Docebo (DCBO.TO) – 90 Slides on Why Docebo Appears to be a BUY

We have completed our initial research on Docebo. This 90-slide presentation includes results from our:

  • Face-to-face meetings with Learning & Development (L&D) professionals in Toronto
  • Talking with LMS salespeople from Docebo, SAP, Cornerstone OnDemand, Instructure and numerous private LMS firms
  • Trialing and demoing Docebo, Adobe, SAP and Bridge Solutions including creating questions, lesson plans and courses and simulating roles as an admin and user
  • An online survey involving 16 L&D professionals in North America
  • Tracking Docebo’s account executive, business development, inside sales and others in S&M
  • Talking with Docebo’s IR

Among the topics we discuss are:

  1. Docebo’s Tangible Addressable Market (TAM) and the Corporate Learning Management Solutions (LMS) growth rate including calculations on how we came to our estimates
  2. Docebo’s Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM)
  3. Acquisitions to improve its SAM and technology vs. acquiring customers is a positive
  4. Docebo’s unique market position and market share relative to hundreds of corporate LMS firms
  5. Why does industry Enterprise LMS software start at $5,000 per year?
  6. Why is Docebo taking share from Adobe, Cornerstone OnDemand, SAP, Instructure, OpenText and others?
  7. Price elasticity graphs for 2019 and 2020 and where Docebo sits on the curve.
  8. Price comparison vs. their 12 closest competitors after accounting for different implementation and integration fees shows they remain an attractive choice
  9. Results from our face-to-face interviews and what professionals think of Docebo
  10. Recent reviews from PCMag show Docebo is now a top-rated LMS
  11. Why free-trials matter for Docebo
  12. MRL, MQL, SGL and SQL SaaS stats
  13. Tracking Docebo’s Account Executives, Sales Managers, Strategic Account Managers and others
  14. Docebo’s Enterprise sales strategy is increasingly being followed by larger SaaS firms targeting large customers
  15. Our Net Dollar Retention Rate estimates that are expected to be released with Q4/19 results
  16. Listing customers and the reasons why they chose Docebo as their LMS
  17. The impact of updates and R&D on Docebo’s product
  18. Largest factors in revenue growth are new enterprise customers, increasing seat counts with existing logos, price increases, and modulation
  19. Why Docebo has a stronger outlook than previous TSX learning/talent management tech IPOs Smart Technologies and Halogen Software
  20. How we forecast costs based on hiring and having revenue estimates using a similar methodology to Docebo
  21. Why we see revenue materially beating 2020 consensus revenue estimates
  22. Our summary and detailed Income Statement, Cash Flow, revenue forecast details, employee forecasts, and SaaS metrics
  23. Comparables Table using Instructure’s takeover price, Halogen’s takeover price and Cornerstone OnDemand share price
  24. Details on how we calculate SaaS metrics
  25. Docebo’s SaaS unit metrics are strong relative to Shopify and Lightspeed while trailing Kinaxis
  26. Docebo’s SaaS unit metrics are materially superior to Cornerstone OnDemand and Instructure
  27.  Risks to our target price
  28. Further details in the Appendix

We value Docebo (DCBO.TO) at C$26 with a 15-month target date. We believe the current fair price for DCBO.TO is C$19 based on a relative SaaS valuation.

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