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Independent research on the U.S. markets

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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Okta is delivered a decent set of third-quarter results beating revenue expectations of Wall Street and delivering narrower than expected losses.</li><li>Since the beginning of the year, Okta’s business with public sector businesses has grown by more than 65% thanks to outstanding successes in the worker and customer identity clouds.</li><li>The management also unveiled improvements to the Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, enhancing its one control plane for managing identities across all business users and resources.</li></ul>

Okta is delivered a decent set of third-quarter results beating revenue expectations of Wall Street and delivering narrower than expected losses.Since the beginning of the year, Okta’s business with public sector businesses has grown by more than 65% thanks to outstanding successes in the worker and customer identity clouds.The management also unveiled improvements to the Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, enhancing its one control plane for managing identities across all business users and resources.

Okta Inc: Improvements In The Okta Workforce Identity Cloud & Other Developments

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Event-Driven

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<li>In the past 24 hours, there have been many news flow about numerous US airports that have been cyber attacked by suspects from Russia. </li>
<li>The increasing media attention on cyberattack threat could result in greater concerns about cybersecurity inducing higher global spending on software and other services that help to protect against cyber attacks. </li>
<li>Global cybersecurity stocks that could benefit from greater media attention on cyberattacks include Palo Alto Networks (PANW US)  Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD US)  CloudFlare (NET US).  </li>
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In the past 24 hours, there have been many news flow about numerous US airports that have been cyber attacked by suspects from Russia. 
The increasing media attention on cyberattack threat could result in greater concerns about cybersecurity inducing higher global spending on software and other services that help to protect against cyber attacks. 
Global cybersecurity stocks that could benefit from greater media attention on cyberattacks include Palo Alto Networks (PANW US)  Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD US)  CloudFlare (NET US).  


Cyberattacks at Numerous US Airports by Suspects from Russia

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

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<li>Crowdstrike continues to gobble up share, printing another strong beat and raise, with ARR now at $2B, the second fastest software company to hit that mark.</li>
<li>EBIT margins up 800bps YoY, TTM FCF Margins 30%...profitable growth at Scale.</li>
<li>13x forward P/S for a unique software asset with long runways for 40%+ growth and multi-module driven margin expansion with a 15% pullback in the past week despite earnings.</li>
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Crowdstrike continues to gobble up share, printing another strong beat and raise, with ARR now at $2B, the second fastest software company to hit that mark.
EBIT margins up 800bps YoY, TTM FCF Margins 30%...profitable growth at Scale.
13x forward P/S for a unique software asset with long runways for 40%+ growth and multi-module driven margin expansion with a 15% pullback in the past week despite earnings.


Crowdstrike FY2Q23: FY2Q23: Not Just Endpoint, Identity and SIEM Accelerating Too

<ul><li>This is our first report on identity solutions provider, Okta Inc.</li><li>The company delivered a solid set of results in the last quarter surpassing Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.</li><li>There was a rise in Okta’s stand-alone revenue, total revenue, current RPO, and RPO.</li></ul>

This is our first report on identity solutions provider, Okta Inc.The company delivered a solid set of results in the last quarter surpassing Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.There was a rise in Okta’s stand-alone revenue, total revenue, current RPO, and RPO.

Okta Inc.: Initiation of Coverage – Business Strategy

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

Equity Capital Markets

<p><a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/forgerock-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34093:1" rel="noopener">ForgeRock (FORG US)</a> , global identity leader and next-gen cloud identity unicorn, filed for a $100 million IPO. It didn’t specify expected price range and how many shares of Class A common stock it would offer. ForgeRock has applied to list its shares on the NYSE under the trading symbol “FORG”. Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are leading the IPO.</p>

ForgeRock (FORG US) , global identity leader and next-gen cloud identity unicorn, filed for a $100 million IPO. It didn’t specify expected price range and how many shares of Class A common stock it would offer. ForgeRock has applied to list its shares on the NYSE under the trading symbol “FORG”. Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are leading the IPO.

ForgeRock IPO Preview and Valuation Analysis

United States

Okta, Inc. develops internet applications software. The Company offers automated user management, integration, mobile identification, multifactor authentication, and reporting software. Okta serves customers worldwide.

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