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PVC SaaS Index™ | Q2 2023 SaaS Companies Now Trading at a Discount vs. S&P 500

07.20.23

IPO
Public Markets
PVC SaaS Index
SaaS

Our PVC SaaS Index™ now trades at 7.4x EV / LTM revenue, up significantly from the 6.1x multiple that closed out Q4 2022. Median multiples are still below their 5- and 10-year averages. The S&P 500 has moved into what we call the “PVC Danger Zone.” It looks expensive, yet tech multiples are on a relative basis more attractive than at any time since 2010.

PVC SaaS Index™ | Q1 2023 – SaaS Companies Are Now a Bargain vs. S&P 500

Aman Verjee

03.29.23

IPO
Public Markets
PVC SaaS Index
SaaS
Valuation

Practical Summary: This post is an update in a quarterly series of posts that tracks the PVC SaaS Index™, a basket of publicly traded US-listed SaaS companies. Background: SaaS Multiples in Public Markets Software as a Service (“SaaS”) has been around longer than the cool new cloud. The SaaS category shares some aspects of cloud computing, but

PVC SaaS Index™ | Q4 2022 – Where Will SaaS Multiples Bottom Out?

Aman Verjee

10.19.22

IPO
Public Markets
PVC SaaS Index
Valuation

Practical Summary: Companies in our PVC SaaS Index™ now trade at an average 6.8x EV / LTM revenue, slightly down from the 7.6x multiple observed at the end of Q2 2022. SaaS multiples now trade at levels that haven’t been seen since the 2016 “SaaS crash.” Valuations today have just about normalized. Ignoring the 2020/2021

PVC SaaS Index™ | Q2 2022 – SaaS Multiples Are at a 4-Year Low: Where Do They Go From Here?

Aman Verjee

05.18.22

Downturn
IPO
Public Markets
PVC SaaS Index
SaaS

Practical Summary: Our PVC SaaS Index™ companies trade at just over 8x EV / LTM revenue, lower than at any time since the Q1 2020 market panic that followed the onset of the COVID pandemic. They are trading around where SaaS multiples were in 2017-2018. The median company multiple in our index is down 54%

History of Public SaaS Valuations | PVC SaaS Index™

Aman Verjee

06.12.20

IPO
Public Markets
PVC SaaS Index

Investors are paying higher multiples today for SaaS companies than at any other time in public SaaS trading history.