Aside from IBISWorld what other tools can be leveraged for industry market research?

June 12, 2024

by a searcher from Università Bocconi in Great Neck, NY, USA

Hi everyone,

Aside from IBISWorld what other tools can be leveraged for industry market research and financial data including precedent transactions?

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Reply by a professional
from University of Illinois at Urbana in Naperville, IL, USA

Thanks for the tag, ^redacted‌! In addition to the IBISWorld, BVR, and data axle resources provided on searchfunder.com, I find the following useful: crunchbase.com, dun & bradstreet (dnb.com), opencorporates.com, LexisNexis Public Records, NYU Stern enterprise value multiples by Sector by Aswath Damodaran at https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/vebitda.html (his website https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/ provides a wealth of information), Experian (https://www.experian.com/small-business/business-credit-reports), Equifax (https://www.equifax.com/business/product/business-credit-reports/), and Nav (https://www.nav.com/business-credit-scores/). For market research, there are often specialized market research firms that have reports for specific markets available to those interested in those specific markets.

Reply by a searcher
in Frankfurt, Germany

Consulting Firms often publish market deep dives that I find insightful. Small specialized M&A Brokers publish often research from the M&A view with full blown peer companies and multiples etc that are super helpful for search funds! Other than that, in PE we used to have access to Gain.Pro. I still have many of the research pdfs and publish many of them as well as my own research in my free weekly newsletter here: https://searchfundinsights.substack.com/subscribe!

For transactions in a certain space there is MergerMarkets, which I don't have access to anymore, however, some of my interns do through their business school access.

Any specific market you need?

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