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Adobe Systems

ADBE-NSDQ Rating Price: Jun-11 Target ↓ Total Rtn Software

Market Perform $218.80 $230.00 5%

Keith Bachman, CFA Analyst

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Adam J. Holets Senior Associate

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Bradley Clark, CFA VP Associate

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Bottom Line: Jonathan Stein Associate

Adobe announced two strategic changes that raise some concern – increasing emphasis jonathan.stein@bmo.com (718) 619-7165

on freemium offerings and less emphasis on creative pricing and usage monetization. Legal Entity: BMO Capital Markets Corp.

However, we have concerns about Adobe’s ability to monetize the growing freemium

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user base given competitive dynamics. Moreover, we are lowering our FY26 organic net 700

new ARR estimate from 1% growth to an ~18% y/y decline. We are lowering our target 600

price from $285 to $230 and retain our Market Perform rating. 500

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Reasonable Organic Results: ADBE completed the acquisition of Semrush this quarter, 200 0 Dec Jun Dec Jun

which added $480 million of total ARR and $40 million of in-quarter revenue. On an LHS: Price ($) / RHS: Volume (mm) Source: FactSet

organic basis, we estimate that Adobe added $560 million of net new ARR, which was Company Data in $

below our expectation, and organic net new ARR declined by 3.5% y/y vs. an 11% y/y

Dividend $0.00 Shares O/S (mm) 404.2

decline in net new ARR in the February quarter. Moreover, excluding Semrush revenue,

we estimate Adobe grew total revenues by about 10.3% y/y CC, or about 50bps above Yield 0.0% Market Cap (mm) $88,439

our estimate. We estimate organic subscription revenue growth of 11.3% y/y CC, or EV (mm) $83,831 AD Vol. (mm) 15.03