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AppFolio

AppFolio מספקת את המערכת שבה מנהלי נכסים בארה״ב מנהלים את הספרים על כספי הדיירים שלהם, וגובה עמלה על כל תשלום שכר דירה, בדיקת דיירים ופוליסת ביטוח שעוברים דרכה.

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השורה התחתונה

הציון שלנו: ניטרלית. AppFolio מנהלת את הספרים של מנהלי נכסים בארה״ב וגובה עמלה על תשלומי שכר דירה, בדיקות דיירים וביטוח שעוברים דרכה. מערכת הרישום קשה להחלפה, ולכן העסק טוב. שני שלישים מהצמיחה שלה מגיעים עכשיו מהגדלת ההכנסה מכל בית ולא מהוספת בתים, והצמיחה מאטה כבר שנים. כדי להצדיק את המחיר העמלה על כל בית צריכה להמשיך לעלות בכעשירית בשנה, ולכן המחיר מלא ולא זול. השאלה המכרעת היא אם העמלה הזאת עדיין גדלה מהר ממספר הבתים, נתון שהחברה לא מפרסמת ישירות.

הטיעון לטווח הארוךמשכירים קטנים מעבירים בניינים למנהלים מקצועיים שרוצים מערכת אחת לכול, ו-AppFolio צריכה להמשיך להוסיף בתים מהר יותר מקצב הגידול של שוק השכירות.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 8 טענות
C01עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio sells one cloud platform to United States property management companies: a subscription in three tiers (Core, Plus, Max) built around the accounting system of record, plus a set of Value Added Services - electronic rent payments, tenant screening through FolioScreen, renters and liability-to-landlord insurance through FolioGuard, maintenance and resident services. At 30 June 2026 it served 22,751 property management customers running approximately 9.6 million units, with 1,732 employees.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C02עובדהhigh confidence
Value Added Services were $219.467M of AppFolio's $281.124M of Q2 2026 revenue - 78.1% - against $180.145M of $235.575M a year earlier. Subscription Services were $59.800M, 21.3% of the total, and grew 14.0% against the Value Added line's 21.8%. The software subscription is the smaller and the slower half. In Q3 2026 Value Added Services were $231.948M of $295.691M, 78.4%, against $192.092M a year earlier, up 20.7%; Subscription Services were $61.525M, up 14.5%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: Value Added Services up 20.7%, Subscription Services up 14.5%.
historical · Q2 2026written 2026-09-16
C03עובדהhigh confidence
That 78% is not contracted. The 10-K states usage-based fees are charged as a percentage of the transaction or a flat fee per transaction, "generally with no minimum usage commitments", and that payments fees are "recorded gross of any interchange and payment processing related fees". So the largest part of revenue is a toll collected transaction by transaction, and the reported figure includes money that passes straight through to card networks.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C05הסקהmedium confidence
Two thirds of AppFolio's growth is price, not land. Annualising Q3 2026 revenue over units gives $121 of revenue for each unit against $110 a year earlier, up 10.1%, while units rose 7.7%; 1.077 x 1.101 = 1.186, which is the 18.6% revenue growth reported. In Q2 2026 the split was $117 against $106, up 10.6%, on units up 8.0%. The same split on the full years gives $101 per unit in 2025 against $91 in 2024.
against this

The denominator is period-end units against a full period's revenue, so in a growing base it understates the per-unit figure in both years and overstates the growth in it slightly. Units also include community associations and commercial property, which monetise less than residential - the 10-K says adoption of both service categories is "typically higher for residential properties" - so a mix shift toward residential would raise revenue per unit with no price change at all. And the $117 is annualised from the seasonally strongest quarter. None of these reverses the direction: the full-year version, which has none of these problems, gives 10.8%.

  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: revenue $295.7M over 9.8 million units against $249.4M over 9.1 million.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
C07הסקהmedium confidence
AppFolio's 9.6 million units are 20.5% of every renter-occupied home in the United States. It is not an early-stage land grab: a fifth of the country's rented housing already runs on this one platform, and the arithmetic sits in no filing because the two numbers come from different institutions.
against this

The numerator and the denominator are not the same thing, and the error runs one way. AppFolio's unit count includes community associations and commercial property, neither of which is a renter-occupied housing unit, so the true residential share is lower than 20.5% by an amount the company does not disclose. Pointing the other way, the denominator is renter-occupied units only and excludes vacant rental units, which a manager still administers - the 7.3% vacancy rate would add about 3.7 million units to the addressable base. The two corrections partly offset and neither is quantified, which is why this is an inference and why the open questions carry it.

current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C16הסקהmedium confidence
At $225.95 the enterprise value of $7.89B is 43.3 times trailing operating profit of $182.3M. On the raised fiscal 2026 guide - $1.122B of revenue at the 27.25% midpoint non-GAAP operating margin, less about $78M a year of stock pay that measure adds back - it is roughly 35 times this year's operating profit after all costs. At that price the fee per unit has to keep compounding near 10% a year for several more years while the operating margin keeps rising, on a business whose revenue growth is guided to 18.0% and has fallen every year since 2023.
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Three things argue the price is less demanding than 43 times makes it sound. The multiple on earnings is exactly the company's own six-year normal - 51.2 times trailing profit against a prior median of 51.7 - so on that lens nothing has been re-rated at all, and the compression is entirely in the sales multiple, which margin expansion has absorbed. The balance sheet holds about $305M of cash and investments against no drawn debt, so the enterprise value is $182M below the market value. And the trailing operating figure is depressed by a fiscal 2025 in which the non-GAAP operating margin fell; on the guided margin the multiple is a third lower. Against all three: a 35 times forward multiple after stock pay still assumes the fee engine holds, and the guide itself embeds deceleration.

current state · 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C18עובדהhigh confidence
Revenue growth has fallen every year since 2023: 31.5% in FY2023, 28.0% in FY2024, 19.7% in FY2025, and the raised fiscal 2026 guide puts the midpoint at 18.3%. Q2 2026 delivered 19.3% and Q3 2026 18.6%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 growth of 18.6% added; the guide midpoint is 18.3% on the new $1.122B-$1.127B range.
historical · FY2023 to FY2026 guidedwritten 2026-09-16
C15עובדהhigh confidence
The fall in the share price was buyers paying less, not the business doing less. Over the 252 sessions to 15 September 2026 the price fell 18.2%, from $276.09 to $225.95, while trailing revenue for each share rose 22.6% and the diluted share count fell 1.6%. What buyers paid for each dollar of trailing revenue fell 33.2%, from $11.59 to $7.74. The identity is exact and the residual is zero.
historical · the 252 sessions to 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
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החברה

מנהל נכסים גובה שכר דירה עבור בעלי הנכסים, משלם את החשבונות שלהם ומחזיק את פיקדונות הדיירים. ברוב המדינות החוק רואה בכסף הזה כסף של אחרים: הוא חייב להיות בחשבון נאמנות נפרד, וערבוב הכספים עלול לעלות למנהל ברישיון.

AppFolio מוכרת את המערכת ששומרת את הרישום הזה, בשלוש חבילות מנוי שהמחיר שלהן נקבע לפי מספר יחידות הדיור. אחר כך היא גובה עמלה על מה שזורם דרכה: שכר דירה שנגבה באינטרנט, בדיקת שוכרים וביטוח שוכרים. העמלות האלה היו 78.4% מההכנסות ברבעון ספטמבר.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 4 טענות
C01עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio sells one cloud platform to United States property management companies: a subscription in three tiers (Core, Plus, Max) built around the accounting system of record, plus a set of Value Added Services - electronic rent payments, tenant screening through FolioScreen, renters and liability-to-landlord insurance through FolioGuard, maintenance and resident services. At 30 June 2026 it served 22,751 property management customers running approximately 9.6 million units, with 1,732 employees.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C02עובדהhigh confidence
Value Added Services were $219.467M of AppFolio's $281.124M of Q2 2026 revenue - 78.1% - against $180.145M of $235.575M a year earlier. Subscription Services were $59.800M, 21.3% of the total, and grew 14.0% against the Value Added line's 21.8%. The software subscription is the smaller and the slower half. In Q3 2026 Value Added Services were $231.948M of $295.691M, 78.4%, against $192.092M a year earlier, up 20.7%; Subscription Services were $61.525M, up 14.5%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: Value Added Services up 20.7%, Subscription Services up 14.5%.
historical · Q2 2026written 2026-09-16
C08עובדהhigh confidence
In California a person who manages property for others is a licensed real estate broker, and Business and Professions Code section 10145 requires that funds belonging to others be deposited into a trust fund account and "maintained there until disbursed by the broker in accordance with instructions from the person entitled to the funds". Over twenty-five states require a broker's licence to manage property for a third party, and every state treats mixing client money with the firm's own as a licence violation.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C09הסקהmedium confidence
That statutory obligation is what makes the switching cost real. The 10-K describes Core as "the basic, comprehensive, all-in-one system of record centered on accounting functionality" and the platform as "a single secure system of record for our customers' operational and financial data" capturing "every transaction in one centralized database". Leaving means migrating a regulated trust ledger, mid-cycle, while rent, deposits and vendor payments move through it daily.
against this

