Primary Recommendation

Kape Technologies - Strong FY17 begets strong FY18

April 2018

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In a better market, Kape Technologies would be the kind of business to really capture investor imaginations. Kape is an online cyber-security software vendor, which markets to customers using online affiliates. It’s “a poor man’s Sophos,” a description chief executive Ido Erlichman certainly welcomed when I met him because Sophos is a hugely successful internet security company. If it is half as successful the shares will multi-bag.Sophos supplies corporate security products whereas Kape is focussed on consumer cybersecurity but the two are similar because they operate a subscription-based business model, with an average 24-month+ contract duration for which customers pay a monthly fee to use the software.&n ...

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Market Comment - April '18

Frontier Smart Technology - New SDK products imminent

Kape - Sagi raises original bid price (May 2023)

Kape - Unikmind makes 285p cash offer (March 2023)

Kape - To unveil Websitebuilder at forthcoming capital markets day (October 2022)

Kape (July 2022)

Kape (May 2022)

Kape - Sales substantially over forecasts (February 2022)

Kape (October 2021)

Kape (August 2021)

Kape - +68% upgrade to eps forecasts (April 2021)

Kape (February 2021)

Kape - Another PIA sized VPN lump likely to be acquired in H1 (December 2020)

Kape (October 2020)

Kape (May 2020)

Kape (April 2020)

Kape - LTV balloons 260% to US$99m (February 2020)

Kape - 70% eps accretive deal (December 2019)

Kape - 1.02m SaaS users (+83%) (October 2019)

Kape - H1 Ebitda +40% (September 2019)

Kape (July 2019)

Kape - Adds 117k cyber security customers in first four months (June 2019)

Kape - Technologies Sales to grow 48% this year (April 2019)

Kape (February 2019)

Kape - Acquisitions bed in well (January 2019)

Kape - Another acquisition (November 2018)

Kape - Existing users to deliver US$18m of revenue (October 2018)

Kape - Buys Integro for US$16m (August 2018)

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