Businesses for sale | Private Company Price Index

As private companies are generally owner-managed, reported or disclosed profits tend to be suppressed by various expenses that may be non-recurring under a new owner. This will have been factored into the price the purchaser paid, but may not be reflected in the profits declared to the public. The effect of this is that the p/e paid as calculated from the publicly available information may be over stated. The PCPI tracks the discount between how public and private companies are being valued. This discount means valuation techniques can be used that are only relevant to public companies and apply them to private companies in the same sector.

The PCPI is generally recognised as the most authoritative source on private company values by practitioners in the market, including the Inland Revenue and leading accounting firms.

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