Tuesday, February 1, 2022

RateGain Travel Technologies

 IPO listing review - RateGain Technologies

Issue Details -

largest Software as a Service (SaaS) company in the hospitality and travel industry in India has mobilised Rs 1,335 crore through its public issue. The public issue received 17.41 times subscription during. Non-institutional investors - 42.04 times, qualified institutional 8.42 times and retail investors had put in bids for 8.08 times. Company has issued shares at Rs.425 per share.

RateGain raised Rs 599 crore from anchor investors a 13.2% allocation to anchor investors. Shares of the company had listed 20% lower from the issue price and still trade 8% below the IPO price. The anchor lock-in period ends on January 14.

RateGain has recently published results which were above market expectations.

Results -

Recently company announced results and the following are the hightlights.

Revenue improved in 9MFY22 driven by a strong travel demand in our key market of United States even though most of Europe and Asia continued to be under restrictions following localized lockdowns.

  • The company’s revenues grew by around 40% yoy during 9MFY22 and grew by around 55% on yoy basis in Q3FY22.

  • Q3FY22 is the highest quarter in terms of new contract wins for RateGain, during which the company witnessed a growth of 215% over Q3FY21. 9MFY22 saw a growth of around 131% over the corresponding previous year.

  • Gross Retention Rate remained around 92% during this period.

  • Net Retention Rate remained around 121% during this period

  • Customer Counts increased from 1,462 on Aug 31, 2021, to around 2,264 by Dec 31, 2021.

  • US remained largest geography with around 65% revenue contribution.

  • LTV to CAC improved to 11.34 from 8.9 last year, on the back of high volume of new bookings.

  • Recurring Revenue remained at around 97%

Stock Performance since listing -

Recommendation -

If anchor investors exit we can expect a good amount of correction. Declines to 340–350 levels should be viewed as a good opportunity for investors to buy and hold.

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