Fintent predicts 36% of middle-market acquisitions announced in Q1, 2025

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Fintent specializes in producing financial intent: an understanding of what mgmt teams and employees of 2M+ companies are researching on major business, news, finance and legal websites.

Every quarter we analyze announced acquisitions to fine-tune our machine learning models/signals and showcase the predictive power of our data.

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Company size breakout for predictions is below. As expected, our predictive power goes up with company size with the sweet spot being between 25 – 1000 employees (36% of acquisitions announced predicted).

Employee Range # Announced # Predicted % Predicted
1 – 10454215%
11 – 252333314%
26 – 503918421%
51 – 1001985829%
101 – 25021211152%
251 – 500644672%
501 – 1000423481%
1001 – 5000503876%
5001 – 1000055100%
10000+7343%

Below are the sector/vertical breakouts for companies falling in the 25 – 1000 employees range.

Industry Group # Announced # Predicted % Predicted
Software & IT Services2247734%
Finance954547%
Manufacturing973536%
Construction702536%
Health Care652538%
Media, Marketing & Communications612134%
Corporate Services431842%
Transportation & Logistics351234%
Retail17953%
Energy & Mining14964%
Real Estate16850%
Hardware & Networking20735%
Education15747%
Entertainment33618%
Public Safety15640%
Recreation & Travel12650%
Wellness & Fitness11655%
Legal15427%
Consumer Goods12325%
Nonprofit4250%
Consumer Services22100%
Public Administration500%
Agriculture100%

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