Private equity firm the Vistria Group has sold hospice provider Agape Care Group to Ridgemont Equity Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal follows a period of accelerated growth for Agape, which has completed multiple acquisitions in its own right since Vistria purchased the company three years ago. Agape’s footprint covers 45% of Georgia […]
Cain Brothers
The first quarter of 2020 has borne out the expectation that the COVID_19 pandemic would have little impact on hospice mergers and acquisitions, at least in the short term. Close to 15 M&A transactions occurred during Q1. This slightly exceeds the 14 transactions that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2019 and beats the total […]
Demographic growth and the availability of capital are among a handful of forces driving a robust mergers and acquisitions market in the hospice space, motivating companies to make acquisitions at a relatively brisk pace. From 2016 to 2018, the hospice M&A space saw more than 10 transactions of $250 million or more in total enterprise […]
The hospice and home health care companies for the third quarter in a row have seen the highest multiples of any health care sector in merger and acquisitions transactions, reaching 22.7x in the second quarter of 2019, according to auditing and consulting firm PwC. These high valuations for hospice and home health acquisitions come in […]