Andrei Zakharov

Director of Equity Research, IPOs

Algosun Global

Equity Bottom-Up

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  reported solid 2Q22 results, and most metrics were above sell-side expectations, including subscription revenue, gross margins, and operating margins. </li>
<li>We are impressed with Confluent Cloud's revenue growth of +139% y/y and strong subscription gross margins. Management raised FY22 revenue and profitability guidance. </li>
<li>Our price target of $28 is slightly below the current share price. However, we see room for further multiple expansion due to revenue acceleration above consensus.</li>
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BluSuit

Stock Picking & Investing

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<li>When I first came across Confluent, I quickly dismissed it because it was expensive. At the time, it was trading at 40x P/S and I couldn’t justify that sort of stock price.</li>
<li>But fortunately I have had the chance the accumulate more at depressed levels.</li>
<li>Obviously, Confluent was caught up in the tech bubble and its inevitable bursting which may leave its chart looking unattractive at first glance.</li>
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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  is an American-based data infrastructure software company and a major contributor to the open-source project Apache Kafka. </li>
<li>Original creators of Apache Kafka founded the company in 2014. Today, Kafka has 5M+ lifetime downloads, and &gt;100,000 organizations use the successful open source project.</li>
<li>We believe <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  is uniquely positioned to benefit from the widespread adoption of Apache Kafka and the growing $50B+ total addressable market. </li>
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Granite Bay Capital

Latest News from the World’s Leading Innovators

An innovation focussed investment company

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<p>Headline Developments On the back of the Epic v Apple case, documents were released highlighting that Google (GOOG) had considered buying Epic outright.  During the case, Epic Games outlined Google’s plans to develop “a series of internal projects to address the ‘contagion’ it perceived from efforts by Epic and others to offer consumers and developers competitive alternatives and has even contemplated buying some or all of Epic to squelch this threat”.</p>

United States

Confluent, Inc. operates as a software company. The Company develops cloud-native platform is designed to unleash real-time data. Confluent serves customers worldwide

Confluent - CFLT US

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