A global leader in consumer cybersecurity
Our proven strategy, including our pioneering freemium business model and diversified product portfolio with exposure to highly profitable segments, provides multiple avenues for long-term growth.
- We have a huge market opportunity in front of us
- Avast is strongly positioned within this market, and has multiple avenues to drive long term growth:
- Consumer direct: increasing the number of customers and revenue per customer
- Consumer indirect: increasing our indirect monetization
- SMB: expanding into network security
- Continuing to innovate in staying ahead of malware and competitors
- Targeted M&A
- High level of brand awareness
- Highly recognized not only by consumers, but also by the online security community
- Massive global user footprint and large scale presence across geographies
- Clear market leadership and strong brand awareness
- Differentiated business model underpinned by a highly effective and affordable direct sales approach
Massive user base
435M+PC customers
12M+- Our best marketing tool is the quality of our products. Our next-gen antivirus uses AI and employs machine learning algorithms to improve our detection performance
- We have a dedicated and experienced research and engineering team
- 750+ engineers, c. 50% of total full time employees
- 60+ data scientists and threat researchers, including the Avast machine learning team
- Our multi-layered security engine stopped c. 1.5bn attacks per month, including the WannaCry attack which affected millions of PCs worldwide in 2017
Servers
globally
PC Attacks stopped/
month
URLs processed monthly
>200Bn- As our technology platform improves, we earn more trust from our users, promoting strong brand awareness, and increasing demand for our products - further augmenting our user base
- Our large user base generates indirect monetization opportunities such as distribution of third party software and mobile advertising
Countries
each with
1M+ users
- Avast has delivered consistent growth at scale over the past years
- Our subscription-based business model provides a high degree of cash and revenue visibility
- Our highly cost-effective go to market approach results in superior profitability
2020 Adj.
Billings
ADJ. EBITDA MARGIN 2020
55.5%CASH CONVERSION 2020
86%