Akamai Technologies
AKAM · Internet Services & Infrastructure
$93.53
2.6%Verisign
VRSN · Internet Services & Infrastructure
$300.32
1.4%The short version
- Akamai Technologies is the larger business, with $4.2B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $1.7B for Verisign, about 2.5 times as much.
- Verisign grew revenue faster (6.4%, against 5.4%).
- Verisign kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (67.7% operating margin, against 13.5% operating margin).
- Verisign turned more of its sales into free cash flow (64.5% FCF margin, against 24.0% FCF margin).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Akamai Technologies’s earnings: a P/E of 33.8x against 32.3x for Verisign.
| Latest fiscal year | AKAM · FY25 | VRSN · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $14.4B | $27.1B |
| Revenue | $4.2B | $1.7B |
| Free cash flow | $1.0B | $1.1B |
| Net income | $452M | $826M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 5.4% | 6.4% |
| 5-year growth | 5.6% | 5.5% |
| Share count change | −4.7% | −4.5% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 59.0% | 88.2% |
| Operating margin | 13.5% | 67.7% |
| Net margin | 10.7% | 49.8% |
| FCF margin | 24.0% | 64.5% |
| Return on capital | 6.3% | — |
| Return on equity | 9.2% | — |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $2.9B | $1.2B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.3x | 1.1x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $800M | $1.1B |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 33.8x | 32.3x |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 8 |
FY16
AKAM $2.3B
VRSN $1.1B
FY17
AKAM $2.5B
VRSN $1.2B
FY18
AKAM $2.7B
VRSN $1.2B
FY19
AKAM $2.9B
VRSN $1.2B
FY20
AKAM $3.2B
VRSN $1.3B
FY21
AKAM $3.5B
VRSN $1.3B
FY22
AKAM $3.6B
VRSN $1.4B
FY23
AKAM $3.8B
VRSN $1.5B
FY24
AKAM $4.0B
VRSN $1.6B
FY25
AKAM $4.2B
VRSN $1.7B
AKAM
VRSN
FY16
AKAM 19.9%
VRSN 60.1%
FY17
AKAM 12.6%
VRSN 60.7%
FY18
AKAM 13.4%
VRSN 63.2%
FY19
AKAM 19.0%
VRSN 65.5%
FY20
AKAM 20.6%
VRSN 65.2%
FY21
AKAM 22.6%
VRSN 65.3%
FY22
AKAM 18.7%
VRSN 66.2%
FY23
AKAM 16.7%
VRSN 67.0%
FY24
AKAM 13.4%
VRSN 68.0%
FY25
AKAM 13.5%
VRSN 67.7%
AKAM
VRSN
FY16
AKAM $691M
VRSN $666M
FY17
AKAM $547M
VRSN $653M
FY18
AKAM $791M
VRSN $661M
FY19
AKAM $699M
VRSN $714M
FY20
AKAM $701M
VRSN $687M
FY21
AKAM $1.1B
VRSN $754M
FY22
AKAM $1.0B
VRSN $804M
FY23
AKAM $891M
VRSN $808M
FY24
AKAM $1.1B
VRSN $875M
FY25
AKAM $1.0B
VRSN $1.1B
AKAM
VRSN
FY16
AKAM 9.1%
VRSN —
FY17
AKAM 6.1%
VRSN —
FY18
AKAM 10.7%
VRSN —
FY19
AKAM 16.1%
VRSN —
FY20
AKAM 13.5%
VRSN —
FY21
AKAM 13.7%
VRSN —
FY22
AKAM 10.0%
VRSN —
FY23
AKAM 8.3%
VRSN —
FY24
AKAM 7.1%
VRSN —
FY25
AKAM 6.3%
VRSN —
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