The Acquisition Trends section helps you analyze acquisition activity using visual charts and data summaries across companies, sectors, geographies, acquisition types, and market themes. It allows you to understand how acquisition activity, deal volume, and acquisition pricing are evolving across different industries and regions. Trend data is presented through interactive charts along with supporting tables for deeper analysis.
What You Can Analyze
Using Acquisition Trends, you can track:
🔹 Acquisition activity across different years
🔹 Number of acquisitions and acquisition pricing trends
🔹 Acquisition activity across acquisition types
🔹 Acquisition distribution across countries or sectors
🔹 Emerging acquisition activity across trending themes
🔹 Acquisition patterns across tech and offline sectors
Available Trend Options
Trend Type | What It Helps You Analyze |
YoY Number of Acquisition & Average Acquisition Price | Tracks acquisition activity and average acquisition price trends over time. |
YoY Number of Acquisition & Median Acquisition Price | Analyzes acquisition volume along with median acquisition pricing trends. |
YoY Number of Acquisition & Total Acquisition Price | Compares total acquisition value and deal activity across years. |
YoY Number of Acquisition split by Acquisition Type | Shows how acquisition activity is distributed across acquisition types over time. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Countries | Compares acquisition activity across countries or regions. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Feed | Shows how acquisitions are distributed across sectors or feeds. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Trending Themes in Sectors | Identifies themes witnessing strong acquisition activity across industries. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Tech Sectors | Compares acquisition concentration across technology-focused sectors. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Waves Disrupting Sectors | Highlights acquisition activity across emerging innovation waves. |
Total Number of Acquisition across Offline Sectors | Analyzes acquisition activity across traditional or offline industries. |
Custom | Allows you to create custom acquisition trend analysis using selected metrics and filters. |
How to use Acquisition Trends
Navigate to Transactions > Acquisitions.
Apply filters based on your research needs (sector, geography, acquisition type, founded year, etc.)
Scroll to the Acquisition Trends section.
Select a trend from the Select Trend Type dropdown.
View insights through charts and supporting tables.
You can zoom, navigate, or reset the visualization using chart controls available below the graph.
Example:
Analyze acquisition activity for Enterprise Software companies in the United States and Germany acquired between 2021 and 2025.