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Akamai Technologies (AKAM - Free Report) closed at $120.01 in the latest trading session, marking a -4.84% move from the prior day. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.38%. Elsewhere, the Dow saw an upswing of 0.29%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq appreciated by 0.62%.

Shares of the cloud services provider witnessed a loss of 4.69% over the previous month, trailing the performance of the Computer and Technology sector with its loss of 0.53%, and the S&P 500's gain of 1.61%.

Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Akamai Technologies in its upcoming earnings disclosure. The company's earnings report is set to go public on August 6, 2026. The company's earnings per share (EPS) are projected to be $1.58, reflecting a 8.67% decrease from the same quarter last year. Simultaneously, our latest consensus estimate expects the revenue to be $1.09 billion, showing a 4.76% escalation compared to the year-ago quarter.

AKAM's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $6.74 per share and revenue of $4.49 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of -5.34% and +6.81%, respectively.

Investors should also take note of any recent adjustments to analyst estimates for Akamai Technologies. Such recent modifications usually signify the changing landscape of near-term business trends. Hence, positive alterations in estimates signify analyst optimism regarding the business and profitability.

Our research reveals that these estimate alterations are directly linked with the stock price performance in the near future. To capitalize on this, we've crafted the Zacks Rank, a unique model that incorporates these estimate changes and offers a practical rating system.

The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.25% lower within the past month. At present, Akamai Technologies boasts a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).

Investors should also note Akamai Technologies's current valuation metrics, including its Forward P/E ratio of 18.71. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 17.16, which means Akamai Technologies is trading at a premium to the group.

Meanwhile, AKAM's PEG ratio is currently 2.3. Comparable to the widely accepted P/E ratio, the PEG ratio also accounts for the company's projected earnings growth. As the market closed yesterday, the Internet - Services industry was having an average PEG ratio of 1.55.

The Internet - Services industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. At present, this industry carries a Zacks Industry Rank of 94, placing it within the top 39% of over 250 industries.

The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.

Be sure to use Zacks.com to monitor all these stock-influencing metrics, and more, throughout the forthcoming trading sessions.

Commerce faces rising AI bot activity, escalating DDoS attacks, and new fraud tactics July 15, 2026 06:28 ET  | Source: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An evolution toward agentic commerce and autonomous AI tools has made commerce the world’s most targeted industry by cybercriminals, according to the latest Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) State of the Internet (SOTI) security report, Securing the Agentic Storefront: Attacks on Commerce.

The report highlights that, as of December 2025, nearly half (47.9%) of all commerce traffic across Akamai’s global network now consists of AI bots. Furthermore, the industry continues to suffer a relentless barrage of application-layer (Layer 7) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity, malicious web application exploits, and a dangerous narrowing of the gap between traditional application attacks and API-targeted exploits.

“We are securing a digital frontier where the ‘customer’ is increasingly an AI agent operating on behalf of the human user,” said Patrick Sullivan, Chief Technology Officer of Security Strategy at Akamai. “This report reveals how and why security leaders must embrace ‘agentic readiness,’ to architect sites that welcome legitimate AI while aggressively shutting down malicious bots.”

Additional key findings include:

The rise of agentic commerce fraud: Autonomous AI shopping agents are creating a signal masking problem by perfectly mimicking human microbehaviors, according to guest contributor Pam Lindemoen, Chief Security Officer and Vice President of Strategy at RH-ISAC. Threat actors are now using agent hijacking tactics to compromise legitimate AI assistants and abuse stored payment credentials. They are also deploying large language models (LLMs) to create synthetic identity fraud in the form of “Frankenstein” accounts that easily bypass static defenses.The unchecked influx of AI bots: Driven by LLM development, AI training crawlers account for more than 70% of AI bot triggers in commerce. OpenAI, ByteDance, and Anthropic rank as the top three AI bots observed. Commerce organizations placed more than 90% of their AI bot activity in the “monitor” category but allowed three-quarters of the remaining activity to pass unrestricted, exposing themselves to underlying risks.API exposure and vulnerabilities: Web attacks targeting APIs rose by 9% year over year. In fact, Akamai’s 2026 API Security Impact Study revealed that 85% of commerce respondents experienced at least one API-related incident in the past year, yet only 22% know which of their APIs expose sensitive data.Layer 7 DDoS attacks escalate: Commerce was targeted by Layer 7 DDoS attacks nearly 3 trillion times in 2025, with the retail vertical bearing 84% of that volume. Attackers are using HTTP botnets to flood APIs during high-stakes holiday surges and exhaust app servers and halt sales.Industrialized phishing and malware pipelines: Between November 2025 and April 2026, malware represented 56.5% of observed endpoint threat activity, followed by phishing at 37.6%. Average daily phishing volume across commerce customers skyrocketed from 56,600 in February to 134,600 in April, serving as the primary raw material powering account takeover (ATO) and loyalty point theft.
Regional trends

