Dropbox (NASDAQ:DBX), New Relic (NYSE:NEWR), Coupa Computer software (NASDAQ:COUP) are prospective acquisition candidates for strategic and non-public fairness firms, in accordance to a RBC analyst.

Dropbox (DBX) could be a concentrate on for a Adobe (ADBE) or Salesforce (CRM), when New Relic and Coupa Software program may possibly see private fairness fascination, RBC analyst Rishi Jaluria claimed in an job interview on Thursday on CNBC.

Tech giants like Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and Oracle (ORCL) “are seeking at some of these multiples coming down so considerably and declaring, hey this is a wonderful time to consolidate some IT invest and seriously choose advantage of the significant pullback we’re looking at in this article,” Jaluria explained.

Zoom Video clip (NASDAQ:ZM) and Docusign (DOCU) “are big beneficiaries of the pandemic and remote perform, but they have pulled back to this sort of minimal stages and trade at this sort of affordable multiples on profitability that we imagine they are attractive to some huge acquirers, namely Salesforce,” Jaluria extra.

Other achievable targets may perhaps include Box Inc. (BOX) Couchbase (Base), 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 this sort of as antitrust worries blocking software acquisitions.

“The regulatory bodies do not seem to treatment as a great deal about business computer software as they do about customer technologies,” Jaluria reported. “Although the regulators will occur down on Facebook or Google or Amazon attempting to obtain an individual, it won’t appear to be the situation with anything similar to organization software program and specially with another person like Salesforce or SAP or Oracle shopping for a midcap computer software title I you should not feel that regulatory is likely to be key hurdle to making that take place.”

Jaluria sees the 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 Video (ZM), according an RBC take note from April 11 composed by Jaluria and analyst Matthew Hedberg.

The most most likely targets for non-public fairness takeout are Box Inc. (BOX), Coupa Software (COUP), N-capable (NABL), New Relic (NEWR), NortonLifeLock (NLOK), Solarwinds (SWI) and Teradata (TDC).

In late March a prominent undertaking capital explained Anaplan’s (Plan) $10.7 billion sale to non-public fairness powerhouse Thoma Bravo may perhaps person in a spate of deals in the computer software area.