Sica Fletcher

MARCH 8, 2024

Starting in H2 2022, the insurance M&A market has seen a notably difficult 18-month period, afflicted with high interest rates, lowered deal volumes, and lowered valuations. If they do, then we can expect to see valuations and, by extent, EBITDA multiples for insurance agencies rise. Learn more at , ,, SicaFletcher.com.

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Solganick & Co.

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While overall deal volume dipped slightly compared to the record-breaking highs of 2022, falling by around 5%, the total value of transactions remained surprisingly resilient, hovering near the $400 billion mark, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

PE firms rely on leveraged buyouts (LBOs) for the lion's share of their deals, which often involve using the acquired company’s assets as collateral to insure the loan used to purchase it. Conversely, when interest rates are high, valuations are supposed to decrease because buyers will try to make up what they are losing to interest.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 23, 2024

Since H2 2022, industries across the board (including insurance) have seen declines in deal volume as prospective buyers have withheld their funds for more favorable conditions in which the cost of debt is not so high. Consult data sources like S&P Global data to get an idea of a firm’s activity within the industry.

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 18, 2024

The S&P 500 has recently traded near 4800, close to its record at the end of 2021. It has taken two years to return to those levels, after 2022 and 2023 were burdened with interest rate hikes and fears of a recession. As 2024 starts, the U.S. stock markets are at or near their all-time highs.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 8, 2024

While we’ve already written extensively on the process of insurance agency valuation , the following sections focus on what to look for in the earliest stages of considering a sale - in other words, what deciding factors to look for to determine whether you should sell your agency. What Documents Do I Need? hidden behind a paywall or b.)

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Software Equity Group

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

By aligning your company’s strategies and performance with their evolving priorities, you can enhance your appeal in the competitive landscape of software investments and acquisitions. In 2022, investors and buyers were keenly focused on gross revenue retention (GRR) and gross profit margin (GPM) as top metrics to target.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 11, 2024

However, the brokerage's tech stack now handles many of these job functions, which significantly improves the bottom line and increases profitability. Founders Michael Fletcher and Al Sica are two of the industry's leading dealmakers who have advised on over $16 billion in insurance agency and brokerage transactions since 2014.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 29, 2024

2) our team noted unexpected increases in the valuation multiples offered for insurance agencies, as depicted below. Founders Michael Fletcher and Al Sica are two of the industry's leading dealmakers who have advised on over $16 billion in insurance agency and brokerage transactions since 2014.

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FineMark

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Equities and the S&P 500 At the onset of each new year, like clockwork, we’re asked for our near-term view. benchmark equity index, the S&P 500. Consequently, by the end of July 2023, the S&P was up more than 20% for the year. This year was no different.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

AUGUST 14, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, there has been overwhelming hype about all things artificial intelligence (AI). Again, these are all perfectly viable and profitable businesses, but they don’t have the same margin or valuation profile as true SaaS companies.

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FineMark

JANUARY 17, 2024

The equity market also noted the Fed’s comments as investors piled back into equities and the S&P 500 finished the year up more than 26%. Eventually, the Consumer Price Index retracted, dropping from its peak of 9% in summer 2022 to its current rate of about 3%. in the rising rate period and 11.8%

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FineMark

JULY 13, 2023

The stark differences in index performance, specifically the effects of mega-cap technology listings and their disproportionately large weights in the S&P 500, are also worth highlighting. Some of this weightiness can be seen in the performance disparity to date between the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1]

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

While 2020’s M&A landscape was characterized by whiplash volatility from choppy deal activity in the first half of the year to a surge in volume in the second half, that momentum accelerated in 2021, with no signs of slowing down heading into 2022. billion , Acceleron Pharma’s agreement to sell to Merck for $11.5

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