關於 recurring revenue ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

One of the things I teach in the S.M.A.R.T. Challenge is how to set up recurring revenue streams.

As a business owner, having recurring revenue in your business is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself.

It removes the guesswork from generating revenue.

You can rest assured knowing you’ll always have a certain amount coming in each month.

You can focus more of your energy on increasing that monthly revenue or generating some bigger wins.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg.

What do you believe is the most powerful thing recurring revenue can do for your business?

🌻Docusign(DOCU), Crowdstrike(CRWD)財報結果
上週這兩家公司發表財報了.

這兩天看了一下他們的財報結果. Again, 兩家的表現都很好, 但發現分析師給DOCU的調價(往上)幅度比較多, 就好奇研究了一下SaaS公司是怎麼被估值的. 有興趣的話可以看看(從中學習到很多. 非常推薦一讀):
https://makingsenseofusastocks.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post.html

(By the way, 分析師對CRWD的價格調幅沒那麼大, 主因是成長趨緩了. 而DOCU的free cash flow佔營收比, 以及顧客黏著力在這季創了新高, 是讓分析師按讚的幾個原因).

關於CRWD: "The Street is already modeling revenue growth deceleration in 2022 to 36%, down from 60% expected in 2021, which on its own might prove a hurdle for a stock already trading at a high multiple," said Bank of America analyst Tal Liani in a report.

分析師對於DOCU的評價:
• 11位buy; 給的價格分別是: $310, $320 (x2), $330 (x2), $340 (x2), $345, $350, $350, $389
• 給Buy的分析師的評語:
o Baird: The analyst continues to view them as a best in class way to play digital transformation trends with strong growth, cash flow and profitability, and a strong competitive position. Power said DocuSign remains one of his top long-term compounding growth ideas.
o Citi: While slightly shy of the double-digit billings beat in recent quarters, DocuSign still delivered a solid 8% beat to Q2 billings, which grew 47% year-over-year, Radke tells investors in a research note.
o Evercore ISI: he calls "another strong quarter." While some may have wanted to see more aggressive Q3 billings guidance, he believes estimates "continue to leave room for upside," Materne said.
o JMP Securities: While revenue growth decelerated to 50% from 58% in Q1, the company is the clear leader in electronic signature and the broader system of agreement having crossed over 1M customers with a $2B run rate this quarter, the analyst tells investors in a research note, adding that he sees lots of room for growth as DocuSign targets a $50B total addressable market.
o Needham: The analyst commented, "Docusign reported another strong quarter in 2QF22 with typical DOCU upside to revenue and profitability. Sales metrics and growth decelerated Q/Q, as we expected against a massive pandemic quarter, but at a much slower rate than we believe much of the Street was anticipating. 65k net new customers was lower than the 70k - 90 range of CY20 but was still more than 2x greater than any pre-pandemic quarter, highlighting a strong end-market driving 47% billings growth against a strong comp. Commentary on incremental Agreement Cloud demand was positive, suggesting an additional growth tailwind combined with solid international can further aid 2HF22. Although DOCU shares could be lower near-term due to weak 2H OpMg guidance, we think this guidance is conservative, as the recent OM was greater than the pre-pandemic level even with tough comps."
o RBC Capital: The quarter highlighted the sustainability of the company's tailwinds post-pandemic as most of its underlying metrics such as billings and net revenue retention were solid, the analyst tells investors in a research note, adding that the traction with CLM and Notary was also "impressive".

