Als iemand nog op zoek is naar een Small / medium cap met hoog opwaarts potentieel, ik quote mijn post van in juni waarbij ik dLocal introduceerde hier.
Dit weekend bracht iemand dLocal weer tot mijn aandacht dus heb mijn thesis nog eens herbekeken. Sinds mijn vorige post zijn de Q2 cijfers ook gerapporteerd:
Omzet: 59m (+186% YoY)
EBITDA: 25.9m (44% margin)
Net retention rate: 196%
Total payment volume (TPV): 1.5b (+318%) => TPV stijgt sneller dan omzet, dus de take rate daalt. Voornamelijk door volume discounts.
Gemiddeld aantal payment methods per merchant: 62 (vs. 44 eind 2020) => Hoe meer payment methods, hoe hoger de switching costs
Als we over de laatste 4 kwartalen kijken ziet de omzetgroei er als volgt uit (meest recent eerst):
186% / 124% / 95% / 96%
Met andere woorden, een business "that is firing on all cylinders" Ze hebben ook preliminair een indicatie gegeven van Q3 cijfers. Ze gaan uit van omzet tussen 68m en 69m, wat neerkomt op 120% YoY groei.
Mijn analyse van sterktes en zwaktes die ik dit weekend heb neergeschreven in een discord groep met enkele andere 'High growth investors':
What I like:
1) High revenue growth, consistently near triple digits or above over the last couple of years.
2) Very profitable, EBITDA margin of 44% in the last two quarters. High revenue growth + high margin justifies current valution imo, especially after recent sell-off
3) Industry tailwinds: cross-border e-commerce in emerging markets is growing significantly faster than the overall e-commerce market.
4) Focus on emerging markets differentiates them from competitors such as Stripe and Adyen (the two leaders in the developed markets)
5) Impressive list of customers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Didi and Netflix. The sales cycle is approx. 6 months with significant due diligence, this validates dLocal. This also creates a moat against the more established competitors once they will focus more on the emerging markets
6) High take rate of 4.1% in the most recent quarter confirms their compelling offering, as Adyen and Stripe’s takerate are significantly lower (Adyen at 0.2% and Stripe at approx. 2.5%). Take rate has been trending down due to volume discounts to customers and I expect this to continue when competitors take notice of these take rates. I know that Adyen for example has recently been expanding their offering into Brazil
7) Founded in 2016 and already 13B mcap and 250 mil revenue run rate is pretty impressive. Founder = current CEO and has skin in the game.
8) Average number of payment methods adopted by merchants have been increasing over the years, from 29 end of 2018 to 62 in most recent quarter. This creates significant switching costs.
9) Low cost structure as most employees are based in Uruguay with much lower salaries than in developed countries, could also explain the high EBITDA margins
What I dislike:
1) High customer concentration, top 10 customers is around 60% of revenue IIRC. Not going to change anytime soon as they have like 350 merchants and only added around 10 in last quarter. However they can grow fast within existing merchants with net retention rates of almost 200%
2) High geographical concentration, 90% of revenue is from payments processed in South America. They started in South America, this is understandable. They have been expanding to Asia and Africa, so I expect the concentration to reduce
3) Stripe, Adyen and others will surely try to move into emerging markets, so expect continued pressure on takerate
4) Spin off from a company called Astropay that processes payments in the porn, gambling,.. industry. They wanted ‘clean’ company for IPO and spinned off dLocal. Management is now shareholder in Astropay and dLocal which have similar offerings, possible conflict of interest risk here
Imo an interesting company for a small allocation (high risk / high reward), potential to double by end of 2022 if they can sustain current growth rates
Geen investment advies. Ik overweeg zelf om opnieuw een kleine positie te nemen nu de waardering na de recente sell-off weer interessant is, 2-5% allocatie ergens. Maar heb de knoop nog niet doorgehakt. Dinsdag after hours rapporteren ze Q3 cijfers.