AppFolio itself says the cost is surmountable, and spends money surmounting it: the 10-K's growth strategy describes "continued innovation in onboarding tools, processes, and workflows" designed "to remove barriers for customers to switch to AppFolio". A barrier the company can lower for inbound customers is one a competitor can lower for outbound ones. The 10-K also says the market "has relatively low barriers to entry", and the DOJ's account of the neighbouring market records a landlord moving between systems of record without describing the move as prohibitive. The mechanism is real; that it is insurmountable is not established, and no retention or churn figure is published to settle it.

current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16

ממה היא מרוויחה

בשתי דרכים. מנוי על התוכנה, שצמח ב-14.5% ברבעון ספטמבר, ועמלה על כל עסקה, שצמחה ב-20.7%. העמלות באות בלי מינימום: איש לא התחייב לשלם אפילו שכר דירה אחד דרך AppFolio ברבעון הבא. הן ממשיכות להגיע כי העסקאות רצות על מערכת רישום שקשה למנהל הנכסים לעזוב.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 3 טענות
C02עובדהhigh confidence
Value Added Services were $219.467M of AppFolio's $281.124M of Q2 2026 revenue - 78.1% - against $180.145M of $235.575M a year earlier. Subscription Services were $59.800M, 21.3% of the total, and grew 14.0% against the Value Added line's 21.8%. The software subscription is the smaller and the slower half. In Q3 2026 Value Added Services were $231.948M of $295.691M, 78.4%, against $192.092M a year earlier, up 20.7%; Subscription Services were $61.525M, up 14.5%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: Value Added Services up 20.7%, Subscription Services up 14.5%.
historical · Q2 2026written 2026-09-16
C03עובדהhigh confidence
That 78% is not contracted. The 10-K states usage-based fees are charged as a percentage of the transaction or a flat fee per transaction, "generally with no minimum usage commitments", and that payments fees are "recorded gross of any interchange and payment processing related fees". So the largest part of revenue is a toll collected transaction by transaction, and the reported figure includes money that passes straight through to card networks.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C09הסקהmedium confidence
That statutory obligation is what makes the switching cost real. The 10-K describes Core as "the basic, comprehensive, all-in-one system of record centered on accounting functionality" and the platform as "a single secure system of record for our customers' operational and financial data" capturing "every transaction in one centralized database". Leaving means migrating a regulated trust ledger, mid-cycle, while rent, deposits and vendor payments move through it daily.
against this

AppFolio itself says the cost is surmountable, and spends money surmounting it: the 10-K's growth strategy describes "continued innovation in onboarding tools, processes, and workflows" designed "to remove barriers for customers to switch to AppFolio". A barrier the company can lower for inbound customers is one a competitor can lower for outbound ones. The 10-K also says the market "has relatively low barriers to entry", and the DOJ's account of the neighbouring market records a landlord moving between systems of record without describing the move as prohibitive. The mechanism is real; that it is insurmountable is not established, and no retention or churn figure is published to settle it.

current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
פירוט מקורות ההכנסה
מקורמשקל במכירות (הרבעון השני של 2026)איך
שירותי ערך מוסף78.1%עמלות לכל עסקה על תשלומי שכר דירה באינטרנט, בדיקות דיירים וביטוח שוכרים, בלי התחייבות לשימוש מינימלי.
שירותי מנוי21.3%המסלולים Core,‏ Plus ו-Max של מערכת הנהלת החשבונות לניהול נכסים, בחיוב מנוי, וההכנסה נרשמת לאורך תקופת החוזה.
אחר0.7%סיוע בהטמעה, שירותים חד-פעמיים אחרים ולקוחות ותיקים של עסקים שנרכשו.

ההנהלה

שיין טריג מנהל את AppFolio מאז מרץ 2023, אחרי שלוש שנים בראשות פעילות הנכסים שלה; טים איטון מונה לסמנכ״ל הכספים ביולי 2025. תחת טריג עברה החברה מאיזון לרווח יציב, אבל הצמיחה האטה בכל שנה. חברי הדירקטוריון והמנהלים מחזיקים מעט מניות; שני מייסדים שאינם בדירקטוריון מחזיקים ברוב הקולות. הבונוס ורוב מענקי המניות נקבעים לפי מספר הבתים החדשים שנחתמו, המכירות ושיעור הרווח בטווח של שנה, ושום רכיב בהם לא תלוי בעמלה לכל בית או במחיר המניה.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 4 טענות
C43עובדהhigh confidence
Shane Trigg has been president and chief executive since March 2023, after running the real estate business as president and general manager from April 2020, and before that Salesforce and Intuit. Tim Eaton has been chief financial officer since July 2025, interim from October 2024, and joined AppFolio in 2020 from Visa, Google and Goldman Sachs.
current state · 2026-04-28written 2026-10-04
C44עובדהhigh confidence
At 31 March 2026 the ten directors and named executive officers as a group held 0.4% of Class A, 4.0% of Class B and 3.4% of total voting power. The largest insider holding is the chair Andreas von Blottnitz's 449,950 Class B shares; the chief executive held 60,903 Class A shares, under 1%.
current state · 2026-03-31written 2026-10-04
C45עובדהhigh confidence
Two co-founders who sit on neither the board nor the executive team control the vote: Maurice Duca held 44.7% of total voting power at 13 August 2026 through 6,107,513 Class B shares, and Klaus Schauser 17.6% at 31 March 2026 - together about 62% of the votes.
current state · 2026-08-13written 2026-10-04
C46עובדהhigh confidence
The 2025 annual bonus and PSUs pay on the same three one-year goals: booked residential units 40% (maximum raised to 250%), GAAP revenue 30% and adjusted GAAP operating margin 30%. 2025 paid 148%, units at 217%. The chief executive's $4.0M of 2025 equity was 60% PSUs and 40% RSUs vesting over four years; no award pays on revenue per unit, cash flow, a multi-year period or share return.
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Units are the weaker half of the growth arithmetic (C05): revenue per unit drives about two thirds of revenue growth, yet the heaviest-weighted and most generously capped goal is units signed. The pay-versus-performance table shows share return only as a required disclosure, not a goal. Say-on-pay passed with 99.6% in 2025.

historical · FY2025written 2026-10-04
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היתרון התחרותי, ומי מאיים עליו

למה הלקוחות נשארים

מעבר למערכת אחרת פירושו להעביר ספר נאמנות חי, עם פיקדונות שמגיעים לדיירים ספציפיים וכסף שמגיע לבעלי נכסים ספציפיים, בזמן ששכר הדירה ממשיך להיכנס. העלות היא לא התוכנה אלא הסיכון שהספרים יהיו שגויים ביום שבו רגולטור יבקש לבדוק.

