Web content delivery and security company Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) will be reporting earnings tomorrow afternoon. Here's what to expect.
Last quarter Akamai reported revenues of $881.9 million, up 2.51% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a weak quarter for the company, with slow revenue growth.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Akamai's revenue to decline 0.06% year on year to $904.8 million, a deceleration on the 6.98% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.26 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 0.92%.
Looking at Akamai's peers in the software development segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. F5 Networks delivered top-line growth of 1.93% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.05% and Cloudflare reported revenues up 41.9% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.23%. F5 Networks traded up 1.46% on the results, Cloudflare was up 17.6%. Read our full analysis of F5 Networks's results here and Cloudflare's results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software segment, with the stocks up on average 10.1% over the last month. Akamai is down 1.86% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $100.34, compared to share price of $87.23.
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