Scotiabank Upgrades Cloudflare Inc. (NET) to Sector Outperform

Scotiabank analyst Patrick Colville upgraded Cloudflare Inc. (NYSE: NET) from Sector Perform to Sector Outperform, PT $300.00 (from $225.00).

The analyst comments "Positive. We upgrade our rating on the common shares of Cloudflare to Sector Outperform and lift our price target to $300. After spending the past 4+ weeks doing a deeper dive on Cloudflare’s opportunity, we feel convinced that the time is now to own NET as: (1) Workers is becoming the default infrastructure for vibe coded applications - including OpenAI Codex Sites and Lovable, a dynamic we think is underappreciated by investors; (2) Traffic trends, which typically precede revenue by 3 quarters are inflecting due to agentic AI and will set Cloudflare up nicely to beat and raise Street numbers by ~5pp in 2H26, (3) Cloudflare is winning the best of the best AI-native customers, which validates their architecture and provides a long runway for growth. (4) Our prior fears fade as we find more evidence of wins in CIO/CISO fieldwork for Cloudflare SASE and edge compute in the enterprise. And lastly, with the latest frontier AI models driving an inflexion in cyber spend, this will benefit Cloudflare - see Fix the Swiss Cheese...Now!. We acknowledge that Cloudflare’s valuation is steep, but the massive opportunity is now being crystallized."

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Shares of Cloudflare Inc. closed at $247.55 yesterday.

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