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NET vs. AMZN, CRWD, DDOG, MDB, META, NVDA, PANW, ZS, FSLY, and SHOP

Should you be buying Cloudflare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cloudflare include Amazon.com (AMZN), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Datadog (DDOG), MongoDB (MDB), Meta Platforms (META), NVIDIA (NVDA), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Zscaler (ZS), Fastly (FSLY), and Shopify (SHOP).

Cloudflare vs. Its Competitors

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) are related large-cap companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.

82.7% of Cloudflare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.2% of Amazon.com shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.9% of Cloudflare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 9.7% of Amazon.com shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Cloudflare currently has a consensus target price of $159.92, suggesting a potential downside of 19.43%. Amazon.com has a consensus target price of $254.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.89%. Given Amazon.com's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Amazon.com is more favorable than Cloudflare.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Cloudflare
3 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
15 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Amazon.com
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
45 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Amazon.com has a net margin of 10.14% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -4.62%. Amazon.com's return on equity of 24.14% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Cloudflare-4.62% -6.31% -2.10%
Amazon.com 10.14%24.14%10.90%

Cloudflare has a beta of 1.85, indicating that its share price is 85% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amazon.com has a beta of 1.33, indicating that its share price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Amazon.com had 226 more articles in the media than Cloudflare. MarketBeat recorded 267 mentions for Amazon.com and 41 mentions for Cloudflare. Amazon.com's average media sentiment score of 1.04 beat Cloudflare's score of 0.96 indicating that Amazon.com is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Cloudflare
25 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Amazon.com
167 Very Positive mention(s)
47 Positive mention(s)
28 Neutral mention(s)
11 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Amazon.com has higher revenue and earnings than Cloudflare. Cloudflare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Amazon.com, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Cloudflare$1.67B41.21-$78.80M-$0.23-863.00
Amazon.com$637.96B3.85$59.25B$6.1437.69

Summary

Amazon.com beats Cloudflare on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NET vs. The Competition

MetricCloudflareINTERNET SOFTWARE IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$66.40B$18.41B$29.03B$21.12B
Dividend YieldN/A2.78%3.02%3.60%
P/E RatioN/A72.1543.3327.40
Price / Sales41.2171.741,732.9960.38
Price / Cash413.7294.1238.3822.92
Price / Book65.518.767.794.69
Net Income-$78.80M$341.62M$782.91M$995.51M
7 Day Performance0.87%2.47%0.96%1.64%
1 Month Performance4.38%13.27%7.50%5.92%
1 Year Performance154.25%59.74%53,041.27%11.50%

Cloudflare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NET
Cloudflare
3.9169 of 5 stars
$198.49
+3.6%
$159.92
-19.4%
+152.0%$66.40B$1.67B0.004,263Upcoming Earnings
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AMZN
Amazon.com
4.3165 of 5 stars
$229.19
+1.4%
$250.02
+9.1%
+28.4%$2.43T$637.96B37.311,556,000Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.4567 of 5 stars
$479.57
+0.8%
$460.93
-3.9%
+79.0%$119.56B$3.95B-695.2010,118Trending News
Analyst Forecast
DDOG
Datadog
4.2148 of 5 stars
$144.77
-0.2%
$146.79
+1.4%
+24.9%$49.99B$2.68B314.726,500Positive News
MDB
MongoDB
4.2083 of 5 stars
$221.42
+0.1%
$281.35
+27.1%
-3.8%$18.09B$2.01B-194.235,558Trending News
Insider Trade
Options Volume
META
Meta Platforms
3.6578 of 5 stars
$713.77
+1.3%
$738.37
+3.4%
+55.0%$1.80T$164.50B27.8574,067Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
NVDA
NVIDIA
4.5385 of 5 stars
$171.94
-0.3%
$181.22
+5.4%
+52.1%$4.20T$130.50B55.5036,000Trending News
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PANW
Palo Alto Networks
4.1097 of 5 stars
$201.23
+2.8%
$209.16
+3.9%
+24.1%$134.21B$8.87B115.0115,289Positive News
Analyst Forecast
ZS
Zscaler
4.1546 of 5 stars
$288.06
-0.2%
$296.82
+3.0%
+56.4%$44.85B$2.17B-1,107.967,348Positive News
FSLY
Fastly
3.6256 of 5 stars
$7.14
+0.2%
$8.28
+16.0%
-6.1%$1.03B$543.68M-6.551,100
SHOP
Shopify
4.1176 of 5 stars
$128.14
+0.8%
$117.58
-8.2%
+106.0%$166.25B$9.38B82.6711,600Positive News
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