Sales up 5.4%, free cash flow down to $1.0B
The latest figures
All key numbers (39) From EDGAR
| EPS (ttm) | 2.57 | Sales (ttm) | 4.4B | Net income (ttm) | 387.9M | Sales growth | +5.4% | EPS growth | -6.1% | Sales Q/Q | +6.4% |
| Free cash flow | 545.2M | Gross margin | 56.4% | Oper. margin | 9.1% | Net margin | 8.8% | FCF margin | 12.4% | ROE | 7.5% |
| ROA | 2.5% | R&D / sales | 12.2% | Dividend | - | Debt/Eq | - | Curr. ratio | 2.13 | Cash | 1.1B |
| Op. cash flow (ttm) | 1.4B | EBITDA | 1.3B | EBITDA margin | 30.3% | Quick ratio | 2.13 | Interest cover | 18.43 | ROIC | 8.3% |
| Tax rate | 25.0% | Stock pay / sales | 10.9% | Shares out. | 144.2M | Shares Y/Y | -4.7% | Book / share | 35.70 | Cash / share | 7.97 |
| Sales / share | 30.44 | Asset turnover | 0.28 | Days sales out. | 69 | Sales 3Y CAGR | +5.2% | Sales 5Y CAGR | +5.6% | EPS 3Y CAGR | -2.0% |
| EPS 5Y CAGR | -1.8% | Employees | 11,000 | Sales / employee | 399K |
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AKAM against Technology peers
Ten years, side by side → · All 75 →Each side 0 to 100, ranked against every company we cover: relative position on reported figures, not a buy score. How
Every dot is one of the 75 companies, the better end on the right. Hover a dot for the company.
| Company | Revenue (ttm) | Sales growth | Gross margin | Net margin | ROE | FCF margin | Debt / equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKAM Akamai Technologies | $4.4B | +5.4% | 56.4% | 8.8% | 7.5% | 12.4% | - |
| TER Teradyne | $5.0B | +13.1% | 59.3% | 27.5% | 37.2% | 20.5% | 0.00 |
| DDOG Datadog | $4.3B | +27.7% | 79.6% | 6.1% | 5.6% | 28.7% | - |
| P Everpure | $4.3B | +15.6% | 69.7% | 5.9% | 16.4% | 3.0% | - |
| SWKS Skyworks Solutions | $4.0B | -3.1% | 40.8% | 4.3% | 3.0% | 5.8% | 0.43 |
| TRMB Trimble Inc. | $3.8B | -2.6% | 69.6% | -4.1% | -3.2% | 20.7% | 0.31 |
From $3.5B of sales to $651.6M of profit
FY2021, from the 10-K income statementSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $3.6B of sales to $523.7M of profit
FY2022, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by regionSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $3.8B of sales to $547.6M of profit
FY2023, from the 10-K income statementSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $4.0B of sales to $504.9M of profit
FY2024, from the 10-K income statementSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
From $4.2B of sales to $452.0M of profit
FY2025, from the 10-K income statement and revenue by regionSwipe sideways for the whole flow →
Where each $100 of sales went
- Cost of revenue
- R&D
- Sales, admin & other
- Tax, less other income
- Net profit
Band widths are the money. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue; operating expenses are gross profit less operating profit; R&D is from the income statement and the rest of the operating expenses is everything else; tax includes interest and other items when they are small. Y/Y is the change from the fiscal year before. Revenue by part only for the years in the last two 10-Ks' segment tables. The full income statement →
Profitability
1 of 3- !Net margin below the peer median8.8% vs 19.1%
- !Return on equity below 15%7.5%
- ✓A profit in every one of 10 years
Balance sheet
2 of 2- ✓Interest covered more than 5 timesOperating income is 18.4× interest expense
- ✓Current assets cover current liabilitiesCurrent ratio 2.13
Cash and shareholders
3 of 3- ✓Free cash flow positive in every one of 10 years$1.0B last year
- ✓Share count down over 5 years−11.0%
- ✓Cash from operations above net income$1.5B vs $452.0M
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Revenue and net income, FY2016 to FY2025
Revenue 4.2B Net income 452.0MFrom XBRL in each 10-K. Hover a bar for the line item and filing. Full financials →
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
AKAM's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow as reported to the SEC in XBRL, one column per fiscal year. Hover a number to see the line item and filing it comes from. Where a company changed how it tags a line, the first tag it reported for that period is used. A number looks wrong? Tell us.
Revenue by region
year to Dec 31, 2025| Revenue | Share | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. | 2.1B | 50.8% | +3.1% |
| Non-U.S. | 2.1B | 49.2% | +8.0% |
10-K 0001086222-26-000022, segment and revenue notes (XBRL).
