Companies are the heart of Gain.pro - and discovering and learning about them is what the platform is all about!
Almost all of the data that we hold on the companies that we track is available for you to search and filter on. The two ways to do so are outlined below:
Global Search: Individual companies and legal entities
If you are trying to search for a specific company, the best way to do so is using the company name, alias or website. You can also search using words or phrases likely to be in the business description - for example searching for “Football Pitches” will bring up Players and Powerleague as operators of football pitches.
You can also search for legal entities separate to companies by searching for the exact legal entity name or applying the “legal entity” drop down filter when searching.
Company view: Discovering by filtering companies
You can also search for companies across the breadth of data in the Gain.pro platform by navigating to the companies tab. Our filters enable you to apply multiple criteria across quantitative and qualitative data that we track on these companies, which you can also combine using multiple AND or OR logic trees.
Default filters
Our default search filters are based on some of the most common criteria for grouping businesses:
These include key segmentation criteria such as
- Company HQ (by country, region, area or radius)
- Key size criteria, including Revenue, EBITDA and FTE
- Growth rates across financial (inc. Rev & EBITDA), margin and FTE data (over 3 months to 3 years)
- Ownership (public, investor-backed or privately-held)
We also offer a number of ways to dive into the business model and naturally filter companies:
- Over 25k tags enabling you to type in natural descriptions of sector, business and activity that enable you to filter for companies combining our analysts understanding and GenAI suggestions.
- For example, when searching for “Software”, our tagging system will automatically recommend “computer software”, “software applications”, “AI software”, “database software” and others as potentially relevant
- Text contains is a powerful filter to pick up on any specific words or phrases included in the profile description
- Similar to company allows you to define a company and use our similarity logic as a filter
Advanced filters
The full range of filters enable you to go into significantly more depth. The major groupings of these filters are:
- Financials: Enables you to filter on metrics across both the P&L and Balance Sheet, including on margins as well as the debt and working capital structure
- Ratios: Enables you to filter on operational (e.g. Revenue / FTE), leverage (Net Debt / EBITDA), Return ratios (ROA, ROE, ROCE) and valuation ratios
- Growth: A powerful filter that enables you to track FTE, Revenue, GM, EBITDA and EBIT growth across periods from 3 months to 3 years
- Investors: Enables you to define specific investors who you want to look at
- Deals: Filter on historic platform deals, funding rounds and add-on activity, as well as predicted deal activity (e.g. predicted EBITDA, EBIT, EV and exit time multiples)
- Business model: Leverage our PEI analyst insights to filter on key business characteristics related to the customer base, business activity, sales channel and price positioning
- Assessment: Our PEI analysts 10-point criteria and scoring help you filter on the quality of key metrics relevant to investors (including cash conversion, cyclicality, market position and M&A)
- ESG: Filter on our ESG assessment including the ESG outperformance, overall ESG risk and Environmental and Social risk
- Other: Other filters include Year founded, Advisors and CEO age
Saving your filters for the future with Active Filters
Note that for any set of applied filters, you can upgrade your search to become a “sourcing engine” by saving your filter criteria as “Active Filters”. Gain.pro will then keep you up to speed on any developments within this space as new companies meet the criteria via notifications in the app and weekly email updates. See the linked article for more
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