If the best point of public-market comparison is Atlassian, which has a revenue multiple of about 15, then Dropbox could be valued at over $16 billion on public markets. The smaller question: Which company can we compare it to? Should we think about Dropbox in the way we think about Box, the publicly traded cloud-storage company? Or is it more like Atlassian, the successful workplace collaboration company that offers a more friendly point of comparison for Dropbox investors?ĭropbox said Friday that it booked $1.1 billion in revenue last year. The big question over the next few weeks - in advance of the company share price being set by bankers - is whether the company will meet its $10 billion valuation set during its last round of private financing in 2014. Is Dropbox poised to be valued on public markets less than it’s valued on private ones? Depends on your point of comparison.ĭropbox on Friday disclosed reams of financial information in its S-1 filing as it prepares at long last to go public.

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