Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I still recall the metric that was drilled into me back then: hit $50 million in revenue and a few back-to-back years of profitability and you, too, can go public. The benefits of going public are significant. For tire dealers, private equity offers several advantages over going public.

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MergersCorp M&A International

AUGUST 9, 2024

These funds typically invest in publicly traded securities and derivatives, allowing for a wide range of investment tactics that can include long and short positions, derivatives trading, and leveraging. Private equity firms acquire companies, improve their performance, and then sell them for a profit after a few years.

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because now you make a significant impact when they acquire you, it looks, especially if they're publicly traded and they acquire you, it actually impacts their overall picture, a hundred million dollar company acquires a million dollar company. Doesn't make a blimp a hundred million dollar company adds, 5 million to profit.

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How2Exit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

rn The cash flow statement is a crucial tool for evaluating a company's financial health and understanding the nature of its profits and expenses. rn The microeconomic factors of a company, such as its growth, profitability, and management team, have a more significant impact on its value than the overall state of the economy.

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Software Equity Group

MARCH 13, 2023

HR and Talent Management came in a close third place with 184 deals for the year. Interest in these categories was reflected in rising public market revenue for BI & Analytics and HR & Talent Management, speaking to the demand for business intelligence and the tight labor market of 2022.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Stock prices and valuations of many leading public SaaS companies have fallen drastically from the beginning of 2022—but while that will affect the private market, it does not necessarily spell doom and gloom. This post will examine the current state of public SaaS company valuations and what it means for private companies.

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Software Equity Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In recent years, software buyers have been keenly focused on gross revenue retention (GRR) and gross profit margin (GPM) , largely because strong performance in these areas provides security amid uncertain economic conditions. In others, they stay on to continue managing their company as a subsidiary of the new owners.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

The Analytics and Data Management category was second in 2023, with 285 deals. Also of note, ERP / Business Management saw stable M&A volume in 2023, which mirrors its consistent growth and steady valuations in the public markets and further demonstrates the category’s mission-critical nature. #2.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

The Analytics and Data Management category was second in 2023, with 285 deals. Also of note, ERP / Business Management saw stable M&A volume in 2023, which mirrors its consistent growth and steady valuations in the public markets and further demonstrates the category’s mission-critical nature. #2.

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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Managed Services Providers (MSPs) The managed services provider (MSP) industry saw strong M&A activity in Q1 2024. Shift to Profitability over Growth: The market is shifting away from “growth at all costs” to a focus on profitability. alone since January 2024.

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Razorpay

JULY 27, 2023

Investment Banking Services Initial Public Offering (IPO) When a privately-owned business wants to become a publicly traded company, it goes through an IPO , or Initial Public Offering. Investment Banking is a very profitable business, being one of the most highly paid careers in the world. How do they do this?

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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 17, 2025

Specializing helps a shop build a reputation for excellence in its niche, and bring more services in-house, many of which are highly profitable. It all contributes to perhaps the second-biggest benefit of specialization behind ensuring safe and proper repairs — increased profitability. billion, and its adjusted EBITDA was $368.2

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Software Equity Group

OCTOBER 22, 2024

WATCH NOW : Craft a Winning Pricing Strategy to Maximize ARR Growth and Valuation Net Retention in Public Software Companies: Insights from the SEG SaaS Index We recently began tracking net retention information in our SEG SaaS Index , which tracks the performance of 120+ publicly traded software companies.

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Software Equity Group

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Strategic buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. They are interested in companies where they can help operations, improve the management team, and do better on sales and marketing. Which is right for your company? They look at M&A as a way to drive investments.

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Software Equity Group

APRIL 4, 2023

Our panel comprises leaders well-versed in go-to-market operations for SaaS businesses of all types, from bootstrapped startups to PE-backed and publicly traded companies. Our customer marketing manager worked closely with Product, which owned our Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Overall, this strategy resulted in a 22% decrease in CAC.

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Software Equity Group

JANUARY 29, 2024

Strategic Buyers These types of buyers run the gamut; they can be publicly traded or privately owned software companies. Strategic buyers typically include boards and management teams that require buy-in, as well as a thorough post-transaction integration plan.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

Novartis announced plans to spin off its generics and biosimilars division into a publicly traded stand-alone company. We also are aware of a number of deals where buyers walked away late in discussions due to unexpected FDA or other regulatory risks, the potential impact of a transaction on profitability or the lack of board support.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

3] Against this backdrop, an M&A exit at a compelling premium is often seen by company boards and management teams as a way to significantly de?risk product, commercial-stage biotech companies to go public that may be facing longer odds of becoming profitable as standalone businesses. Even setting COVID?

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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McKesson, a public company with approximately $76 billion in market value, will purchase an 80% interest in PRISM for approximately $850M. PRISM was founded in 2018 with Quad-C Managements acquisition of NJ Retina, a large Retina practice in New Jersey.

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In RCA, Cencora saw the opportunity to acquire additional profitability downstream of its existing operations. Cencora, one of the largest publicly-traded pharmaceutical companies in the world, distributes pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products and other healthcare supplies and equipment to healthcare providers.

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