Sica Fletcher

APRIL 11, 2024

Your agency valuation will play a large role in influencing how buyers perceive your agency’s worth. Take time before bringing your agency to market to optimize your daily operations, thus increasing the likelihood of a higher valuation. Generally, these fall into two distinct categories of advisory firms or investment banks.

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In particular, companies in the logistics space likely will enjoy an enhancer to valuation if they utilize cutting edge technology. Nevertheless, owners are still holding out for what they perceive as the higher valuations of the previous few years. Contact Bill at William.snow@focusbankers.com.

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iMerge Advisors

APRIL 19, 2025

While the market for software acquisitions remains active, smaller SaaS businesses often face unique challenges in positioning, valuation, and deal execution that differ markedly from their larger counterparts. These businesses typically face: Valuation complexity due to hybrid revenue models (e.g.,

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 24, 2023

You could even say that a long-only fund that invests in undervalued companies based on their earnings announcements is “event-driven.” They have their investment thesis and valuation, and the earnings announcement is the event that unlocks value… …but this is not what “event-driven” means in most cases.

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Tyton Partners

MAY 4, 2023

Paucity of deals will help sustain enterprise valuations (for some) The inexorable principles of supply-and-demand applied to deal pricing should be in-effect for the balance of 2023. see Renaissance and Curriculum Associates), as the increasing scale – and expected valuations – of new oligopoly players makes for a limited buyer pool.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Capital Sources The capital sources for the lower middle market are – #1 – Bank loans It is the primary source of capital raising , especially for LMM companies; if they have a strong history of market performance and operations with good prospects, the banks are always ready to offer good loans and lines of credit to such firms. #2

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whether due to new technologies supplanting the old, overhyped valuations crashing to earth, errors in judgement, or lack of business acumen, the tech world is rife with the rise and fall of companies and careers. The post Recap: 2023 West Coast M&A/Private Equity Forum appeared first on FOCUS Investment Banking LLC.

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MergersCorp M&A International

JULY 5, 2024

In March, artificial intelligence server maker Super Micro Compute raise $1.7B in capital raise and paid 0% interest rate. Over the past month a string of prominent Chinese technology groups, including Alibaba and JD.com have collectively raised a staggering $8.3B

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Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 14, 2024

Healthy competition for the top bakeries has increased valuations in recent years, with strong purchase price / cash flow (EBITDA) multiples. Jim Sowers is a Managing Director with more than 30 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance.

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Focus Investment Banking

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We believe small and medium-sized business service companies—not just large corporations—need to adopt AI and automation into their processes to streamline their operations, reduce errors, improve productivity, cut costs, and increase sales, which leads to richer valuations and attractiveness to prospective acquirers. We’re here to help.

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Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Many owners are bearish when discussing a capital related transaction, be it a capital raise, selling a minority stake, or selling their beloved brand creation. These leaders have developed a successful brand and understand that market scarcity drives market demand—and that this can and usually will command a premium valuation.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 5, 2025

In technology, as a startup keeps raising capital, it normally does so at gradually higher valuations as its customers, users, and revenue grow. But in biotech, companies valuations often remain close to their total capital raised until much later in the process (i.e., or Ph.D.),

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