Mar 09, 2020 / 07:50PM GMT
Matthew Niknam - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division - Director
Okay. Thanks, everyone, for joining us. This is Matt Niknam, Communications Analyst at Deutsche Bank. We are very pleased to be joined by Akamai's Head of Investor Relations, Tom Barth. Tom, thank you very much for joining us.
Tom Barth - Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Head of IR
Thank you, Matt, and thank you, everyone.
Questions and Answers:
Matthew Niknam - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division - DirectorOkay. Great. So maybe just to get started, high-level question, Tom, maybe if you can talk about some of the top priorities for Akamai in 2020?
Tom Barth - Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Head of IR
Well, certainly. So again, over the last couple of years, we've been talking a lot about margin appreciation. And at the end of 2019 over '17, we gave the Street about 5 points of operating margin expansion, and we've been very vocal about trying to attain 30%. We've given such guidance for 2020. So 6 points of