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AKAM vs RELX

Side-by-side comparison of Akamai Technologies Inc. (AKAM) and RELX PLC PLC (RELX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both AKAM and RELX operate in Real Estate (Real Estate), so they compete in similar markets.
  • RELX is the larger of the two at $62.96B, about 3.1x AKAM ($20.63B).
  • AKAM has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 3 for RELX).
  • AKAM has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 12 for RELX).
MetricAKAMRELX
Company
Akamai Technologies Inc.
RELX PLC PLC
Price
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Market cap
$20.63B
$62.96B
1M return
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1Y return
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Industry
Real Estate
Real Estate
Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE
IPO
1999
2015
News (4w)
12
3
Recent ratings
25
12
AKAM

Akamai Technologies Inc.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud services for securing, delivering, and optimizing content and business applications over the internet in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud and enterprise security solutions to keep infrastructure, websites, applications, application programming interfaces, and users safe from various cyberattacks and online threats while enhancing performance. It also provides web and mobile performance solutions to enable dynamic websites and applications; media delivery solutions, including video streaming and video player services, game and software delivery, broadcast operations, authoritative domain name system, resolution, and data and analytics; and edge compute solutions to enable developers to deploy and distribute code at the edge. In addition, the company offers carrier offerings, including cyberthreat protection, parental controls, DNS infrastructure and content delivery solutions; and an array of service and support to assist customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing, and managing its offerings. It sells its solutions through direct sales and service organizations, as well as through various channel partners. Akamai Technologies, Inc. has a strategic partnership with Queue-It to deliver a cure for Covid vaccine registration. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

RELX

RELX PLC PLC

RELX PLC provides information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in North America, Europe, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk; Legal; and Exhibitions. The Scientific, Technical & Medical segment provides information and analytics that help institutions and professionals to progress in science and advance healthcare. The Risk segment offers information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with technology and algorithms to assist clients in evaluating and predicting risk. The Legal segment provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers in decision-making, as well as enhance the productivity. The Exhibitions segment is involved in the events business. The company was formerly known as Reed Elsevier PLC and changed its name to RELX PLC in July 2015. The company was incorporated in 1903 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.