This highly-profitable “creative” software company announced powerful revenue and operating income on Wednesday after the close (the shares are up significantly Thursday), and it’s well-positioned to keep driving profitable growth for the decade ahead. Its products benefit from strong moats (high switching costs), increasing subscription revenue and lots of cash flow to fund growth and buy back shares. This is a business that is positioned to weather the economic cycle well, and it trades at very reasonable valuation multiples, especially considering profit margins and revenue growth guidance both remain robust.
Adobe (ADBE) Earnings Note
This highly-profitable “creative” software company announced record revenue and operating income on Thursday (the shares are up significantly Friday in a declining market), and it’s well-positioned to keep driving profitable growth for the decade ahead. Its products benefit from strong moats (high switching costs), increasing subscription revenue and lots of cash flow to fund growth and buy back shares. This is a business that is positioned to weather the economic cycle well, and it trades at very reasonable valuation multiples, especially considering profit margins and revenue growth guidance both remain robust.
Adobe to Acquire Figma for $20 Billion
So the highly-profitable multimedia and creativity software company, Adobe, has agreed to acquire web-first collaboration design platform, Figma, for $20 billion (half cash, half shares). At roughly 50 times next years revenues, and considering Adobe’s current total market cap is only around $173 billion, this is a hefty price tag, especially at a time when the market is down and economic growth is slowing. We share our thoughts on the acquisition and the future of Adobe in this quick note.
Income Via Growth Stock: Quality + Growth = Long Term Upside
If you are looking to generate powerful "income via growth" (i.e. selling some of your long-term winners to generate spending cash) this stock remains an attractive buying opportunity. It is one of the largest, well-diversified global SaaS companies. It has an attractive subscription-based business model that leads to stable and predictable cash flow generation. It also has a wide competitive moat to ensure future earnings growth. Further, it continues to deliver strong and consistent top and bottom-line growth (not to mention its robust balance sheet position, and significant FCF generation). This report reviews the business, COVID-19 impacts, competition and concludes with our opinion on investing.