1. Valuation Multiples Resources
2. Cost of Capital Resources
3. Sector Analysis Resources


- Europa
- USA


THOMSON REUTERS / DONEDEALS
www.donedeals.com

A monthly updated database with transactions between US$1 million and US$1 billion involving non-listed (around 75%) and listed companies. Among others, it boasts information about purchaser and seller, transaction type (shares or assets) and date, SIC code and business description, enterprise value, economic (sales, Ebitda, cash flows, profits) and financial data (equity, total assets) and multiples (EV/Ebitda, EV/Equity, EV/CF, EV/sales). The browser allows the identification of comprable transactions according to diverse criteria. Very focused on the United States. Payment service, US$525 for a 2-year subscription.


THOMSON REUTERS / SDC PLATINUM
www.thomsonreuters.com

A source of general financial information about M&A transactions and private equity and venture capital activity. It boasts a global transaction database since 1985 and around 625,000 registries, which allows the identification and analysis of transactions and the obtaining of multiples. Payment service.


FACTSET MERGERSTAT
www.mergerstat.com

BOnline database created in 1992 with around 250,000 transaction registries in the United States. The browser allows to search comparable transactions according to diverse criteria. Payment service, US$210 for a CDRom.


BUSINESS VALUATION RESOURCES / PRATT´S STATS
www.bvmarketdata.com

This website is the door to the "Pratt's Stat's" database, created in 1996 by Shannon Pratt, which currently keeps around 14,000 entries about non-listed companies of diverse sizes (though small in general). It has a search engine that allows the identification of transaction through diverse criteria. Search results offer, in addition to summarizing the number of identified transactions and their average multiples, the possibility of obtaining a more detailed report for each of the transactions detailing general information, ratios and transaction multiples (sales, equity, Ebit, Ebitda, profit, gross margin) as well as additional information relating to the transaction structure and payment means and even about the fees paid to the advisors. It focuses on the United States market, though it also includes international transactions to the extent that one of the parties is American. Payment service, 1 year: US$625


PACIFIC SERVICES INC. / BIZCOMPS
www.bizcomps.com

It publishes annual reports with information about nearly 8,000 small and medium transactions (“main street businesses”) in the United Sates and Canada. Payment service, subscription US$425.


STANDARD AND POORS / CAPITAL IQ
www.capitaliq.com

A global database with records of around 234,000 M&A transactions, more than 100,000 private placements and around 42,000 public takeover bids. It offers information about each transaction and its terms, as well as about its valuation and multiples.


THE INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS APPRAISERS
www.go-iba.org

Database with more than 30,000 records of United States-based small transactions.