Clouded Judgement
This SaaS market update analyzes valuation multiples, operating metrics, and growth trends across public SaaS companies as of October 2020, highlighting the IAM market's TAM expansion driven by cloud adoption and providing benchmarking data on revenue multiples, profitability, and unit economics. The article presents Morgan Stanley's bullish $33.9B TAM thesis for identity and access management, contrasting with IDC's more conservative $7.9B estimate, and tracks top-performing stocks and their valuation metrics relative to growth rates.
Metrics in this report
31.6x
median
SaaS companies with >30% projected NTM growth
25.3percent
median
2019 cloud spend as percent of total IAM spend; projected to reach 39.8% by 2024
7.9billion dollars
median
IDC estimate for 2019 IAM market TAM
33.9billion dollars
target
Morgan Stanley's bullish IAM TAM forecast including cloud expansion and new use cases
8.8x
median
SaaS companies with <15% projected NTM growth
16.8x
median
SaaS companies with 15-30% projected NTM growth
32months
median
Tracked SaaS companies
37.9x
median
Top 10 highest-valued SaaS companies, October 2020
9percent
median
Top 10 highest-valued SaaS companies
73percent
median
Top 10 highest-valued SaaS companies
32percent
median
Top 10 highest-valued SaaS companies
116percent
median
Tracked SaaS companies, October 2020
-15percent
median
Top 10 highest-valued SaaS companies