Clouded Judgement
This weekly SaaS market analysis covers earnings announcements from major cloud software companies, tracking valuation multiples, share price movements, and operating metrics across the sector. The article highlights extreme valuation expansion driven by pandemic-driven demand, with median SaaS EV/NTM revenue multiples reaching 14.4x (up from 10.5x in January 2020) and top performers commanding 37.5x average multiples.
Metrics in this report
31months
median
SaaS cohort
14.4x
median
SaaS cohort (September 2020)
37.5x
average
Top 10 SaaS companies
21.0x
median
High-growth SaaS (>30% NTM growth)
13.8x
median
Mid-growth SaaS (15-30% NTM growth)
7.1x
median
Low-growth SaaS (<15% NTM growth)
40.0x
median
Top 5 SaaS companies (February 2020)
4percent
median
SaaS cohort
73percent
median
SaaS cohort
31percent
median
SaaS cohort
19percent
median
SaaS cohort
116percent
median
SaaS cohort
-16percent
median
SaaS cohort