HubSpot Inc (NYSE:HUBS) shares are trading higher on continued upward momentum following a report suggesting Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is in talks with advisors about a potential offer for the company.
Piper Sandler analyst Brent Bracelin maintained HubSpot shares as Overweight with a $675 price target.
Bracelin has long noted that IaaS could be natural consolidators of a highly fragmented SaaS landscape.
The transition from traditional client-server applications to cloud computing models over the past 20+ years has created a proliferation of SaaS applications that today include 100+ publics and 1,000+ privates, Bracelin said. Private equity firms such as Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners have been the most prolific consolidators of the SaaS ecosystem over the past three to five years.
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