AKAM Stock 10Q Information

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM) is a Cambridge – Massachusetts, United States Company, incorporated in 1998. I pointed out the AKAM stock chart technicals a few weeks ago.

This company is doing business around the Internet area, by providing services for improving and accelerating the delivery of content and applications over the World Wide Web. The company’s solutions portfolio is designed to aid governmental agencies, businesses, and other enterprises; their tools help improve the revenues and reduce the costs by maximizing the performance of the online businesses.

The Company’s worldwide distributed platform (already in 69 countries) includes more than 18,000 servers in more than 950 different networks.

Last year Akamai Technologies began commercial efforts for selling its Web Application Accelerator service, a solution designed to improve the overall performance of Web and Internet protocol based applications. At the same time the Company also made public 2 free information tools: the “Net Usage Index for Retail”, that measures Internet traffic, and the “Net Usage Index for News”, which covers and tracks online consumption of news at selected sites and portals.

On the fiscal year that ended on last 31st December, the company achieved a Profit Margin of 91.69%, along with an Operating Margin of 21.39%, while its total revenue was $349.84 Million, which means something around $2.35 per share.

Their improved financial results in 2005, when compared to previous years, reflect the company efforts to increase their monthly recurring revenues and at the same time to reduce the expenses needed to support such growth.

Shares at Nasdaq ( NasdaqGS:AKAM ) ended the trading day at $39.98, winning 1.14%, even though still a bit lower than the 52 week high at $42.