זה מתבטא בכך שהלקוחות מעמיקים את השימוש במקום לעזוב. בשנה שהסתיימה בספטמבר ההכנסה ליחידת דיור עלתה ב-10.1% ומספר יחידות הדיור עלה ב-7.7%.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 4 טענות
C08עובדהhigh confidence
In California a person who manages property for others is a licensed real estate broker, and Business and Professions Code section 10145 requires that funds belonging to others be deposited into a trust fund account and "maintained there until disbursed by the broker in accordance with instructions from the person entitled to the funds". Over twenty-five states require a broker's licence to manage property for a third party, and every state treats mixing client money with the firm's own as a licence violation.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C09הסקהmedium confidence
That statutory obligation is what makes the switching cost real. The 10-K describes Core as "the basic, comprehensive, all-in-one system of record centered on accounting functionality" and the platform as "a single secure system of record for our customers' operational and financial data" capturing "every transaction in one centralized database". Leaving means migrating a regulated trust ledger, mid-cycle, while rent, deposits and vendor payments move through it daily.
against this

AppFolio itself says the cost is surmountable, and spends money surmounting it: the 10-K's growth strategy describes "continued innovation in onboarding tools, processes, and workflows" designed "to remove barriers for customers to switch to AppFolio". A barrier the company can lower for inbound customers is one a competitor can lower for outbound ones. The 10-K also says the market "has relatively low barriers to entry", and the DOJ's account of the neighbouring market records a landlord moving between systems of record without describing the move as prohibitive. The mechanism is real; that it is insurmountable is not established, and no retention or churn figure is published to settle it.

current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C05הסקהmedium confidence
Two thirds of AppFolio's growth is price, not land. Annualising Q3 2026 revenue over units gives $121 of revenue for each unit against $110 a year earlier, up 10.1%, while units rose 7.7%; 1.077 x 1.101 = 1.186, which is the 18.6% revenue growth reported. In Q2 2026 the split was $117 against $106, up 10.6%, on units up 8.0%. The same split on the full years gives $101 per unit in 2025 against $91 in 2024.
against this

The denominator is period-end units against a full period's revenue, so in a growing base it understates the per-unit figure in both years and overstates the growth in it slightly. Units also include community associations and commercial property, which monetise less than residential - the 10-K says adoption of both service categories is "typically higher for residential properties" - so a mix shift toward residential would raise revenue per unit with no price change at all. And the $117 is annualised from the seasonally strongest quarter. None of these reverses the direction: the full-year version, which has none of these problems, gives 10.8%.

  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: revenue $295.7M over 9.8 million units against $249.4M over 9.1 million.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
C04עובדהhigh confidence
Units on the platform reached approximately 9.8 million at 30 September 2026, an 8% increase on 9.1 million a year earlier, after 9.6 million at 30 June 2026 and 9.4 million at 31 December 2025. Customers grew 6%, to 23.1 thousand from 21.8 thousand. Unit growth has been 8% for four consecutive reported periods.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 release and call: units 9.8 million against 9.1 million, customers 23.1 thousand against 21.8 thousand.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16

האיום

ההתקפה מכוונת לעמלות, לא לספר החשבונות. Zillow מציעה למשכירים קטנים בקשות לשכירות, תשלום שכר דירה וביטוח שוכרים, ארבעה מתוך חמשת הדברים ש-AppFolio גובה עליהם, והפעילות שלה בתחום ההשכרה צמחה ב-39% ב-2025, לעומת 19.7% של AppFolio. בדוח השנתי של AppFolio עצמה היא מודה שבשוק שלה חסמי הכניסה נמוכים יחסית, ומזהירה שסוכני AI עלולים לצמצם את הביקוש ללקוחות שלה.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 3 טענות
C11עובדהhigh confidence
Zillow sells the same transaction stack to the small end of AppFolio's market and calls it something else. Its own FY2025 annual report says renters on Zillow "can shop, tour, submit applications, sign a lease, pay rent securely and obtain insurance", and that it assists "longtail landlords (which we define as properties with less than 25 units) with listings, advertising, leasing and property management services through Zillow Rental Manager". Applications, screening, rent payment and renters insurance are four of the five things AppFolio's Value Added Services sells.
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The same filing names AppFolio as a partner rather than a rival - "strategic partnerships with AppFolio and Esusu extend our reach" - and Zillow's competition section is written about residential brokerage, not about property management software. Zillow monetises the marketplace and sells no accounting system of record, so it does not replace what a manager of 5,000 units runs the business on. The overlap is at the sub-25-unit end and at the resident transaction, not at the ledger.

current state · 2026-02-11written 2026-09-16
C12עובדהhigh confidence
That business is not small and it is growing faster. Zillow's FY2025 annual report states Rentals "accounted for 24% of total revenue for the same period, representing 39% growth as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024" - against AppFolio's 19.7% for FY2025 - on 2.4 million average monthly active rental listings and about 33 million average monthly unique visitors to Rentals.
historical · FY2025written 2026-09-16
C36עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio's own risk factors name the thing the market is afraid of. The 10-K says "the widespread adoption of quickly evolving disruptive technology products, such as generative and agentic AI, may significantly impact the real estate industry, even if such products are not specifically designed to apply directly to the real estate industry", and that adoption "could significantly reduce the number or demand of our customers". It also says its market "has relatively low barriers to entry".
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16

המתחרות: Z, ועוד שלוש: פרטיות, פיתוח פנימי של לקוחות או נסחרות בחו״ל.

פירוט המתחרים
סימולמתחרהשלבבסיס להשוואה
ZZillow Rental Manager (Zillow Group)בסיס להשוואה: בתחום אחד בלבדכבר נמכרבתחום אחד בלבד
חברה פרטיתEliseAIבסיס להשוואה: חברה פרטיתכבר נמכרחברה פרטית
חברה פרטיתRealPage (Thoma Bravo),‏ through Buildiumבסיס להשוואה: חברה פרטיתכבר נמכרחברה פרטית
חברה פרטיתסוכני AI כלליים שניגשים לספר החשבונות דרך הממשק (Claude של Anthropic ודומיו)בסיס להשוואה: חברה פרטיתכבר נמכרחברה פרטית
03

פוטנציאל הצמיחה

גודל ההזדמנות

בארה״ב יש 46.8 מיליון בתי מגורים להשכרה, ו-AppFolio כבר מנהלת 20.5% מהם. מקום הצמיחה שלה הוא הבתים שאף מנהל מקצועי לא מנהל: רק ל-22% מנכסי ההשכרה הקטנים יש מנהל. הנתון הזה נספר לפי מבנים ולא לפי בתים, ולכן אי אפשר לדעת כמה בתים נותרו לכבוש.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 4 טענות
C06עובדהhigh confidence
There were 46.827 million renter-occupied housing units in the United States in the second quarter of 2026, against 46.355 million a year earlier - growth of 1.02%.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C07הסקהmedium confidence
AppFolio's 9.6 million units are 20.5% of every renter-occupied home in the United States. It is not an early-stage land grab: a fifth of the country's rented housing already runs on this one platform, and the arithmetic sits in no filing because the two numbers come from different institutions.
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The numerator and the denominator are not the same thing, and the error runs one way. AppFolio's unit count includes community associations and commercial property, neither of which is a renter-occupied housing unit, so the true residential share is lower than 20.5% by an amount the company does not disclose. Pointing the other way, the denominator is renter-occupied units only and excludes vacant rental units, which a manager still administers - the 7.3% vacancy rate would add about 3.7 million units to the addressable base. The two corrections partly offset and neither is quantified, which is why this is an inference and why the open questions carry it.

current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C28עובדהmedium confidence
Professional management is far from universal at the small end, which is where the runway is. The 2021 Rental Housing Finance Survey found that "About 22 percent of small rental properties (1-4 units) are managed professionally while 84 percent of properties with 150 or more units are managed professionally", across 19.3 million rental properties containing 49.5 million rental units.
historical · 2021written 2026-09-16
C04עובדהhigh confidence
Units on the platform reached approximately 9.8 million at 30 September 2026, an 8% increase on 9.1 million a year earlier, after 9.6 million at 30 June 2026 and 9.4 million at 31 December 2025. Customers grew 6%, to 23.1 thousand from 21.8 thousand. Unit growth has been 8% for four consecutive reported periods.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 release and call: units 9.8 million against 9.1 million, customers 23.1 thousand against 21.8 thousand.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
04

התוצאות

המספרים

היא צומחת?בקצב יציב

המכירות צמחו ב-20% ב-12 החודשים עד ספטמבר 2026, כמעט באותו קצב כמו 20% בשנה שהסתיימה בדצמבר 2025.

Dec 2021: $359MDec 2022: $472MDec 2023: $620MDec 2024: $794MDec 2025: $951M12 mo to Sep 2026: $1.09B$359M$1.09B
היא רווחית?כן

שיעור הרווח התפעולי הוא 19%, לעומת 0.2% בשנה שהסתיימה בדצמבר 2023.

Dec 2021: −3.3%Dec 2022: −15%Dec 2023: 0.2%Dec 2024: 17%Dec 2025: 16%12 mo to Sep 2026: 19%−3.3%19%
עד כמה היא יציבה?לא אחידה

בחמש השנים האחרונות נעה צמיחת המכירות השנתית בין 16% ל-31%.

