Welcome to the latest edition of the Silverpeak Benchmark report – Application Software Sector, a review of key company valuation metrics in the US, UK and European application software sectors. By reviewing sector median averages, our aim is to provide a set of software industry benchmarks against which individual company performance can be measured.
Month: July 2018
Are US software giants missing out on European targets?
The software market continues to be led by US large companies (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Adobe, etc.) which are 64% of the publicly listed “giants”, but China is increasing its share. However, US large players are under-represented among the buyers of European software/SaaS companies. We’ve updated our review of the software/SaaS giants landscape and European M&A activity up to H1-2018, and gained some interesting insights.
Silverpeak report – Are US software giants missing out on European targets – July 2018