media industry - Berkery Noyes

July 2010
1st Half Mergers and Acquisitions Trends Report
IN THIS ISSUE
M&A Market Overview
Figure 1. M&A Market
Dynamics By Half Year
Figure 2. Median Enterprise
Value Multiples By Half Year
Transaction Analysis
Figure 3. Bell Curve Histogram
- 1st Half
Figure 4. Distribution Table 1st Half
Strategic vs. Financial Comparison
Figure 5. M&A Dynamics By
Transaction Type - 1st Half
Figure 6. Transaction Type - By
Half Year
MEDIA INDUSTRY
1st Half 2010 Key Highlights
• The largest transaction for First Half
2010 was Warburg Pincus and Silver
Lake Partners’ pending acquisition of
Interactive Data Corporation, which
is majority owned by Pearson plc, for
$3.25 billion.
• Internet Media was the largest segment
by transaction volume, with 104
transactions.
• There were 63 financially sponsored
transactions with an aggregate value of
$5.92 billion, representing 20 percent of
the total volume and 50 percent of the
total value, respectively.
Figure 1. 2008 - 2010 value and volume comparison by half.
• Of the top ten transactions tracked by
Berkery Noyes in this sector, three were
financial sponsored transactions which accounted for 42 percent of the total aggregate
value of all transactions and 59 percent of the Top 9 aggregate value.
Purchaser Analysis
Figure 7. Top Ten Notable
1st Half 2010 Key Trends
Transactions - 1st Half
Figure 8. Median Enterprise
• Total transaction volume in First Half 2010 increased by 21 percent over Second Half 2009
Value/Revenue Multiples By Size
from 309 in First Half 2010 to 255 in Second Half 2009.
Transaction Volume By Segment
Figure 9. Transactions By
Market Segment By Half Year
Footnotes
Figure 10. Market Segments
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• Total transaction value in First Half 2010 decreased by 64 percent over Second Half 2009
from $11.50 billion in First Half 2010 to $31.68 billion in Second Half 2009. The decline
in value is due in large part to two large transactions, Comcast Corporation’s pending
acquisition of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of General Electric Company, for $13.75
billion and IMS Health’s announced
acquisition by TPG Capital, L.P. and
CPP Investment Board for $4.01
billion, in the final quarter of 2009.
M&A Market Overview
Berkery Noyes tracked 1493 transactions
between 2008 and June 2010, of which
493 disclosed financial terms, and
calculated the aggregate transaction value
to be $67.80 billion. Based on known
transaction values, we project the value
of the 1000 undisclosed transactions to
be $11.11 billion, totalling $78.91 billion
worth of transactions tracked over the
past 30 months.
Figure 2. 2008 - 2010 median: Value, Revenue, EBITDA comparison
by half.
The largest transaction tracked by
Berkery Noyes between 2008 and 2010
was Comcast Corporation’s pending acquisition of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of General
Electric Company, for $13.75 billion.
Disclosed median enterprise value multiples between 2008 and 2010 for all segments
combined in this report was 8.79 times EBITDA and 1.61 times revenue.
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TRANSACTION ANALYSIS | January 1 through June 30, 2010
Distribution Table - 1st Half
Figure 3.
Shows distribution among media industry transactions based on
publicly available information and Berkery Noyes estimates. Using a logarithmic
scale, we determined that nearly two-thirds of companies purchased had enterprise values of $0.6 million to $244.7 million. Based on this data, we estimate the
total transaction value of deals done in the 1st Half of 2010 at $11.5 billion.
* Indicates largest transaction in the industry from Jan. 1 through June 30, 2010
Value in MM
US$
Known
Number
Projected
Number
Total
Number
%
$0.2
6
0
6
7%
7%
$0.4
3
0
3
3%
10 %
$0.6
3
1
4
3%
13 %
$1.0
6
5
10
7%
20 %
$1.6
5
12
16
5%
25 %
$2.7
8
24
31
9%
34 %
$4.5
4
36
40
4%
38 %
$7.4
7
43
50
8%
46 %
$12.2
14
40
54
15 %
62 %
$20.1
8
29
37
9%
70 %
$33.1
3
17
19
3%
74 %
$54.6
5
7
12
5%
79 %
$90.0
3
2
5
3%
82 %
$148.4
5
1
5
5%
88 %
$244.7
0
0
0
0%
88 %
$403.4
1
0
1
1%
89 %
$665.1
1
0
1
1%
90 %
$1,096.6
2
0
2
2%
92 %
$1,808.0
0
0
0
0%
92 %
$2,981.0
1
0
1
1%
93 %
Total #
91
218
309
Total $ Value
$9,705
$1,798
$11,503
Middle 3rd of Industry
Cumulative
%
Middle 2/3rds of Industry
Figure 4. Presents the data depicted in the bell curve histogram.
