Cloudflare (NET) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) provides cloud connectivity, security and performance services for websites, applications, corporate networks and other internet-connected resources. Its global network is designed to help organizations improve the reliability, speed and security of digital services while reducing the complexity of managing internet infrastructure.

The company’s offerings include content delivery and authoritative domain name system services, distributed denial-of-service protection, web application and application programming interface security, bot management, and network security tools. Cloudflare also provides Zero Trust products for securing users, devices and internal applications, as well as developer services such as Cloudflare Workers, storage and database capabilities that support the development and deployment of applications at the network edge.

Cloudflare was founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway and Michelle Zatlyn and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company serves customers globally across a range of industries and organization sizes. Cloudflare completed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019. Matthew Prince serves as co-founder and chief executive officer, while Michelle Zatlyn is a co-founder and company president.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $285.05 to $298.59
• 50-Day Range: $272.64 to $360.32
• 52-Week Range: $158.83 to $370.35
• Volume: 2.29 million shs
• Average Volume: 2.89 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $103.14 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $330.59
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy

Cloudflare Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Cloudflare scored higher than 79% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 172nd out of 588 stocks in the technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 3.3 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Moderate Buy

Consensus Rating

Cloudflare has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.55, and is based on 1 strong buy rating, 21 buy ratings, 6 hold ratings, and 5 sell ratings.

Upside Potential

Cloudflare has a consensus price target of $330.59, representing about 13.3% upside from its current price of $291.79.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Cloudflare has been the subject of 24 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 1.9 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: 733.33%

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Cloudflare are expected to grow by 733.33% in the coming year, from $0.03 to $0.25 per share.

Price to Earnings Growth Ratio

Cloudflare has a PEG Ratio of 236.68. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Cloudflare has a P/B Ratio of 70.31. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: 4.0 / 5
• Short Interest Level: Healthy

Percentage of Shares Shorted

2.43% of the float of Cloudflare has been sold short.

Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover

Cloudflare has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 2.48, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.

Change versus previous month

Short interest in Cloudflare has recently decreased by 0.51%, indicating that investor sentiment is improving.

Dividend

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• Dividend Strength: N/A

Dividend Yield

Cloudflare does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

Cloudflare does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

News and Social Media

• Score: 3.6 / 5
• News Sentiment: 0.71

News Sentiment

Cloudflare has a news sentiment score of 0.71. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.50 average news sentiment score of Technology companies.

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 28 news articles for Cloudflare this week, compared to 10 articles on an average week.

Search Interest

Only 34 people have searched for NET on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -37% compared to the previous 30 days.

MarketBeat Follows

28 people have added Cloudflare to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 40% compared to the previous 30 days.

Company Ownership

• Score: 1.8 / 5
• Insider Trading: Selling Shares

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Cloudflare insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $143,439,267.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

10.66% of the stock of Cloudflare is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.

Percentage Held by Institutions

82.68% of the stock of Cloudflare is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 8/06/2026
• Today: 10/20/2026
• Next Earnings (Confirmed): 11/05/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NYSE
• Sector: Technology
• Industry: IT Services
• Sub-Industry: Internet Services & Infrastructure
• Current Symbol: NYSE:NET
• CIK: 1477333
• Web: www.cloudflare.com
• Phone: 888-993-5273
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 5,156
• Year Founded: 2009

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Cloudflare: $330.59
• High Price Target: $430.00
• Low Price Target: $140.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: +13.3%
• Consensus Rating: Moderate Buy
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.55
• Research Coverage: 33 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): ($0.58)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: 9,726.23
• P/E Growth: 236.68
• Net Income: -$102.27 million
• Net Margins: -8.21%
• Pretax Margin: -7.88%
• Return on Equity: -3.88%
• Return on Assets: -0.94%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 1.22
• Current Ratio: 1.82
• Quick Ratio: 1.82

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $2.17 billion
• Price / Sales: 47.57
• Cash Flow: $0.43 per share
• Price / Cash Flow: 674.81
• Book Value: $4.15 per share
• Price / Book: 70.31

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 353,470,000
• Free Float: 315,787,000
• Market Cap: $103.14 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 1.65