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This cybersecurity stock is emerging as an AI play. How to play it with options heading into the new year
Tony Zhang goes through this call vertical on an emerging AI play.
TL;DR
- Akamai is repositioning itself as an edge-native cloud and AI compute platform.
- Compute revenue grew nearly 40% year over year, with expanding operating margins.
- The company is moving away from low-margin delivery towards higher-margin AI and security services.
- Akamai's edge cloud footprint offers an advantage for AI inference workloads migrating from major cloud providers.
- The stock is considered undervalued compared to cloud and cybersecurity peers.
- A bullish options trade strategy targeting upside participation in Akamai's AI-cloud transformation is proposed.