Cloudflare shares fall as investors react to service disruption tied to North America fiber cut

Cloudflare (NET) is down 3.5% today. Here is some analysis on what might have caused this price movement.

Analysis: The most likely catalyst is a service disruption disclosed on June 22, when Cloudflare said it was seeing increased error rates and latency across multiple services. The company later linked the issue to a fiber cut in Eastern North America, which may have raised concerns about near-term reliability and customer impact.

Details:

Cloudflare’s public status page showed an incident starting at 13:35 UTC involving increased error rates and latency across multiple services.

Later updates said the problem was tied to a fiber cut in Eastern North America, with customers in North America and some users accessing services in Europe potentially seeing higher latency and timeouts.

Engineers said they were rerouting traffic and continuing mitigation work, suggesting the disruption was material enough to require active traffic engineering during the trading day.

There was no obvious new negative earnings release today, which makes the operational incident the clearest company-specific explanation for the stock’s decline.

Sources:

Cloudflare Status, Cloudflare Investor Relations, Cloudflare Press Release

Disclaimer: This price movement analysis was generated with the help of AI. Please double-check the information provided for mistakes.

$NET Insider Trading Activity

$NET insiders have traded $NET stock on the open market 348 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 0 have been purchases and 348 have been sales.

Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $NET stock by insiders over the last 6 months:

MATTHEW PRINCE (CEO & Board Co-Chair) has made 0 purchases and 134 sales selling 785,760 shares for an estimated $156,840,764.
MICHELLE ZATLYN (President and Board Co-Chair) has made 0 purchases and 94 sales selling 480,416 shares for an estimated $96,037,476.
CARL LEDBETTER has made 0 purchases and 18 sales selling 90,000 shares for an estimated $20,075,791.
THOMAS J SEIFERT (Chief Financial Officer) has made 0 purchases and 57 sales selling 101,898 shares for an estimated $19,995,438.
JANEL RILEY (Chief Accounting Officer) has made 0 purchases and 4 sales selling 34,306 shares for an estimated $6,511,261.
ALISSA MICHELLE STARZAK (Chief Legal Officer) has made 0 purchases and 5 sales selling 16,243 shares for an estimated $3,510,882.
JOHN GRAHAM-CUMMING has made 0 purchases and 25 sales selling 11,204 shares for an estimated $2,327,011.
DOUGLAS JAMES KRAMER (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER) has made 0 purchases and 5 sales selling 12,000 shares for an estimated $2,315,430.
KATRIN SUDER has made 0 purchases and 2 sales selling 2,324 shares for an estimated $480,305.
MARK J HAWKINS has made 0 purchases and 4 sales selling 533 shares for an estimated $112,405.

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$NET Hedge Fund Activity

We have seen 645 institutional investors add shares of $NET stock to their portfolio, and 521 decrease their positions in their most recent quarter.

Here are some of the largest recent moves:

CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS removed 13,089,948 shares (-36.5%) from their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $2,700,979,870
CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS added 10,893,165 shares (+inf%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $2,247,695,666
BAILLIE GIFFORD & CO removed 5,024,793 shares (-23.0%) from their portfolio in Q4 2025, for an estimated $990,637,939
DZ BANK AG DEUTSCHE ZENTRAL GENOSSENSCHAFTS BANK, FRANKFURT AM MAIN added 3,791,521 shares (+533.1%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $782,342,443
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO added 3,045,901 shares (+28.8%) to their portfolio in Q4 2025, for an estimated $600,499,382
JENNISON ASSOCIATES LLC added 2,530,872 shares (+135.8%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $522,220,128
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP added 2,303,816 shares (+135.0%) to their portfolio in Q1 2026, for an estimated $475,369,393

To track hedge funds' stock portfolios, check out Quiver Quantitative's institutional holdings dashboard. You can access data on hedge funds moves and 13F filings through the Quiver Quantitative API 13F endpoint.

$NET Government Contracts

We have seen $1,030,426 of award payments to $NET over the last year.

Here are some of the awards which we have have seen pay out the most over the last year:

GOV TOP LEVEL DOMAIN REGISTRY AND DNS SERVICE: $1,030,426

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$NET Congressional Stock Trading

Members of Congress have traded $NET stock 3 times in the past 6 months. Of those trades, 1 have been purchases and 2 have been sales.

Here’s a breakdown of recent trading of $NET stock by members of Congress over the last 6 months:

REPRESENTATIVE JOSH GOTTHEIMER sold up to $15,000 on 02/04.
REPRESENTATIVE GILBERT RAY CISNEROS, JR. has traded it 2 times. They made 1 purchase worth up to $15,000 on 01/30 and 1 sale worth up to $15,000 on 12/24.

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$NET Analyst Ratings

Wall Street analysts have issued reports on $NET in the last several months. We have seen 3 firms issue buy ratings on the stock, and 0 firms issue sell ratings.

Here are some recent analyst ratings:

BTIG issued a "Buy" rating on 06/10/2026
Needham issued a "Buy" rating on 02/11/2026
Mizuho issued a "Outperform" rating on 01/21/2026

To track analyst ratings and price targets for $NET, check out Quiver Quantitative's $NET forecast page.

$NET Price Targets

Multiple analysts have issued price targets for $NET recently. We have seen 16 analysts offer price targets for $NET in the last 6 months, with a median target of $250.0.

Here are some recent targets:

Patrick Walravens from Citizens set a target price of $270.0 on 06/15/2026
Joel Fishbein from Truist Securities set a target price of $250.0 on 06/11/2026
Gray Powell from BTIG set a target price of $269.0 on 06/10/2026
Mike Cikos from Needham set a target price of $280.0 on 06/10/2026
John Difucci from Guggenheim set a target price of $140.0 on 06/10/2026
Thomas Blakey from Cantor Fitzgerald set a target price of $230.0 on 06/10/2026
Gregg Moskowitz from Mizuho set a target price of $260.0 on 06/10/2026

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