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Research: TMT
CREALOGIX is a leading, global digital banking engagement platform provider, based in Switzerland, offering front-end software solutions that enable ‘the digital bank of tomorrow’. Driven by the consumer, as well as regulation, this market is dynamic and fast changing, with the group’s solutions typically used by traditional retail, private and commercial banks, as well as wealth managers that need to upgrade legacy systems to meet the challenge of neo-banks and challenger banks. These traditional banks see the benefits of modular, customisable, single-platform solutions, offering lower maintenance and development costs, better content management and stronger security in a swiftly digitalising marketplace.
CREALOGIX Group |
An innovator in open banking
Software & comp services |
Deutsches Eigenkapitalforum 2020
12 October 2020 |
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CREALOGIX is a leading, global digital banking engagement platform provider, based in Switzerland, offering front-end software solutions that enable ‘the digital bank of tomorrow’. Driven by the consumer, as well as regulation, this market is dynamic and fast changing, with the group’s solutions typically used by traditional retail, private and commercial banks, as well as wealth managers that need to upgrade legacy systems to meet the challenge of neo-banks and challenger banks. These traditional banks see the benefits of modular, customisable, single-platform solutions, offering lower maintenance and development costs, better content management and stronger security in a swiftly digitalising marketplace.
A market leader in a fast-growing market
CREALOGIX provides front-end banking software solutions for digital banking via its modular ‘Digital Banking Hub’, with an established track record in Switzerland and an expanding international footprint (62% of FY20 sales). With c 700 employees, CREALOGIX has implemented projects for more than 550 customers, ranging from online banking and robo-advisory to mobile-first solutions. The total addressable market for digital banking software is estimated to be worth $60bn globally (of which c 10% is for third-party digital front-end solutions), forecast to grow at 8% between 2020 and 2022 (source: Temenos, February 2020).
Accelerating business transformation
Management is focused on partner-led (eg IBM) international sales growth (Middle East and Asia-Pacific), while growing SaaS and other recurring revenues as a proportion of total revenues. In its FY20 results, CREALOGIX took a CHF7m provision to accelerate the group’s transformation, reorganising sales into segmental teams focused on its core product set. As a result, management expects FY21 EBITDA to be above FY20 adjusted EBITDA (CHF2.4m), and is targeting 10%+ EBITDA margins and 60% recurring revenues in the medium term (44% of FY20 revenues), once the group completes its SaaS transition.
Valuation: Upside potential post-transition
Looking at CREALOGIX’s trading peers suggests a valuation of c 3–5x revenues and c 15x EBITDA could be achievable as CREALOGIX emerges from its SaaS transition. If we apply the peer group EBITDA multiple to our estimates for CREALOGIX, it suggests an EV of CHF155m in FY22 and CHF187m in FY23, a premium of c 15% to today’s EV and a 12% uplift in share price. A multiple of 3x revenues would imply an EV target of CHF350m+ in the medium term.
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Source: CREALOGIX Group, Edison Investment Research. |
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Research: TMT
With ever-increasing requirements and growing complexity in corporate reporting, EQS has a positive backdrop for its products and services in digital investor relations and compliance. Its main COCKPIT cloud-based platform is fully in place and the group’s peak investment phase is past, meaning that capex can now be focused on adding functionality. The main drive from this point is to add new clients and increase revenue per client, lifting annual recurring revenues and improving quality of earnings. Profitability and free cash-flow are on an improving trend.
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