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Are SaaS Companies Cheap Now?
By The Smart Investor  •  March 23, 2021
The share prices of SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies have risen massively over the past year. Even after the sharp pullback many of them experienced in late-February and March this year, the share prices of SaaS companies still trade at relatively higher multiples than they did in the recent past. The chart below by venture capitalist Jamin Ball shows current SaaS company valuations: Source: Jamin Ball’s newsletter, Clouded Judgement The blue line on the chart shows that the median EV-to-NTM revenue (median enterprise value to the next twelve months revenue) multiple for SaaS companies has risen sharply in the last two years. And despite the sell-off over the last couple of weeks, SaaS companies still trade at a higher multiple than they did at any other time before mid-2020. This has led to some investors assuming that SaaS company valuations are still too high. On the surface, that may seem the case but it could also be that valuations for SaaS companies were simply way too low in the past....
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The Smart Investor is co-founded by David Kuo, Joanna Sng, and Chin Hui Leong. The company was formed in late 2019 from the ashes of the Motley Fool Singapore. The Smart Investor believes that everybody can learn how to invest, smartly. We aim to educate people on how to invest smartly by providing investing education, stock commentary and market coverage for Singapore and around the world.
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