Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), New Relic (NYSE:NEWR), Coupa Application (NASDAQ:COUP) are potential acquisition candidates for strategic and non-public fairness firms, according to a RBC analyst.

Dropbox (DBX) could be a concentrate on for a Adobe (ADBE) or Salesforce (CRM), whilst New Relic and Coupa Application may perhaps see private fairness desire, RBC analyst Rishi Jaluria stated in an interview on Thursday on CNBC.

Tech giants like Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and Oracle (ORCL) “are wanting at some of these multiples coming down so considerably and saying, hey this is a excellent time to consolidate some IT commit and actually acquire edge of the major pullback we’re observing below,” Jaluria explained.

Zoom Video clip (NASDAQ:ZM) and Docusign (DOCU) “are major beneficiaries of the pandemic and distant do the job, but they have pulled again to these types of low ranges and trade at this sort of inexpensive multiples on profitability that we think they are appealing to some significant acquirers, particularly Salesforce,” Jaluria added.

Other achievable targets may well incorporate Box Inc. (BOX) Couchbase (Foundation), Fastly (FSLY), N-In a position (NABL), NortonLifeLock (NLOK), Nutanix (NTX), Qualys (QLYS), Smartsheet (SMAR), Splunk (SPLK), SolarWinds (SWI) and Teradata (TDC).

Jaluria doesn’t see regulatory concerns these kinds of as antitrust concerns stopping software acquisitions.

“The regulatory bodies you should not appear to care as much about enterprise software package as they do about customer technology,” Jaluria said. “When the regulators will arrive down on Facebook or Google or Amazon attempting to acquire a person, it won’t feel to be the case with anything at all similar to business computer software and particularly with somebody like Salesforce or SAP or Oracle acquiring a midcap computer software title I really don’t assume that regulatory is going to be important hurdle to building that materialize.”

Jaluria sees the most most likely strategic candidates as Couchbase (Foundation), Dropbox (DBX), Docusign (DOCU), Fastly (FSLY), New Relic (NEWR), Nutanix (NTNX), Qualys (QLYS), Smartsheet (SMAR), Splunk (SPLK) and Zoom Movie (ZM), in accordance an RBC note from April 11 written by Jaluria and analyst Matthew Hedberg.

The most most likely targets for personal equity takeout are Box Inc. (BOX), Coupa Application (COUP), N-in a position (NABL), New Relic (NEWR), NortonLifeLock (NLOK), Solarwinds (SWI) and Teradata (TDC).

In late March a notable enterprise capital reported Anaplan’s (Strategy) $10.7 billion sale to non-public fairness powerhouse Thoma Bravo may well consumer in a spate of bargains in the program space.