
One of their main arguments is that the company can increase its revenue faster than its costs, a dynamic that should expand profit margins over time. Still, Dropbox’s fans believe that the company has a strong financial future, despite competition from the likes of Google and Amazon. The stock might give back the gains, just as Snap’s did after its I.P.O. Of course, Dropbox’s shares have benefited from demand for initial public offerings by technology companies. That is far higher than the 2.6 times sales for the companies in the Nasdaq index, according to Bloomberg data. Dropbox didn’t have any profits in recent years, so comparisons have to be done using revenue and cash flows.Īt $29, Dropbox is trading at 11.5 times last year’s revenue of $1.1 billion. Putting that number in context reveals the bullishness of investors. They leaped to $29 per share from $21, giving Dropbox, which charges businesses and individuals to store files on its computers, a market value of $12.7 billion.

This optimism is reflected in the price of Dropbox’s shares after they traded publicly for the first time on Friday. Each dot corresponds to activity from a client, with higher towers representing more users from a particular place.Yet for now, at least, investors think the company has an amazing future. This video is generated from live data streaming off our servers. As an added bonus, here's a video (by Rajiv) of 25 seconds of Dropbox client traffic. Users by platform: 66.1% Windows only 20.9% Mac only 2.0% Linux only 7.4% Windows and Mac 2.6% Windows and Linux 0.3% Mac and Linux 0.7% All three Just a friendly reminder: Users by nationality: 32.7% USA 6.7% UK 6.5% Germany 4.7% Japan 4.0% Canada 3.5% Spain 3.2% Netherlands 2.8% China 2.7% France 2.5% Italy These were thrown together by our analytics pro, Albert, and it gives a pretty cool breakdown of our user population. I'd like to share some stats with you all.

We like to think that this is because we've created something that extends beyond language barriers- It can be used by pretty much anyone. The coolest part is that this crowd of millions is pretty diverse and encompasses a huge range of nationalities.

We've recently hit a huge milestone and now have over 4 million Dropbox users.

Hi everyone! Hope February is treating all of you well.
