Health care dealmaking is on a blistering pace in 2021, with particular action around the home health and hospice spaces. And while transactions are being driven by private equity firms with plenty of dry powder, they’re also propelled by regulatory shifts, emerging care models and the transformation of the sector, a new mid-year dealmaking report […]
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Despite the economic turmoil of the ongoing COVID-19 emergency, home health and hospice multiples hit record-breaking numbers in the first half of 2020. Specifically, multiples reached 29 times in the early part of this year, beating their previous high of 26 times in 2019, according to a recent report by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Health Research Institute. […]
Private equity players are sitting on more dry powder than ever before, entering 2020 with a reported $1.5 trillion in unspent capital. In all likelihood, a portion of this cash will go into the in-home care space. In general, the health care sector has already seen an increase in private equity investment over the past […]
When it comes to asset valuation, the home health and hospice industries continue to blow the rest of health care out of the water, posting the highest trading multiples sector-wide for the third consecutive quarter. In Q2 2019, home health and hospice had the highest mean trading multiple of 22.7 times EBITDA, up from 21.8 […]
With more than 1,180 total transactions valued at a whopping $121.5 billion, 2018 was a record-breaking year for health care dealmaking volume. The home health and hospice segments, in particular, saw the highest multiples. The latest insights into health care dealmaking come from the 2018 year-end report from international auditing and accounting powerhouse PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC). […]
While the overall U.S. health services industry experienced significant growth in mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2017, the value of home health care deals took a dive, according to data published by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). While the home health sub-sector saw a total of nine announced deals in the second quarter, both […]
Out of all health care sectors, home health posted the highest trading multiples for mergers and acquisitions in 2016, according to data in a newly released PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report. Out of the seven health care sectors considered, home health/hospice had the highest mean enterprise value to EBITDA multiple last year, at 15.2, the data show. […]
The number of home health mergers and acquisitions dipped in the first quarter of 2015 compared to a year prior, but a trend of high deal values continued to hold strong. The first three months of this year saw 16 mergers and acquisitions of home health and hospice companies, compared with 19 in the first […]
Companies that offer employees paid leave days, not just for sickness, but to provide care for a child or elderly parent, have been able to ultimately improve their bottom lines and increase staff engagement, according to a repot from U.S. News Money. This concept is refreshing, especially as the population ages and the there are […]
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