Business Sale Report (BSR), the UK’s leading platform for private company M&A intelligence, has launched the BSR Deal Value Index, a new interactive benchmark that tracks actual acquisition values achieved across the UK private company market.
The index plots achieved transaction values against company EBITDA to provide an indication of value “bands” at different scales. It is designed to help business owners, acquirers and advisers understand the importance of risk as the key influence on the transaction price of deals completed in the marketplace.
Information is sourced from publicly disclosed transactions, deal information from corporate advisors and from BSR’s internal research department. “The data confirms what experienced dealmakers already know: buyers pay a premium for certainty,” said Chris St Cartmail, CEO of Business Sale Report.
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