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At the moment of writing this, it’s 2:30 pm on a Sunday and I am in a ground blind. Every year at about this time of the year I take a few days off of work to unplug, have a few drinks with other family members and run off to the middle of the woods.I get some of my best thinking done out here while I wait for a White Tail Buck to come by. It’s blissful.Regardless of where I am or what I am doing, I am and always have been committed to maintaining my transparency, my thoughts and my investing story/process to all of you.

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Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  reported solid 2Q22 results, and most metrics were above sell-side expectations, including subscription revenue, gross margins, and operating margins. </li>
<li>We are impressed with Confluent Cloud's revenue growth of +139% y/y and strong subscription gross margins. Management raised FY22 revenue and profitability guidance. </li>
<li>Our price target of $28 is slightly below the current share price. However, we see room for further multiple expansion due to revenue acceleration above consensus.</li>
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Confluent (CFLT US)  reported solid 2Q22 results, and most metrics were above sell-side expectations, including subscription revenue, gross margins, and operating margins. 
We are impressed with Confluent Cloud's revenue growth of +139% y/y and strong subscription gross margins. Management raised FY22 revenue and profitability guidance. 
Our price target of $28 is slightly below the current share price. However, we see room for further multiple expansion due to revenue acceleration above consensus.


Better Than Expected 2Q22 Results, Cloud Growth of 139% YoY, FY22 Revenue Guidance Moves Higher

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  is an American-based data infrastructure software company and a major contributor to the open-source project Apache Kafka. </li>
<li>Original creators of Apache Kafka founded the company in 2014. Today, Kafka has 5M+ lifetime downloads, and &gt;100,000 organizations use the successful open source project.</li>
<li>We believe <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/confluent-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33443:1" rel="noopener">Confluent (CFLT US)</a>  is uniquely positioned to benefit from the widespread adoption of Apache Kafka and the growing $50B+ total addressable market. </li>
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Confluent (CFLT US)  is an American-based data infrastructure software company and a major contributor to the open-source project Apache Kafka. 
Original creators of Apache Kafka founded the company in 2014. Today, Kafka has 5M+ lifetime downloads, and &gt;100,000 organizations use the successful open source project.
We believe Confluent (CFLT US)  is uniquely positioned to benefit from the widespread adoption of Apache Kafka and the growing $50B+ total addressable market. 


Confluent: Harnessing Data In Motion. Initiate At Overweight

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<p>Headline Developments On the back of the Epic v Apple case, documents were released highlighting that Google (GOOG) had considered buying Epic outright.  During the case, Epic Games outlined Google’s plans to develop “a series of internal projects to address the ‘contagion’ it perceived from efforts by Epic and others to offer consumers and developers competitive alternatives and has even contemplated buying some or all of Epic to squelch this threat”.</p>

Headline Developments On the back of the Epic v Apple case, documents were released highlighting that Google (GOOG) had considered buying Epic outright.  During the case, Epic Games outlined Google’s plans to develop “a series of internal projects to address the ‘contagion’ it perceived from efforts by Epic and others to offer consumers and developers competitive alternatives and has even contemplated buying some or all of Epic to squelch this threat”.

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Confluent, Inc. operates as a software company. The Company develops cloud-native platform is designed to unleash real-time data. Confluent serves customers worldwide

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