#SaaS week, Ep7⃣. Ending the SaaS week with this excellent document "Transforming your SaaS Business" from KPMG, that deep-dives into lot of related concepts and metrics. 👏
It's probably the best & most comprehensive/useful SaaS document I've come across so far.
Although it's geared towards the operating Co's, it also has tons of goodies to learn for Public Mkt investors who are heavily invested in this Sector or wants to learn more. 👍
Main (Delivery) differences between On-premise & SaaS.
Key success factors for Product/Pricing and Sales/Marketing. ⬇️
Business drivers at various stages 1.Growth 2. Profitability and 3. Sustainability ⬇️
Good Explanations of Revenue related metrics.
Growth Drivers/Metrics ⬇️
Profitability Drivers/Metrics ⬇️
Sustainability Drivers/Metrics ⬇️
Some of it is too much information for individual investors, but it pays to learn more about this promising sector, than just the isolated Co's Products and Financial statements/Valuations.
Yes, the run-up over the last 6 months for most names in this Sector will bring in elevated risk of Sector rotation (if/when COVID impact fades away) or when the individual Co's cannot deliver growth (and path to profitability) due to Competitive, execution or other risks.
However, the best & more innovative Co's in this sector when they fully leverage the SaaS Delivery/Operational/Financial model can still bring a lot more gains to investors over the next 5-10 yrs.
Good Luck. 👍
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2008 : The first Cloud/SaaS company I came across in the Market was $CRM (obviously), back in Dec'08 when it was at split adjusted $6.
Cloud has been a buzz word in Media for 2 years by then, but being a new investor, I didn't want to research a new trend when pretty much everything else (many strong/stable/profitable co's) was available for very low prices due to GFC .
#SaaS week, Ep4⃣. Nice presentation by @saasoptics on SaaS KPIs.👍
Although the presentation is geared towards SaaS Companies, it goes thru the purpose & definitions of some key SaaS metrics and why investors care about them.
Excellent presentation by @AlbionVC👏on framework for evaluating SaaS companies. Goes thru some of the qualitative criteria and the related metrics/analysis. Lot of useful info for Public market investors also.
Excellent White paper by @jwangARK👏@ARKInvest about the journey of SaaS so far, reasons for recent acceleration and the outlook for next decade. (I missed this when it came out in Aug).
The last 5 yrs have been incredible for good SaaS companies in Public Markets (excluding which spoils the party with it's 6000% return since debut).
Below is just a quick but not exhaustive list.
Few things to note
1) 2014 to mid-2016 wasn't exactly a smooth ride up for Tech/SaaS (like 2017, 2019, & post March 2020). Although Private investors were familiar with the SaaS model & benefits, the wider public haven't caught on to it. Early Feb 2016 was like GFC for SaaS.