AKAM
Underperforming without a clear catalyst yet
- AKAM −1.05% on the last session vs SPY +0.10%: −1.1 pts of stock-specific move.
- Aftermath, big gain (Oct 9): After its 70 big gains in the past 5 years, AKAM was higher a week later 39 times out of 70; half the outcomes fell between -2.2% and +2.6%. History, not a forecast.
- Market backdrop (Today): Core PPI m/m 1.3% vs 0.3% expected (hotter); Core Retail Sales m/m 0.9% vs 0.6% expected (stronger); S&P futures -0.08%, 10-year yield -3bp in the 30 minutes after.
Bargain & stretch prices
Prices AKAM only reaches with set odds, from its own recent swings. Odds, not a forecast.
| Today | Next 5 sessions | |
|---|---|---|
| Stretch sell side |
95.39 +4.0% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 days · 31% vs usual 28% |
100.14 +9.2% ↑ more often after a big drop
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 31% vs usual 30% |
| Now | 90.75 · prior close 91.71 | |
| Bargain buy side |
88.17 -3.9% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 2 in 10 days · 24% vs usual 26% reached today |
83.99 -8.4% ↓ less often while far below its high
reached 3 in 10 weeks · 25% vs usual 27% |
More patient or more eager
| Bargain | Reached | Stretch | Reached | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | ||||
| Patient | 87.05 | 2 in 10 days↓ 15% vs 17% | 96.62 | 2 in 10 days↑ 20% vs 17% |
| Balanced | 88.17 | 2 in 10 days↓ 24% vs 26% | 95.39 | 3 in 10 days↑ 31% vs 28% |
| Eager | 89.23 | 4 in 10 days↓ 40% vs 41% | 94.26 | 5 in 10 days↑ 49% vs 45% |
| Next 5 sessions | ||||
| Patient | 81.62 | 2 in 10 weeks↓ 16% vs 18% | 103.04 | 2 in 10 weeks |
| Balanced | 83.99 | 3 in 10 weeks↓ 25% vs 27% | 100.14 | 3 in 10 weeks↑ 31% vs 30% |
| Eager | 86.25 | 4 in 10 weeks↓ 41% vs 43% | 97.51 | 5 in 10 weeks↑ 49% vs 48% |
"3 in 10 days" means the price was reached on about 3 of every 10 days like this one. Patient prices are further away and come less often; eager ones are closer and come more often. From AKAM's daily swings (about 4.1% a day lately), anchored on the Oct 14 close. The odds were measured on 10 years of S&P 500 prices (they move about 3 points from year to year with the market: bargain prices come more often in falling years, stretch prices in rising ones), and where a situation below changed them consistently (in at least 8 of 10 years), they are adjusted and marked. In those tests, waiting for the bargain price did no better on average than buying at the close: what you save when it comes, you pay when it doesn't.
Situations on the Oct 14 close
- Stretch price, next session: reached 31% of days instead of the usual 28% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Stretch price, next 5 sessions: reached 31% of weeks instead of the usual 30% (held in 8 of 10 years)
| Date | That day | 1 week on | 1 month on | 3 months on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | -3.7% | -12.3% | — | — |
| Sep 24, 2026 | -6.8% | -3.2% | — | — |
| Sep 10, 2026 | -3.3% | 0.0% | -0.2% | — |
| Aug 28, 2026 | -3.4% | -2.1% | +0.9% | — |
| Aug 18, 2026 | -6.3% | -8.2% | -7.0% | — |
| Aug 6, 2026 | -3.0% | +5.7% | -11.2% | — |
| Jul 23, 2026 | -5.6% | -3.1% | -5.9% | — |
| Jul 10, 2026 | -2.6% | -4.8% | -6.8% | -20.0% |
- Bargain price, next session: reached 24% of days instead of the usual 26% (held in 9 of 10 years)
- Bargain price, next 5 sessions: reached 25% of weeks instead of the usual 27% (held in 10 of 10 years)
Big drop and big gain: among AKAM's own worst or best 10% of daily moves, as on the Aftermath tab. The past times are history: in our tests, how a stock did after its earlier times did not predict the next one, and across the S&P 500 none of these situations leaned up or down except, weakly, an all-time high followed by a big drop. Not advice.
Price ladder
| All-time closing high Dec 31, 1999 |
327.62 +261.0% |
| Highest analyst target | 225.00 +147.9% |
| 52-week closing high May 13, 2026 |
161.14 +77.6% |
| Mean analyst target | 158.87 +75.1% |
| 200-day average | 112.26 +23.7% |
| 50-day average | 109.33 +20.5% |
| Stretch, next 5 sessions | 100.14 +10.3% |
| Lowest analyst target | 93.00 +2.5% |
| Previous close Oct 14, 2026 |
91.71 +1.1% |
| Now | 90.75 |
| Bargain, next 5 sessions | 83.99 -7.5% |
| 52-week closing low Nov 4, 2025 |
71.97 -20.7% |
Closing prices (all-time = the 27 years Yahoo has). Percentages are the distance from now. These are levels people watch, not levels the price has to respect. Not advice.