Dec 2021: +16%Dec 2022: +31%Dec 2023: +31%Dec 2024: +28%Dec 2025: +20%+16%+20%
התשואה על ההון גבוהה?גבוהה מאוד

כל דולר שהושקע בעסק מניב 30% בשנה אחרי מס, לעומת ‎−2.4% בשנה שהסתיימה בדצמבר 2021.

Dec 2021: −2.4%Dec 2024: 33%Dec 2025: 25%12 mo to Sep 2026: 30%−2.4%30%
היא מייצרת מזומנים?הרבה

היא הפכה 26% מהמכירות לתזרים חופשי, 282 מיליון דולר ב-12 החודשים האחרונים.

Dec 2021: $27.3MDec 2022: $18.8MDec 2023: $51.2MDec 2024: $186MDec 2025: $239M12 mo to Sep 2026: $282M$27.3M$282M
הרווח הופך למזומן?כן

התזרים החופשי היה גבוה פי 1.7 מהרווח הנקי.

Dec 2021: 26.5×Dec 2023: 19.0×Dec 2024: 0.9×Dec 2025: 1.7×12 mo to Sep 2026: 1.7×26.5×1.7×
בעלי המניות מדוללים?לא

מספר המניות כמעט לא השתנה ב-4.8 שנים, ותגמול במניות עולה 6.8% מהמכירות.

Dec 2021: 35.7MDec 2022: 35.0MDec 2023: 36.4MDec 2024: 36.8MDec 2025: 36.3M12 mo to Sep 2026: 35.6M35.7M35.6M
כל המספרים

נתונים מהדוחות השנתיים (10-K) והרבעוניים (10-Q) של החברה, נקראו ב-22 באוקטובר 2026. שנת הכספים מסתיימת בדצמבר.

דצמבר 2021דצמבר 2022דצמבר 2023דצמבר 2024דצמבר 202512 חודשים עד ספטמבר 2026
גודל וצמיחה
מכירות$359M$472M$620M$794M$951M$1.09B
צמיחת המכירות+16%+31%+31%+28%+20%+20%
רווח
שיעור הרווח הגולמי60%-----
שיעור הרווח התפעולי−3.3%−15%0.2%17%16%19%
שיעור הרווח הנקי0.3%−14%0.4%26%15%16%
עלות הצמיחה, לכל דולר מכירות
מחקר ופיתוח18%24%24%20%20%18%
מכירות ושיווק20%23%17%14%15%16%
הנהלה וכלליות16%21%15%11%10%9.1%
תגמול מבוסס מניות4.8%9.2%8.4%7.6%7.4%6.8%
השקעות הוניות2.3%1.4%1.5%0.3%0.3%0.1%
מזומנים
תזרים מפעילות שוטפת$35.4M$25.4M$60.3M$188M$242M$284M
תזרים מזומנים חופשי$27.3M$18.8M$51.2M$186M$239M$282M
מאזן
מזומנים והשקעות לזמן קצר$122M$70.8M$49.5M$42.5M$107M$259M
תשואות ומניות
תשואה על ההון המושקע−2.4%--33%25%30%
מספר המניות (בדילול מלא)35.7M35.0M36.4M36.8M36.3M35.6M

עלות הצמיחה

הצמיחה הגדילה את הרווחיות של AppFolio: ההוצאות על מחקר והוצאות משרדיות עולות לאט מהמכירות, ולכן כל דולר מכירות חדש עולה פחות להשגה. שתי עלויות צומחות בקצב המכירות, עיבוד התשלומים שהיא גובה ומכירה ושיווק, וב-2025 הן עלו מהר מספיק כדי לפגוע בשיעור הרווח לשנה אחת.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 2 טענות
C42עובדהhigh confidence
Per sales dollar, research and product development fell from 24.4 cents in 2023 to 19.3 in the twelve months to June 2026, general and administrative from 15.1 to 9.6, and stock pay from 8.4 to 7.2, while operating margin rose from 0.2% to 17.5%. Sales and marketing fell from 17.3 to 13.9 cents in 2024, then rose to 15.1 in 2025 and stayed there.
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The widening stalled in 2025: operating margin fell to 16.1% from 17.1% as sales and marketing rose faster than revenue, and cost of revenue, the line that grows with payments volume, rose as a share of sales in 2025 and again in 2026 (C10). The numbers card's R&D is the ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense tag, which equals the income statement's 'Research and product development' line ($190.419M in 2025), so the two definitions agree.

historical · FY2023 to the twelve months to 2026-06-30written 2026-10-04
C10עובדהhigh confidence
Cost of revenue excluding depreciation and amortisation was 36.3% of revenue in FY2025 against 35.5% in FY2024, so AppFolio kept 63.7 cents of each dollar sold against 64.5 cents. It rose again to 36.5% in Q2 2026, then fell to 35.7% in Q3 2026 against 36.7% a year earlier, a quarter that carried an extra bonus accrual; management guides the full year flat on 2025. The direction is the payments mix: the more of the toll business grows, the more of each dollar is interchange paid away.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 release: cost of revenue 35.7% of revenue, down from 36.7%; the CFO guides the full year flat on 2025.
historical · FY2025 and Q2 2026written 2026-09-16

הדוח האחרון (23 ביולי)

הרבעון שהסתיים ביוני 2026, לפי הדוחות.

19%
צמיחת המכירות
לעומת הרבעון המקביל אשתקד
7.2%
צמיחה לעומת הרבעון הקודם
לעומת 5.6% ברבעון שקדם לו
19¢
רווח תפעולי
לכל דולר מכירות

רבעון ספטמבר 2026 היה טוב. המכירות צמחו ב-18.6% ל-295.7 מיליון דולר, מספר יחידות הדיור בפלטפורמה הגיע ל-9.8 מיליון, ושיעור הרווח התפעולי עלה ל-19.4% מ-14.1%, בסיוע חיוב בונוס אשתקד שלא חזר.

המגמה זהה. החברה העלתה את הקצה התחתון של תחזית המכירות אך הורידה את תקרת תחזית שיעור הרווח, ומה שנשאר משמעו צמיחה של כ-15% במכירות ברבעון הבא. ההנהלה שוב לא קיבלה שאלות מאנליסטים.

מה זה אומר על התזהזה תמך בטיעון שהעמלה על כל יחידת דיור ממשיכה לעלות: ההכנסה ליחידת דיור צמחה מהר ממספר היחידות, והתשלומים והביטוח צמחו מהר מהתוכנה. זה לא שינה את ההאטה שהמחיר כבר משקף. עסק טוב במחיר מלא, ולכן ניטרלית.

הרבעון בפירוט

צמיחת המכירות לעומת הרבעון הקודם, לפי הדוחות.

