Current Trends in the Online Retail IndustryÂ
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Summer 2017 Highlights
- Public online retailers’ valuation multiples are trading at 1.64 times revenue and 18.5 times EBITDA—an increase of 78.2% and 20.9%, respectively—as compared to the fourth quarter in 2016.
- Online retail sales adjusted for seasonal variation reached $105.7 billion in the first quarter of 2017, making it the first nonholiday quarter to exceed $100 billion in sales.
- Stitch Fix, an online subscription-based apparel company, confidentially filed for an IPO as of July 28, 2017.
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