Akamai (AKAM) closed at $87.25 on Oct 19, 2026, down 0.6% on the day. The stock is down 16.5% over the past month, down 29.1% over three months, up 0.0% year to date and up 18.4% over the past year. It trades 47.3% below its 52-week high of $165.45 and 23.2% above its 52-week low of $70.82. The close sits below its 50-day moving average ($108.28) and below its 200-day moving average ($112.12).
NextPick tracks AKAM in its Cybersecurity basket alongside PANW, CRWD, FTNT, ZS and OKTA. As of Oct 19, 2026, the basket's money-flow score is -7 (neutral), and the basket is down 8.3% over five sessions. Over the past month AKAM ranks 11th of 12 basket members by price change.
Over its last 8 reports the stock moved an average of 14.3% on the first trading day after earnings, beating the options-implied move in 6 of 8.
Form 4 filings over the last 90 days show no open-market purchases and 3 open-market sales by insiders.
Over the last 8 reports, AKAM moved an average of 14.3% on the first trading day after earnings. The move beat the options-implied move in 6 of 8 reports.
No — the Oct 19, 2026 close of $87.25 is 22.2% below the 200-day average of $112.12.
AKAM closed 47.3% below its 52-week high of $165.45.
NextPick groups AKAM with PANW, CRWD, FTNT, ZS and OKTA in its Cybersecurity basket.
Akamai Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of security, delivery, and cloud computing solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers security solutions that include web application and application programming interfaces (API) protection solutions, which protect web, API, and mobile app traffic from attacks; Bot & Abuse portfolio, which provides solutions to help customers protect against threats; full account lifecycle protections including the ability to defend against account takeover and opening abuse, adversarial bot protection, protection against credential stuffing, inventory scalping, and hoarding; and solutions designed to stop persistent scrapers from stealing content; API security, which discovers, audits, and monitors API; and microservice and application component protection that analyzes and protects application traffic that moves between application components. The company also offers cloud computing services, which include compute, storage, and cloud native and networking services; and Akamai App Platform, provides ready-to-run templates that address challenges in deploying, managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters at scale. In addition, it offers delivery solutions that include web and mobile performance solutions, which enables dynamic websites and applications, as well as global traffic management, site acceleration, application load balancing, large-scale load testing, and real-user monitoring; and media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics. The company has a strategic alliance with Deloitte Canada to help organizations achieve platform-based resilience against AI-accelerated cyberthreats. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