רווח למניה $1.71 לעומת $1.69 צפוי; $1.17 לפי הדוחות, והפער הוא הסעיפים שהחברה מנטרלת.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 5 טענות
C02עובדהhigh confidence
Value Added Services were $219.467M of AppFolio's $281.124M of Q2 2026 revenue - 78.1% - against $180.145M of $235.575M a year earlier. Subscription Services were $59.800M, 21.3% of the total, and grew 14.0% against the Value Added line's 21.8%. The software subscription is the smaller and the slower half. In Q3 2026 Value Added Services were $231.948M of $295.691M, 78.4%, against $192.092M a year earlier, up 20.7%; Subscription Services were $61.525M, up 14.5%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: Value Added Services up 20.7%, Subscription Services up 14.5%.
historical · Q2 2026written 2026-09-16
C20עובדהhigh confidence
The margin story turned only this year. AppFolio's non-GAAP operating margin FELL in fiscal 2025, to 24.7% from 25.2%, and the GAAP operating margin fell to 16.1% from 17.1%, on revenue growing 19.7%. Q2 2026 reversed both: 27.1% and 18.8%, against 26.2% and 17.2% a year earlier. Q3 2026 was 27.3% and 19.4%, against 23.5% and 14.1%; the prior-year quarter carried an extra bonus accrual and the Future conference moved from the fourth quarter into the third this year.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 margins added, with the two comparisons management flagged.
historical · FY2025 to Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
C19עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio has changed its fiscal 2026 outlook three times in three quarters. The January 2026 guide was $1,100M to $1,120M of revenue at a 25.5% to 27.5% non-GAAP operating margin on 36 to 37 million diluted shares; July raised it to $1,117M to $1,127M at 26.5% to 28.0%; October raised only the low end of revenue, to $1,122M to $1,127M, and lowered the top of the margin range to 27.5%, on approximately 36 million shares. Management says the margin range reflects a deliberate sales and marketing push. The revenue midpoint is up 1.3% and the margin midpoint 0.5 percentage points on January.
  1. 2026-10-22editedOctober outlook: revenue low end raised to $1,122M, margin range top lowered to 27.5%.
historical · FY2026 guidance, January to October 2026written 2026-09-16
C18עובדהhigh confidence
Revenue growth has fallen every year since 2023: 31.5% in FY2023, 28.0% in FY2024, 19.7% in FY2025, and the raised fiscal 2026 guide puts the midpoint at 18.3%. Q2 2026 delivered 19.3% and Q3 2026 18.6%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 growth of 18.6% added; the guide midpoint is 18.3% on the new $1.122B-$1.127B range.
historical · FY2023 to FY2026 guidedwritten 2026-09-16
C38הסקהmedium confidence
The company's own guide has the deceleration in it. The October 2026 outlook's $1.1245B midpoint against $839.029M delivered in nine months leaves about $285.5M for the fourth quarter, which is 15.0% growth against $248.2M (14.0% at the low end, 16.0% at the high end) - below the 19.4% the first nine months delivered. Management states that unit expansion among existing customers stays below last year's fourth quarter and comparable to the third.
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The midpoint is not a forecast, it is the centre of a range management has already raised once and has beaten in each of the last three prints - Q2 2026 revenue came in 1.4% above the vendor consensus, Q1 2026 1.6% above and Q4 2025 0.7% above. At the top of the range the second half grows 18.3% rather than 16.3%, which is barely a deceleration at all. The 2025 fourth quarter also carried one-time Stack partnership revenue, which raises the base the second half is measured against. The direction is right and the magnitude is soft. Q3 2026 revenue of $295.7M was 18.6% above a year earlier against a first-half 19.9%, so the deceleration the guide shows has begun.

  1. 2026-10-22editedOctober outlook: fourth-quarter growth implied at about 15.0%, replacing the 16.3% second-half rate from July.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
לאן הלך הכסף

במחצית הראשונה של 2026 היא קנתה בחזרה מניות ב-125.0 מיליון דולר, פי 3.2 ממה ששילמה לעובדים בצורת מניות, ולכן מספר המניות ירד ב-2.1% בשנה. אין לה חוב. לבעלי המניות הנסחרות יש 17% מהקולות, ומחלקה שנייה של מניות מחזיקה ב-83% הנותרים.

בעלי עניין ברבעון השני של 2026: 11 רכישות ו-44 מכירות, לפי דיווחי Form 4 שלהם.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 3 טענות
C23עובדהhigh confidence
The shareholder is keeping the gain. AppFolio repurchased $125.0M of Class A stock in the first half of 2026 and $145.7M in the first half of 2025, against $38.5M of stock-based compensation in the 2026 half - buying back 3.2 times what it issued. Diluted shares fell 2.1% year on year, to 35.461 million from 36.204 million, and treasury stock rose to $172.5M at 31 December 2025 from $25.8M.
  1. 2026-10-04editedsaid the only deal was Move EZ for $0.9M of cash; the FY2025 10-K (Note 7, Note 4) gives $78.5M total consideration, $0.9M being the 2025 instalment, and a $75.0M Second Nature stake (S1)
historical · H1 2026written 2026-09-16
C22עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio holds $217.4M of cash, $4.3M of current investment securities and $87.7M of long-term investments at 30 June 2026, against total liabilities of $122.2M of which none is borrowing, and a $150.0M revolving credit facility entered on 30 September 2025 that is undrawn. Operating cash flow was $87.6M in Q2 2026 alone and $242M across fiscal 2025.
current state · 2026-06-30written 2026-09-16
C27עובדהhigh confidence
Holders of Class A stock do not control the company. The 10-K states that at 31 December 2025 the holders of Class B stock "collectively held approximately 83% of the combined voting power of our outstanding capital stock", on ten votes a share against one. There were 24,334,816 Class A shares and 11,655,112 Class B shares outstanding at 29 January 2026.
current state · 2025-12-31written 2026-09-16
05

המחיר, ואיפה אנחנו חלוקים על השוק

בקצרה. המחיר מלא. זה עסק טוב, אבל במחיר מלא. היא זולה יותר ביחס למכירות מבעבר, אבל לא ביחס לרווח, ולכן הירידה במחיר רק התאימה אותו להאטה.

מחיר המניה
$225.95
שער סגירה,
מכפיל הרווח
51.2
המקובל בשש השנים האחרונות: 51.7
מכפיל ה-EBITDA (שווי החברה ביחס לרווח התזרימי)
38.1
המקובל בשש השנים האחרונות: 49.0

המניה ירדה ב-18.2% בשנה שעד 15 בספטמבר בזמן שהמכירות למניה עלו ב-22.6%; מאז היא התאוששה בחלקה. מכפיל המכירות ירד בשליש, מתוך חשש שה-AI יכרסם בעסק.

תוצאות רבעון דצמבר, הצפויות בערך בפברואר, יראו אם העמלה על כל יחידת דיור עדיין צומחת מהר ממספר היחידות, היחס היחיד שהתיק נשען עליו.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 3 טענות
C15עובדהhigh confidence
The fall in the share price was buyers paying less, not the business doing less. Over the 252 sessions to 15 September 2026 the price fell 18.2%, from $276.09 to $225.95, while trailing revenue for each share rose 22.6% and the diluted share count fell 1.6%. What buyers paid for each dollar of trailing revenue fell 33.2%, from $11.59 to $7.74. The identity is exact and the residual is zero.
historical · the 252 sessions to 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C36עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio's own risk factors name the thing the market is afraid of. The 10-K says "the widespread adoption of quickly evolving disruptive technology products, such as generative and agentic AI, may significantly impact the real estate industry, even if such products are not specifically designed to apply directly to the real estate industry", and that adoption "could significantly reduce the number or demand of our customers". It also says its market "has relatively low barriers to entry".
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C05הסקהmedium confidence
Two thirds of AppFolio's growth is price, not land. Annualising Q3 2026 revenue over units gives $121 of revenue for each unit against $110 a year earlier, up 10.1%, while units rose 7.7%; 1.077 x 1.101 = 1.186, which is the 18.6% revenue growth reported. In Q2 2026 the split was $117 against $106, up 10.6%, on units up 8.0%. The same split on the full years gives $101 per unit in 2025 against $91 in 2024.
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The denominator is period-end units against a full period's revenue, so in a growing base it understates the per-unit figure in both years and overstates the growth in it slightly. Units also include community associations and commercial property, which monetise less than residential - the 10-K says adoption of both service categories is "typically higher for residential properties" - so a mix shift toward residential would raise revenue per unit with no price change at all. And the $117 is annualised from the seasonally strongest quarter. None of these reverses the direction: the full-year version, which has none of these problems, gives 10.8%.

  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: revenue $295.7M over 9.8 million units against $249.4M over 9.1 million.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
איך לקרוא את המכפיל

מכפיל הרווח הוא כ-51 על הרווח בשנה האחרונה, כמו המקובל בשש השנים האחרונות. שיעורי הרווח, כלומר הרווח מכל דולר מכירות, עלו וקיזזו את כל הירידה במחיר.

כשסופרים את התגמול במניות כהוצאה, שווי החברה הוא כ-43 פעמים הרווח התפעולי בשנה האחרונה וכ-35 פעמים הרווח הצפוי השנה.

התמחור הזה מחזיק רק אם העמלה על כל בית ממשיכה לגדול בכ-10% בשנה והמרווחים עולים. אלא שצמיחת המכירות מאטה בכל שנה מאז 2023.

מול ההיסטוריה של החברה. מכפיל המכירות נמוך מהמקובל בהיסטוריה שלה, אבל מכפיל הרווח לא: עליית המרווחים קיזזה את כל הירידה, ולכן אין כאן מציאה בהשוואה לעבר של החברה.

