In the Pratt’s Stats Private Deal Update for the fourth quarter 2017, you’ll see a new section that shows median asking price to sales price as well as median days to sell. For 4Q17, the median sale price ($224,875) was 90% of the median asking price ($250,000) and the median days to sell was 228. The Pratt’s Stats Private Deal Update is available with a subscription to the Pratt’s Stats deal database. It is a quarterly publication that analyzes private-company acquisitions by private buyers in the database. Pratt’s Stats features more than 29,000 private-company transactions, with up to 149 data points that include six valuation multiples and 13 financial ratios.
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