On August 7, Akamai fell 8.06% in after-hours trading, trading at $109.0/share, with turnover of $6.039 million. The decline came immediately after the company released its second-quarter earnings report.

Akamai reported Q2 adjusted EPS of $1.59, narrowly beating the consensus estimate of $1.57 by 1.27%. However, this represents an 8.09% decline from the $1.73 per share earned in the year-ago period, extending the earnings contraction trend seen in the prior quarter. Revenue came in at $1.099 billion, only marginally above the $1.092 billion estimate. While both top and bottom lines cleared Wall Street expectations, the continued year-over-year profit erosion weighed heavily on sentiment.

Notably, heading into the report, multiple analysts had maintained constructive views on the stock, with BofA upgrading shares to Buy in May and Evercore ISI setting a $175 price target. The stock had also benefited from a $1.8 billion cloud infrastructure deal with Anthropic announced earlier. However, the persistent EPS contraction signals that margin pressures may be offsetting revenue growth momentum from AI-related workloads.

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