Welcome to the first edition of the “European PE Asset Handbook.” In this report, we give you a quantitative view of the European private equity (PE) asset pool, highlighting growth opportunities across various subsectors.

At Gain.pro, we cover every company with >10 employees. For those of threshold size (more than €5m EBITDA or equivalent metrics) we dedicate over 12-14 hours of primary research to each company. These businesses amount to more that 30,000 “investable assets” suitable for PE-backing in Europe. In this handbook, we dive deeper into this pool of opportunities.

• In Chapter 1, our quant scorecards provide you a quick snapshot of the most attractive subsectors and regions for capital deployment based on key metrics such as growth, profitability, buy-and-build strategy, leverage and EBITDA multiples.
• In Chapter 2, we explore how growth is key to PE value creation and identify high-growth, high-margin subsectors.
• In Chapter 3, we go deep into metrics for each of the 27 subsectors in Europe, providing detailed insights into their growth, profitability, capital intensity, leverage, internationalization and more.
• Finally, in Chapter 4, we explore varying degrees of private equity penetration across different sectors, highlighting trends in asset sizes, revenue concentration and sector dominance across regions.

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