You want to sell your home care organization? Then it's good to know what the takeover market in the field of home care organizations looks like. Home care organizations are facing an all-consuming demand and lack of skilled personnel. This has everything to do with the aging wave and older people living at home longer and longer.
Over the past five years, the takeover market for home care organizations has been more or less stable. Some years there are more acquisitions than others, but there are no huge peaks or troughs. Compared to 10 years ago, the acquisition market has grown significantly, though.
There are many ways to value a business. A common method of expressing the value of a business is "a factor x gross annual profit." This factor is also called multiple and another designation for gross annual profit is EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization).
In the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector, which includes a home care organization, an indicative EBITDA multiple range of 5.9 to 6.9 is currently used, according to the Brookz Takeover Barometer. The average EBITDA multiple across all SME sectors is 4.90.
The valuation of a business is often the starting point for negotiations between buyer and seller. The outcome of these negotiations is the final sales price. So valuation and price are two different quantities. Besides valuation, the price is also determined by possible scarcity in the market, bargaining power of the parties, the strategic value of the business for the buyer and possible synergy effects for the buyer (cost savings, purchasing advantages).
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There are many startups in the industry every year, which also makes many businesses with only one person working visible.
In figures, the number of home care organizations in 2024 looked as follows(CBS):
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A number of trends and developments will inevitably cause changes over the next few years, but also offer home care organizations many growth and acquisition opportunities:
Although during the global pandemic the shortage of healthcare personnel only really became visible, it had been a problem in the sector for some time. Not so much because the influx is less, but because the requirements have become more stringent. The range of tasks performed by healthcare personnel is becoming more and more extensive and, consequently, the level of education is also higher.
Using information and communication technology to monitor the elderly can relieve care staff. A lot of data can be recorded through smart gadgets and monitored by informal caregivers, medics and care staff, allowing for scaling down the number of care moments, according to ABN Amro.
There is an increasing demand for senior housing, according to Rabobank. Not so much nursing homes, but care homes where seniors can live independently and purchase the care they need. As a result, people will stay at home longer, increasing the demand for care.
As seniors continue to live at home longer and longer, this brings other challenges. They are no longer often present is an all encompassing organizations, so logistically challenges are already being formed for the care staff. In addition, there are more and more chronic illnesses and care personnel are not nearly always trained specialist enough. There are also challenges in the areas of safety and fall prevention in healthcare: innovation is essential.