分析師對於CRWD的評價:
• 12位buy; 給的價格分別是: $300, $310 (x2), $313, $315 (x2) , $305, $320, $325, $330 (x2), $340
• 1位給hold: $280 (from $220 by J.P. Morgan(same))
• 給Buy的分析師的評語:
o Baird: The analyst believes the company has significant room for growth with core modules, opportunities with Humio and in cloud workload security, among others, should help drive a continuation of strong growth over a long time horizon.
o BTIG: The company's "strong" Q2 results "cleared every hurdle", even though the buy-side benchmarks may have been slightly higher, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Powell adds that Crowdstrike is clearly gaining share in its core endpoint security target market at a rapid pace and gaining traction with new products across multiple categories.
o Canaccord: The analyst said the stock is down from its recent highs, and he thinks the re-rating creates a more favorable entry point for longer-oriented investors for a foundational security name. He views Crowdstrike as a long-term secular winner in security due to its native cloud platform advantage versus closely held peers in endpoint security combined with platform expansion into tangential segments to capture greater share of security budgets.
o Goldman Sachs: CrowdStrike last night delivered "another beat and raise quarter as the company benefited from another quarter of elevated demand," Essex said. But it traded lower following net new annual recurring revenue growth guidance that was slightly less than investors had hoped for. Essex, nonetheless, said the quarter demonstrated CrowdStrike's "ability to continue to go down market efficiently."
o JMP Securities: The analyst notes the company's Q2 annualized recurring revenue of $1.34B topping his estimate of $1.30B, with "sustained" 70% ARR and revenue growth along with margin upside seen as key highlights for the quarter. Suppiger adds that the metrics reflect Crowdstrike's "strong execution and robust demand environment".
o Mizuho: "very good" fiscal Q2 results. The annual recurring revenue growth of 70% year-over-year "was strong and still nicely surpassed" the Street's 65%-66% estimate, Moskowitz tells investors in a research note. He believes "strong execution can propel" Crowdstrike's stock higher.
o Piper Sandler: The company's metrics "outperformed across the board" in Q2 with 70% annual recurring revenue and revenue growth and record net new customer adds in the quarter, Owens tells investors in a research note.
o RBC Capital: Hedberg adds that CrowdStrike's record pipeline entering Q3 should continue to fuel the company's "land-and-expand" momentum.
o Stifel: Q2 results that he said "exceeded consensus estimates across all major financial metrics." He continues to believe that Crowdstrike's growth opportunity "remains in the early days" despite the company's scale given continued share capture within its core endpoint security market and incremental module adoption on the Falcon Platform, Reback tells investors.
o UBS: the company reported "pretty good" Q2 results against high expectations.

🌻趨勢: 跨境電商 Cross-border commerce
Morgan Stanley:
From our perspective, we think many are underestimating what the cross-border eCommerce demand could ultimately be, once key friction points like FX rates, tax and duties, shipping, language, etc are smoothed—all issues that Global-E directly addresses.

Cross-border ecommerce brings new, high-yield volume: We think elevated levels of cross-border ecommerce (ex-travel) is a structural shift thathas yet to be fully contemplated in MA (and V)'s long-term forecasts. MA's cross-border CNP ex-travel volume was 69% above 2019's level in 2Q and 63% higher in 1Q. Strength reflects both broader ecommerce adoption plus globalization of commerce, as marketplaces and services that reduce cross-border friction (such as those from GLBE) make international online ordering more readily adopted. Early data at V suggests greater cross-border ecommerce spend is persisting even in areas with pre-pandemic levels of international travel. Cross-border transactions also come at a higher yield, making us more optimistic that the trend can bring incremental long-term growth to the networks.

產業的潮流是有連貫性的. 疫情讓電商更發達後, 接下來應該就是加速電商跨境了. 跨境的話, 有很多問題需要解決(稅率, 語言, etc.) 這就需要有公司來做整合的動作. 這種跨境, 也可以想像是omnichannel的一種呈現.

Harley Finkelstein (President of Shopify): "I mean I think commerce in 2021 is cross-border."