Income statement
From EDGARBalance sheet
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | 324.2M | 313.4M | 1.0B | 393.7M | 352.9M | 536.7M | 542.3M | 489.5M | 517.7M | 930.2M |
| Short-term investments | - | - | 855.6M | 1.1B | 745.2M | 541.5M | 563.0M | 375.0M | 1.1B | 256.3M |
| Receivables | 368.6M | 461.5M | 479.9M | 551.9M | 660.1M | 675.9M | 679.2M | 724.3M | 727.7M | 793.7M |
| Current assets | 1.3B | 1.3B | 2.5B | 2.2B | 1.9B | 1.9B | 2.0B | 1.8B | 2.6B | 2.3B |
| Property & equipment | 801.0M | 862.5M | 910.6M | 1.2B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.8B | 2.0B | 2.3B |
| Goodwill | 1.2B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.6B | 1.7B | 2.2B | 2.8B | 2.9B | 3.2B | 3.2B |
| Total assets | 4.4B | 4.6B | 5.5B | 7.0B | 7.8B | 8.1B | 8.3B | 9.9B | 10.4B | 11.5B |
| Accounts payable | 76.1M | 80.3M | 99.1M | 138.9M | 118.5M | 109.9M | 145.4M | 146.9M | 130.4M | 125.1M |
| Current liabilities | 374.6M | 456.7M | 1.2B | 693.3M | 758.2M | 790.3M | 818.9M | 836.0M | 2.1B | 967.5M |
| Total liabilities | 1.1B | 1.3B | 2.3B | 3.3B | 3.5B | 3.6B | 3.9B | 5.3B | 5.5B | 6.5B |
| Shareholders' equity | 3.3B | 3.4B | 3.2B | 3.7B | 4.3B | 4.5B | 4.4B | 4.6B | 4.9B | 5.0B |
| Retained earnings | -960.7M | -690.7M | -430.9M | 48.0M | 605.0M | 1.3B | 1.9B | 2.5B | 3.0B | 3.4B |
Cash flow
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 871.8M | 801.0M | 1.0B | 1.1B | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.3B | 1.3B | 1.5B | 1.5B |
| Capital spending | 180.9M | 254.1M | 217.6M | 359.7M | 514.3M | 329.0M | 241.3M | 457.9M | 390.4M | 507.8M |
| Free cash flow | 690.9M | 546.8M | 790.7M | 698.6M | 700.7M | 1.1B | 1.0B | 890.5M | 1.1B | 1.0B |
| Stock-based pay (added back) | 144.5M | 164.3M | 183.8M | 187.1M | 197.4M | 202.8M | 217.2M | 328.5M | 393.4M | 459.4M |
| Buybacks | 373.8M | 361.2M | 750.0M | 334.5M | 193.6M | 522.3M | 608.0M | 654.0M | 557.5M | 800.0M |
| Acquisitions | 95.4M | 369.1M | 79K | 165.3M | 128.0M | 598.8M | 872.1M | 106.2M | 434.1M | 55.1M |
| Debt repaid | - | 0 | 0 | 690.0M | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 1.1B |
| Investing cash flow | -469.4M | -459.2M | -506.5M | -1.7B | -1.0B | -646.9M | -622.3M | -1.8B | -798.7M | -540.7M |
| Financing cash flow | -359.8M | -365.0M | 233.6M | -35.7M | -223.6M | -562.0M | -634.2M | 443.4M | -679.6M | -588.0M |
Stock-based pay and leases
From EDGAR| FY2016 | FY2017 | FY2018 | FY2019 | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stock-based pay (expense) | 144.5M | 164.3M | 183.8M | 187.1M | 197.4M | 202.8M | 217.2M | 328.5M | 393.4M | 459.4M |
| Stock-based pay / revenue | 6.2% | 6.6% | 6.8% | 6.5% | 6.2% | 5.9% | 6.0% | 8.6% | 9.9% | 10.9% |
| Operating lease cost | - | - | - | 159.9M | 197.1M | 220.8M | 235.0M | 253.6M | 292.9M | 333.7M |
| Operating lease cash paid | - | - | - | 153.8M | 201.9M | 224.1M | 224.9M | 258.0M | 288.1M | 329.7M |
| Right-of-use assets | - | - | 362.2M | 758.5M | 793.9M | 815.8M | 813.4M | 908.6M | 1.0B | 1.5B |
| Operating lease liabilities | - | - | 394.1M | 831.6M | 870.2M | 882.8M | 889.4M | 997.8M | 1.1B | 1.6B |
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