Impero

In this month’s SaaS newsletter, we cover the Danish SaaS Q2/H1 earnings season combined with global perspectives from the US SaaS earnings season and news from the IPO market. As always, we also update on the Danish and US median ARR multiple across the sector.

Today, we have updated our investment case one-pager on Impero following last week's H1 2023 report, continuing its high ARR growth rate of 40% and at the same time improving its capital efficiency.

Our monthly HCA SaaS newsletter, covering the recent development in the Danish SaaS sector during July, has just been sent out. Besides an update on the Danish median ARR multiple across the sector, we also cover recent Q2 reports from the US cloud giants and look into growth rates in the Danish SaaS sector ahead of the Q2 reporting season.

Our monthly HCA SaaS newsletter, covering the recent development in the Danish SaaS sector, has just been sent out. Besides an update on the Danish median ARR multiple across the sector, we also cover a new takeover offer as well as some of the first H1 2023 trading updates.

Dagens aktienyheder 6. juli - 2023

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From a valuation perspective, the sector has been hit by a higher interest rate environment, which potentially could have peaked. At the same time, we have seen a lower growth rate in Q1 2023 from the listed global SaaS companies, which is now closer to Gartner's projected 2023 SaaS global market growth.

Our third monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) newsletter is out! In our newsletter, we shed light on the recent market development and the current trend of companies being taken off the stock market (takeover and delistings).

Today, we have sent out our second monthly Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) newsletter, which covers news from March month and the recent development in the ARR valuation multiple. This newsletter’s theme focuses on the growth outlook for 2023, providing perspectives from Gartner reports, a CIO survey, as well as new 2023 guidance from the listed companies. Looking into the Danish SaaS sector, we see that the expected 2023 growth rates (we take the midrange of the SaaS companies’ 2023 ARR guidance) are slightly above the realized ARR growth from 2022.

Last week, we hosted a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deep dive event, focusing on the market outlook for 2023 and market drivers. In the introduction, we set the scene and provided an update on the current investor topics in the SaaS sector followed by projected overall software market growth rates in 2023 and valuation perspectives.

The SaaS HCA Index, measured on a simple ARR multiple (median) across 19 listed Danish SaaS companies, increased slightly to 4.3x ARR by the end of January 2023 from 4.2x ARR by the end of December 2022. However, the SaaS companies’ share prices increased by a median return of approx. 14% in the first month of 2023 and thus rebounding from larger declines during 2022. In general, the relatively small increase in the median ARR multiple itself is explained by new higher reported ARR numbers from some of the SaaS companies, which have updated the market with end of 2022 numbers.