Is there a way to know if the income data in Pratts Stats is based upon tax return data or internally generated financial statements?
If the data was collected from a business broker, it can be either internally generated financial statements or income data from a tax return, though the majority of the time the income data comes from internally generated financial statements. If the data was collected from the SEC website, the income data will typically be audited internally generated financial statements. If you look at the “Source Data” section of the transaction report, you can verify whether the deal was collected from a business broker or from the SEC website. What does it mean when the “Broker Name” field is left blank on the Pratt’s Stats Transaction Report? For confidentiality reasons, some brokers ask that their name be left off the Pratt’s Stats Transaction Report. In these cases, we are unable to report or provide the broker’s name to users. In Pratts Stats, when you research SEC documents where public companies purchase private companies, are you capturing all of the deals, or are you unable to capture so
