Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) - Stock Analysis

Last updated: Sep 5, 2026

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Cloud/security momentum candidate with a near catalyst on 2026-08-06 earnings. Recent news includes VoidZero acquisition, AI/security partnerships, OpenAI research pilot, and Scotiabank upgrading the stock while raising its target to $300 from $225. Shares are up about 15% over 21 trading days.

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Idea window: 8/3/2026 – 8/10/2026Sector: Technology

AI Analyst Overview

Last Price
$306.53
Market Cap
$108.80B
1D Return
-1.49%
YTD Return
+55.48%

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Valuation Metrics

P/E
-525.7
P/B
67.0
P/S
43.3
EV/EBITDA
2897.7
Div Yield
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Fundamental Analysis

5.0

Key Financial Insights: • Widening Operating Losses • Positive Free Cash • Elevated Balance-Sheet Leverage NET offers strong margins and positive cash flow, but worsening losses, high leverage, heavy stock compensation, and an extreme valuation make the risk/reward unfavorable.

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Price Behavior

5.0

Key Price Behavior Insights: • Support retest • Resistance overhead • Breakdown risk Support Level: $277.58–$280.35 Resistance Level: $284.50–$285.50 NET remains in a last-month downtrend, but holding $277.58–$280.35 could trigger a rebound toward $284.50–$285.50, while a break below support risks $264–$270.

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Sentiment & News

7.0

Key News Insights: • Strong Q2 Growth • AI Security Demand • Valuation Pressure Cloudflare's strong Q2 growth and AI-security/Workers momentum support upside, but premium valuation, execution comparisons, and AI-cloud volatility raise near-term risk.

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AI Summary

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Neutral

Cloudflare's shift toward an AI-era control plane could deepen enterprise platform stickiness, but at its premium valuation investors should demand proof that AI, Workers, and SASE adoption convert into sustained mid-30% growth and operating leverage; otherwise losses, dilution, and any consumption slowdown leave material re-rating risk.

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AI summary updated 6 days ago

Description

CloudFlare, Inc. is a San Francisco–based cloud services company that provides security, performance and reliability capabilities to businesses globally. Its offerings protect and accelerate traffic across public and private clouds, on-premises environments, SaaS and edge devices, while also supplying developer tools, DNS and consumer-facing services. The company serves customers across technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, non-profits and government and was incorporated in 2009.

Idea History

DateCloseTickerCompanySummaryStatusP/L
Aug 3Aug 10NETCloudflare, Inc.
Cloud/security momentum candidate with a near catalyst on 2026-08-06 earnings. Recent news includes VoidZero acquisition, AI/security partnerships, OpenAI research pilot, and Scotiabank upgrading the stock while raising its target to $300 from $225. Shares are up about 15% over 21 trading days.
Closed+9.8%
Jul 17Jul 24NETCloudflare, Inc.
Strong short-term momentum with shares up about 24% over 21 trading days, supported by a 2026-07-07 Scotiabank upgrade to Sector Outperform and target raise to $300. Recent catalysts include VoidZero acquisition, AI/security initiatives, OpenAI pilot, and strong transcript metrics with revenue up 31% YoY and RPO up 43%.
Closed-5.6%
Jul 9Jul 16NETCloudflare, Inc.
Strong near-term momentum with shares up about 15% over 21 trading days and about 12% in the last five sessions, closing 2026-07-09 at a new short-term high. Scotiabank upgraded NET to Sector Outperform on 2026-07-07 and raised its target to $300 from $225, while AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, OpenAI/Anthropic-related platform news, and the VoidZero acquisition support sentiment.
Closed-1.2%
Dec 23Dec 30NETCloudflare, Inc.
Cloudflare (NET) is positioned for short-term growth given 31% Q3 revenue growth fueled by AI and cloud partnerships, expanding enterprise pipeline, positive analyst upgrades, and moderate technical recovery with ~10% gain in recent weeks, despite operational headwinds, making it a compelling near-term AI infrastructure growth idea.
Closed-1.2%
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