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