🌻SPAC熱潮退卻，初創市值蒸發750億美元
"SPAC熱潮已經退卻。分析顯示，在2月中旬以前完成合併的137家SPAC的總市值已經蒸發25%，市值回落幅度上個月一度超過1,000億美元。"

"像貝萊德(BlackRock Inc., BLK)和富達投資(Fidelity Investments Inc.)這類企業管理的基金，以及許多對沖基金、養老金管理公司和其他一些投資者，都在SPAC的回落中遭受了衝擊，他們在去年年底開始的熱潮中競相投資SPAC。其中許多基金由於在價格還很低的時候就早早入場，所以現在仍坐擁可觀收益。事實上，SPAC市值仍有約2,500億美元，高於一年前的約1,000億美元，反映出這期間股價上漲和新公司上市的影響。

但即便如此，今年年初令人炫目的回報還是讓許多後來者做了接盤俠，扎堆投資所謂穩賺不賠的領域，其永恆的風險可見一斑。在過去的幾個月裡，一些投資者眼睜睜看著帳面財富縮水。"

"股價下跌會在SPAC領域形成惡性循環，因為投資者有權在併購交易前從空白支票公司撤資。一旦SPAC跌破發行價，投資者就更有可能這樣做，而許多SPAC的股價現在正處於這樣的水平。目前，在尚未宣布併購交易的空白支票公司中，超過95%的公司股價低於發行價。

投資者的大規模撤資會讓已經上市的空白支票公司手上的現金大幅減少，讓其更難實現業務目標，並可能加劇股價跌勢。"

https://on.wsj.com/3n6JznC

🌻BNPL (buy now pay later)
But most BNPL providers including Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay have been losing money despite breakneck revenue growth as they invest heavily in marketing to win share. Sweden-based Klarna’s credit losses more than doubled in the second quarter. Affirm has projected adjusted operating losses of $50m-$55m for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

The path to profitability for many of these companies was to achieve massive scale, analysts said.

https://www.ft.com/content/ca201a37-a16d-4223-b123-04d38350a972

Pictures: 一葉知秋; from EarningsWhispers

市場上衡量 SaaS 的財務指標很多，但最重要的莫過於 MRR（Monthly Recurring Revenue；每月經常性收入）、ARR（Annual Recurring Revenue；年度經常性收入）了，它們暗示著未來可持續獲得的收入。 MRR 亦可年化推估 ARR，公式為 MRR * 12 = ARR。

調研機構 SaaS Capital 在 2021 年針對 SaaS 行業發佈了估值倍數的趨勢報告，截至 2020 年 12 月，在新冠肺炎導致的全球量化寬鬆下，B2B SaaS 上市公司的 ARR 估值倍數（中位數）為 16.6 倍，未上市公司則為 12 倍（相當於三成左右的流動性折價）。

https://meet.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47891

哈佛知識分享: 做生意，七大困難選擇!

七條策略問題 Seven Strategy Questions《第四: 你公司要有邊「十誡」? 有什麼是不可做? 》

Steve Jobs 講過，"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1000 things."

我完全贊成。Business is about making tough choices. 上三集就講咗 Who is your primary customer? ... 公司股東、顧客、員工，邊個行先? 追數，應追邊三條數?

今集我會同你探討第四個策略問題: What Strategic Boundaries Have You Set? 十誡都有講唔好殺人、唔好姦淫擄掠。 你公司又有邊「十誡」呢?

根據哈佛教授 Bob Simons 呢本書 Seven Strategy Questions，say No 嘅 boundary 有兩種。
1. 避免公司同事們做啲嘢會影響公司嘅聲譽
2. 避免浪費資源去做一啲嘢， 係同公司現有發展策略有衝突

先講一， 唔做影響聲譽嘅嘢!

例如，全球最大嘅零售商 Walmart， 由於佢專注樣樣嘢 來貨價一定要做到最平，行政人員係絕對唔可以接受任何供應商提供嘅禮物或 favors，not even a cup of coffee。 公司曾經試過炒咗個副總裁，因為佢接受咗個供應商請佢食飯 free meal. 同供應商唔建立 任何感情， 做到冷血，咁每個員工先至能夠摙供應商價摙到最盡。

又例如國際著名嘅顧問公司 McKinsey ，覺得大企業客戶嘅信任最重要。佢就講到明客戶嘅資料， 見唔見得光都好，一定唔可以同任何人披露，包括老公老婆。 由於呢個保密條款， 員工犯規? McKinsey 都炒過唔少人。

我自己做商舖基金， 好多人想同我合作買舖。 我全部答案係 No, 我無合作， 因為太多利益衝。 如果最好嘅自己先買，第二好嘅就同你合作，最差嘅先放落個基金，呢個基金就唔使玩。 因此我成日都同人講，我無合作。一係就買我基金，二係就買我基金沽出來間舖。我自己都無買舖，again 我無合作! 你聽日試打嚟搵我， 話有100億同我合作買舖? 你就知我點答你。

第二個 boundary，避免浪費資源去做一啲嘢， 係同公司現有發展策略唔同嘅。Opportunities to avoid!

