, 11 touches)
- Minor: 119.3 (2.5% away, 0.61 ATR, 4 touches)
- Mid: 123.06 (0.6% away, 0.15 ATR, 16 touches)
- Minor: 125.02 (2.2% away, 0.54 ATR, 9 touches)
- Mid: 125.99 (3% away, 0.73 ATR, 3 touches)
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +8.1%
- May 7, 2026: actual EPS 1.61 vs estimate 1.6 (surprise +0.3%)
- 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%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +18.1%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 9.1%
- 75th percentile move
- 11.8%
- 90th percentile move
- 15.3%
- Up / down moves
- 9 / 11
- Average up move
- +9.2%
- Average down move
- -10.7%
Monitoring and close
What Akamai Technologies, Inc. reported
- Status
- Finished
| Actual EPS | 1.59 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 1.57 |
| EPS surprise | +1.3% |
| Revenue | $1,099 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,092 million |
| Revenue surprise | +0.6% |
Akamai beat revenue expectations in Q2, but its guidance for the next quarter came in slightly below estimates. The overall tone remains optimistic.
Sources (5)
- Akamai’s (NASDAQ:AKAM) Q2 CY2026: Beats On Revenue But Quarterly Revenue Guidance Slightly Misses Expectations (opens in a new tab) — StockStory
- Akamai Technologies Narrows FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $6.40-$7.15 to $6.40-$7.05 vs $6.68 Est; Narrows FY2026 Sales Guidance from $4.445B-$4.550B to $4.445B-$4.530B vs $4.501B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Akamai Technologies Sees Q3 Adj EPS $1.60-$1.80 vs $1.70 Est; Sees Sales $1.105B-$1.130B vs $1.132B Est (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Akamai beat expectations with adjusted earnings of $1.59 per share and sales of $1.099 billion, above forecasts. — Benzinga
- Akamai Techs Q2 Adj. EPS $1.59 Beats $1.57 Estimate, Sales $1.099B Beat $1.092B Estimate (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Beat expectations
Heading into the open, results beat expectations on both earnings and revenue and the price is indicating +8.8% pre-market, a move in line with the stock's usual reaction (about 9%). The figures confirm the optimistic scenario. Across our market history, in the 1,458 similar cases the close held that direction 96% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Partial
- Consolidated
- -6.7%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 15.7%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 11.5%