Private companies in the mining and finance/insurance/real estate industry groups have the highest values relative to their revenues, according to the latest quarterly Pratt’s Stats Private Deal Update (available with a subscription to the Pratt’s Stats deal database). These industry groups have a median selling price/revenue valuations multiple of 1.84 and 1.13, respectively. At the low end are firms in the retail (0.37) and construction (0.41) industries. The table below presents the total count of transactions in Pratt’s Stats by major industry group as well as median valuation multiples. The data below include private companies purchased by public and private companies. There are now over 22,000 private-company transactions in the database.

SIC	Industry (transaction count)	MSP/Rev
0111-0971	Agric./Forestry/Fishing (531)	0.57
1011-1499	Mining (202)	1.84
1521-1799	Construction (802)	0.41
2011-3999	Manufacturing (3,786)	0.78
4011-4971	Transport./Public Util.(1,091)	0.81
5012-5199	Wholesale (1,210)	0.45
5211-5999	Retail (5,912)	0.37
6011-6799	Finance/Ins./Real Estate (883)	1.13
7011-9999	Services (7,781)	0.69
0139-9999	All Industries (22,198)	0.56

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