Internet security and content delivery network Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after the bell. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter Cloudflare reported revenues of $308.5 million, up 31.5% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with revenue and EPS exceeding analysts' expectations.
Is Cloudflare buy or sell heading into the earnings? Find out by reading the original article on StockStory.
This quarter analysts are expecting Cloudflare's revenue to grow 30.2% year on year to $330.6 million, slowing down from the 47.3% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.10 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 2.19%.
Looking at Cloudflare's peers in the software development segment, only F5 Networks (NASDAQ:FFIV) has so far reported results, delivering top-line growth of 0.99% year on year, and beating analyst estimates by 0.67%. The stock traded down 2.2% on the results.
Read the full analysis of F5 Networks's results on StockStory. Tech stocks have been under pressure, and while some of the software development stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 4.45% over the last month. Cloudflare is down 3.58% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $68.2, compared to share price of $56.31.
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