הראיות (באנגלית) · 3 טענות
C16הסקהmedium confidence
At $225.95 the enterprise value of $7.89B is 43.3 times trailing operating profit of $182.3M. On the raised fiscal 2026 guide - $1.122B of revenue at the 27.25% midpoint non-GAAP operating margin, less about $78M a year of stock pay that measure adds back - it is roughly 35 times this year's operating profit after all costs. At that price the fee per unit has to keep compounding near 10% a year for several more years while the operating margin keeps rising, on a business whose revenue growth is guided to 18.0% and has fallen every year since 2023.
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Three things argue the price is less demanding than 43 times makes it sound. The multiple on earnings is exactly the company's own six-year normal - 51.2 times trailing profit against a prior median of 51.7 - so on that lens nothing has been re-rated at all, and the compression is entirely in the sales multiple, which margin expansion has absorbed. The balance sheet holds about $305M of cash and investments against no drawn debt, so the enterprise value is $182M below the market value. And the trailing operating figure is depressed by a fiscal 2025 in which the non-GAAP operating margin fell; on the guided margin the multiple is a third lower. Against all three: a 35 times forward multiple after stock pay still assumes the fee engine holds, and the guide itself embeds deceleration.

current state · 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C18עובדהhigh confidence
Revenue growth has fallen every year since 2023: 31.5% in FY2023, 28.0% in FY2024, 19.7% in FY2025, and the raised fiscal 2026 guide puts the midpoint at 18.3%. Q2 2026 delivered 19.3% and Q3 2026 18.6%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 growth of 18.6% added; the guide midpoint is 18.3% on the new $1.122B-$1.127B range.
historical · FY2023 to FY2026 guidedwritten 2026-09-16
C32עובדהmedium confidence
The company is cheaper than its own history on sales and not at all on earnings. Trailing price to sales is 7.76 against a six-year median of 10.61, enterprise value to cash profit 38.1 against 49.0, and free cash flow yield 3.3% against 0.6% - but price to earnings is 51.2 against a median of 51.7, which is the same. Margin expansion absorbed the entire re-pricing.
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The six-year median spans a period that includes fiscal 2022, when AppFolio ran a NEGATIVE 15.3% operating margin, and fiscal 2023 at 0.2%. A price-to-earnings median struck across years with almost no earnings in the denominator is close to meaningless, so 'at its own median' is a weaker statement than it sounds. The sales and cash-profit comparisons do not have that defect, which is why the argument leans on those. The free cash flow yield is also flattered: trailing free cash flow of $270M adds back roughly $78M a year of stock pay, and at 2.4% after it the yield is less than four times its own median rather than five.

current state · 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
המכפיל מול המתחרים

אף אחת מהמתחרות שלעיל אינה מוכרת את אותו מוצר לאותם לקוחות כחלק משמעותי מפעילותה. השוואת מחירים דורשת לפחות שתיים, ולכן המחיר נבחן מול ההיסטוריה של החברה עצמה.

איפה אנחנו חלוקים על השוק

השוק חושב

חברת תוכנה שהצמיחה שלה דועכת, ושסוכני AI יכרסמו ביתרון התחרותי שלה.

אנחנו חושבים

AI היא לא השאלה הנכונה. השאלה האמיתית היא אם העמלה על כל בית ממשיכה לעלות, ולעת עתה היא אכן עולה.

החברה מפרסמת את מספר הבתים ואת ההכנסות, אבל לא מחלקת אחד בשני. לכן העובדה ששני שלישים מהצמיחה מגיעים מהמחיר לא מופיעה באף אחד מדוחותיה.

יש ראיות ממשיות לטובת עמדת השוק: שיעור ההמלצות החיוביות בקרב האנליסטים ירד מ-100% ל-88.9%, ו-6.9% מהמניות הסחירות מוחזקות בשורט, שיעור גבוה לחברה רווחית וללא חוב.

מה אומרים האנליסטים
המלצות חיוביות
89%
מתוך 9, 1 בספטמבר
לפני ארבעה חודשים
100%
מתוך 9, 1 במאי
הראיות (באנגלית) · 4 טענות
C05הסקהmedium confidence
Two thirds of AppFolio's growth is price, not land. Annualising Q3 2026 revenue over units gives $121 of revenue for each unit against $110 a year earlier, up 10.1%, while units rose 7.7%; 1.077 x 1.101 = 1.186, which is the 18.6% revenue growth reported. In Q2 2026 the split was $117 against $106, up 10.6%, on units up 8.0%. The same split on the full years gives $101 per unit in 2025 against $91 in 2024.
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The denominator is period-end units against a full period's revenue, so in a growing base it understates the per-unit figure in both years and overstates the growth in it slightly. Units also include community associations and commercial property, which monetise less than residential - the 10-K says adoption of both service categories is "typically higher for residential properties" - so a mix shift toward residential would raise revenue per unit with no price change at all. And the $117 is annualised from the seasonally strongest quarter. None of these reverses the direction: the full-year version, which has none of these problems, gives 10.8%.

  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 split added: revenue $295.7M over 9.8 million units against $249.4M over 9.1 million.
historical · Q3 2026written 2026-09-16
C15עובדהhigh confidence
The fall in the share price was buyers paying less, not the business doing less. Over the 252 sessions to 15 September 2026 the price fell 18.2%, from $276.09 to $225.95, while trailing revenue for each share rose 22.6% and the diluted share count fell 1.6%. What buyers paid for each dollar of trailing revenue fell 33.2%, from $11.59 to $7.74. The identity is exact and the residual is zero.
historical · the 252 sessions to 2026-09-15written 2026-09-16
C31עובדהmedium confidence
Sell-side opinion has come off its highs without turning. The rating series ran 100% positive from January 2026 through July 2026 and stands at 88.9% positive of 9 analysts on 1 September 2026, having been 90.9% of 11 a month earlier. The panel grew from 7 analysts to 11 and then shrank to 9.
current state · 2026-09-01written 2026-09-16
C30עובדהmedium confidence
Short interest was 2,365,828 shares at the 31 August 2026 settlement, 6.9% of the float FMP reports, at 6.59 days of average volume to cover. It rose 0.3% on the prior settlement and is below the 2,714,217 shares outstanding short at the 15 July 2026 settlement.
current state · 2026-08-31written 2026-09-16
06

מה יכול להשתבש, ואיך נדע

הסיכונים

  • הצמיחה ממשיכה להאט. ארבע שנים של האטה בצמיחה, ותחזית החברה עצמה משמעה כ-15% לרבעון דצמבר.
  • מתחרה שאין לה צורך לגבות עמלות. Zillow מציעה למשכירים קטנים תשלומים, בדיקת דיירים וביטוח, ואינה צריכה לגבות עליהם תשלום.
  • התשלומים אוכלים את שיעור הרווח. עלות מתן השירות הגיעה ל-36.5% מהמכירות ביוני עם גידול התשלומים. היא ירדה ל-35.7% בספטמבר, אבל התחזית לשנה ללא שינוי.
  • אנליסטים לא שואלים. ההנהלה לא ענתה לשאלת אנליסט בשיחת דוחות כבר שנתיים, וגם לא ב-22 באוקטובר.
  • קומץ מעבדי תשלומים. התשלומים עוברים דרך מספר קטן של ספקים חיצוניים, ולחלקם אין חלופה.
הראיות (באנגלית) · 7 טענות
C18עובדהhigh confidence
Revenue growth has fallen every year since 2023: 31.5% in FY2023, 28.0% in FY2024, 19.7% in FY2025, and the raised fiscal 2026 guide puts the midpoint at 18.3%. Q2 2026 delivered 19.3% and Q3 2026 18.6%.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 growth of 18.6% added; the guide midpoint is 18.3% on the new $1.122B-$1.127B range.
historical · FY2023 to FY2026 guidedwritten 2026-09-16
C38הסקהmedium confidence
The company's own guide has the deceleration in it. The October 2026 outlook's $1.1245B midpoint against $839.029M delivered in nine months leaves about $285.5M for the fourth quarter, which is 15.0% growth against $248.2M (14.0% at the low end, 16.0% at the high end) - below the 19.4% the first nine months delivered. Management states that unit expansion among existing customers stays below last year's fourth quarter and comparable to the third.
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The midpoint is not a forecast, it is the centre of a range management has already raised once and has beaten in each of the last three prints - Q2 2026 revenue came in 1.4% above the vendor consensus, Q1 2026 1.6% above and Q4 2025 0.7% above. At the top of the range the second half grows 18.3% rather than 16.3%, which is barely a deceleration at all. The 2025 fourth quarter also carried one-time Stack partnership revenue, which raises the base the second half is measured against. The direction is right and the magnitude is soft. Q3 2026 revenue of $295.7M was 18.6% above a year earlier against a first-half 19.9%, so the deceleration the guide shows has begun.

