Most sellers continue to receive valuations at 94% of benchmark or better. Multiples were steady or better in all but the highest value market sector.For businesses with enterprise value of $5 million to $50 million, survey results are intriguing. Those businesses received valuations at 102% of benchmark, even as multiples… Read More »Average Sale Price Realized To Asking/Benchmark Price
Even though current engagement are up, all market segments expect less activity in the next five years Despite concerns over market headwinds, advisors continue to report a strong influx of new engagements, despite being slightly less than last year. More than 50% said their number of clients “greatly increased” in… Read More »Change In New Client Engagements Year Over Year, 5-Point Scale
The multiples expectations are down across the board. Market optimism is dropping, as approximately 40% of advisors predict the Main Street and lower middle markets are headed for a decline in the year ahead. The remaining 60% are roughly split on whether they believe market conditions will stay the same… Read More »Expectations For Business Valuations, 5-Point Scale
Interest rates is the items that has had a negative impact, followed closely by recession and inflation. So top 3 are triggered by out of control inflation. Last quarter, advisors pointed to labor shortages as the biggest negative impact on M&A. Now that issue doesn’t even reach their top four… Read More »Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Market Conditions
After spiking this spring and summer, they are now back to somewhat normal demands. This indicates that the supply chain issues may be easing, it could also indicates the volume is down.
The strategic petroleum reserve has only been tapped 3 time before 2022. We are now down to leves we haven’t seen since the mid 1980s. About the SPR The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil was established primarily to reduce the impact of disruptions… Read More »Strategic Petroleum Reserve
With the rate increases the housing market and pricing are just taking a beating, this may spread as people begin to realize their net worth is dropping. The new GDP numbers are out, and one striking thing to draw from them is this: The housing sector is overwhelmingly bearing the… Read More »Housing Is Taking It On The Chin
In the past seven years Arizona has consistently outgrown the GDP of the US In 2022, Arizona’s GDP reached $341.8b, representing an increase of 2.5% from 2021. Arizona’s GDP has grown at an annualized rate of 1.3% over the five years to 2022. Moreover, Arizona’s trailing five-year GDP growth ranks… Read More »Arizona Economic Growth
The number of closed business deals is down slightly from last quarter. After five consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth, small business acquisition activity has slowed, according to BizBuySell’s Insight Report, which tracks and analyzes U.S. business-for-sale transactions and sentiment from business owners, buyers, and brokers. The number of closed deals… Read More »Completed Business Deals
As seller confidence drops, buyer confidence increases. Confidence among small business owners dropped to a score of 46 in 2022, down from 57 in 2021, according to BizBuySell’s Business for Sale Confidence Index, which measures the sentiments of over 3,000 business owners and buyers. A score of 46 falls within… Read More »Buyer and Seller Confidence