Financial buyers, which include real estate investment trusts (REITSs) and private equity firms, are not the dominant players in the health care M&A market, although REITs have been moving into the Hospital sector in recent years. Middle-market private equity firms have had a hard time getting into and then winning auctions for healthcare entities in […]
Investor interest in physician medical groups ramped up significantly in 2018, with 55 transactions announced in the first quarter, followed by 53 deals in the second quarter. The second quarter deals represent 29% of the total of 184 announced in the previous 12 months. Deal volume slipped 4% compared with the previous quarter but posted […]
With 462 deals announced in the second quarter, acquisition activity was up 8% compared with the 427 transactions announced in the previous quarter. Deal volume was higher than the same quarter in 2017, up 21%% compared with the 383 deals reported then. Deal volume in the last two quarters has grown stronger, with both quarters […]
What a quarter it was. Even with preliminary data, the numbers of deals and dollars spent in the second quarter of 2018 are impressive. The quarter began with a bang in April (176 deals), settled in May (136 deals) and slowed in June (122 deals). That still adds up to 432 transactions reported in the […]
A total of $112.9 billion was spent to fund the 386 transactions reported in Q1:18, based on disclosed prices. Total spending was about 2% lower than the $115.1 billion reported in the previous quarter. The Other Services sector dominated the dollar side of deal making, accounting for 60% ($68.2 billion) of spending. A single deal […]
Health care merger and acquisition activity in the first quarter of 2018 kept pace with the previous quarter in 2017. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2017, deal volume increased 1%, to 386 transactions. However, deal volume was down 12% compared with the same quarter the year before. Combined spending in the first quarter reached […]
First, the easy news. Deal volume in the first quarter of 2018 was on par with the previous quarter’s total of 380 deals. Preliminary data show 378 transactions were announced in the first quarter, making for a decline of 1% that will likely be erased as more deal activity is uncovered. Compared with the first […]
A total of $114.4 billion was spent to fund the 377 transactions reported in Q4:17, based on disclosed prices. The Managed Care sector dominated the dollar side of deal making, accounting for 70% ($80.6 billion) of spending. A single deal accounted for 67% of the quarter’s total, as CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced its agreement […]
The fourth quarter of 2017 will be remembered for some time to come, thanks to the game-changing deal announced between pharmacy/retailer CVS Health and Aetna, one of the largest managed care companies in the country. That was only one deal, of course, and there were actually 10 transactions announced in Q4:17. Fourth quarter deal volume […]
The dam broke in the fourth quarter of 2017, and pharmaceutical deal makers began acquiring again. The Republican tax overhaul that lowered the tax rate for corporations’ repatriated cash was approved in December, spurring big drug companies to think about mergers and acquisitions once again. Deal volume in the fourth quarter shot up 100% over […]
