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Business Valuation Resources, LLC, is proud to offer you the Pratt's StatsŪ private transaction database. This database contains data variously described as guideline company, guideline transaction, comparable sales data, business comparable and/or market data. Specifically, Pratt's StatsŪ compiles and reports information on up to 88 data points highlighting the financial and transactional details of the sales of privately and closely held companies.

Pratt's StatsŪ is used by a wide variety of merger and acquisition professionals including, business appraisers, business brokers, investment bankers and venture capitalists. Primarily, the data found in Pratt's StatsŪ is used to conduct the market approach to valuing a business in an effort to determine a business' fair market value or to perform financial research on the pricing of similar companies. Additionally, Pratt's StatsŪ data is used in price discovery by entrepreneurs, investors, advisors and business owners that are considering a business purchase or sale. A significant benefit of the data found in Pratt's StatsŪ is its ability to remove marketplace uncertainty and provide the user with detailed, meaningful financial and transactional information about "real world" business sales.

Benefits enjoyed by Pratt's StatsŪ users include:

• An easy-to-use search engine that quickly identifies comparable transactions based on criteria specified by the user ( Search Pratt's StatsŪ Now )
• Hard-to-find data on how deals are structured including payment terms, employment agreements and non-compete agreements ( View sample data from Pratt's StatsŪ )
• Various valuation multiples calculated for each transaction found in Pratt's StatsŪ making the identification of value drivers with the greatest market reliance transparent to the user
• The ability to track market pricing trends via Pratt's StatsŪ timely deal updates.

Pratt's StatsŪ has data collected from intermediaries across the country and from SEC filings. Pratt's StatsŪ data is updated monthly with approximately 100 transactions added per month. If the Pratt's StatsŪ transactions are captured from SEC filings, versus from business intermediaries, Pratt's StatsŪ subscribers may receive additional details on the transactions. Contact our West Coast offices for details.

In addition to finding comparable business sales and using transaction/valuation multiples, Pratt's StatsŪ users have found creative uses for the data, including (1) researching the terms used in the deal consideration (e.g. how much of the purchase price was paid in cash, how much was paid in promissory notes, etc.) and using this information to advise clients; (2) researching contingency payments by industry or SIC code; (3) researching typical non-compete agreements by industry or SIC code; (4) researching the amount of transaction fees typically paid in M&A deals; (5) comparing the asking price of deals with the selling price of deals to analyze the spread; and (6) comparing the date the businesses were listed for sale with the actual selling dates to analyze the time-on-market.

BVMarketData.com^sm brings you the Pratt's StatsŪ Private Transaction Database in two options: One year subscriptions or on a single search basis. To learn how to perform subscriber searches, please click here and print the "Subscriber Quick Reference Guide." To learn how to perform a single search purchase, please click here and print the "Visitor Quick Reference Guide."

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