note: The projected number column is rounded as result of the Gaussian
projection and may produce insignificant errors in the total sum.
STRATEGIC VS FINANCIAL COMPARISON
Figure 5. Out of the 309 transactions tracked by Berkery Noyes in the 1st Figure 6. Of the 309 total transactions recorded in the 1st Half of
Half of 2010, we found that financially sponsored transactions accounted for 2010, 246 were made by strategic acquirers and 63 by financial acquir20% of the volume, or 63 transactions and 50% of the value, or $5.92 ers.
billion.
note: financially sponsored transactions include PE-backed strategic acquisitions.
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PURCHASER ANALYSIS
Top Ten Notable Transactions - 1st Half 2010
Deal Date
Target Name
Buyer
Value MM
US$
05/04/10
Interactive Data Corporation
Warburg Pincus, Silver Lake
Partners
$3,245
03/01/10
RiskMetrics Group, Inc.
MSCI Inc.
$1,380
03/03/10
CW Investments Co.
Shaw Communications, Inc.
$1,186
01/08/10
Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce, TD Group
CanWest Limited Partnership Financial Services, Royal Bank
of Canada, Bank of Nova
Scotia, Bank of Montreal
$894
02/10/10
Dow Jones Indexes
CME Group
$608
03/31/10
Canpages, Inc.
Yellow Pages Group Co
$222
02/15/10
PGS Onshore from Petroleum
Geo-Services
Geokinetics, Inc.
$208
06/02/10
Emmis Communications
Corporation
JS Acquisition, Inc.
$175
06/04/10
Virgin Media Television
British Sky Broadcasting
Group plc
$152
06/03/10
Complinet Ltd.
Thomson Reuters
N/A
2010 Aggregate Transaction Value
$11,503
Top 9 Aggregate Transaction Value
$8,069
Top 9 Aggregate Value as a Percentage of All Transactions
70 %
Figure 7. Lists the top ten announced transactions in the 1st Half of
2010 and calculates their aggregate transaction value as a percentage of
the total aggregate transaction value as shown on Figure 1 & 4.
note: Transactions data based on announcement date.
Figure 8. Presents the median enterprise value/revenue multiples of
transactions in the media industry based on publicly available data
between January 2008 and June 2010.
N/A: If
the price is listed as N/A, Berkery Noyes did not calculate that value into
the aggregate.
TRANSACTION VOLUME BY SEGMENT | 1st Half 2008 through June 30, 2010
Figure 9. Presents the transaction volume by target segments within the Media industry for the 1st Half of 2008 through 2010.
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DICK O’DONNELL | Managing Director, Finance Group
PETER OGNIBENE | Managing Director, Finance Group
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MARY JO ZANDY | Managing Director, Media, Software & Online
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Footnotes
Market Segments
The DNA of M&A
All charts in this report are based
on data gathered by Berkery Noyes
research department. All time
period statistics are based on the
transaction announcement date.
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Market Segment
Description
Broadcasting
Television & Radio Broadcasting Stations
Consumer Publishing
Trade Books, Phone Books, Shopping Guides, Newspapers,
Consumer Magazines
Entertainment Content
Film, Music, Television, Video Games
Exhibitions, Conferences,
Seminars
Exhibitions, TradeShows, Conferences, Seminars
Internet Media
Web Portals, Social Networks, User-Generated Content, Blogs,
forums, E-zines
Professional Publishing &
Information
Professional Books, Journals, Newsletters, Textbooks, Trade
Magazines, Newswires, Market Research, Business Information
Services
Figure 10. Represents what types of media companies are included in
Figure 9.
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