Deals (M&A, Finance) – Disney Gets In To Social/Mobile Video Games
Disney acquired social and mobile game developer, Playdom, for $563 mm in upfront consideration and the potential for $200 mm in further earn-out based consideration. Disney management notes that the company continues to be on the acquisition war path.
The largest deals in the week involved (wait for it…) the advertising sector, with $15 mm in follow-on financings to eXelate and AdMeld, and $8 mm to BuzzLogic.
Four different social network/media companies received financing in the week, including, Hot Potato (acquired for $10 mm by Facebook), PlacePop ($1.4 mm round), Rapportive ($1 mm seed round), and dating site, Triangulate ($0.75 seed round).
Price Performance - Web 2.0 Valuation Reverse Course and Head Upward
The Web 2.0 public company universe was positive this week with 47% of stocks rising, 46% falling, and 7% flat.
2. Key Developments (past week)
Deals (M&A, Finance) – Disney Gets In To Social/Mobile Video Games
Disney acquired social and mobile game developer, Playdom, for $563 mm in upfront
consideration and the potential for $200 mm in further earn-out based consideration.
Disney management notes that the company continues to be on the acquisition warpath.
The largest deals in the week involved (wait for it…) the advertising sector, with $15 mm
in follow-on financings to eXelate and AdMeld, and $8 mm to BuzzLogic.
Four different social network/media companies received financing in the week, including,
Hot Potato (acquired for $10 mm by Facebook), PlacePop ($1.4 mm round),
Rapportive ($1 mm seed round), and dating site, Triangulate ($0.75 mm seed round).
Financial Results/Guidance/Partnerships/Product
Multiplied Media (TSXV:MMC) announced a partnership with U.S. wireless carrier,
Cricket Communication, to have the company’s geo-location mobile app, Poynt, pre-
installed on several of the smartphones that Cricket currently markets or intends to
launch in the near future. In other MMC news, the latest version of Poynt, now for the
Android OS, was launched last week. Poynt is now available on iPhone, BlackBerry, and
Android.
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4. Aggregate Public Data
Web 2.0 Public Companies Total Median Max Min
# Companies 102 - - -
Market Cap (US$ mm) 86,339.9 49.9 35,575.0 0.0
Revenue (US$ mm) 28,921.6 43.9 6,869.8 0.0
1 Year revenue growth 2.5% 8961.6% -100.0%
EBITDA as % of revenue - 8.8% 63.2% -99.5%
Net cash (US$ mm) 17,182.1 2.9 6,665.5 -670.8
TEV/Revenue - 1.8x 37.6x 0.0x
TEV/EBITDA - 8.4x 39.9x 0.1x
P/E - 16.8x 97.2x 0.0x
Relative to 52 week high -41.6% -0.9% -93.5%
Source: CapitalIQ
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5. 5
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Gaming
28
Social Networking
16
10
Media
9
Diversified
6
Mobile
5
Marketing
Source: CapitalIQ
3
Infrastructure
3
SMS/Voice
3
Enterprise
3
Advertising
2
Internet Retail
2
Virtual World
By Sector
2
Dating
2
Music
1
Vertical Communities
1
Search
1
Podcasting
1
Learning
1
Video
1
Collaboration
1
Payment
1
Financial Services
Public Company Distribution
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
United States
Canada
China
South Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Germany
Poland
Australia
United Kingdom
By Country
Italy
Finland
Sweden
India
Russia
Malaysia
Switzerland
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-
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