  1. 2026-10-22editedOctober outlook: fourth-quarter growth implied at about 15.0%, replacing the 16.3% second-half rate from July.
forwardwritten 2026-09-16
C11עובדהhigh confidence
Zillow sells the same transaction stack to the small end of AppFolio's market and calls it something else. Its own FY2025 annual report says renters on Zillow "can shop, tour, submit applications, sign a lease, pay rent securely and obtain insurance", and that it assists "longtail landlords (which we define as properties with less than 25 units) with listings, advertising, leasing and property management services through Zillow Rental Manager". Applications, screening, rent payment and renters insurance are four of the five things AppFolio's Value Added Services sells.
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The same filing names AppFolio as a partner rather than a rival - "strategic partnerships with AppFolio and Esusu extend our reach" - and Zillow's competition section is written about residential brokerage, not about property management software. Zillow monetises the marketplace and sells no accounting system of record, so it does not replace what a manager of 5,000 units runs the business on. The overlap is at the sub-25-unit end and at the resident transaction, not at the ledger.

current state · 2026-02-11written 2026-09-16
C10עובדהhigh confidence
Cost of revenue excluding depreciation and amortisation was 36.3% of revenue in FY2025 against 35.5% in FY2024, so AppFolio kept 63.7 cents of each dollar sold against 64.5 cents. It rose again to 36.5% in Q2 2026, then fell to 35.7% in Q3 2026 against 36.7% a year earlier, a quarter that carried an extra bonus accrual; management guides the full year flat on 2025. The direction is the payments mix: the more of the toll business grows, the more of each dollar is interchange paid away.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 release: cost of revenue 35.7% of revenue, down from 36.7%; the CFO guides the full year flat on 2025.
historical · FY2025 and Q2 2026written 2026-09-16
C17עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio's management has not taken an analyst question on an earnings call in at least two years. Seven consecutive calls read in full - Q2 2024, Q2 2025, Q3 2025, Q4 2025, Q1 2026, Q2 2026 and Q3 2026 - each end the same way, with the chief executive or the operator closing straight after the prepared remarks. There is no question section to read, on any of them.
  1. 2026-10-22editedQ3 2026 call read: it ended after the chief financial officer's prepared remarks with no analyst question.
current state · 2026-10-22written 2026-09-16
C26עובדהhigh confidence
The concentration is on the supply side instead. The 10-K states that payments "are settled through our sponsoring clearing bank, licensed money transmitters, card payment processors and other third-party electronic payment services providers", that the company "generally do[es] not have long-term contracts with these service providers", and that it relies "on a limited number of third-party electronic payment services providers and, in some instances, do[es] not have a backup provider in place for a specific service". It also bears the loss on uncollected chargebacks.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C19עובדהhigh confidence
AppFolio has changed its fiscal 2026 outlook three times in three quarters. The January 2026 guide was $1,100M to $1,120M of revenue at a 25.5% to 27.5% non-GAAP operating margin on 36 to 37 million diluted shares; July raised it to $1,117M to $1,127M at 26.5% to 28.0%; October raised only the low end of revenue, to $1,122M to $1,127M, and lowered the top of the margin range to 27.5%, on approximately 36 million shares. Management says the margin range reflects a deliberate sales and marketing push. The revenue midpoint is up 1.3% and the margin midpoint 0.5 percentage points on January.
  1. 2026-10-22editedOctober outlook: revenue low end raised to $1,122M, margin range top lowered to 27.5%.
historical · FY2026 guidance, January to October 2026written 2026-09-16
שאלות פתוחות
  • כמה AppFolio גובה. לא פורסם מחיר של אף מסלול, לא העמלה על תשלום שכר דירה ולא מחיר בדיקת הדיירים.
  • כמה לקוחות נשארים מדי שנה. החברה לא מפרסמת שיעור שימור לקוחות.
  • כמה בתי מגורים להשכרה, ולא מבנים, מנוהלים בידי מנהל מקצועי. זה הגודל האמיתי של השוק שנותר.
הראיות (באנגלית) · 2 טענות
C03עובדהhigh confidence
That 78% is not contracted. The 10-K states usage-based fees are charged as a percentage of the transaction or a flat fee per transaction, "generally with no minimum usage commitments", and that payments fees are "recorded gross of any interchange and payment processing related fees". So the largest part of revenue is a toll collected transaction by transaction, and the reported figure includes money that passes straight through to card networks.
current state · 2026-09-16written 2026-09-16
C28עובדהmedium confidence
Professional management is far from universal at the small end, which is where the runway is. The 2021 Rental Housing Finance Survey found that "About 22 percent of small rental properties (1-4 units) are managed professionally while 84 percent of properties with 150 or more units are managed professionally", across 19.3 million rental properties containing 49.5 million rental units.
historical · 2021written 2026-09-16

מה ישנה את ההערכה שלנו

  1. ניטרלית→אטרקטיביתההכנסה לכל בית ממשיכה לצמוח בריבית דריבית, במכפיל נמוך יותר

    נדרשים כל אלה:

    • ○ההכנסה ליחידת דיור ממשיכה לגדול מהר ממספר היחידות, כשעמלות העסקאות צומחות מהר מהמנויים.ייבדק בתוצאות הבאות, הצפויות בפברואר 2027
    • ○שווי החברה יורד לכ-25 פעמים הרווח התפעולי הצפוי השנה, לעומת כ-35 בקירוב.בערך ‎≈$164.55 במחירי היום, 27% מתחת לסגירה האחרונה
  2. ניטרלית→לא אטרקטיביתתמהיל ההכנסות מקדים את המחיר, או שהיא מאבדת תיק לקוחות

    מספיק אחד מאלה:

    • ○עלות מתן השירות עוברת 38% מהמכירות, כלומר התשלומים גדלים מהר מהעמלה הנגבית עליהם.ייבדק בתוצאות הבאות, הצפויות בפברואר 2027
    • ○אחת המתחרות הנזכרות זוכה בתיק לקוחות שפורסם ברבים, של יותר מ-100,000 בתים, או שצמיחת מספר הבתים יורדת מתחת ל-6% בלי הסבר.במעקב שוטף
נטעה גם אם
  • ההכנסה לכל בית גדלה לאט יותר ממספר הבתים שלושה רבעונים ברציפות.

מה בהמשך

  • 29 באוקטובר 2026 תוצאות הרבעון השלישי של 2026: האם ההכנסה לכל בית ממשיכה לגדול מהר ממספר הבתים, האם צמיחת שירותי ערך מוסף נשארת מעל 20%, והאם התחזית תועלה בפעם השלישית.
כל האירועים הצפויים
  • 29 באוקטובר 2026 תוצאות הרבעון השלישי של 2026: האם ההכנסה לכל בית ממשיכה לגדול מהר ממספר הבתים, האם צמיחת שירותי ערך מוסף נשארת מעל 20%, והאם התחזית תועלה בפעם השלישית.
  • פברואר 2027 תוצאות הרבעון הרביעי ושנת 2026 כולה, תחזית 2027 ודוח ה-10-K לשנת 2026: האם הצמיחה מתייצבת סביב 15%, בהתאם למחצית השנייה שהתחזית משקפת, האם העלייה בשיעור הרווח ב-2026 נשמרת, וכמה מהיקף הרכישה החוזרת שאושר נוצל.
  • אפריל 2027 דוח הזימון לאסיפה לשנת 2027: האם התגמול עדיין מתגמל חתימה על בתים חדשים יותר מהכנסה לכל בית, כמה שולם ב-2026, וכמה מחזיקים עכשיו המייסדים ובעלי העניין.
מה קרה מאז
נכתבה
16 בספטמבר
המחיר בעת כתיבת התזה
$225.95
15 בספטמבר
  • 22 באוקטוברדוחותמכירות עלו ב-19%, 9.8 מיליון יחידות, והתחזית זזה רק מעטההכנסה ליחידה עדיין צמחה מהר מהיחידות. התחזית משמעה צמיחה של כ-15% ברבעון הבא, שהמחיר כבר מביא בחשבון. ההערכה נשארת ניטרלית.
  • 5 באוקטוברבדיקת התזההטיעון בעד ההשקעה מופיע עכשיו מתחת לשורה התחתונהאחרי פיילוט בחמש חברות, הבעלים ביקש להוסיף את הטיעון בעד ההשקעה לכל תזה.
  • 4 באוקטוברבדיקת התזהרשימת הבדיקות של הבעלים: מקורות ההכנסה, עלות הצמיחה, ההנהלה, אירועים צפוייםרשימת הבדיקות של הבעלים הראתה שהשיטה שותקת בשאלות מי מנהל את החברה, כמה עולה הצמיחה, מאיפה מגיע הכסף ואילו אירועים צפויים בתאריכים ידועים. בסבב הזה מילאנו את ארבעת הנושאים מתוך דוח הזימון לאסיפה והדוחות.
  • 16 בספטמברהתזה נכתבהניטרלית, ביטחון בינוניחמישית מבתי השכירות בארה״ב מנוהלים על מערכת הרישום שלה, אבל המחיר כבר מגלם המשך צמיחה בריבית דריבית של העמלה על כל בית.

