You want to sell your IT hardware company? Then it is good to know what the takeover market in the field of IT hardware company looks like.
Working from home and virtual reality: online world is booming. And you can clearly see that in the number of mergers and acquisitions.
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 IT services sector - which includes an IT hardware company - an indicative range of EBITDA multiple of 5.9 to 7.2 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).
Do the calculationWant to buy a business or sell a business in the IT Services & Software Development sector? With this Brookz Sector Monitor, we want to present buyers and sellers with facts, figures and an outlook that provide insight into the number of transactions, the value development of businesses and the latest trends and developments in the IT Services & Software Development sector. Because in any buying or selling process, thorough preparation provides peace of mind, overview and structure.
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There are many self-employed people working in this sector. And therefore, relatively many businesses are made up of only one employed person.
In figures, the number of IT hardware companies in 2024 looked as follows(CBS):
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A number of trends and developments will inevitably cause changes in the coming years, but also offer IT hardware companies many growth and acquisition opportunities:
Where you "used to" develop and maintain a system for a contract period of 10 to 15 years, what you come up with today may be completely obsolete a year from now. This speed demands something not only of the software, but also of the IT hardware.
New generation laptops must have the best of the best in them to keep home workers constantly connected. Think better processors, cameras, microphones, battery life.
VR technology is evolving and becoming more mainstream. And as a result, the demand for virtual reality hardware is increasing.
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