SEG 2022 Annual Report

Software Equity Group 2021 SaaS Valuation and M&A Trends

SaaS Company Enterprise Value, Operating Metrics and more

John Mecke
3 min readJan 25, 2022

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The Software Equity Group (SEG) regularly publishes quantitative research on the software and SaaS market M&A activity. The SEG SaaS Index contains dozens of publicly traded SaaS companies. They recently published their 2022 Annual Report. It provides a ton of data on SaaS valuations and financial operating metrics.

This post contains:

  • SEG Index Overview
  • 2021 Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq Performance cs SEG SaaS Index
  • Monthly Public Market EV/Revenue (ttm) Multiple Trends 2021
  • EV/Revenue Multiple Distributions
  • Quarterly Median Operating Margins & Ratios
  • EV/Revenue Multiples vs Revenue Growth
  • EV/Revenue vs Gross Margin
  • Enterprise Value by SaaS Category
  • Historical SaaS M&A Volume
  • 2021 Private Equity Share of SaaS M&A
  • SaaS Category Valuation & Operating Metrics

SEG Index Overview

Software Equity Group 2022 Annual Report

SEG 2022 Annual Report

2021 Dow Jones, S&P 500, Nasdaq Performance cs SEG SaaS Index

Software Equity Group 2022 Annual Report

Monthly Public Market EV/Revenue (ttm) Multiple Trends 2021

Software Equity Group 2022 Annual Report

SEG 2022 Annual Report

EV/Revenue Multiple Distributions

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John Mecke

John has over 25 years of experience in leading product management and corporate development organizations for enterprise firms.