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The right Valuation of TenX PAY

Intro and a little background info

I started investing and also wondering if we are actually in a Crypto Bubble. The Big word with a Big B ! I read the white papers, understood the business models, checked the numbers and asked a lot of questions (I also forgot to say that in a previous life I spent a bit of time in Investment Banking as well as in Strategy Consulting). As I was doing this, I noticed that all the data I was gathering wasn’t of any use to the community. So here I am starting this series of articles to tackle the market valuations of some of these coins and share with you !

Target Number 1 : TenX PAY

A little bit about the project : In three lines, this is a debit card allowing to spend all the crypto currencies in the market with an Iphone App, Android App and Desktop App
So TenX business is to issue payment cards, their coin is PAY

The Team : Great story, one of the co-founders is a previous Medical Doctor, the team is able to deliver and they communicate regularly with their coin holders (should I say coin Hodlers ;-) )

The Market : same as other card issuers, they are playing with the Big Boys

The Business Model : As any other credit card Issuer, they are going to make money on fees. To make it simple, let’s say the TenX card is a Visa one. Every time the card is used the merchant that received the money pays a certain amount of fees. For $100, the merchant is going to pay $2 of fees (example), these fees are going to be distributed to 3 stake holders :
1) The bank the merchant is working with
2) Visa that has the tech to allow the payment (card and card reading machine)
3) The Credit Card Issuer (TenX in this case)
The first will take $0.4, the second $0.4 and the third $1.2 (still an example)

Of these $1.2 that TenX gets, they are going to take $0.7 for their company to pay their fees and make some profit, redistribute $0.1 to the card holder (you) and distribute $0.4 to the TenX PAY coin holders in form of ETH. (the real business model, numbers are just for the example)

So this business is driven by volume, the more people pay using TenX cards the more PAY holders receive ETH. The PAY holders receive one third (1/3) of the fees the card issuer (TenX) gets. Great coin, great business model !

So how much one should be willing to pay for PAY ?

Total number of coins in the market : 200 million
Valuation Method :
First let’s take a look at other companies that have similar (similar, not exactly the same) business models in this sector then let’s try to have an idea of the size of the market. From there we can make a certain number of hypothesis to try to have a valuation of PAY

The difference between Visa and Amex is that Amex is a card issuer operating their own network and taking higher fees (thus the discrepancy between the revenues of the two companies).

We are going to choose two other tech companies to compare with : Paypal and Stripe. The commonality between Visa, Amex, Paypal and Stripe is that all of them charge fees mainly supported by the merchant who receives the payements. The % of fees might differentiate but the way they make money remains the same.

Paypal : The company has roughly 190 million active accounts and processes 400 billion USD in transaction volume with 10 billion USD in revenue.

Stripe : Its transaction volume is evaluated at 45 billion USD and revenues around 1 billion USD

Paypal started in 1999 so the example is old, that’s reason why I wanted to take Stripe as well although we don’t have all the numbers for this one.

Once we collected all these facts and figures, we can start working on PAY valuation.

Simple Valuation method : Value of a user / Cardholder

This method allows us to see how much profit each card holder contributes to the company during his whole lifetime, in other words how much money the company expects to get from each cardholder or user on average in the years the user/cardholder remains with the company.

Visa : 3.1 Billion card holders and total company valuation 233 Billion USD, 233B/3.1B = 75 USD per card holder

Amex : 140 Million card holders and total company valuation 76 Billion USD, 76B/140m = 540 USD per card holder

Paypal : 190 million active users for a valuation of 77 Billion USD, 77 B / 190m = 405 USD per user

Stripe : we don’t have the numbers but we will use it later

So this is one way of valuing a boring company (established, everything published, clear streams of revenues and profits). TenX is a startup and it has maybe around 5 000 card holders, we can not compare it to a boring company because we are looking at the future revenues. Yet we have one important piece of data, PAY value is directly available on the market :

PAY varied between around 50 cents and 6 dollars since the ICO.
There are 205,218,256 PAY tokens in the market. This means that the total market cap of PAY varied between 100 million USD and 1.2 Billion USD and that 1 PAY = 1/3 of TenX revenues as a “dividend”

Now let’s remember that PayPal had 13 million users when it was acquired by Ebay for 1.5 Billion and that it took Paypal 16 years to get to 190 million users.

At a million cardholders coupled with some terrific growth numbers, I would be happy to enter at a billion USD market cap and Hodl some PAY for 5 years to see it grow and be profitable. Stripe has a valuation of 9 Billion usd 7 years after its inception. TenX is 8 months old.

With the crypto world numbers, I can not see TenX having a million card holders by end of 2018. Thus the Token is overvalued at the max price of 6$ and actual price around 4$. For 2017 and 2018, I would not pay more than 1$ for PAY until I see at least their first 100,000 card holders.

I am not going to talk about the competition, other more recent ICOs and possible bigger companies taking on this market because the numbers speak for themselves for now. To get one Stripe or one Paypal many other startups FAILED.
Yes, failure is an option.

Doing this research allowed me to have an idea of the target levels at which I will be reasonably willing to buy some PAY. Since I spent this much time on the company and that I watched hours of interviews / weekly updates, I grew to really like Julian Hosp’s (co-founder) style and communication :). So I am getting 1(one) PAY at 4 USD and will wait to see what’s coming next ;-)

This was my first article so I hope it was clear enough and helpful. If you have any remarks or questions please put them in the comments section.

Also if you would like me to do the same regarding other tokens / projects or ICOs, please list them in the comments and I will try to pick the ones that are the most asked for / interesting for you guys to do a quick market / valuation analysis.

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