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Akamai reported strong Q3 2025 results, with revenue and EPS beating expectations, driven by accelerating growth in Cloud Infrastructure Services (39% YoY) and high-growth security products. Management launched Akamai Inference Cloud with NVIDIA, signaling a major push into edge AI inference, and expressed confidence in accelerating CIS growth next year. Q3 revenue was $1.055B, up 5% YoY, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.86, up 17% YoY.
Вывод Buzzberg All top three U.S. Akamai reported strong Q3 2025 results, with revenue and EPS beating expectations, driven by accelerating growth in Cloud Infrastructure Services (39% YoY) and high-growth security products. Management launched Akamai Inference Cloud with NVIDIA, signaling a major push into edge AI inference, and expressed confidence in accelerating CIS growth next year. Q3 revenue was $1.055B, up 5% YoY, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.86, up 17% YoY. Читать полный анализСвернуть анализ
Akamai reported strong Q3 2025 results, with revenue and EPS beating expectations, driven by accelerating growth in Cloud Infrastructure Services (39% YoY) and high-growth security products. Management launched Akamai Inference Cloud with NVIDIA, signaling a major push into edge AI inference, and expressed confidence in accelerating CIS growth next year. Q3 revenue was $1.055B, up 5% YoY, with non-GAAP EPS of $1.86, up 17% YoY.
- CIS revenue grew 39% YoY, accelerating from 30% last quarter, and all top 3 US hyperscalers are now customers.
- Launched Akamai Inference Cloud with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, with initial customers including Harmonic and Monks.
- API security and Zero Trust products grew 35% YoY, with API security expected to exit 2025 at a ~$100M run rate.
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CIS revenue growth accelerated to 39% year-over-year
Akamai Inference Cloud launched with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
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API security run rate expected to reach ~$100 million
Management sees possible CIS growth acceleration next year
AI inference expected to boost delivery traffic over time
Фактические результаты
| Показатель | Факт | Изменение |
|---|---|---|
| CIS Выручка | 81 | Факт |
| DELIVERY Выручка | 306 | Факт |
| SECURITY Выручка | 568 | Факт |
| Выручка | $1.0546B | Факт |
| EPS | $1.86 | Факт |
| Валовая маржа | 59.27% | Факт |
Прогноз компании
| Показатель | Период | Диапазон | Середина | Статус |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Капзатраты | FY2025 Q4 | $170M–$180M | $175M | Обозначен |
| EPS | FY2025 | $6.93–$7.13 | $7.03 | Обозначен |
| EPS | FY2025 Q4 | $1.65–$1.85 | $1.75 | Обозначен |
| Операционная маржа | FY2025 | 29%–30% | 29.5% | Обозначен |
| Операционная маржа | FY2025 Q4 | 28%–30% | 29% | Обозначен |
| Выручка | FY2025 Q4 | $1.065B–$1.085B | $1.075B | Обозначен |
Оценка менеджмента
Upbeat
Management expressed strong optimism about the AI inference opportunity and growth momentum in cloud infrastructure services, while acknowledging execution-driven upside.
Оценка AI от менеджмента
Management is positioning Akamai Inference Cloud, launched with NVIDIA's Blackwell infrastructure, as a major growth driver, citing strong customer interest and early adopters, and believes AI inference at the edge is a new frontier that will require Akamai's distributed platform. They also see AI expanding the API security market and driving traffic growth in delivery.
Инвестиции и мощности
Capex remains elevated at 21% of revenue in Q3, with Q4 guided to ~16%, primarily funding the expansion of cloud infrastructure services and the new AI Inference Cloud. Management indicated capex will be demand-driven and expects a roughly 1:1 ratio of capex to revenue for the inference business.
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Клиенты
Harmonic is an early customer of Akamai Inference Cloud, indicating adoption of edge AI for video content personalization and delivery.
Доказательства
“Another customer, Harmonic, whose technology helps to distribute video content for television and the Internet, said...”
Monks is an early adopter of Akamai Inference Cloud, using it for real-time sports analytics, demonstrating the edge AI use case.
Доказательства
“One of our initial customers, Monk's, The European digital first marketing technology services and consulting company said...”
Akamai now has all top 3 US cloud providers as customers. This is a strong validation of Akamai's distributed edge strategy, but represents a competitive threat to traditional centralized cloud providers. — This shows that even hyperscalers need to leverage edge providers for certain low-latency workloads, indicating a layered cloud architecture market.
Доказательства
“As a great proof point for the advantages offered by Akamai's uniquely distributed compute capabilities, the top three cloud providers in the U.S. are all now using Akamai Cloud Infrastructure Services.”
Партнёры
Akamai's CIS revenue growth accelerated to 39% YoY from 30% last quarter, and management expects to potentially accelerate CIS growth further next year, indicating strong edge compute demand. — This signals robust demand for distributed edge computing, directly benefiting NVIDIA's GPU sales and server OEMs like Dell that supply capacity.
Доказательства
“Together, NVIDIA and Akamai are moving inference closer to users everywhere, delivering faster, more scalable generative AI, and unlocking the next generation of intelligent applications.”
Конкуренты
Suggests competitor security outages (potentially CrowdStrike) are driving customers to Akamai's more reliable platform, a positive for Akamai and negative for the competitor mentioned.
Доказательства
“And we see what happens with our competitors who don't make that investment. You know, and for example, in security companies that we compete with, where, you know, some of them, they're down for an hour every quarter.”
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Akamai's CIS revenue growth accelerated to 39% YoY from 30% last quarter, and management expects to potentially accelerate CIS growth further next year, indicating strong edge compute demand. — This signals robust demand for distributed edge computing, directly benefiting NVIDIA's GPU sales and server OEMs like Dell that supply capacity.
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Akamai's CIS revenue growth accelerated to 39% YoY from 30% last quarter, and management expects to potentially accelerate CIS growth further next year, indicating strong edge compute demand.
Management expects the AI Inference Cloud capex per dollar of revenue to be similar to existing compute business (1:1) but with potentially better gross margins due to GPU scarcity.
Доказательства
“It could be a little better with the GPU as a service because there is a scarcity there, so there's a pretty decent market price set for that today.”
Akamai now has all top 3 US cloud providers as customers. This is a strong validation of Akamai's distributed edge strategy, but represents a competitive threat to traditional centralized cloud providers.
Доказательства
“the top three cloud providers in the U.S. are all now using Akamai Cloud Infrastructure Services”
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