🚨 AKAMAI
$AKAM MIGHT BE THE MOST UNDERVALUED AI CLOUD PLAY
Everyone knows
$NBIS and
$CRWV.
But Anthropic just committed $11.6 billion over seven years to
$AKAM, with another $9 billion in potential expansion.
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$AKAM: $19.3 billion valuation - 4.5x sales.
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$NBIS: $68.0 billion valuation - 50x sales.
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$CRWV: $50.4 billion valuation - 6.6x sales.
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$NET: $128.7 billion valuation - 51x sales.
Even after its post-announcement jump, Akamai trades at about 20x the midpoint of its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance.
Its cloud infrastructure business generated $99 million last quarter, growing 39% YoY.
The new Anthropic commitment averages $1.66 billion annually over seven years.
That’s over 4x the cloud business’s current annualized revenue, although actual recognition depends on deployment timing.
Meanwhile, its cybersecurity business already generates $604 million in quarterly revenue, growing 10%.
You have an established business with earnings today and a major AI infrastructure expansion ahead.
Nebius
$NBIS and CoreWeave
$CRWV are growing much faster, while Cloudflare
$NET has a different business mix.
But, Akamai doesn’t need a 50x sales multiple for this thesis to work.
If cloud becomes a larger share of revenue and Anthropic’s commitments translate into profitable growth, both earnings and the multiple investors assign them could rise.
The bullish bet is that the market could still be underestimating how different Akamai’s business might look in a few years.