MergerShark is a comprehensive business valuation and merger and acquisition data source created by a fellow business valuation professional with his own business valuation practice.

Plus, it costs just a little over $100 a month (that's less than a nice client lunch).
 

Do you need detailed quantitative data to support your valuations, buy-sell agreements, transaction advisory services, litigation and financial consulting, fairness opinions, deal negotiations, impairment testing, intangible asset amortization periods and director compensation consulting?

Do you have to subscribe to multiple databases to get the data you need for your client reports, analyses, litigations and presentations? Does having to remember multiple passwords, bounce between databases and pay for each of them feel like a waste of your time and your firm's money? We are on a mission to eliminate this frustration and save you and your firm time and money, while providing quality data. MergerShark was created by a business valuation expert to provide all the data you need to do a business valuation and M&A research in one cost-effective database. 
 

You can get access to over 22,000 public & privately held company transactions searchable by numerous financial metrics, industry (SIC and NAICS codes), timeframe, keyword and more.
 

Get enterprise and equity transaction multiples of revenues, operating income, EBITDA, earnings, assets, book value and more for your Market Valuation Approach. MergerShark has prior fiscal year, current fiscal year, latest twelve months, next fiscal year, next fiscal year plus one and next fiscal year plus two multiple timeframes given.
 

Get discounted cash flow rates, terminal multiples and growth rates for your Income Valuation Approach. DCF data is provided from fairness opinions, wherein discount rates and terminal multiples are given separately by the banker or advisor to the transaction. 
 

Get control premiums paid searchable by type and timeframe and get the one day discount for lack of control (DLOC). We provide the one day DLOC and one day unadjusted DLOC. The one day unadjusted DLOC is provided when the company being sold indicated rumors or talks of a potential deal impacted their stock price and thus the one day DLOC was impacted. 
 

Get MergerShark's proprietary discount for lack of marketability. This discount is determined from long term equity anticipation (LEAP) calls and puts using a proprietary group of 30 large publicly traded companies. The 30 large capitalization publicly traded companies we use cover a broad range of industries and typically have a beta slightly over one. These discounts are therefore truly market based, timely and not subjective. We update this discount monthly for 6, 12, and 24 months’ timeframes. You can also search the last three years historical and statistical information for these time periods.  This robust search feature is useful whether you are doing a valuation report at a current date or historic one and need to get an excellent starting point for your DLOM.
 

Get deal timeframe in days data, which is the number of days from when the Board or management of the company decides to sell the company until the deal is signed. This can help you determine a likely timeframe to use in your DLOM.
 

Get industry specific multiples such as PV10 value in the oil and gas industry, assets under management in the investment management industry and RevPar in the lodging industry. Also, get commercial or savings bank only deals and banking specific multiples, such as equity value to book value, tangible book value, deposits and core deposit premiums.
 

Fair value accounting rules can be complicated and purchase price allocations of intangible assets can be challenging.

Use MergerShark’s database to research how other companies amortized their intangible assets in mergers and acquisitions and get hard to find data to support your accounting decisions.

 

You can test out M​ergerShark's search features and functionalities best by signing up for the free one day trial.

With your free day pass you get access to the merger and fair value search sections and can run as many searches as you would like. You may also download to Excel up to 150 transactions from any combination of searches. Lastly you can use any data obtained from MergerShark in a report, presentation, paper, etc. with proper citation given to MergerShark.

To get your free one day trial pass go to the pricing page. 

 

Board pay must be appropriately determined to attract quality directors in today’s competitive environment.

It should also compensate directors for the increasing demands on their time and the risk of serving.