Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM): Today's Featured Technology Winner
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) pushed the Technology sector higher today making it today's featured technology winner. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.3%. By the end of trading, Akamai Technologies rose 53 cents (1.4%) to $37.96 on light volume. Throughout the day, 2.4 million shares of Akamai Technologies exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $37.10-$38.02 after having opened the day at $37.20 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $37.43. Other companies within the Technology sector that increased today were:
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), up 24.3%,
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), up 15.9%,
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), up 11.1%, and
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), up 10.7%.
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Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides content delivery and cloud infrastructure services for accelerating and improving applications over the Internet in the United States and internationally. Akamai Technologies has a market cap of $6.49 billion and is part of the
industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 36, above the average internet industry P/E ratio of 34.8 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 16.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Akamai Technologies a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Akamai Technologies as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full Akamai Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 24.3%,
XRS
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XRSC
), down 18%,
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), down 10.4%, and
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), down 9.7%, were all laggards within the technology sector with
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) being today's technology sector laggard.
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) while those bearish on the technology sector could consider
ProShares Ultra Short Technology
(
).
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