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$96.47 +0.10 (+0.10%)
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NET vs. APP, INFY, CRWD, TEAM, TTD, NTES, DDOG, SNOW, EA, and HUBS

Should you be buying Cloudflare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Cloudflare include AppLovin (APP), Infosys (INFY), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Atlassian (TEAM), Trade Desk (TTD), NetEase (NTES), Datadog (DDOG), Snowflake (SNOW), Electronic Arts (EA), and HubSpot (HUBS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Cloudflare vs.

AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP) and Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) are both large-cap business services companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability and media sentiment.

41.9% of AppLovin shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.7% of Cloudflare shares are held by institutional investors. 14.7% of AppLovin shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 12.8% of Cloudflare shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Cloudflare received 72 more outperform votes than AppLovin when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 54.92% of users gave AppLovin an outperform vote while only 49.17% of users gave Cloudflare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
AppLovinOutperform Votes
106
54.92%
Underperform Votes
87
45.08%
CloudflareOutperform Votes
178
49.17%
Underperform Votes
184
50.83%

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
AppLovin$2.63B41.42$356.71M$3.3098.55
Cloudflare$1.30B25.53-$183.95M-$0.26-371.04

AppLovin has a beta of 1.86, suggesting that its share price is 86% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Cloudflare has a beta of 1.1, suggesting that its share price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500.

AppLovin has a net margin of 26.85% compared to Cloudflare's net margin of -5.97%. AppLovin's return on equity of 122.24% beat Cloudflare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
AppLovin26.85% 122.24% 21.60%
Cloudflare -5.97%-7.18%-2.12%

In the previous week, AppLovin had 32 more articles in the media than Cloudflare. MarketBeat recorded 52 mentions for AppLovin and 20 mentions for Cloudflare. Cloudflare's average media sentiment score of 0.96 beat AppLovin's score of 0.95 indicating that Cloudflare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
AppLovin
29 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
11 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Cloudflare
13 Very Positive mention(s)
3 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

AppLovin presently has a consensus price target of $222.96, suggesting a potential downside of 31.44%. Cloudflare has a consensus price target of $92.88, suggesting a potential downside of 3.72%. Given Cloudflare's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Cloudflare is more favorable than AppLovin.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
AppLovin
1 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
14 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.75
Cloudflare
4 Sell rating(s)
12 Hold rating(s)
10 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.23

Summary

AppLovin beats Cloudflare on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NET vs. The Competition

MetricCloudflarePrepackaged software IndustryComputer SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$33.07B$25.43B$24.14B$19.96B
Dividend YieldN/A2.29%2.76%3.49%
P/E Ratio-371.0457.04218.6335.39
Price / Sales25.539.123,408.5118.01
Price / Cash358.2987.7733.0521.27
Price / Book33.978.706.654.58
Net Income-$183.95M$444.73M$658.63M$985.93M
7 Day Performance4.86%-0.07%0.15%0.45%
1 Month Performance6.29%4.17%0.72%1.05%
1 Year Performance30.65%23.90%18.91%24.67%

Cloudflare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NET
Cloudflare
3.8202 of 5 stars
$96.47
+0.1%
$92.88
-3.7%
+32.5%$33.07B$1.30B-371.043,682Insider Trade
APP
AppLovin
3.4824 of 5 stars
$325.22
+1.3%
$222.96
-31.4%
+723.3%$107.79B$2.63B98.551,745Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
INFY
Infosys
2.2162 of 5 stars
$22.00
+1.2%
$20.85
-5.2%
+25.4%$91.08B$18.84B28.20317,240Analyst Downgrade
CRWD
CrowdStrike
4.5839 of 5 stars
$350.15
-0.9%
$333.82
-4.7%
+68.6%$86.60B$3.06B507.467,925Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
Positive News
TEAM
Atlassian
4.118 of 5 stars
$245.45
-0.9%
$244.21
-0.5%
+31.9%$64.52B$4.36B-161.4812,157Insider Trade
TTD
Trade Desk
3.348 of 5 stars
$123.90
+3.8%
$122.65
-1.0%
+84.1%$58.94B$1.95B203.113,115Gap Up
NTES
NetEase
4.4756 of 5 stars
$87.53
+2.2%
$107.29
+22.6%
-26.1%$55.02B$14.57B14.7929,128Dividend Announcement
DDOG
Datadog
4.7404 of 5 stars
$135.45
+1.5%
$150.96
+11.5%
+21.2%$45.32B$2.13B255.575,200Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
SNOW
Snowflake
4.7493 of 5 stars
$129.12
-0.9%
$171.59
+32.9%
-22.6%$43.66B$2.81B-42.207,004Analyst Forecast
News Coverage
High Trading Volume
EA
Electronic Arts
4.3015 of 5 stars
$166.71
+0.3%
$165.37
-0.8%
+23.1%$43.57B$7.56B42.8613,700Insider Trade
HUBS
HubSpot
4.2387 of 5 stars
$695.00
+1.8%
$672.68
-3.2%
+46.2%$35.23B$2.17B0.007,663Insider Trade

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This page (NYSE:NET) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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