Akamai Technologies provides solutions for securing, delivering and optimizing content and business applications over the Internet. Co. provides online solutions for the security, delivery and acceleration of websites and applications. Co.'s solutions include: cloud security solutions; enterprise security solutions; web and mobile performance solutions; media delivery solutions; carrier solutions; and services and support solutions, which provides an array of service and support offerings that are designed to assist its customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing and managing its main offerings. We show 44 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AKAM shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AKAM market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AKAM market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AKAM's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of AKAM versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AKAM market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like AKAM can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AKAM by allowing them to research the AKAM market cap history. |
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