Chemical Industry: Strategic vs Financial Buyer Multiples

I recently updated my chemical industry deals database. This data is a constant work in progress, will be further refined, updated and made available in our future newsletters. Key highlights - notice how the financial buyers ended up outbidding strategics in 2007, and notice how quickly their valuations drop with tight financing. Then notice how valuations from both types of buyers fall off as the economy comes to a screeching halt.

If you are with the press and want to use this data please call me to discuss.

(Data prior to 2000 from 3rd party sources)

Starting new blog...

Started this blog to keep track of any press that is related to my work. I'll also be using this from time to time to share some thoughts on the chemical industry and other sectors. I can't seem to just post links (or at least haven't figured it out yet) so I'm just copy/pasting entire articles... hopefully no harm no foul.

Thanks and enjoy.

-Jay

P.S. Never blogged in my life... excuse the mess.

Q1 2009 Quarterly Newsletter

McGladrey Capital Markets publishes a quarterly newsletter for each industry team; below is a link to the latest newsletter from my group (Chemicals). Hope you find it useful.

Q1 2009 Chemical Industry Newsletter