{"id":31652,"date":"2026-05-07T23:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31652\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:30:27","slug":"cloudflare-stock-sinks-after-earnings-cutting-over-20-of-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/31652\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudflare stock sinks after earnings, cutting over 20% of employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A logo of Cloudflare sits outside the company&#8217;s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Yves Herman | Reuters<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/NET\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cloudflare<\/a> reported <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudflare.net\/news\/news-details\/2026\/Cloudflare-Announces-First-Quarter-2026-Financial-Results\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first-quarter earnings<\/a> Thursday that beat analysts&#8217; expectations, but shares fell 18% in extended trading as the company announced a 20% reduction in its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the cloud company did versus LSEG estimates:<\/p>\n<p>Earnings per share: 25 cents vs. 23 cents expectedRevenue: $640 million vs. $622 million expected<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, the company announced that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/building-for-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cutting over 1,100 employees<\/a>, writing that agentic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/ai-effect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> has &#8220;fundamentally changed&#8221; the company&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This wasn&#8217;t an easy decision, but it&#8217;s the right decision,&#8221; CEO Matthew Prince said on the earnings call, adding that there are roles at the company &#8220;that just aren&#8217;t the roles that we need for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company highlighted that its use of AI has increased over 600% in the last three months as it embraces &#8220;an agentic AI-first operating model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stock Chart IconStock chart icon<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/a54b41835a8b60db28c2.svg\" class=\"Collapsible-dismissButton\" alt=\"hide content\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare one-day stock chart.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare&#8217;s first-quarter revenue increased 34% year-over-year. The company forecasted revenue for the second quarter to fall between $664 million and $665 million. Analysts expected $665 million. <\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Q2 guidance of 27 cents in earnings per share was in line with Wall Street&#8217;s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>In the earnings release, Prince described the growth of AI as the company&#8217;s biggest tailwind in history.<\/p>\n<p>The company forecasted full-year revenue for 2026 to fall between $2.805 billion and $2.813 billion, narrowly beating estimates of $2.8 billion. Cloudflare said it expects full-year earnings between $1.19 per share and $1.20 per share, beating estimates of $1.14.<\/p>\n<p>Cloudflare posted a net loss of $22.93 million, a loss of 7 cents per share in Q1 2026. A year ago, the company had a net loss of $38.45 million, a loss of 11 cents per share.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/108222253-5ED1-WEX-110625-Mathew.jpg\" alt=\"Prince: We need the next generation to teach old guys like me how to use AI\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A logo of Cloudflare sits outside the company&#8217;s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,133,148,5030,1297,20323,134],"class_list":["post-31652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business-news","tag-cloudflare-inc","tag-layoffs","tag-matthew-prince","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}