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<ul><li>Cloudflare Inc.'s latest Q4 2023 earnings highlighted several encouraging developments, underscoring a strong quarter of business growth and an upbeat financial performance, even amid prevailing macroeconomic uncertainties.</li><li>The cloud-based network security company reported total revenues of $362.5 million, a 32% increase year-over-year(YoY).</li><li>The increase was driven significantly by larger customers, with 66% of revenue coming from this group.</li></ul>

Cloudflare Inc.'s latest Q4 2023 earnings highlighted several encouraging developments, underscoring a strong quarter of business growth and an upbeat financial performance, even amid prevailing macroeconomic uncertainties.The cloud-based network security company reported total revenues of $362.5 million, a 32% increase year-over-year(YoY).The increase was driven significantly by larger customers, with 66% of revenue coming from this group.

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<ul><li>Cloudflare, Inc. delivered an all-around beat in the third quarter.</li><li>The addition of 206 new large customers, contributing more than $100,000 annually, brought the total to 2,558 large customers—a 34% YoY growth.</li><li>Significant strides were made with larger customers, witnessing a significant number of net new customers spending over $500,000 and $1 million per year with Cloudflare.</li></ul>

Cloudflare, Inc. delivered an all-around beat in the third quarter.The addition of 206 new large customers, contributing more than $100,000 annually, brought the total to 2,558 large customers—a 34% YoY growth.Significant strides were made with larger customers, witnessing a significant number of net new customers spending over $500,000 and $1 million per year with Cloudflare.

<ul><li>Cloudflare, Inc. delivered an all-around beat in the previous quarter.</li><li>The second quarter's total revenue reached 32% year over year to $308.5 million.</li><li>In the quarter, Cloudflare received 10 million active worker applications, a 250% increase since December and a 490% increase year over year.</li></ul>

Cloudflare, Inc. delivered an all-around beat in the previous quarter.The second quarter's total revenue reached 32% year over year to $308.5 million.In the quarter, Cloudflare received 10 million active worker applications, a 250% increase since December and a 490% increase year over year.

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<ul><li>Q1 was a challenging quarter for Cloudflare as the company failed to meet the revenue expectations of Wall Street as a result of various the headwinds.</li><li>However, macroeconomic uncertainty lengthened sales cycles and affected close rates, resulting in a back-end weighted quarter.</li><li>Despite these challenges, Cloudflare remains resilient and profitable, with an operating profit of $19.4 million and generating $13.9 million of free cash flow.</li></ul>

Q1 was a challenging quarter for Cloudflare as the company failed to meet the revenue expectations of Wall Street as a result of various the headwinds.However, macroeconomic uncertainty lengthened sales cycles and affected close rates, resulting in a back-end weighted quarter.Despite these challenges, Cloudflare remains resilient and profitable, with an operating profit of $19.4 million and generating $13.9 million of free cash flow.

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Andrei Zakharov

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Baishan Cloud, China’s independent edge cloud service provider, filed to go public in Hong Kong. CICC and investment bank Haitong are the lead underwriters in this offering.</li>
<li>Founded in 2015, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/beijing-baishancloud-technology-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40988:1" rel="noopener">BaishanCloud (1568617D HK)</a> is led by its CEO and Founder, Mr. HUO Tao, and a highly experienced founding team.</li>
<li>I believe the company will achieve a break-even this year, coupled with a strong international expansion, potential revenue acceleration and gross margin improvement as the business continues to scale up.</li>
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Baishan Cloud, China’s independent edge cloud service provider, filed to go public in Hong Kong. CICC and investment bank Haitong are the lead underwriters in this offering.
Founded in 2015, BaishanCloud (1568617D HK) is led by its CEO and Founder, Mr. HUO Tao, and a highly experienced founding team.
I believe the company will achieve a break-even this year, coupled with a strong international expansion, potential revenue acceleration and gross margin improvement as the business continues to scale up.


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Cloudflare, Inc. designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers platform for load balancing, video streaming, security, analysis, and domain registration. Cloudflare serves customers worldwide.

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