BUYER POOL ANALYSIS
Selling a dental practice to Private Equity / PE-Backed Roll-Up buyers
Private equity firms and PE-backed platform consolidators acquiring for roll-up, add-on, or platform plays. Pricing tends to lead the market for fee-viable scale, with multi-bidder competitive processes above the EBITDA floor.
Quick answers
- What multiple does this buyer pool pay?
- Median EV/EBITDA 14x across 14 disclosed deals (P25: 11.6x, P75: 14.55x). Median EV/Revenue 2x across 7 deals. Median deal value: $725M.
- How many disclosed transactions?
- 17 deals total (17 from 2018+), filtered to Private Equity / PE-Backed Roll-Up acquirers of dental practice businesses.
- Most active buyers
- KKR (3) · GTCR (1) · Warburg Pincus (1) · Comvest Private Equity (1) · H.I.G. Capital (1) · Harvest Partners (1)
Recent disclosed deals
Private Equity / PE-Backed Roll-Up acquisitions of dental practice businesses with named target, named acquirer, and disclosed financials.
| Year | Target | Acquirer | EV | EV/EBITDA | EV/Rev |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Dentalcorp Holdings Ltd. | GTCR | $2400.0M | 11.0x | 2.00x |
| 2025 | Leixir Dental Laboratory Group | KKR | $225.0M | 11.3x | — |
| 2024 | MB2 Dental | Warburg Pincus | $3500.0M | 11.7x | — |
| 2024 | Riccobene Associates Family Dentistry | Comvest Private Equity | $235.0M | 11.8x | 1.60x |
| 2023 | Advanced Dental Brands | H.I.G. Capital | $216.0M | 12.0x | 0.90x |
| 2021 | Affordable Care Inc. | Harvest Partners | $2700.0M | 17.0x | — |
What this buyer pool prices for
Private equity acquirers price for scale and roll-up arbitrage. They pay up for businesses that fit a platform thesis — recurring revenue mix above 30%, technician/professional depth, clean financials, and a management layer that survives integration. The same dental practice can command 1.5x to 2x the multiple of an individual-buyer transaction simply because the PE buyer is acquiring a platform piece, not an owner-operated shop.
Methodology note
Multiples shown are computed from disclosed M&A transactions in the ExitValue.ai database, filtered to dental practice businesses acquired by private equity / pe-backed roll-up buyers. EV/EBITDA outliers outside the [0.5x, 60x] band and EV/Revenue outliers outside [0.05x, 25x] are excluded from medians. Where available, post-2018 transactions are weighted; otherwise the all-time sample is used. Deal counts shown reflect deals with disclosed financials only — total transaction count for this buyer pool is typically 2-3x larger. Full methodology
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