Confluent (CFLT) shares ended the last trading session 7.6% higher at $22.3. The jump came on an impressive volume with a higher-than-average number of shares changing hands in the session. This compares to the stock's 3.9% gain over the past four weeks.Confluent is benefiting from strong DSP adoption, particularly Flink's exponential growth, and increasing multiyear customer commitments.This data infrastructure software maker is expected to post quarterly earnings of $0.10 per share in its upcoming report, ...

Confluent shares have lost about 3.5% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 8.3%. What's Next for Confluent? While Confluent has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), bu ...