NET (Cloudflare) Moat Score : 7/10 (As of Jun. 18, 2025)

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What is Cloudflare Moat Score?

Cloudflare has the Moat Score of 7, which implies that the company might have Wide Moat - Entry-level wide moat, clearly possessing durable advantages.

Cloudflare has Wide Moat: Cloudflare Inc has a strong market position in the internet security and performance sector with significant network effects and customer switching costs. The company benefits from a robust brand, proprietary technology, and consistent innovation. Its superior distribution network and pricing power contribute to a durable competitive advantage, resulting in an entry-level wide moat.

Moat Score is a ranking system developed by GuruFocus to assess a company's ability to sustain a competitive advantage, rated on a scale from 0 to 10. It takes into account key factors such as market leadership, cost advantages, network effects, customer switching costs, and more.

The company's Moat Score is based on these criteria:

1. Market leadership and sustainable market share
2. Network effects and significant customer switching costs
3. Valuable intellectual property and patents
4. Strong brand strength and deep customer loyalty
5. Durable cost advantages (e.g., economies of scale, proprietary technology)
6. Significant regulatory barriers and exclusive licenses
7. Superior distribution network
8. Strong and sustainable pricing power
9. Consistent and impactful innovation and R&D capabilities

Based on the research, GuruFocus believes Cloudflare might have Wide Moat - Entry-level wide moat, clearly possessing durable advantages.

Competitive Comparison of Cloudflare's Moat Score

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Cloudflare's Moat Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Moat Score data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Cloudflare's Moat Score Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Cloudflare's Moat Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Cloudflare's Moat Score falls into.

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Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) Moat Score Explanation

The Moat Score ranges from 0 to 10, with 10 as the highest. GuruFocus divided Moat Score into following 8 categories:

Moat Score	Moat Level
10	Wide Moat - Exceptionally dominant and durable wide moat
8 - 9	Wide Moat - Clear and robust wide moat
7	Wide Moat - Entry-level wide moat, clearly possessing durable advantages
6	Narrow Moat - Strong narrow moat, clearly distinguishable but not wide
5	Narrow Moat - Solid narrow moat
4	Narrow Moat - Discernible but modest moat
1 - 3	No Moat - Very weak/transient advantages
0	No Moat - No discernible moat

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Cloudflare Business Description

Industry

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Address

101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA, USA, 94107

Website

https://www.cloudflare.com

Cloudflare is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that offers security and web performance offerings by utilizing a distributed, serverless content delivery network, or CDN. The firm's edge computing platform, Workers, leverages this network by providing clients the ability to deploy, and execute code without maintaining servers.

Executives

Michelle Zatlyn	director, officer: Chief Operating Officer	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Thomas J Seifert	officer: Chief Financial Officer	101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Janel Riley	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Matthew Prince	director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO and Chair of the Board	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Douglas James Kramer	officer: General Counsel	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Katrin Suder	director	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Maria S Eitel	director	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Carl Ledbetter	director, 10 percent owner	2755 EAST COTTONWOOD PARKWAY, SUITE 520, SALT LAKE CITY UT 84121
Scott D Sandell	director, 10 percent owner
Paul D. Underwood	officer: Chief Accounting Officer	C/O CLOUDFLARE, INC., 101 TOWNSEND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94107
Mark J Hawkins	director	C/O LOGITECH, INC., 6505 KAISER DRIVE, FREMONT CA 94555
Stanley J Meresman	director	2071 HUNTINGTON LANE, LOS ALTOS CA 94024
Forest Baskett	10 percent owner
Patrick J Kerins	10 percent owner
Venrock Associates V Lp	10 percent owner	3340 HILLVIEW AVENUE, PALO ALTO CA 94304