例如，一開始 Steve Jobs 個 quote， 如果佢乜都做，就冇資源發明 iPod, iPad, iPhone!

美國著名嘅一間payroll-processing company, ADP, stands for Automatic Data Processing Inc., 純粹幫人出人工咁簡單，ADP 就講到明做生意， 如果下面五樣嘢做唔到，就唔做:
(1) Generate US$100 million recurring annual revenue 每年持續收入要高於1億美金
(2) Sustain a 15% growth rate 持續每年15%的增長
(3) Be number one or two in the market, with the potential to be number one in five years 市場內排名第一或第二， 及五年內有機會做到第一
(4) Offer standardized noncustomized products ans services 標準化嘅產品或服務， 唔會嘥時間重新建立就個客
(5) Have a clear exit plan 萬一唔夾，有個好清晰嘅退出計計劃。

以上五點，是但一點唔得? 就唔做。當然唔係永遠都唔變，公司高層每三年可能會因應時世更改一下 what to say No。 但最重要嘅係公司內外同事們都好清晰有乜嘢係唔做， 咁就更加有資源去做應該要做的事。 純粹做 payroll processimg 咁簡單，宜家ADP市值係超過800億美金，等如兩間新鴻基地產， 肺炎後股價都繼續創緊歷史新高。Crazy!

你公司又有乜嘢唔做嘢? 「十誡」都有講唔準殺人、唔準姦淫擄掠，你又有邊「十誡」?

我自己的商舖基金，除咗五六千萬以下嘅香港街鋪，我乜都唔買。 我唔買商場舖、唔買樓上舖、唔買住宅、唔買工廈、唔買商廈、唔買農地、唔買車位、唔買骨灰龕位、唔買日本民宿、唔買英國樓、 唔買法國酒莊，送畀我都唔要。 因為我唔相信咁大隻蛤乸會隨街跳。 我只相信我乜都say no，才有時間專注睇五六千萬以下嘅香港街舖。回報做到最好，咁長遠就能達致目標，擁有1%香港街舖，即約300億港幣。要專注，所有其他嘢都 say No!

你呢? 無論你做緊間茶餐廳、補習社、IT 公司、定開賭場，公司有乜嘢係 off limit? 影響公司聲譽或係同你嘅公司發展策略不一致? What not to do and what opportunities to avoid?

例如，你開間茶餐廳，唔入有荷爾蒙激素嘅貨? 唔用過期食材? 唔會喺有起碼住咗過萬人嘅屋村以外開舖? 唔會賣出品需時超過15分鐘嘅菜種， 以免減低流轉量? Whatever it is! 是否全公司上下同事們都知道?

有興趣聽多啲，就來我五六月份星期六嘅早餐會啦! 下一集同你分享下，How Are You Generating Creative Tension? 點令到同事們在適當 壓力下更有創意?

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| 聲明 |
這支影片內容來自網路
包括新聞稿及專訪文章
並由一位Adobe前員工個人觀察心得
不代表Adobe官方立場

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Adobe股價2012年底收盤38.13
在2017年底收盤175.24
2018年5月漲到240美元
從Adobe發布Creative Cloud這五年多漲了快6倍
Adobe發生了什麼事？

過去五年
Adobe從一間販售盒裝軟體的公司
轉型成為線上銷售公司
這段影片會從企業經營角度出發
模仿哈佛個案教學法來分析Adobe的故事
一間成立PC時代的軟體公司
碰到Mobile移動裝置時代，如何轉為雲端概念公司Cloud company

| 參考資料 |
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