One of the ways we can do this is to take
the median valuation of the companies in the S&P 500 Index (that is, the P / E at which half the stocks have higher valuations and half have lower valuations).
Not exact matches
Here is a chart to show you the
median valuation of late stage private tech
companies compared to traditional growth rounds
of capital led by VCs and also vs. the public markets.
While according to Thomson Reuters there have been on average 1,582 technology
companies founded annually during the period between 2003 through 2013 (17,412 cumulatively over the period), an average
of only 54 venture - backed
companies went public during this period (596 in total)-- and the
median valuation for all such IPOs was $ 354 mm.
The average
valuation of the
companies we analyzed was $ 4.4 billion, the
median valuation was $ 1.6 billion, the average percentage increase per share from the prior financing round was 180 %, and the
median percentage increase per share from the prior financing round was 100 %.
In 1973, the
median large
company was trading at nearly twice the
valuation level
of the
median small
company.
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