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Cloudflare Q2: Multi-faceted AI Positioning, Steady Growth
Cloudflare offered a solid earnings report, yet the valuation is extraordinarily high, thus, the company really needed to report a blowout to justify the valuation (which did not happen). It’s good to see Cloudflare report steady growth, however, and its key metrics supporting sustained growth as we patiently wait for Cloudflare to lead in AI inference at the edge. There is a quiet strength in Cloudflare’s fundamentals and key metrics. For example, Cloudflare passed a $2B run rate for the first time, signed their first $100M deal, dollar-based net retention (DBNRR) seems to have bottomed along with a slight 1.3% acceleration in revenue. Regarding the bottom line, Cloudflare is certainly stronger than many cloud peers yet tends to walk a razor’s edge due to capex. Regarding AI inference, for the Workers Platform known as Act 3, management connected some important dots on the earnings call as to why agentic AI will drive forward the massive inference trend.
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