Cloudflare Inc. [NYSE: NET] loss -0.81% on the last trading session, reaching $54.80 price per share at the time. The company report on March 14, 2023 that Cloudflare Integrates with Atlassian, Microsoft, and Sumo Logic to Make Zero Trust Security Easy for Businesses.
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New collaborations expand the reach of the Cloudflare One Zero Trust platform to where businesses need protection and support.
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced new Zero Trust integrations with Atlassian, Microsoft, and Sumo Logic. These new integrations will help businesses of any size easily secure the tools and applications they rely on with enterprise-ready Zero Trust security. Now businesses will be able to use security insights from the Cloudflare One SASE platform across Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira Software products, to protect classified and labeled data by integrating with Microsoft Sensitivity Labels, and to accelerate threat detection and investigation in Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM – all in just a few clicks.
Cloudflare Inc. represents 328.96 million in outstanding shares, while the company has a total market value of $19.70 billion with the latest information. NET stock price has been found in the range of $54.195 to $56.7899.
If compared to the average trading volume of 5.19M shares, NET reached a trading volume of 5094448 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here is what top equities market gurus are saying about Cloudflare Inc. [NET]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for NET shares is $69.24 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on NET stock is a recommendation set at 2.50. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Goldman have made an estimate for Cloudflare Inc. shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Sell, with their previous recommendation back on February 14, 2023. While these analysts kept the previous recommendation, Loop Capital raised their target price to Hold. The new note on the price target was released on February 07, 2023, representing the official price target for Cloudflare Inc. stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $36, while Guggenheim analysts kept a Sell rating on NET stock.
The Average True Range (ATR) for Cloudflare Inc. is set at 3.61, with the Price to Sales ratio for NET stock in the period of the last 12 months amounting to 20.20. The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 28.84, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 4.59.
Trading performance analysis for NET stock
Cloudflare Inc. [NET] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -8.05. With this latest performance, NET shares dropped by -8.82% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -18.14% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -38.23% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for NET stock in for the last two-week period is set at 43.99, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 38.51, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 47.43 for Cloudflare Inc. [NET]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 53.97, while it was recorded at 55.89 for the last single week of trading, and 53.76 for the last 200 days.
Cloudflare Inc. [NET]: A deeper dive into fundamental analysis
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Cloudflare Inc. [NET] shares currently have an operating margin of -25.51 and a Gross Margin at +76.15. Cloudflare Inc.’s Net Margin is presently recorded at -19.83.
Return on Equity for this stock declined to -26.95, with Return on Assets sitting at -7.80.
Cloudflare Inc.’s liquidity data is similarly interesting compelling, with a Quick Ratio of 4.70 and a Current Ratio set at 4.70.
Cloudflare Inc. [NET]: An earnings per share (EPS) analysis
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for NET. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Cloudflare Inc. go to 47.40%.
An analysis of insider ownership at Cloudflare Inc. [NET]
There are presently around $13,320 million, or 86.60% of NET stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of NET stocks are: MORGAN STANLEY with ownership of 31,352,114, which is approximately -5.404% of the company’s market cap and around 0.10% of the total institutional ownership; BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO, holding 26,335,438 shares of the stock with an approximate value of $1.44 billion in NET stocks shares; and VANGUARD GROUP INC, currently with $1.42 billion in NET stock with ownership of nearly 2.306% of the company’s market capitalization.
Positions in Cloudflare Inc. stocks held by institutional investors increased at the end of Thursday and at the time of the Thursday reporting period, where 304 institutional holders increased their position in Cloudflare Inc. [NYSE:NET] by around 24,525,680 shares. Additionally, 258 investors decreased positions by around 14,796,826 shares, while 79 investors held positions by with 203,737,460 shares. The mentioned changes placed institutional holdings at 243,059,966 shares, according to the latest SEC report filing. NET stock had 76 new institutional investments in for a total of 1,748,322 shares, while 82 institutional investors sold positions of 2,237,829 shares during the same period.