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NET earnings call: key takeaways

What NET said on its earnings call of November 5, 2026: results against expectations, what changed since last quarter, guidance and the questions analysts pressed on.

By Lician·November 5, 2026·AI-generated from the call transcript and Lician data

The company delivered strong growth and profitability, with a 39% year-over-year revenue increase and a 17.5% operating margin. The main message of the call was the accelerating demand for Cloudflare's products and the company's strong performance across multiple metrics. (2:36)

Results vs expectations

Metric	Consensus	Reported	Result
EPS	$0.02	–	–
Revenue	$738.3M	–	–

What changed since last quarter

The company raised its Q4 revenue guidance to $845-846 million, representing a 38% year-over-year increase. (22:42)
Cloudflare achieved its first revenue from Act 4 products, which are part of its new business model for the internet. (11:24)
The company guided to achieving profitability in Q4, significantly earlier than previously expected. (22:42)

Guidance

Metric	This call	Previous call
Revenue	Full-year revenue of $2,963,000,000 to $2,964,000,000 (22:42)	not captured
Revenue	Fourth quarter revenue of $845 to $846 million (22:42)	not captured

What analysts pressed on

Whether CISOs are increasing their cybersecurity budgets in response to the vulnerability tsunami. (56:25)
How Cloudflare plans to address the increasing complexity of zero-trust security. (52:52)
The impact of AI on network traffic and how Cloudflare is preparing for it. (38:18)

In their words

We added more than 158,000 paying customers this quarter. Matthew Prince (2:36)
The most secure zero-trust platform inherently is the one people actually leave on. (9:52)
We're the first agentic cloud, and developers are flocking to us to build the agentic AI future. (14:20)

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Written by AI from the automatic transcript of the company's public webcast and Lician's earnings data. Each sentence cites the passage it comes from, and a sentence with a figure that is not in its sources was removed. Not investment advice.