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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

Being in your country’s top ~5% of earners will make a FAR bigger difference than fancy strategies, day trading, or finding the occasional meme coin that goes up by 100x. Investing Principles: Why a High Income Trumps Everything Else Between 2009 and 2014, I did not have a traditional portfolio via a brokerage firm.

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How To Value an Insurance Agency

Sica Fletcher

Preparing for an Insurance Agency Valuation Because the valuation process is really about determining the profitability of your insurance agency, any and all efforts should be made prior to the valuation to reduce costs and generate revenue. This figure is often averaged by calculating EBITDA over the course of several years.

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How Much Is My Insurance Agency Worth?

Sica Fletcher

This removes the effects of non-cash expenses on the agency, thus isolating the agency’s profitability because they can be different under the buyer’s management. In addition, third-party M&A institutions like S&P Global Data or Statista can provide more generalized data.

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Adjusted EBITDA Insurance Agency

Sica Fletcher

This valuation model is used largely in M&A settings to determine the value of a company as it would appear to a prospective buyer by adding interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization costs back into the business’s profits, since these elements will be fundamentally different post-closing.

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Insurance M&A Deals in 2024

Sica Fletcher

PE firms have taken up a larger space in the total number of insurance M&A acquirers, making the profit motive for acquiring a small agency a bigger factor influencing insurance M&A deals in the current market. Agency vs. Company: Which Is The Better Insurance M&A Deal?

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Insurance Agency EBITDA Multiples: 2024 Report

Sica Fletcher

Small to Midsize Brokerages Are Becoming More Valuable Projections indicate that interest rates are likely to decrease in 2024, which will make larger brokerages a profitable option for acquirers again. If they do, then we can expect to see valuations and, by extent, EBITDA multiples for insurance agencies rise.

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Know Your Insurance Agency: Purchase Price Calculations

Sica Fletcher

Determine EBITDA Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) is used as a measure of the profitability of an insurance agency while adding back interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization - all of which will vary depending on the circumstances of the new owner.