Automated bot activity and web attacks varied by region:

North America and EMEA: These mature markets saw modest bot increases (7% and 16%, respectively) but significant holiday-driven web attacks, with North America leading AI bot activity with 33 billion counts.APAC and LATAM: Bot activity surged by 63% in APAC and 48% in LATAM. APAC’s fragmented travel market and loyalty programs made it a primary target for bot and Layer 7 DDoS attacks.
Mitigation strategies

To effectively counter these evolving threats, Securing the Agentic Storefront: Attacks on Commerce provides a strategic roadmap for CISOs. Recommendations include:

Map the revenue chain: Continuously discover and inventory the API estate to clear up critical visibility gaps regarding sensitive data exposure.Govern automation: Move away from binary “allow/block” models toward risk-based governance that categorizes bots by intent and business value.Minimize the blast radius: Implement microsegmentation to eliminate lateral movement. Although 92% of organizations use basic network segmentation, only 35% have progressed to true microsegmentation.Establish cooperative resilience: Integrate cybersecurity and fraud prevention teams to deploy real-time behavioral biometrics, risk-based multi-factor authentication, and automated kill switches to freeze compromised accounts instantly.
Now in their 12th year, Akamai SOTI Security reports continue to offer critical insights on cybersecurity trends and web performance, drawn from attacks viewed across Akamai’s cybersecurity protective infrastructure, which handles a significant portion of global web traffic.

About Akamai

Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at

akamai.com and

akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announces the company has completed its acquisition of secure enterprise browser provider and AI usage control leader LayerX. On May 14, Akamai announced an agreement between the two parties for Akamai to acquire LayerX in exchange for approximately US$205 million.

LayerX offers a browser security platform that allows enterprises to add protections to their preferred, existing browsers. It enables security teams to have greater visibility into how users interact with web content, prompts, file uploads, and SaaS applications both within and outside the browser. The acquisition will build on Akamai’s investment in its Zero Trust platform, which includes market-leading segmentation, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and DNS security solutions, already trusted by thousands of global customers. By leveraging Akamai’s massive, globally distributed network, the combined solution will create a workforce security solution that addresses a need to govern and secure how employees, partners, and supply chain ecosystems interact with AI applications.

For more information, visit the Akamai Zero Trust solutions page.

About Akamai
Akamai is the cybersecurity and cloud computing company that powers and protects business online. Our market-leading security solutions, superior threat intelligence, and global operations team provide defense in depth to safeguard enterprise data and applications everywhere. Akamai’s full-stack cloud computing solutions deliver performance and affordability on the world’s most distributed platform. Global enterprises trust Akamai to provide the industry-leading reliability, scale, and expertise they need to grow their business with confidence. Learn more at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X and LinkedIn.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
This press release contains statements that are not statements of historical fact and constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements about product success and other benefits of the transaction to Akamai. Each of the forward-looking statements is subject to change as a result of various important factors, many of which are beyond Akamai’s control, including, but not limited to: Akamai’s inability to achieve the expected benefits of the transaction; challenges integrating LayerX’s business, employees, and technology; and effects of competition. The forward-looking statements contained herein are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, Akamai disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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Akamai Investor Relations
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