Cogent M&A Database - Cogent Valuation has built a database of almost 1,000 merger and acquisition transactions covering all major industries, primarily in the middle market. The most beneficial attribute of this database relative to other sources of M & A transaction data is a set of proprietary procedures that Cogent Valuation has devised in order to derive the most meaningful valuation multiples from these transactions.
Through the painstaking application of these normalization procedures to every transaction, Cogent Valuation invariably derives more usable valuation multiples than other sources reporting on the same transaction. In addition to the valuation multiples, the database includes the target business description, the purchase price breakdown, and a variety of quantitative risk measures, including size, liquidity, leverage, activity profitability and growth.
