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Wix: pricing power is showing up in renewals, not in the list price

Renewal cohorts are converting at higher realised pricing than management guided. The churn everyone feared has appeared in seat counts and not in dollars.

Sara Cohen@sara_cohen

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The case

Wix: pricing power is showing up in renewals, not in the list price

Renewal cohorts are converting at higher realised pricing than management guided. The churn everyone feared has appeared in seat counts and not in dollars.

The edge

The Street says

Consensus models the cycle turning in the second half
Sell-side target clusters within 8% of spotAuto

I say

The turn already happened in order intake two quarters ago
My number is 14% above the street on the out yearCreator est.

The transmission is through realised price rather than list price. Discounting happens at the deal level, so realised price per seat captures pricing power that the published price schedule hides entirely. Realised pricing is disclosed indirectly but consistently. Revenue per account rose faster than seat count in each of the last five quarters, which only happens when discounting is narrowing. The position: long on Wix, entry locked at publication and the exit dated rather than open-ended. The target is stated in the call block above and the horizon with it. Sized to the catalyst rather than to conviction, with the invalidation written into the kill-switch card instead of left implicit. Multiple compression across the sector is the risk that is not company-specific and not hedged here. It would overwhelm the operating argument in either direction.

Discussion · 6

Pauline VidalJUL 13

I have been waiting for someone to make this argument. The destocking signature is textbook and nobody is naming it. Does the same logic apply to the closest comparable?

Sara CohenAuthorJUL 11

You are right that I skipped over that. The comp table took longer than the rest of the piece put together, so I am glad it was the useful part.

Noa BergmanJUL 13

Respectfully, I think this overstates it. The mix argument is the part I had not considered properly. Is there a cleaner way to express this than the equity?

Yael BrennerJUL 11

Been on the sidelines on this one. The margin bridge is doing more work here than is acknowledged. How much of this do you think is already in the buy side's numbers?

Omri ShakedJUL 11

Been long since the last one. The distinction between adequate reserves and the earnings path is well made. Has anything in the last print changed the entry you would take?

Ines FerreiraJUL 11

This is the clearest write-up I have seen on the name. The exclusivity window is the part the market keeps mispricing. Interested in what the kill switch looks like in practice.