
AKAM beats Q3 2026 earnings and revenue estimates as cybersecurity and cloud demand drive growth, but rising infrastructure costs squeeze profit margins.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a global content delivery network (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services.
| Revenue (TTM) | $4.39B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $2.48B |
| EBITDA | $1.05B |
| Operating Margin | 9.88% |
| Return on Equity | 7.85% |
| Return on Assets | 2.18% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $30.38 |
| Book Value | $35.77 |
| Price-to-Book | 2.36 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 2.72 |
| EV/Revenue | 3.972 |
| EV/EBITDA | 13.64 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | -20.60% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 6.40% |
| Shares Outstanding | $143.72M |
| Float | $140.66M |
| % Insiders | 2.13% |
| % Institutions | 113.36% |
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AKAM beats Q3 2026 earnings and revenue estimates as cybersecurity and cloud demand drive growth, but rising infrastructure costs squeeze profit margins.

Akamai Technologies secures a $11.6 billion Anthropic AI cloud deal and targets rapid growth through 2028, despite deployment delays and rising infrastructure costs.

Third quarter revenue of $1.1 billion , up 6% year-over-year and up 7% when adjusted for foreign exchange* Cloud Infrastructure Services revenue of $109 million , up 34% year-over-year and up 35% when adjusted for foreign exchange* Security revenue of $622 million , up 9% year-over-year and up 10% when adjusted for foreign exchange* GAAP net income per diluted share of $0.77 , down 21% year-over-year and down 15% when adjusted for foreign exchange*, and non-GAAP net income per diluted share* of $1.77 , down 5% year-over-year and down 2% when adjusted for foreign exchange* 2027 Cloud Infrastructure Services revenue projected to be $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion, with total company revenue growth of 17% to 22% year-over-year when adjusted for foreign exchange* 2028 total company revenue projected to exceed $7.0 billion CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects an AI-driven world, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026.

Get a deeper insight into the potential performance of Akamai Technologies (AKAM) for the quarter ended September 2026 by going beyond Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimates and examining the estimates for some of its key metrics.

Akamai's AI and cybersecurity growth offers long-term promise, but Delivery weakness, rising costs and margin pressures raise concerns ahead of Q3 earnings.

Akamai Technologies (AKAM) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

Key takeaways Online scams approximately doubled in volume, surpassing traditional phishing for the first time in Q1 2026. The majority of malicious domains that targeted enterprise networks during the reporting period impersonated high tech, financial services, and commerce brands.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bringing managed model serving and isolated execution for AI agents to Akamai Cloud, Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) today introduced two foundational products for its AI stack: Akamai Inference and Akamai Agent Sandbox.

Akamai stock is upgraded to a bullish buy rating after shares tumbled last week on fears about the company's big deal with Anthropic.

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