Healthcare M&A and Valuation
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On December 11, 2024, Patterson Companies, Inc. announced its acquisition by Patient Square Capital, an investment firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. Patterson is a leading distributor of dental, animal health, and rehabilitation products and supplies, with a portfolio of subsidiaries that span a broad set of product lines including dental consumables and equipment, veterinary supplies, and physical rehabilitation technologies, and is supported by a nationwide distri

Our primary focus is on compiling data related to valuations and M&A activity for healthcare operating businesses. However, we also track...

The autism services and pediatric therapy segments of the behavioral health industry (ABA, occupational and speech therapy, etc.)...

Larger home health and hospice acquisitions dominate the headlines (examples here, here, and here), along with their often nosebleed...

Scope Research maintains what we believe to be the largest and most reliable database of private healthcare M&A transactions with...

Scope Research's Healthcare Services M&A Valuations 2010 - 2019 details some of our insights from the past decade of collecting price to...

Valuation multiples in the healthcare services industry are increasing, just like the price of about everything. Multiple expansion...

We ranked the 30 largest healthcare services and information technology deals of 2018, according to our database, by valuation multiple....

We ranked the 30 largest healthcare services and information technology deals of 2018, according to our database, by valuation multiple....

Healthcare services organizations rely on a variety of intangible assets to create business value, including patient and customer...

One of the questions we get asked a lot is how valuations have changed over time. Like many of you, I’m sure, we usually answer this...

One of the things we track closely is fairness opinions that get filed with the SEC when a public company gets taken private. It's always...

As we wrote last week, larger healthcare services companies generally fetch higher valuation multiples – i.e. the purchase price...

Private equity investment in healthcare services has been booming for many years now. In the right hands, outpatient and home-based...