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Similarweb Ltd

SMWBNYSE

SectorInformation Technology

IndustryApplication Software

Beta (adjusted)1.12

Intrinsic Value $10.43median of 3 methodsbased on filings through 31 Dec 2025

Market Price $7.76Price as of 30 Sep 2026

UndervaluedIntrinsic value is 34% above the market price

−50% · IV below pricenear fair value ±15%IV above price · +50%

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Market Cap $684.8M

Enterprise Value $612.4M

Shares Outstanding 84.8M diluted

Next Earnings Date17 Nov 2026

All prices and values are periodic snapshots, not live quotes. Source dates are shown for reference.

Thesis

Street consensus, scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggers

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Thesis Summary

Similarweb is successfully transitioning from a high-growth, cash-burning model to a highly disciplined, profitable enterprise software business. Despite temporary top-line deceleration due to longer sales cycles for large enterprise and AI-related data deals, the company's underlying fundamentals remain robust. Similarweb's proprietary, real-time digital traffic dataset serves as a critical asset for training Large Language Models (LLMs) and powering agentic AI tools. Trading at historically low valuation multiples relative to its software peers and past M&A transactions (such as Adobe's acquisition of Semrush), the stock offers a compelling margin of safety and significant upside potential as sales productivity stabilizes and AI monetization scales.

This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.

Street view · analyst 12-month targets5 analysts · as of 18 Aug 2026

Low · most bearish analyst$5.00

Mean target$5.80

High · most bullish analyst$7.00

Street targets sit below today's price; our intrinsic value sits above it. Different horizons, different questions.

Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 19 Jun 2026

Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date

Bear CaseDownside scenario

The CEO transition leads to execution friction, and sales cycles for large enterprise deals stretch further. Macroeconomic headwinds pressure digital marketing budgets, causing overall NRR to slip below 95% and revenue growth to decelerate to mid-single digits. Profitability improvements stall, and free cash flow generation turns negative.

Base CaseCentral scenario

The company achieves its raised FY 2026 guidance of $307M to $315M in revenue and $17M to $19M in non-GAAP operating profit. Sales productivity continues to improve, stabilizing overall NRR at 100% and enterprise NRR at 103-105%. The transition to a new CEO is executed smoothly without operational disruption, and the company continues to generate positive normalized free cash flow.

Bull CaseUpside scenario

Similarweb capitalizes on the rising demand for high-quality, AI-ready digital data. The company's core web traffic and digital intelligence assets serve as valuable inputs for training Large Language Models (LLMs). This has unlocked a transformative new revenue stream, highlighted by securing multi-year enterprise LLM data contracts worth approximately $47 million in total and driving the company past $300 million in ARR. Furthermore, the transition of customers from traditional SEO to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and native AI workflows (such as its partnership with Perplexity) positions Similarweb as a key AI beneficiary rather than a casualty of software budget reprioritization.

Scenarios are anchored to street consensus at the research date, with our probabilities and rationale.

Key Investment Merits

Proprietary, high-quality, real-time digital data asset that is highly defensible and difficult to replicate at scale.
Expanding monetization opportunities in the AI ecosystem, including partnerships for LLM training and agentic AI workflows (e.g., Perplexity, Manus).
High revenue visibility with multi-year subscriptions representing 64% of ARR as of Q1 2026.
Strong financial discipline, marked by ten consecutive quarters of positive normalized free cash flow and a clean balance sheet with no debt.

Key Investment Risks

Execution risk associated with the newly initiated CEO succession planning process.
Lumpiness and longer sales cycles for large-scale enterprise and AI data contracts.
Intense competition in the digital intelligence and SEO/SEM analytics space.
Sensitivity of customer acquisition and expansion to broader macroeconomic conditions and corporate marketing spend.

Thesis Invalidation Triggers

Overall Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate (NRR) dropping consistently below 95%.
Failure to sustain positive normalized free cash flow or a reversal in operating margin improvements.
A prolonged vacancy or poorly received appointment in the CEO succession process.
Significant loss of market share or pricing power to direct competitors.

All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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