Web content delivery and security company Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market close. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter Akamai reported revenues of $903.6 million, up 7.23% year on year, missing analyst expectations by 0.13%. It was a weak quarter for the company, with a slow revenue growth.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Akamai's revenue to grow 5.38% year on year to $898.7 million, slowing down from the 7.31% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.31 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 1.5%.
Looking at Akamai's peers in the software development segment, some of them have already reported Q2 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Cloudflare delivered top-line growth of 53.8% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 3.15% and F5 Networks reported revenues up 3.52% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.99%. Cloudflare traded up 22.3% on the results, and F5 Networks was up 10.8%. Read our full analysis of Cloudflare's results here and F5 Networks's results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the software segment, with the stocks up on average 8.2% over the last month. Akamai is up 6.63% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $117.1, compared to share price of $96.59.
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