# Companies 2
Virtual World
11.6
9
Social Networking
9.0
2
Infrastructure
9.0
1
Learning
8.9
4
Mobile
5.1
2
Music
4.8
6
Diversified
4.2
1
Search 3.6
Gaming
21
3.5
5
Marketing
3.3
1
Vertical Communities
3.2
3
SMS/Voice
2.6
Average EV/Revenue – by Sector
1
Podcasting
2.6
1
Collaboration
2.5
3
Advertising
2.3
9
Media
2.2
2
Internet Retail
2.0
3
Enterprise
1.7
1
Video
1.6
2
Dating
1.2
1
Financial Services
0.5
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11. Average EV/EBITDA – by Sector
45.0
40.0 38.5
35.0
30.0
25.0
20.0 18.8
17.1
15.0 13.0
12.2 11.7
10.3
9.4 9.2
10.0
7.2 6.9
5.0 4.0
-
Diversified
Advertising
Internet Retail
Search
Mobile
Enterprise
Gaming
Social Networking
Media
Collaboration
Marketing
Dating
# Companies 1 3 2 5 13 2 6 6 1 2 1 1
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12. Average P/E – by Sector
120.0
100.0 96.3
80.0
60.0 54.9
40.2
38.3
40.0
23.8
19.8
20.0
14.3 14.1 13.6
7.7
-
Internet Enterprise Collaboration Diversified Social Marketing Advertising Media Gaming Virtual World
Retail Networking
2 3 1 9 16 5 3 10 28 2
# Companies
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13. 13
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
38
Ac c redited Members H olding C orporation
Source: CapitalIQ
28
S oc ialG O P L C
23
Worlds .c om Inc.
19
T encent H oldings Ltd.
17
S pec trumDNA, Inc.
15
G eoS entric O yj
14
MO K O .mobi L imited
12
P aid Inc.
G ree, Inc.
C hines e G amer International
10 10 10
B ey ond C ommerc e, Inc.
9
Lingo Media C orporation
Mood Media C orporation
8 8
DigitalP os t Interac tiv e, Inc.
7
T rans G aming, Inc.
6
Acc eleriz e New Media, Inc .
H U G H E S T elematics , Inc .
Dena C o. Ltd.
Mix i, Inc.
F rogs ter Interac tiv e P ictures AG
5 5 5 4 4
C hangyou.com L imited
T aleo C orp.
S K C ommunications C o., L td.
K ings oft C orporation L imited
4 4 4 3
WebMediaB rands Inc
Motric ity, Inc.
Wiz z ard S oftware C orporation
3 3 3
O pen T ex t C orp.
EV/Revenue Ranking
eP ro Ltd.
S ohu.c om Inc.
Modern T imes G roup Mtg AB
XING AG
NE O WIZ G ames C orporation
2 2 2 2 2 2
V elti P lc
S hutterfly , Inc .
S c ore Media Inc.
P NI Digital Media Inc .
Myriad G roup AG
U O MO Media, Inc
H anbitS oft, Inc.
V alueC lic k , Inc.
G ungH o O nline E ntertainment, Inc .
P latforma Mediowa P oint G roup S .A.
is eemedia Inc.
NeuL ion Inc orporated
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
H utc his on T elec ommunic ations H ong
S park Network s , Inc.
G amania Digital E ntertainment C o. , L td.
U nilav a C orporation
Webz en Inc.
NetDragon WebS oft, Inc.
Accredited Members has
Y D O nline C orp.
O riented Media G roup B erhad
Y nk K orea Inc.
highest revenue multiple at 38x
S NAP Interac tiv e, Inc.
Internet G roup S A
O AO R B C Information S y s tems
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
AQ Interactiv e, Inc.
P oints International Ltd.
IAC /InterActiveC orp.
T heS treet.c om, Inc.
T he New Y ork T imes C ompany
U nited O nline, Inc.
DADA S pA
Northgate T echnologies L imited
U nis erv e C ommunic ations C orp.
AO L , Inc.
C DC C orp.
G lu Mobile, Inc.
T ree.C om, Inc.
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
G igaMedia Ltd.
O penwave S ys tems Inc.
C y berplex Inc.
Actoz S oft C o., L td.
J umbuc k E ntertainment Limited
R ealNetwork s Inc.
As k net AG
G ameO n C o L td.
Look S mart, Ltd.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ngi G roup Inc.
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