🌻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

［Buy now, pay later］BNPL，金融潮語。其實都潮咗大半年，不過香港咁上下啦。鬼媒講咗年幾兩年Content Creator，都未見香港有乜媒體專門整個beat

1. Buy now, pay later，「屌，咪即係花唄」「有幾撚有創意呀？我中華古已有之」「不過馬雲得罪人之嘛」。其實認真的，唔使括號，花唄都興咗N年，鬼佬而家先開心大現BNPL，完全係reinventing the wheel，不過記住講個英文縮寫就有人覺得好巴閉，Bullshit as a service，Baas．（話時話，Kyle Bass收咗皮未？港紙爆煲冇？）

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2. OK，正經，「咪即係信用卡分期，有幾大發現呀？」。又唔係喎

3. 首先，香港人好撚有錢，同埋好有信用，香港人係好好嘅債仔，你見啲友真係斬人打劫呃同事呃老婆穿公司櫃桶底都會供樓的！

4. 當然，除咗香港人有錢，客觀亦因為香港丁屎咁細，你走得去邊？唔似美國或以前大陸（而家有晒監控另一回事），改個名換個車牌去第個城市又一條好漢。

5. 所以你見香港批信用卡成功率極高，私人貸款極易借，仲要供樓利息低。一個普通打工仔，一百幾十萬信用卡額絶對唔係難事。

6. 我想講嗰時我在英國讀書？出咗信用卡（開名啦，匯豐），500英鎊信用額。「喂你係學生冇收入點同，唔好偷換概念」。但你可以睇下普通一個香港大學生銀行批幾錢信用額畀佢？（＊）

7. 我知全世界都低息，係呀我唔知呀可？港息大約都跟美息，但，你見美國有冇可能一兩厘供樓？你有冇諗過，香港供樓銀行收你咁平息，賺乜？「cross selling」，「美國唔識cross selling呀？」（咁當然，再三留意返，香港人好撚有錢）。

8. 真相係，香港嘅delinquency rate （拋個英文好似專業啲）極低。即使咩亞洲金融風暴或沙士或乜，你睇報紙咩負資產又跳樓，但，個delinquency rate都係極低—come the 忽on，負資產不等於delinquent！死還死七孔流血還七孔流血！甚至跳樓都不等於delinquent！別傻了星矢，你還有老豆還有老婆！

9. 但認真，咁低嘅delinquency rate，銀行咪圍到數，所以點解香港銀行嘅net interest margin咁低都仲有錢賺。剛睇業績，中銀香港淨息差1.10%，你諗下仲要出糧仲要交租仲要預你啲友燒炭，但居然都仲係賺唔少錢，可見delinquency rate幾咁低。美國？你可以睇下2008嗰時，啲次按有幾多delinquent，求撚其掉低鎖匙就兩腳一伸走人foreclosure，而美國啲銀主盤邊有香港咁正，可以賣原價咁滯（大把銀行拍賣銀主盤有賺添）

10. 同樣原則，你可以應用落去信用卡，私人貸款。

11. 當然仲有，再講一次，香港人好撚有錢。我冇統計過有幾多巴仙嘅人有信用卡，你睇卡數目唔準，因為有啲好似我咁嘅仆街一條友十幾張卡（又如何？）。但，目測香港嘅信用卡滲透率極高，「我Patreon啲讀者好似全部有」（＊＊）

12. 講返，冇去過美國（係呀，我使唔使識整光刻機？ASML NVIDIA又新高啦屌你），但BNPL同信用卡，就真係唔係同一回事。可以係complement 亦可以係substitute （＊＊＊）

13. Patreon會寫，有啲人只用信用卡，有啲人只用BNPL，有啲兩樣一齊。但，咩人係傾向用BNPL？你估到了：非白人（Hispanic或黑人），低收入人士，同埋……年青人，

14. 拿，學嘢？呢啲就學嘢啦。

15. 不過，「不如講返冧把」，Affirm就升五成啦，一舊水咁滯。「但2月嗰時140蚊」，而家先返返年頭水平，你買隻垃圾中移動941跑贏佢一截。估值都係好重要的。

16. 最重要係，Amazon雖然同Affirm合作，但冇話exclusive 喎。Amazon嘅作風啦喎，就行內皆知了，你做過佢對家都知。

17. 至於其他Fintech嘢？韓國嘅KaKao Bank，一上市大過晒韓國所有銀行嘅市值添，亦令呀大股東變咗富豪，同啲財閥平起平坐。你諗下，韓國喎，幾不可思議？

18. 香港？有！「咪螞蟻金服」，嗰時上市成功嘅，肯定大過晒所有銀行，分分鐘係全世界最大嘅金融股（而全世界最大嘅銀融股唔係銀行啦下）。

（＊）話時話，我好想知道，到底唔同大學甚至唔同科嘅學生，信用額會唔會唔同？拿，醒你呀，拎去做final year project啦。理論上呢，「好似醫科生應該信用額高啲」「你點折墮點包尾做個醫管局非合約都五六七皮啦」。不過我估實際上銀行don’t care，同埋費事你話歧視。不過，「如果見到係唔同大學唔同信用額仲好玩」「我覺得教大應該高啲」。同埋，如果真係。拿，真係醒你呀，認真少少拎嚟做MSc dissertation都得（MPhil PhD就未咁求其），「至少認真過我嗰份」又，我份dissertation真係相當垃圾，但我都don’t care，因為我換得去倫敦結算所實習嘅機會，雖然真係坐嗰邊只係幾日。

（＊＊）呢度示範咩係survivorship bias．冇信用卡又點訂你Patreon呢大哥。「其實可以用Paypal」「但冇信用卡又點有Paypal呢老細」「其實係得的」

（＊＊＊）有啲人讀經濟就讀死書，以為A同B一係complement 一係substitute，或者兩者之間 0-1。錯，同樣兩樣嘢，唔同情況下，可以係complement亦可以係substitute．例如？你一拖二咪知！「你有本事可以搞到變complement的」「重口味啲嘅，老婆同外婆都得」

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不認識Afterpay的人，其實在美股也買得到這家澳洲上市的BNPL公司代號AFTPY，他是一家上市公司財報都看得到，在美國同類型的月下載量其實是數一數二，美國市場營收還高過Affirm。

這次Square 以290億收購，實際上Afterpay市值原本不到200億美金，Square現在一次插旗就拿下BNPL的大頭，用行動看好先買後付市場的潛力

Square現在自己已經有商業銀行從事中小企業存貸業務，Afterpay加入後未來會有更大量的消費者借貸業務。

對BNPL有興趣的，可以看之前寫的這篇：Affirm的「先買後付」是個好生意嗎？
https://ieobserv.com/AFRM_Vocus