Need market comps for your family business?
If you want to see what sort of values businesses are getting in the market now, we’ve just added over 400 new private company transactions to BIZCOMPS, bringing the total in the database to over 12,000. BIZCOMPS focuses on small company transactions; the median selling price of the companies added is $166,000. So, it’s a [...]
What’s important about your company’s IP…?
The editor of Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) raised some great points in another post this week. This was the result of questions he asked numerous speakers at the recent Intellectual Property Business Congress regarding their views on important IP-related issues. His summary:
1. Why do you believe IP is an important corporate asset?
a. It is core to [...]
Researching acquisitions? Pitchbook reaches 50,000 deal milestone
PitchBook has alerted businessvaluation.com that it’s pushed its deal count beyond 50,000 domestic and international transactions (representing over $6.24 trillion of invested capital) in the PE and VC universe. These transactions—plus data on deal sizes, transaction multiples, investors, sellers, lenders, service providers, company financials and more—are available on the Pitchbook platform.
Over 41,000 companies, 14,000 investors, [...]
Search the financial statements and deal documents of over 20,000 M&A deals with one click
Subscribers to Pratt’s Stats and Public Stats have long been able to search private sold businesses and public sales without commingling the summary results: but now, with recent changes to the system, users can toggle back and forth between the two databases with one click. For instance, if you’re looking for information for a company [...]
Are we witnessing the beginning of the return of manufacturing to the U.S.?
“Manufacturing is starting to move back to the west,” says Pippa Malmgren of the Canonbury Group. Speaking to the CFA group from the beautiful Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, she commented that you’re seeing events like the Chinese taking a position in Volvo. Or you’re seeing international investment in farmland in Australia. “International markets respond [...]
The best source for all the public company acquisitions last year
After large declines in the activity of mergers and acquisitions in 2008 and 2009, the soon-to-be-released 2011 Mergerstat Review reports they are on the increase.
The number of mergers and acquisitions announced in 2010 was 9,116. This represents an increase of about 34% from 2009. The total value of announced mergers and acquisitions that disclosed a [...]
Berkery Noyes offers another source of M&A research in the information industries
BN has spruced up its web offering with MandASoft–which as with so many other promoters of the transaction market shows increasing activity. Private equity seems particularly active in this market segment; the strategic buyers are there, but perhaps holding their cards a bit.
What are the key issues for family owned businesses in 2011?
The PWC Family Business Survey 2010/11 indicates family business owners are exhibiting “post-crisis wariness” and are “waiting for greater market certainty” before implementing new business plans. Nevertheless, the survey shows family businesses are poised for growth.
The top 5 areas family businesses plan to invest in to improve productivity and competitiveness are:
1. IT infrastructure
2. HR/training
3. Sales [...]
Competitive research from BizMiner updated with 2ndQ 2010 data
“Responding to feedback we received from the last BizMiner “mid year” update, we’ve reconfigured the reporting years (not metrics) slightly,” reports Jon Brandow (BizMiner). The new release will carry over the year-end data and add an additional column that represents a mid-year update (in most cases, for the 12 months ending QII-10).
The following series have [...]
Insiders see marked increase in middle-market private equity deal activity
One source of what businesses are selling for is GF Data Resources. They track and pool transactions from 150 active PE firms.
Those firms completed approximately 20 deals in the first quarter of 2010 and 30 deals in the second quarter–“up a bit from the ‘death valley days’ of ’09, but still well off of the 40-plus [...]
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