Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) competes with other content delivry players like InterNAP Network Services (NASDAQ:INAP), Limelight Networks (NASDAQ:LLNW) and Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT). Our price estimate for Akamai stands at $37.11, in line with market price.
The 3 Most Important Product Segments for Akamai
1) Media Content Delivery – represents 34% of the company’s value
Akamai offers content delivery services to accelerate and improve the delivery of media content over the internet. Akamai delivers media content like videos on YouTube and song downloads on iTunes in addition to online movie trailers and delivery of social network sites like MySpace.
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2) Online Shopping Content Delivery – 31%
Akamai offers content delivery services to accelerate and improve the delivery of e-commerce transactions over the internet. Akamai’s e-commerce customers like Amazon benefit from high site availability and secure delivery of dynamic content and applications. Apart from simply delivering the content, Akamai offers a variety of value-added services for its e-commerce customers to improve site performance and better target ads.
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3) Software & Game Content Delivery – 12%
Akamai’s software & game content delivery segment facilitates the download of antivirus software and delivery of online games to improve download times and content availability.
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See our full analysis and $37.11 price estimate for Akamai’s stock.
