2024-02-18 01:46:23 ET
Summary
- Confluent's 4th quarter 2023 earnings exceeded expectations, boosting the company's growth trajectory.
- Confluent's data platform could be the new paradigm for stream processing as it emerges as a critical nervous system for data in motion.
- Confluent's collaboration with leading AI players could make it the preferred provider for large language model stream processing.
- Confluent is rated as one of the leaders in the data streaming platform category.
- Its focus on operating profits and improving revenue growth makes it a must-have in the portfolio.
Overview
Confluent ( CFLT ), the leading player in data streaming, runs the largest managed version of Apache Kafka, the open source language that enables low latency data streaming, a language that was built by Confluent's co-founders at LinkedIn. The demand for real time, low latency data streams from IoT, Ad-Tech, and Autos to name a few, is only going to get greater and Confluent has the best platform to constantly stream it at scale, enhance, maintain, and provide analytics for it.
I had recommended Confluent twice before, in Sep 2023 , and Feb 2023 praising among others its main strengths, summarized below:
Confluent's Data Streaming Platform gives it a significant competitive advantage of scale and integration. Its integrated platform with several modules also becomes a barrier to entry and leads to greater engagement and monetization. Amongst its competitors it has the highest enhancements and richer features.
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Confluent: Revenge Of The Bulls, Reiterating Long-Term Buy