Establishing industry benchmarks is essential to any acquisition or transaction. But all too often, company benchmarking doesn’t provide the details and context required to pinpoint vulnerabilities or opportunities, or to make a truly informed decision.
More data to compare means better business benchmarking. That’s why Benchmarking Plus goes beyond the usual publicly sourced data to set standards that really matter. The platform leverages KPMG’s robust, proprietary database which gleans information from our engagements with 3,000+ private companies and large volumes of third party data.
Benchmarking Plus gives you access to a rich, accurate data set from your distinct peer group and enables us to compare and analyse your most important KPIs against the most relevant benchmarks, virtually on demand. We’re often able to deliver the data and insights you need in a matter of hours – a huge advantage in transactions.
When does Benchmarking Plus come into play?
- Compare a target’s operational and financial performance to industry peers.
- Identify potential risks and opportunities in a target’s cost structure and performance.
- Determine if expense estimates for both parent and carved out entity are in line with the general industry benchmarks.
- Identify amount of support function costs that can be attributed to the carved out entity.
- Identify what financial and operational metrics are usually reported in regulatory filings by peers.
- Compare operational and financial performance of the IPO candidate to peers.
- Conduct quick comparator analysis of target and peers on operational metrics, reporting standards and support function metrics.
- Assess company valuations and deal metrics.
140+ financial data points
Here are just a few of the data points used by Benchmarking Plus
- COGS
- Gross margin
- EBITDA
- R&D expense
- Rent
- Insurance
- Return on capital
- Days sales outstanding
- Cash conversion cycle
- Inventory
- % of from top 5 clients
- Customer churn rate
- Selling and marketing costs
- General and admin costs as a % of revenue
- Total personnel expense
- Revenue per employee
- Gross profit per employee
- Total employees
- Number of employees in
general and admin
department as a % of total
employees - Order backlog
- Working capital
- Current ratio
- Debt/equity
- Net debt/EBITDA
- Days inventory outstanding
- Days payables outstanding
- Free cash flow
- Capital expenditure as a % of
total revenue - Capes/D&A ratio
Find out more in our Benchmarking Plus factsheet
More data to compare means better benchmarking – Benchmarking Plus
Benchmarking for transactions and acquisitions
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