M&A Score acts as a leading indicator of a company exploring a sale of business. It’s created by analyzing financial intent data: the research activities of employees of companies on 10,000+ business, legal, finance and news websites.

To validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the M&A Score at predicting company acquisitions, we’ve conducted a backtest on 103 acquisitions that have been announced in Q1 of 2024 as compared to a randomly selected control group of 100 similar companies that haven’t been acquired. The M&A Score successfully predicted 50% of the acquisitions analyzed 6 – 12 months prior to the announcement.

The M&A Score is most effective at identifying acquisitions of companies with 5,000+ employees across any industry and 100 – 5,000 employees and across a variety of industries with the strongest performance in Software & IT Services, Energy & Mining, Transportation & Logistics, Healthcare, Corporate Services, Manufacturing, and Media, Marketing & Communications industries…