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February 2, 2015 by Ken Lee Leave a Comment

Public Equity Performance and Valuation 2/2/15 Update

Public Equity Performance

Equity Performance 2-2

  • Since the end of 2014, there has been quite a bit of volatility the US public equity markets. During that time, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ declined 3.1% and 2.1%, respectively. That being said, since the end of 2014, the average colocation and hosting equity has outperformed both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ, with both EQIX and RAX both underperforming the broader indexes.
  • Since the end of 2014, QTS was been the best performing publicly traded colocation/hosting equity, with a share price appreciation of 12.3% versus 5.7% for the average colocation/hosting equity, -3.1% for the S&P 500, and -2.1% for the NASDAQ.

Public Equity Valuations as of January 30, 2015

Public Comps 2-2

  • Market Cap
    • As might be expected of the sector leader, EQIX had the highest market cap in our universe of publicly traded hosting and colocation equities.
  • Enterprise Value (EV)
    • Strong equity performance by DLR, and weak equity performance by EQIX allowed DLR to surpass EQIX as the company with the highest Enterprise Value in our universe of publicly traded hosting and colocation equities.
  • EV/Revenue
    • The companies in our coverage universe averaged an EV/LTM Revenue multiple of 7.2x and an EV/LQA Revenue of 6.6x.
    • The companies in our coverage universe had a median EV/LTM Revenue multiple of 7.6x and a median EV/LQA Revenue multiple of 6.9x.
    • With an EV/LTM Revenue multiple of 9.9x and an EV/LQA Revenue multiple of 9.5x, DLR was the most highly valued company in our coverage universe.
    • With an EV/LTM Revenue multiple of 2.5x and an EV/LQA Revenue multiple of 2.4x, INAP was the least valuable company in our coverage universe.
  • EV/EBITDA
    • The companies in our coverage universe had an average EV/LTM EBITDA multiple of 14.9x and an EV/LQA EBITDA multiple of 14.0x.
    • The companies in our coverage universe had a median EV/LTM EBITDA multiple of 14.2x and a median EV/LQA EBITDA multiple of 13.7x.
    • With an EV/LTM EBITDA multiple of 20.3x and an EV/LQA EBITDA multiple of 19.2x, COR was the most highly valued company in our coverage universe.
    • With an EV/LTM EBITDA multiple of 10.8x and an EV/LQA EBITDA multiple of 9.7x, RAX was the least highly valued company in our coverage universe.
  • Leverage
    • The companies in our coverage universe averaged Total Debt/LTM EBITDA of 3.4x and Net Debt/LTM EBITDA of 3.2x
    • The companies in our coverage universe had a median Total Debt/LTM EBITDA of 3.8x and a median Net Debt/LTM EBITDA of 3.7x.
    • With Total Debt/LTM EBIDA of 6.4x and Net Debt/LTM EBITDA of 6.4x, COR was the most highly levered company in our coverage universe.
    • With Total Debt/LTM EBITDA of 0.2x, and a Net Debt position of -0.2x (net cash), RAX was the least levered company in our coverage universe.

Note:

  • EV = Equity Value + Total Debt – Cash
  • Net Debt = Total Debt – Cash
  • LTM – Last Twelve Months
  • LQA – Last Quarter Annualized
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