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70% gross margin. 10% gross margin. Same sector, same growth rate, completely different business. Most investors still value companies off a revenue multiple. That habit quietly breaks the moment you leave classic SaaS. Michael B. Gilroy , co-founder of Marathon Management Partners, $400 million across software and fintech. "In... fintech, we only use gross profit multiples, because I can be looking at a business that's 70% gross profit or 10%," he told me. "It doesn't mean the 10% gross profit business is any worse, but it does mean they're different. So taking a revenue multiple there makes zero sense." Revenue multiples work when gross margin is roughly constant across a sector, the whole premise behind classic SaaS comps. Fintech blew that assumption up years ago, with margins ranging from negative to 80% depending on the model. Gilroy now applies the same lens to AI software, where the spread is just as wide and most people are still pricing it off top line revenue. The multiple you are using might be pricing the wrong company entirely.show more

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@MBGilroy 70% or 10% GM doesn’t matter if the cash conversion is trash. Cash flow tells everything. Everything else is noise.

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Cathie Wood says ARK underwrites every name to a market multiple of 18-19x EBITDA in year five, and is stricter on valuation than most with a longer horizon "And our working assumption is that premium multiple is going to decay. It's going to compress during the next five years toward a market multiple." "And in fact, most of our analysis, the market's multiple has gone up. Most of our analysis is at 18, 19x EBITDA in the fifth year, even if we don't believe it's going to get there. We want to be conservative." "So our analysts and portfolio managers have to believe that the revenue growth and margin expansion these companies are going to enjoy over the next five years is going to overwhelm that compression in multiples." "So many people think, you know, we'll buy any technology company, no matter what. We probably are stricter in terms of valuation, but have a longer-term time horizon than most."

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Another startup acquired on acquire.com: Seamless For Science - 61 interested buyers - 2 competing offers - 37 day acquisition timeline - 89% profit margin - 3.3x profit multiple - 3x revenue multiple - bootstrapped SaaS We are just getting started!

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