Preqin Benchmarks

Driving performance excellence in private markets 

Industry's most comprehensive asset-level performance data

Gain insights into deal performance and valuation multiples with access to core metrics, such as deal level returns, entry and exit valuation multiples, net leverage, loss ratios, and operating statistics.

Asset-Level Benchmarks

Fuel deeper performance analysis with asset-level data

Asset-level data is crucial to managing your investments effectively and yet it is highly elusive in private markets.  

Add a new level of granularity to your analysis with the market’s leading asset-level performance data, providing critical metrics on 6,800+ funds and 67,000+ deals. Utilize our new tool Transaction Intelligence to benchmark deal-level returns, entry and exit valuation multiples, net leverage, loss ratios, and operating statistics. 

Superior data coverage and sourcing

Preqin utilizes advanced datasets of deal and portfolio company-level information to provide the market's most granular and accurate benchmarks. Our asset-level cash flow and valuations datasets are derived directly from cash flow notices, quarterly reports, PCAPs, and client communications from fund managers to investors.  

Preqin employs a quality-first approach to data collection, ensuring all performance data undergoes a rigorous verification process to ensure reliability and accuracy.    

Explore our detailed, asset-level performance data coverage by industry, geography, and strategy and delve into our data sourcing methodology to leverage our benchmarks to their full capacity. 

Preqin’s asset-level performance data is essential to us, as it gives us the ability to see the past behavior of different asset classes within a macroeconomic context.

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A transaction repository powered by customizable analytics

Transaction Intelligence is an innovative new tool designed to empower market professionals to comprehensively analyze and interrogate asset-level and deal-level datasets for private asset valuations and performance analyses.   

Asset-Level Benchmarks

Deal Performance Benchmarks 

Delve deeper into the factors driving fund performance by benchmarking underlying exposures at the sector, region, and investment type level. 

  • Strengthen your investor pitch and benchmark your investment track record against your competitors

  • Optimize your asset allocation strategy and enhance fund manager due diligence

Valuation Multiple Benchmarks 

Identify comparable assets, determine their market value more accurately, and evaluate asset pricing trends. 

  • Analyze trends in asset pricing by sectors, geography, EV ranges, and deal years

  • Benchmark EV valuation multiples against relevant peer groups for buyout deals – segmented by sector, region, EV range, and deal years

  • View distribution of EV/EBITDA, EV/revenue, and net debt/EBITDA for deals over time by sector and region

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