Sage: Let’s not all over-react
Sage is in our portfolio because its transition to subscription services from less reliable license revenues looks like an excellent strategy for the future. Subscription sales are highly reliable and should come with higher margins once the strategy is bedded in.
Sage’s (LON: SGE) management has never made any secret of the fact that short-term revenues might be dented as it shifts its customers to its new subscription model. In the first nine-months of the financial year to September 2019, that is exactly what has happened. Software and software related services (SSRS) revenue dropped 16% to £195m.
Investors who sent the share price up to a peak of 826p (or 27 times forward earnings) at the…
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