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Peer Group Insights
Selecting suitable peer companies for financial analysis is critical for CFOs, M&A teams and finance departments, but it is often time-consuming and tedious.
AI-driven peer group analysis – fast, comprehensive, actionable
Selecting the right comparable companies for financial analysis is critical for CFOs, M&A teams and finance professionals, but it’s often a tedious and time-consuming process.
Analysts can spend days manually compiling peer groups and crunching data from disparate sources. And even then, limited access to comprehensive market data means the chosen peers may not fully reflect the market landscape. Peer Group Insights changes this.
Our AI-powered solution automates and optimizes peer group analysis, allowing you to identify relevant comparables from a global database of over 50,000 publicly listed companies in seconds.
Benefits at a Glance
AI-powered peer identification
Peer Group Insights uses artificial intelligence to quickly and accurately find relevant peer companies for your analysis. Instead of spending countless hours on manual research, you can obtain a data-driven peer group recommendation within seconds, leveraging state-of-the-art AI models for superior precision. This drastically reduces the effort and time required for peer analysis, freeing you to focus on interpreting results and strategy
Comprehensive global coverage
With access to financial data from over 50,000 companies worldwide, our solution provides an unparalleled foundation for your analysis. You can construct peer groups across industries and regions, ensuring you have enough comparables even in specialized markets. The extensive dataset means no important player is overlooked, even if your local market has only a few obvious peers. Data is updated on a weekly basis and undergoes a thorough quality check, ensuring you receive reliable, up-to-date metrics for benchmarking and valuation.
User-friendly Excel reports
All analysis results are delivered in a downloadable Excel format, giving you maximum flexibility to dive deeper or integrate the data into your workflow. The reports are cleanly structured and ready for further analysis, whether you want to customize calculations, create charts, or incorporate the findings into presentations. In short, Peer Group Insights turns vast amounts of data into actionable insights that you can immediately leverage in your financial decisions.
How Peer Group Insights Works – 5 Steps
01AI-driven peer selection
Based on your inputs, Peer Group Insights scans our global database to identify the companies that best match your criteria. The AI analyzes business descriptions and financial profiles to find companies with similar characteristics to your target. In a matter of seconds, it produces a list of relevant peer companies. This smart selection ensures that even non-obvious comparables are considered, peers you might have missed through manual search.
Pricing
Peer Group Insights
Please contact us to receive a customized quote tailored to your needs.
from 7.200 EUR
per user per year
How long does it take to implement Peer Group Insights?
There’s no lengthy installation or setup, Peer Group Insights is ready to use right away as a cloud-based service. Once your access is provisioned, you can immediately start your first peer analysis. Our team will support you during onboarding if needed, but most users are up and running quickly and see results in no time.
Do I need training to use the tool?
Peer Group Insights is designed to be user-friendly and intuitive. The interface guides you step by step, so even without formal training, you can start generating peer analyses easily. We provide helpful tutorials and support resources, and of course our experts are on hand to answer any questions. In practice, it only takes a few clicks to get a peer group result.
How current and reliable is the data?
We ensure the underlying market data is continuously updated so that your analysis reflects the latest information. Our data comes from reputable financial data providers and goes through PwC’s rigorous quality checks. You can trust that the benchmarks and figures are accurate and up-to-date when making decisions. If you have specific data requirements, we’re happy to discuss how we can accommodate them.
Can the tool analyze private companies as peers?
Currently, Peer Group Insights focuses on publicly listed companies, since comprehensive financial information is readily available for them. The platform covers an extensive universe of over 50,000 public companies globally. Private companies (which often have limited or non-standardized data) are not included in this version. If you need analysis involving private companies, our team can advise on a custom approach leveraging our broader PwC capabilities.
What use cases is this solution best suited for?
Peer Group Insights is extremely versatile. Common use cases include deriving your weighted average cost of capital (WACC) based on market peers, identifying valuation multiples for business valuations or fairness opinions, and benchmarking key performance indicators against industry peers. Essentially, whenever you need market-based reference points, be it for strategic planning, valuation, or investor communications, this tool provides them quickly and reliably.
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