Buying Out Dips: New Relic
New Relic
is a platform for applications monitoring. Its share are traded 60% below their
peaks in 2021. Services of this company allows IT-departments to discover
security issues and anomalies in the working process.
The company
has launched New Relic One update
that became a new growth driver. This update simplifies all company’s services
in three categories. The subscription model and grace testing period were
introduced. New option CodeStream introduced in early 2022 allowed users to
roll back to the moment when the problem occurred and research in detail what
was in the beginning of the bug.
New Relic
revenue added 19% year-on-year to $205.8 million in the fourth financial
quarter that ended March 31. Net revenue rate was recorded at 119% against 1165
in the previous quarter. This means that users spend by 19% more than in the
same period a year before. Such indication reflect the benefit of the
subscription model the company has introduced recently. Net cash flow was twice
that a year before, at $44.1 million, while Enterprise Value (EV) rose to $2.7
billion. The company expects $930 million in revenues in 2022, bringing EV to
Sales (EV/S) ratio to 2.9, which is very attractive for the software firm.
The
mid-term target price is at $59 per share.