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Akamai (AKAM) Stock Slides As Profit Shrinks Under AI Buildout Costs
The market just knocked Akamai Technologies down almost 7% in a single session, yet the story behind the earnings is more about profit pressure than a broken growth pitch. Coming into this report the stock had already slipped over the past quarter, so expectations were not euphoric. The headline today is that heavy cloud infrastructure spending and higher operating costs are squeezing margins even as revenue reached about US$1.10b.
For an investor, the immediate question is whether this...