By Carl Schell, Keypoint Intelligence: One of my favorite things at work to look at is our acquisitions database. I study it several times a year, oftentimes for a blog—like this one, in fact—or an inquiry call. Then I have conversation with a colleague or two to analyze the dataset. Given that consolidation remains an area of much intrigue and enables learning and strategy development in the process, it’s a no brainer that we keep the topic top of mind.

While we track acquisitions of all types, I’m most interested in studying the activity of dealers buying other dealers. And as you can see by our latest infographic, transactions of this type have fallen off by almost 50% since 2022—I still point the finger at inflation and interest rates over the last year or so playing a big role in the decrease.

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SOURCE Keypoint Intelligence