Public SaaS Company Valuations Q1 2015

Once a year I like to take an inventory of the public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies regarding their valuation, revenues, and employee count. On the public equities side, I don’t pick individual stocks (I’m a fan of Vanguard Index Funds), so I only hear about things when a stock makes a big swing.

Here’s a snapshot of public SaaS companies as of March 9, 2015:

• salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) – customer relationship management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $40.74 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $1,444 million
  Employees: 13,300
• NetSuite (NYSE:N) – enterprise resource planning (accounting, inventory, etc) SaaS company.
  Market cap: $7.26 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $157.87 million
  Employees:  3,154
• Constant Contact (NASDAQ:CTCT) – email marketing for small business SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.30 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $88.05 million
  Employees: 1,400
• LogMeIn (NASDAQ:LOGM) – remote desktop access SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.28 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $59.90 million
  Employees: 804
• LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN) – live chat SaaS company.
  Market cap: $614.14 million
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $58.23 million
  Employees: 796
• Demandware (NYSE:DWRE) – ecommerce SaaS company.
  Market cap: $2.45 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $52.50 million
  Employees:  383
• Marketo (NASDAQ:MKTO) – marketing automation SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.09 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $42.34 million
  Employees: 519
• ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) – IT asset management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $11.15 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $198.00 million
  Employees: 2,826
• Workday (NYSE:WDAY) – HR and financial management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $15.45 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $226.27 million
  Employees: 3,500
• Cvent (NYSE:CVT) – Events management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.20 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $39.33 million
  Employees: 1,450
• ChannelAdvisor (NYSE:ECOM) – Ecommerce channel management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $243.30 million
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $23.83 million
  Employees: 683
• HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) – B2B marketing platform SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.22 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $34.16 million
  Employees: 719
• Zendesk (NYSE:ZEN) – Help desk management SaaS company.
  Market cap: $1.76 billion
  Last reported quarter’s revenues: $38.54 million
  Employees: 806

Clearly, SaaS is hot with Salesforce.com far and away the most dominant vendor. All companies have had an increase in valuation compared to last year, except for ChannelAdvisor.

What else? What are some other thoughts on the valuations for publicly traded SaaS companies?