Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Nearly 25 years of experience in analyzing hundreds of companies, especially in Asia. Deep expertise in the following sectors:
- Technology (E-commerce, SaaS, Internet)
- Consumer 
- Special Situations/Deep Value Plays
- Holdcos/Stubs
- Asian Unicorns/Private Companies

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

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Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/root-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29692:1" rel="noopener">Root Inc (ROOT US)</a><a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201020005703/en/Root-Inc.-Announces-Launch-of-Initial-Public-Offering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> its IPO terms and it will offer 24.16 million shares of common shares in the IPO (22 million shares offered by Root and 2.16 million shares sold by a major shareholder). The IPO price is currently expected to be between $22 and $25 per share. However, we expect this IPO to receive a very high demand, and the IPO price range is likely to be raised prior to final pricing. 
We are including Root Inc in our model portfolio.
</div>We forecast the company to generate revenue of $616.1 million in 2020 (up 112.3% YoY) and $1,070.2 million in 2021 (up 73.7% YoY). From 2019 to 2022, we have assumed the company's revenue to increase by 78.9% CAGR. The combination of the company's exploding revenue growth and improvement in the reduction of net losses as a percentage of revenue is very impressive indeed.Our base case valuation for Root is an implied market cap of $13.2 billion, or $52.1 per share, which is 108% higher than the high end of the IPO price range of $25 per share. Given the very high upside, we have a positive view of the Root IPO and we include this stock in our model portfolio.


Root Inc (ROOT US)announced its IPO terms and it will offer 24.16 million shares of common shares in the IPO (22 million shares offered by Root and 2.16 million shares sold by a major shareholder). The IPO price is currently expected to be between $22 and $25 per share. However, we expect this IPO to receive a very high demand, and the IPO price range is likely to be raised prior to final pricing. 
We are including Root Inc in our model portfolio.
We forecast the company to generate revenue of $616.1 million in 2020 (up 112.3% YoY) and $1,070.2 million in 2021 (up 73.7% YoY). From 2019 to 2022, we have assumed the company's revenue to increase by 78.9% CAGR. The combination of the company's exploding revenue growth and improvement in the reduction of net losses as a percentage of revenue is very impressive indeed.Our base case valuation for Root is an implied market cap of $13.2 billion, or $52.1 per share, which is 108% higher than the high end of the IPO price range of $25 per share. Given the very high upside, we have a positive view of the Root IPO and we include this stock in our model portfolio. 

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Root Inc IPO Valuation Analysis (Insurtech SaaS)