BUYER POOL ANALYSIS
Selling a Home Health 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 10.45x across 19 disclosed deals (P25: 8.09x, P75: 12.98x). Median EV/Revenue 0.86x across 29 deals. Median deal value: $451.11M.
- How many disclosed transactions?
- 30 deals total (6 from 2018+), filtered to Private Equity / PE-Backed Roll-Up acquirers of home health businesses.
- Most active buyers
- Onex Corporation (3) · Encompass Health Corporation (2) · National Health Industries Inc. (2) · Kinderhook Industries (1) · Aveanna Healthcare Senior Services LLC (1) · Socrates LLC (1)
Recent disclosed deals
Private Equity / PE-Backed Roll-Up acquisitions of home health businesses with named target, named acquirer, and disclosed financials.
| Year | Target | Acquirer | EV | EV/EBITDA | EV/Rev |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Enhabit Home Health & Hospice | Kinderhook Industries | $1100.0M | 11.0x | 1.05x |
| 2021 | Comfort Care Home Health Services, LLC | Aveanna Healthcare Senior Services LLC | $338.9M | 21.2x | 3.64x |
| 2020 | Simplura Health Group | Socrates LLC | $575.0M | 11.6x | 1.24x |
| 2018 | Camellia Healthcare | Encompass Health Corporation | $135.0M | — | 1.73x |
| 2018 | Jordan Health Services | Blue Wolf Capital Partners/Kelso & Co | $700.0M | 10.4x | — |
| 2018 | Kindred Healthcare (Home Health Division) | Humana / TPG Capital / Welsh Carson | $4100.0M | 10.3x | 1.28x |
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 home health 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 home health 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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