After years of strong underlying demand, growth conditions across residential services have become more uneven in 2026. The sector remains supported by the essential nature of heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical services, but low housing turnover, elevated project costs and…

Beginning January 1, 2027, California will significantly expand its sales and use tax base by taxing various digital products, including prewritten software transferred electronically and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). California historically excluded electronically delivered software and SaaS from sales tax. Senate Bill…

S+S Industries is a vertically integrated provider of mission-critical power distribution components and value-added services. To capitalize on growing demand created by surging AI workloads, expanding hyperscaler capacity and rising power-density requirements, S+S sought a financial partner that could provide…

In this installment of the Portage Point Credit Market Update, the Capital Advisory team summarizes Q2 2026 market activity, benchmarks results against prior periods, comments on key credit market developments and offers insights into the outlook for the remainder of 2026.  The…

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are beginning to replicate, accelerate, and in some cases, replace core software functionality. As a result, the traditional software evaluation playbook is changing rapidly. The category that defined a generation of private equity (PE) returns is…

Stalled revenue, aging inventory and stretched cash conversion cycles strained consumer categories in the first half of 2026, pointing to an increasingly common issue – product assortments have grown beyond what businesses can profitably support. The past decade, especially the…

Investors, boards and management teams often receive multiple valuations for the same asset, all tied to a different methodology or objective. These outputs can appear inconsistent, leading some organizations to default to a single figure for simplicity. But that shortcut…

Automotive and the automotive aftermarket remain two of the most dynamic sectors in the market, but the current mergers and acquisitions (M&A) environment requires a far more disciplined lens than it did just a few years ago. Regulatory uncertainty, changing consumer preferences, capital intensity,…

The software multiple compression that began in 2022 is no longer a cyclical correction. With leading software names trading at a fraction of their 2021 revenue multiples and artificial intelligence (AI) reshaping how software is built, sold and consumed, private…

Investors, boards and management teams often receive multiple valuations for the same asset, each tied to a different methodology or objective. These outputs can appear inconsistent, leading some organizations to default to a single figure for simplicity. But that shortcut…