Fetching from the wire…
Markets2026-09-07 · source-backed
IGV closed September 3 at $106.81, about 40% above its April low, and the index-level recovery from the $2 trillion drawdown is nearly complete (SaaStr). The winners are consumption-priced: CrowdStrike +83.4% YTD on $5.84B ARR growing 25%, Twilio +73.8%, Snowflake +73.1% on $1.49B product revenue growing 37%, Datadog +53.9%. The losers are seat-priced: HubSpot -33.3% with net adds slipping to 7,000 against 9,000-10,000 expected, monday.com -35.5%, Figma -35.1% despite growing fastest in the group at 48%. Figma growing 48% and trading down 35% is the whole thesis in one line.
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SaaStr's index recap shows the software basket green for 2026 with roughly 280 points of dispersion. DigitalOcean +227%, Datadog +76%, CrowdStrike +55%, Okta +41%, Twilio +33%. Against Klaviyo -52%, HubSpot -46%, Monday.com -45%, Zscaler -39%, Atlassian -36%. The split isn't b...
Snowflake's $6B AWS deal and revenue beat sent it up 46% in two sessions, Okta beat and jumped 30% (CNBC). Yet DigitalOcean is +227% YTD while HubSpot sits at -46% despite 23% revenue growth and 83% gross margins (SaaStr). The line is clear: infrastructure and security win, se...
IGV is down 24% in Q1. That's the worst quarter for software since 2008. But here's the number that stopped me cold: for the first time in modern history, software valuations have fallen below the S&P 500 multiple. SaaStr put the market cap destruction at roughly $2 trillion s...
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