Confluent (CFLT) Stock Price, News & Analysis

Company Overview

Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ: CFLT) is a leading provider of an event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. The company’s flagship offerings include Confluent Platform—a self-managed software solution—and Confluent Cloud, a fully managed service designed to simplify real-time data processing across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. These products enable enterprises to collect, process and distribute high volumes of data in real time, supporting use cases such as fraud detection, supply chain optimization and personalized customer experiences.

Founded in 2014 by Apache Kafka co-creators Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao, Confluent has driven the commercialization of Kafka technologies and extended the platform with tools for data integration, stream processing and enterprise-grade security. Key innovations include ksqlDB for real-time analytics, Schema Registry for data governance and a library of prebuilt connectors to integrate seamlessly with popular data sources and sinks.

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Confluent serves a global customer base across financial services, retail, healthcare and technology sectors. Under the leadership of CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps, supported by a management team with deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud computing, Confluent continues to expand its international footprint and partner ecosystem to address the growing demand for scalable, real-time data solutions.

Key Stats

• Today's Range: $30.67 to $31.00
• 50-Day Range: $30.33 to $30.99
• 52-Week Range: $15.64 to $31.00
• Volume: 18.39 million shs
• Average Volume: 9.86 million shs
• Market Capitalization: $11.08 billion
• P/E Ratio: N/A
• Dividend Yield: N/A
• Price Target: $28.74
• Consensus Rating: Hold

Confluent Stock Analysis - MarketRank™

Confluent scored higher than 6% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 602nd out of 624 stocks in the computer and technology sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

Analyst's Opinion

• Score: 1.1 / 5
• Analyst Rating: Hold

Consensus Rating

Confluent has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.10, and is based on 1 strong buy rating, 2 buy ratings, 26 hold ratings, and 1 sell rating.

Downside Risk

Confluent has a consensus price target of $28.74, representing about 7.3% downside from its current price of $30.99.

Amount of Analyst Coverage

Confluent has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.

Earnings and Valuation

• Score: 0.6 / 5
• Proj. Earnings Growth: Growing

Earnings Growth

Earnings for Confluent are expected to grow in the coming year, from ($0.83) to ($0.76) per share.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market

The P/E ratio of Confluent is -36.03, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector

The P/E ratio of Confluent is -36.03, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.

Price to Book Value per Share Ratio

Confluent has a P/B Ratio of 9.48. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

Short Interest

• Score: N/A
• Short Interest Level: N/A

Short Interest

There is no current short interest data available for CFLT.

Dividend

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

Dividend Yield

Confluent does not currently pay a dividend.

Dividend Growth

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

News and Social Media

• Score: 0.0 / 5
• News Sentiment: N/A

News Coverage This Week

MarketBeat has tracked 1 news article for Confluent this week, compared to 8 articles on an average week.

Company Ownership

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

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling

In the past three months, Confluent insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $16,124,278.00 in company stock.

Percentage Held by Insiders

9.20% of the stock of Confluent is held by insiders.

Percentage Held by Institutions

78.09% of the stock of Confluent is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

CFLT Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions

How were Confluent's earnings last quarter?

Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 11th. The company reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.10 by $0.02. The company's revenue was up 20.5% compared to the same quarter last year.

When did Confluent IPO?

Confluent (CFLT) raised $828 million in an IPO on Wednesday, June 23rd 2021. The company issued 23,000,000 shares at a price of $36.00 per share. Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BofA Securities and Citigroup served as the underwriters for the IPO and Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Securities, UBS Securities, Wells Fargo Securities, Cowen, D.A. Davidson, JMP Securities, KeyBanc Capital Markets and Piper Sandler were co-managers.

What other stocks do shareholders of Confluent own?

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Confluent investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Meta Platforms (META), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Arista Networks (ANET), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Broadcom (AVGO) and Adobe (ADBE).

Company Calendar

• Last Earnings: 2/11/2026
• Today: 5/06/2026
• Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2026

Industry, Sector and Symbol

• Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
• Sector: Computer and Technology
• Industry: INTERNET SOFTWARE
• Sub-Industry: Computer Software
• Current Symbol: NASDAQ:CFLT
• CIK: 1699838
• Web: www.confluent.io
• Phone: 800-439-3207
• Fax: N/A
• Employees: 3,241
• Year Founded: 2014

Price Target and Rating

• Average Price Target for Confluent: $28.74
• High Price Target: $32.00
• Low Price Target: $21.00
• Potential Upside/Downside: -7.3%
• Consensus Rating: Hold
• Rating Score (0-4): 2.10
• Research Coverage: 30 Analysts

Profitability

• EPS (Trailing Twelve Months): ($0.86)
• Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
• Forward P/E Ratio: N/A
• P/E Growth: N/A
• Net Income: -$295.27 million
• Net Margins: -25.31%
• Pretax Margin: -25.77%
• Return on Equity: -22.66%
• Return on Assets: -8.72%

Debt

• Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.94
• Current Ratio: 3.83
• Quick Ratio: 3.83

Sales & Book Value

• Annual Sales: $1.17 billion
• Price / Sales: 9.50
• Cash Flow: N/A
• Price / Cash Flow: N/A
• Book Value: $3.27 per share
• Price / Book: 9.48

Miscellaneous

• Outstanding Shares: 357,645,000
• Free Float: 324,742,000
• Market Cap: $11.08 billion
• Optionable: Optionable
• Beta: 0.95