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PE Pursues Buy-and-Build

Two charts showing changes in private equity add-on acquisition activity. Chart subtitles: Left reads, "Add-on acquisitions have increased as a share of buyouts," and right reads, "Add-on acquisitions no longer increase holding periods." First chart description: Combined stacked columns and line chart. Left y-axis for columns shows Deal Count, ranging from 0-5,000. X-axis shows years 2002-2020. Right y-axis for line shows Add-Ons as a % of Buyouts as range of percentages from 0-80%. Line has steadily increased since 2002, from 43% to 72% in 2020. The total number of Deals has increased significantly; each stacked column shows deals that were add-ons and were not add-ons which, with add-ons also steadily increasing. Second chart description: Line chart. Y-axis shows Median Years to Exit. X-axis shows years from 2006-2020. There are three lines with the following category labels: 0 Add-ons; 1-4 add-ons; 5+ add-ons. In 2006, the 5+add-ons category was near 7 years holding time and the 1-4 add-ons category and 0 add-ons categories were near 4, but in 2020, all three categories were all very close to 5 years. Chart source: Pitchbook as of December 31, 2020.
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