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  1. S1primarycompany filing2026-02-05
    Item 1: the two revenue categories and what sits in each, the three subscription plans, the Value Added Services list, the Competition section (two classes, no company named), the government-regulation list, 22,096 property management customers and 1,702 employees at 31 December 2025. Item 1A: the generative and agentic AI risk factor, the interchange-fee risk, the reliance on a limited number of third-party payment providers with no backup for some services, the seasonality of Value Added Services, and the 83% Class B voting share. Item 7: 9.4 million units under management, the statement that payments fees are recorded gross of interchange, and that usage-based fees carry generally no minimum usage commitments. Item 8: the FY2025 income statement, balance sheet, the single-segment determination, the Terra Mar reinsurance subsidiary and the $150.0M revolving credit facility.
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  2. S10primaryregulator2026-09-16
    The statutory obligation that makes a property manager's accounting ledger a regulated record rather than a convenience - the mechanism behind the switching cost, stated by a state rather than by the seller.
    Business and Professions Code section 10145. A real estate broker who accepts funds belonging to others in connection with a transaction subject to this part shall deposit all those funds that are not immediately placed into a neutral escrow depository or into the hands of the broker's principal, into a trust fund account maintained by the broker in a bank or recognized depository in this state. All funds deposited by the broker in a trust fund account shall be maintained there until disbursed by the broker in accordance with instructions from the person entitled to the funds.
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  3. S11primaryregulator2025-12-15
    The definition the statute turns on - a coordinating function means collecting price, supply or lease data from multiple independent property owners, analysing it, and recommending rents. Reached only by an agent fetch: nysenate.gov returns a bot-protection page to curl, so this quote is a model's reading of the page rather than a frozen document, and the claim it backs is graded accordingly.
    any machine, device, computer program or computer software that on its own or with human assistance performs a coordinating function
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  4. S12primaryvendor data2026-09-16
    AppFolio research pack, frozen at content/APPF/research-pack.json
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    The market tier: the close of $225.95 on 15 September 2026, the market value of $8.07B and enterprise value of $7.89B, the 252-day and 126-day price-move decompositions, the trailing multiples against the company's own six-year medians, the analyst rating series, FINRA short interest at the 31 August 2026 settlement, the quarterly cash flow series and the adjusted-against-filed earnings per share history.
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  5. S13primarycompany filing2026-09-16
    400 open-market sales and no open-market purchases in the year to 16 September 2026, of which 398 sales covering 99.0% of the shares sold were made under a plan adopted in advance, leaving two discretionary sales of 2,495 shares in total.
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  6. S14primarycompany filing2026-02-05
    An executive who signed an employment agreement on 6 February 2025 left on 14 November 2025, and was barred from company systems from 27 October 2025 through the transition period.
    read, but no claim rests on it
  7. S15primarytranscript2026-04-23
    Five calls spanning two years, each ending with the chief executive saying 'Operator, this concludes today's call' straight after the prepared remarks. No analyst question is taken on any of them.
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  8. S16primarycompany filing2026-04-28
    executive officer biographies and tenure, the 2025 bonus and PSU metrics, weights, payout curves and certified results, the 2025 grant values, and beneficial ownership by class and voting power at March 31, 2026
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  9. S17primarycompany filing2026-08-13
    Maurice Duca's beneficial ownership of 6,410,682 shares including 6,107,513 Class B, 21.2% of Class A on an as-converted basis and 44.7% of total voting power, as of August 13, 2026
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  10. S18primarycompany filing2026-10-22
    Q3 2026 revenue $295.691M, Value Added Services $231.948M, Subscription Services $61.525M, income from operations $57.411M, operating cash flow $96.766M, nine-month revenue $839.029M, cash $258.5M and investment securities $48.7M, the revised FY2026 outlook ($1.122B-$1.127B revenue, 26.5%-27.5% non-GAAP margin, about 36 million shares)
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  11. S19primarytranscript2026-10-22
    9.8 million units against 9.1 million and 23.1 thousand customers against 21.8 thousand; cost of revenue 35% on the non-GAAP measure; the statement that existing-customer unit expansion stays below last year's and comparable to the third quarter in the fourth; the margin range reflecting a deliberate sales and marketing push; cost of revenue guided flat on 2025; and the fact that the call ended after prepared remarks with no analyst question
    We ended the quarter managing approximately 9.8 million units. An 8% increase from 9.1 million units a year ago. Customers grew to 23.1 thousand up 6% from 21.8 thousand.
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  12. S2primarycompany filing2026-07-23
    The Q2 2026 statements. Read for a customer-concentration note and there is none in the document, which is itself the disclosure answer.
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  13. S3primarycompany release2026-07-23
    Revenue split by category for Q2 2026 and the year-ago quarter; the balance sheet at 30 June 2026; the cash flow statement with $125,010 thousand of share repurchases in the half; stock-based compensation by expense line; diluted share counts; GAAP and non-GAAP operating income; and the raised fiscal 2026 outlook of $1.117B to $1.127B of revenue at a 26.5% to 28.0% non-GAAP operating margin.
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  14. S4primarytranscript2026-07-23
    9.6 million units against 8.9 million a year ago and 22,751 customers against 21,403; 1,732 employees; premium tier adoption moving from about one unit in four to nearly one in three; the CFO's description of the go-to-market model as entry pricing under multiyear agreements followed by value-added services revenue; the statement that cost of revenue rose on payments product mix and data centre capacity for AI; the guidance assumption of a more moderate pace of unit expansion among existing customers; the note that 2025 Q4 carried one-time Stack partnership revenue; and the fact that the call ended after prepared remarks with no analyst question taken.
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  15. S5primarycompany release2026-01-29
    FY2025 non-GAAP operating income of $235M at 24.7% of revenue against 25.2% in 2024 - the margin fell; 9.4 million units, up 8%; and the original fiscal 2026 outlook of $1,100M to $1,120M of revenue at a 25.5% to 27.5% non-GAAP operating margin on 36 to 37 million diluted shares, which is what the July raise is measured against.
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  16. S6primarycompany filing2026-02-11
    Zillow's own description of what Zillow Rentals does for renters and for landlords, its definition of a longtail landlord, the 2.4 million average monthly active rental listings, the statement that Rentals was 24% of total revenue in 2025 growing 39%, the naming of AppFolio as a strategic partner, and the exclusive Elise AI integration behind its leasing assistant.
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  17. S7primarygovernment data2026-07-28
    The base for the prize and the rate for the driver: 46.827 million renter-occupied housing units in the second quarter of 2026, against 46.355 million a year earlier.
    Housing Inventory Estimate: Renter Occupied Housing Units in the United States - 46.827 million units at 2026-04-01 against 46.355 million at 2025-04-01, growth of 1.02%.
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  18. S8primarygovernment data2022-11-29
    The professional-management rate by property size, and the survey's count of 19.3 million rental properties containing 49.5 million rental units.
    Among the 19.3 million rental properties, which contain 49.5 million rental units. About 22 percent of small rental properties (1-4 units) are managed professionally while 84 percent of properties with 150 or more units are managed professionally.
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  19. S9primaryregulator2026-07-16
    The market structure nobody in this industry publishes: RealPage's share of rent-setting software, that Yardi and Entrata are the next two largest, the restrictions the settlement places on what data a pricing algorithm may use, and the 2021 American Housing Survey count of 21.1 million multifamily apartments against a conventional multifamily market of about 14 million units. AppFolio appears nowhere in the document.
    As early as 2019, a RealPage presentation for clients stated that RealPage ``has around 80% of the Revenue Management market share.'' That share has proved durable over time. In 2023, during a sales pitch to a property owner, a RealPage representative noted that ``[RealPage] has 80% to 85% of the market share with the closest competitor around 12% (<750K units).''
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