Cheval M&A, Inc. & Cheval Capital, Inc. complete 500th Hosting, Cloud & Internet Services Transaction

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 Cheval M&A and Cheval Capital complete 500th Hosting, Cloud & Internet Services Transaction

 Washington, DC – Boutique investment banking firms and Internet services specialists, Cheval M&A, Inc. and Cheval Capital, Inc. announced today that they have advised on their 500th successful transaction in the cloud, hosting, IAAS and related Internet services spaces.

Cheval achieved this milestone as a part of six transactions that have closed over the past few weeks and marks the 25th transaction they've successfully closed so far in 2019! These transactions have been completed with a wide variety of companies in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Middle East, and South America.

Extensive industry expertise helps maximize client value from the unique aspects of their business, regardless of location. Smaller clients realize particular benefit from demand created by the Cheval Opportunities List.

Hillary Stiff of Cheval M&A commented on the event, “We’ve been very fortunate since we began in this industry in the late 1990s to have worked with a large number of great companies of all types and sizes, including some of the top names in the industry.  We had the pleasure in this case to close a mix of transactions, ranging from hoster/cloud providers to large IPv4 blocks, to push us over 500.”

To learn more about Cheval M&A, Inc. and Cheval Capital, please visit: www.chevalacq.com and www.chevalcap.com. 

About Cheval M&A, Inc. and Cheval Capital, Inc.

Cheval M&A, Inc. and Cheval Capital, Inc. are boutique Investment banks specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance. They have expertise in a variety of industries but have been particularly active in the Internet services arena since the mid 1990’s.

Cheval Capital, Inc. is a FINRA (www.finra.org) registered broker-dealer

Contact 

For additional information, please contact; 

Frank Stiff

Cheval Capital, Inc

+1-703-549-7390

fstiff - at - chevalcap.com

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VALUATION OF PUBLIC HOSTING COMPANIES - NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Summarized below are estimates of the relative valuations of some public companies that have significant hosting operations. Please be aware that a number of these companies have other businesses that also affect their valuations. (All data was taken from publicly available financial information and please see this post for how we calculate Enterprise Value.) If you wish to get a sense for changes to valuations over time, here is a link to some of our past valuation summaries.

As has been the case for some time, companies with higher organic growth rates have higher valuation multiples.

As always, please feel free to contact us if you have any comments, or questions.

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Disclaimer: This post is for general information purposes and is not meant to be taken as financial advice, a recommendation to buy or sell the stocks mentioned above, a comprehensive discussion of valuation or how to do the calculations discussed. Please be sure to consult your financial advisors when valuing your company, considering the sale of your business or making other financial decisions.

Author: Hillary Stiff is Managing Director of Cheval Capital. She has been an investment banker and CFO, completing M&A transactions and arranging financing for a number of companies including The Endurance International Group and Web.Com among many others. She has helped complete over 450 successful web hosting, ISP and related transactions and distributes a list of hosting and related companies that are for sale.

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Web.com to be acquired by Siris Capital Group - UPDATED

Congratulations to our friends at Web.com on their agreement to sell the business to Siris Capital Group, LLC. for $28/share. The price reflects an Enterprise Value of approximately $2 billion and appears to be 10-11x Adjusted EBITDA (L3MA.)

The final purchase price of $28/share was an increase from the $25/share initially announced prior to the go-shop period thirty days prior and reflects some last minute bidding by prospective suitors.

Web.com is one of the older US hosters having been a startup by Norwest Venture Capital in the late 1990's. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018.  

As always, please feel free to contact us if you have any comments, or questions.

Cheval Capital, Inc.

Disclaimer: This post is for general information purposes and is not meant to be taken as financial advice, a recommendation to buy or sell the stocks mentioned above, a comprehensive discussion of valuation or how to do the calculations discussed. Please be sure to consult your financial advisors when valuing your company, considering the sale of your business or making other financial decisions.

Author: Hillary Stiff is Managing Director of Cheval Capital. She has been an investment banker and CFO, completing M&A transactions and arranging financing for a number of companies including NTT/Verio, The Endurance International Group and Web.Com among many others. She has helped complete over 450 successful web hosting, ISP and related transactions and distributes a list of hosting and related companies that are for sale.