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.

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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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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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Focus Investment Banking

JANUARY 10, 2025

And in a lot of cases, these are very profitable services, but that specialization is going to lead to massive efficiencies throughout your organization. All of this combines to lead toward perhaps the biggest benefit of specialization or maybe the second biggest benefit behind proper and safe repairs and that is increased profitability.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 7, 2024

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

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Software Equity Group

MAY 8, 2024

Our most recent data, however, suggests that prospective buyers and investors place particular importance on two key factors when valuing acquisition targets: profitable growth and revenue retention. In other words, they placed a high value on profitably growing targets. As mentioned earlier, profitability earns a premium as well.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

Strategic buyers are publicly traded or privately owned software companies. And quality, according to Austin, lies in retention, profitability, and growth. Buyers and investors are looking for companies in durable, recession-resistant markets with strong prospects for growth and profitability and high retention rates.

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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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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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Solganick & Co.

APRIL 24, 2024

Shift to Profitability over Growth: The market is shifting away from “growth at all costs” to a focus on profitability. This aligns with the growing need for tailored software solutions. Understanding and building AI applications is seen as critical for software development firms to stay competitive.

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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. But are they the same KPIs prospective buyers look at as they evaluate acquisition targets?

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2021

Insurer Lemonade and pasture-raised egg brand Vital Farms each debuted from their respective 2020 IPOs as a “public benefit corporation” (PBC), which is a corporation that places dual consideration on its contributions to social good and the maximization of shareholder profits.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 22, 2020

Because the public trading price of such companies often trade below the cash value of the company, these activists are, in instances where the company has enough cash on its balance sheet where a liquidation is deemed viable, hoping to make a quick profit by forcing these companies to return any excess capital to shareholders immediately.

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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. Key performance indicators (KPIs) like your churn rate , gross retention and profit , and customer lifetime value help you get this message across.

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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

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. All this tracking and reporting allowed us to understand which channels were working and which weren’t and move budget dollars to the more profitable ones.

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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. Some will push to maximize profit quickly. When you’re selling your company, both represent appealing options, depending on what you want to get out of the sale.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JULY 3, 2023

Tiny is based out of Canada and is publicly traded there with a current market cap of around $500 million. Similar to the other companies in the Tiny stable, it has up to now been bootstrapped and profitable. HappyFunCorp was founded in 2009, and in the last 14 years it’s racked up its own very long list of big-name customers.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, early in 2021, Zimmer Biomet Holdings announced that it would spin off its spine and dental businesses into a new publicly traded company as a way to “optimize resource allocation” among its remaining businesses. Even setting COVID?

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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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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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Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Traditional terminal exit routes for private equity-backed companies are to larger strategic acquirers (often public companies) and IPOs, where a private company becomes publicly traded. By acquiring the providers themselves, McKesson is securing a customer and capturing profitability downstream from its current operations.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Contributions: Yes, contribute to your investment accounts regularly out of your paychecks or profits, but build a 1-year cash reserve first (you could shorten this if its unrealistically high). In investing, your portfolio of publicly traded assets should be your main quest, and everything else should be a mediocre side quest you can ignore.

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