Cloudflare

Cloudflare stock reached a new all-time high of $332.27 after strong gains (year-to-date increase 46.37%, since the start of the year +55%, almost +10% last week). The company reported quarterly revenue growth of 36%, after which UBS and TD Cowen raised their price targets to $350 and $355 respectively, while Citizens confirmed its "Market Outperform" rating. However, an analysis by InvestingPro rates the stock as significantly above its fair value. » Plus sur de.investing.com

Cloudflare views agentic AI as a bigger growth opportunity than prior drivers and raised its long-term "North Star" growth target to 50% from 40%. The company is prioritizing low-latency, distributed AI inference across its Workers platform and reports rising developer adoption and consumption revenue. Cloudflare is building monetization infrastructure for an agentic economy—pay-per-crawl, a Monetization Gateway and wallets—while acknowledging technical, pricing and scale challenges and potential incremental capex tied to demand. The firm expects AI workloads to shift software spending toward consumption models and plans to leverage its network, security and data-sovereignty tools to support enterprise AI use cases. » Plus sur finance.yahoo.com

Cloudflare is shifting its business model toward usage-based, agent-driven AI workloads and has raised its annual growth target from 40% to 50%. Revenue most recently grew 36%; management sees significant potential especially for inference, content monetization and payments infrastructure ("Act 3" and "Act 4"), with Act 4 still in an early development stage. Usage-based revenues are growing faster but temporarily produce lower margins and make forecasting harder, since supply and infrastructure capacity increasingly determine revenue. Cloudflare's global network, expanding product set and partnerships with payment providers are intended to secure competitive advantages and future monetization opportunities. » Plus sur de.investing.com