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- One of Wall Street 's largest banks looked at that same chart and decided to stay out.
- BofA Global Research published its second-quarter preview of the cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure sector on July 31, covering Akamai ( AKAM ), Cloudflare ( NET ) and Fastly (FSLY) ahead of their upcoming earnings reports.
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What happened
BofA refuses to embrace cybersecurity darling ahead of earnings Opeyemi Babalola Tue, August 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM GMT+9 4 min read FSLY AKAM NET Every investor has felt the itch to buy the one stock everyone else already owns. Fastly's chart this year has that kind of pull, a steady climb that turns skeptics into buyers with each new high. One of Wall Street 's largest banks looked at that same chart and decided to stay out.
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Why it matters
As a significant CORPORATE EARNINGS development, this event shifts institutional capital allocations across Financials, Corporate Intelligence and directly alters operating assumptions for related benchmarks.
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Uncertainties and competing interpretations
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