You want to sell your leasing company? Then it's good to know what the acquisition market looks like in terms of leasing companies. Consumers increasingly want to avoid making large investments, which makes leasing an interesting option.
The last few years have seen growth in the acquisition market for leasing companies.
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 business services sector, which includes a leasing company, an indicative range of EBITDA multiple of 4.6 to 5.5 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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Do you want to buy a business or sell a business in the business services 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 business services sector. Because in every buying or selling process, thorough preparation gives peace of mind, overview and structure.
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There are many small-scale leasing companies in the market, so the number of one-employee businesses is relatively large.
In figures, the number of leasing companies 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 leasing companies many growth and acquisition opportunities:
There are already many subscriptions in our country, such as Netflix, the newspaper or the window cleaner. A subscription to a product, such as a car or a washing machine, that is not yet a matter of course for everyone. PaaS (product-as-a-service) has many components, which will become familiar to the general public in the coming years, according to ABN Amro.
The longer a product is usable, and also used by consumers, the better it is for the environment. By leasing products, you extend the cycle, which means fewer products end up in the junkyard. No longer interested? Then stop your subscription and return the product.
More and more people are finding that owning a product is no longer necessary in order to use it. Therefore, we are increasingly using shared cars, public transportation or electric share bikes to get around ourselves.
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