Comparing Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) and Chineseinvestors.Com (OTCMKTS:CIIX)

Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) and Chineseinvestors.Com (OTCMKTS:CIIX) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, earnings, valuation and risk.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

94.3% of Akamai Technologies shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Akamai Technologies shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Akamai Technologies and Chineseinvestors.Com’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Akamai Technologies	12.26%	14.16%	6.33%
Chineseinvestors.Com	N/A	N/A	N/A

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Akamai Technologies and Chineseinvestors.Com”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Akamai Technologies	$3.99 billion	3.48	$504.92 million	$3.41	28.34
Chineseinvestors.Com	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Akamai Technologies has higher revenue and earnings than Chineseinvestors.Com.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current recommendations and price targets for Akamai Technologies and Chineseinvestors.Com, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Akamai Technologies	4	10	7	0	2.14
Chineseinvestors.Com	0	0	0	0	0.00

Akamai Technologies currently has a consensus price target of $96.11, indicating a potential downside of 0.54%. Given Chineseinvestors.Com’s higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chineseinvestors.Com is more favorable than Akamai Technologies.

Summary

Akamai Technologies beats Chineseinvestors.Com on 8 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides cloud computing, security, and content delivery services in the United States and internationally. The company offers cloud 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 cloud computing services, such as compute, storage, networking, database, and container management services to build, deploy, and secure applications and workloads. In addition, the company offers 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 various channel partners. Akamai Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About Chineseinvestors.Com

Chineseinvestors.com, Inc. engages in the provision of Chinese language web-based real-time financial information. Its services include real-time market commentary, analysis, and educational-related services in Chinese language character sets, support services, consultancy services to smaller private companies considering becoming a public company, and advertising and public relation-related support services. The company was founded by Wei Wang on January 6, 1997 and is headquartered in San Gabriel, CA.