Turnover: 2.07 billion EUR (2020)

Country: United Kingdom

The Sage Group is a British multinational business software company headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).

Sage is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of the FTSE 100 index.

It is the UK's second-largest technology company and the world's third-largest supplier of enterprise resource planning software (behind Oracle and SAP), the largest supplier to small businesses, and has 6.1 million customers worldwide. It is present in 24 countries

Sage provides small and medium-sized businesses with a range of business management software and services billed as "easy to use, secure and efficient" - from accounting, human resources and payroll to payments, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management.

Sage Group plc is an aggressive acquirer. Enterprise software companies acquired by Sage Group include: Netcash (2010), Aytos accounting (2009), API (2008), Aytos not for profit (2008), API (2008), DCS (2008), Eurowin (2008), Tekton (2008), XRT (2007), KCS (2007), Snowdrop (2007), Pro-Concept (2007), Creative (2007), Xperts (2007), Emdeon (2006), Verus (2006), Adonix (2006), Elit (2006), Protx (2006), Bäurer (2006), Master Builder/Contractor Anywhere (2006), UBS (2006), Logic Control (2005), Simultan (2005), Symfonia (2005), Cogestib (2005), ACCPAC (2004), Grupo SP (2004), Softline (2004), FLS (2004), Timberline (2003), CPASoftware (2002), Interact (2001), MIP (2001), Best (2000), Peachtree (1999), Tetra (1999), Sesam (1999), State of the Art (1998), KHK (1997), Sybel & Saari (1995), Ciel (1992) and DacEasy (1991).

The merger of Ciel, owned by Sage, and Sybel & Saari, acquired by Sage in 1995, gave birth to Sage France.

In France, Sage offers various accounting solutions on PC, Mac and cloud, including Ciel Compta, Sage, Sage, SageOne.

Financial Data

DUNS: 313966129

Legal Name: SAGE

Address: 10 PLACE DE BELGIQUE , 92250 LA GARENNE-COLOMBES

Number of employees: Entre 1 000 et 1 999 salariés (2021)

Capital: 6 750 000 EUR


Financial Data:

Year 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Turnover 319 999 363 310 077 905 298 700 813 - 318 862 332 337 619 319 305 271 666 314 789 272
Gross margin (€) 360 149 328 361 905 891 336 019 377 - 342 312 709 368 042 212 331 094 619 320 688 333
EBITDA (€) 51 502 342 61 096 609 50 913 614 -29 693 56 287 396 80 612 680 76 002 949 81 632 721
Operating profit (€) 60 692 604 69 906 307 49 454 857 -29 693 63 790 771 99 762 614 81 451 723 30 862 057
Net profit (€) 50 595 573 83 926 587 51 197 959 58 538 851 45 896 554 73 576 195 54 623 138 2 437 871
Turnover growth rate (%) 3,2 3,8 -2,6 - -5,6 10,6 -3 -
Ebitda margin rate (%) 16,1 19,7 17 - 17,7 23,9 24,9 25,9
Operating margin rate (%) 19 22,5 16,6 - 20 29,5 26,7 9,8
Working Capital (turnover days) 424,6 352,9 321,9 - 296,2 187,6 150,5 108,3
Working Capital requirements (turnover days) 119,9 120,4 81,8 - 127,3 111,9 92,9 89
Net margin (%) 15,8 27,1 17,1 - 14,4 21,8 17,9 0,8
Added value / Turnover (%) 62,7 67,8 68,9 - 69,1 71,1 72,8 75,7
Wages and social charges (€) 138 842 574 132 542 732 134 201 219 - 130 320 909 137 080 220 129 516 966 128 963 489
Salaries / Turnover (%) 43,4 42,7 44,9 - 40,9 40,6 42,4 41

Company Managers:

Position First Name Last Name Age Linkedin
Président Arnaud, Francois Petit 49

Studies mentioning this company

The software as a service market - France

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  • Sopra Steria
  • Citrix
  • Algolia
  • Talend
  • Sage
  • XEFI
  • Aircall
  • SAP
  • Atos Eviden
  • Microsoft
The accounting software market - France

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  • SAP
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  • CEGID
  • EBP
  • Divalto
  • Pennylane
  • Axonaut
  • Flowie
  • Alticap
  • Indy
  • Sellsy
  • Freebe
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  • Mapap
  • Regate
  • Freshbooks
  • Tiime
  • Fulll
  • My unisoft
  • ACD Groupe
  • Agiris
  • Quickbooks (Intuit France)
  • Teogest
  • Exact
  • RevisAudit Premium
  • Inqom (Visma Group)
  • Limpeed
  • Bleez
  • Memsoft
  • Zephyr Groupe
  • Adomis (Zephyr groupe)
  • Cogilog
  • Cogilog
  • COGILOG
  • Ma Compta.fr
  • Wavesoft
The accounting software market - Brazil

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  • Sage
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  • Alterdata
  • Wolters Kluwer (Prosoft)
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