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A multi-cloud creative software business with $3.13B in quarterly revenue and a 35.1% net margin in the cited quarter.
$1.1B Q2 net profit · 60% of revenue from Creative Cloud · 12% Document Cloud · 23% Experience Cloud
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The investment analysis presents Adobe as a mature, highly profitable creative-software reference rather than a small startup to copy literally. In the cited second quarter, revenue was $3.13 billion, up 14% year over year, while net profit reached $1.1 billion, up 74%. The analyst calculates a 35.1% net margin. Adobe's revenue mix was described as roughly 60% Creative Cloud, 12% Document Cloud, 23% Experience Cloud, and 2% publishing. The company expected about $3.15 billion of revenue in the following quarter, below the analyst average of $3.28 billion. The video also points out that quarterly growth had exceeded 20% in each quarter of 2018 and 2019, so the current growth rate represented a slowdown. At the time discussed, market capitalization was $198.3 billion, with a 15.3 price-to-sales ratio, 18.2 price-to-book ratio, and forward P/E estimates of 42 and 37. This is hard-data scale reference from an analyst citing company reports, not a founder case study.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel in one click · first payment refundable for 7 daysData credibility: Analyst commentary citing Adobe's company financial report and Yahoo Finance valuation data for the 2020 period discussed. The figures are hard public-company data as presented in the transcript, but this entry does not refresh them beyond that dated analysis.