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Investing analysis of the software companies that power next generation digital businesses. The host has significant experience leading software engineering for a number of large consumer Internet properties. He brings insights as a technology practitioner and budget owner to evaluating software infrastructure companies in categories like developer tooling, big data, observability and application hosting. Sample company stocks covered include SNOW, NET, DDOG, MDB, CRWD, ZS and GTLB. Podcast supplements the content on SoftwareStackInvesting.com. Follow on Twitter @StackInvesting.
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Cloudflare (NET) Q2 2023 Earnings Review
Following a disappointing Q1 earnings report highlighted by challenges in the go-to-market effort, Cloudflare demonstrated renewed momentum in Q2. The sales reorganization is progressing well. Large enterprises expanded spend, adding to multi-product subscriptions across several categories. In parallel, profitability measures continue to improve with growing operating margin and cash flow.
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Confluent (CFLT) Q2 2023 Earnings Review
After delivering favorable results in Q1, Confluent continued on largely the same trajectory in Q2. Sequential growth rates even imply stabilization around 30% annually, after almost 2 years of deceleration from Covid highs. This growth is being led by rapid adoption of Confluent Cloud, with the licensed Confluent Platform offering for on-premise deployments demonstrating surprising resiliency as well.
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Q2 2023 Hyperscaler Earnings Review
Headwinds from workload optimization may have peaked in Q2. After nearly a year of negative drag on revenue growth for the hyperscalers, it appears that cloud infrastructure customers are shifting their focus away from workload optimization and back towards the deployment of new ones. At least that is what Amazon’s CEO told us in the opening statement of their earnings release. While the hyperscalers delivered revenue growth rates that decelerated from the prior year, they are now showing an uptick sequentially from Q1.
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Insights From A Pair Of Data Summits
AI has crashed onto the investing stage in 2023, driving significant stock price gains for several companies. Some, like Nvidia and Microsoft have already projected a direct revenue benefit as part of recent earnings reports. Others have indicated they expect AI to drive demand tailwinds going forward as part of management commentary.
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MongoDB Q1 FY 2024 Earnings Review
After guiding for a sequential 4% drop in revenue for Q1, MongoDB delivered a strong beat. More importantly, their preliminary estimate for Q2 revenue would achieve a reacceleration of annual growth if they outperform at the same level as Q1. The revenue projection for Q2 even leapfrogged past the analyst consensus for Q3. While the market expected some conservatism, this level of outperformance caught investors by surprise, with the stock surging 28% the next day.
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Snowflake Q1 2024 Earnings Review
Snowflake’s consumption business continues to feel pressure as large enterprise customers look for ways to optimize usage. While it seemed that management had a handle on forecasting the impact of this effect when they lowered guidance back in Q4, they still underestimated the trend. With the Q1 report, they once again brought down the full year revenue target.
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