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Seacoast Banking Corp of Florida to acquire Professional Holding Corp.

Announced Aug 8, 2022 · Closed Jan 31, 2023

Deal value$489M
Premium—To unaffected price
EV / Adj. EBITDA—
ConsiderationAll stock

Transaction

Acquirer
Seacoast Banking Corp of Florida (SBCF)
Target
Professional Holding Corp. (PFHD)
Buyer type
Strategic
Offer price per share
—
Enterprise value
—
Status
Closed Jan 31, 2023

Deal protections

Break fee (target pays)
$21.8M · 4.5%
Reverse fee (buyer pays)
—
Go-shop
No-shop
Financing
—

Advisors

To the acquirer
Piper Sandler
To the target
Stephens
Piper Sandler fee
$3.4M

Sector context · Financials

Comparable deals
82 in the prior 24 months
Premium
Sector median 35.7%
EV / Adj. EBITDA
Sector median 23.7x
Break fee
4.5% vs. 3.6% sector median

Timeline

  1. AnnouncedAug 8, 2022
  2. Proxy filedNov 14, 2022
  3. Definitive proxyNov 14, 2022
  4. Shareholder voteDec 15, 2022
  5. ClosedJan 31, 2023

Valuation · fairness opinions

Precedent transactionsPiper Sandler$19.50$38.27
Precedent transactionsPiper Sandler$24.30$41.74
Precedent transactionsPiper Sandler$11.71$22.58
Precedent transactionsPiper Sandler$18.31$30.41
Precedent transactionsPiper Sandler$22.15$42.71
Other analysis$20.03$23.96
Other analysis$12.57$15.61
Other analysis$15.69$21.07
Discounted cash flow$23.03$27.71
Discounted cash flow$19.80$28.87

Implied value per Professional Holding Corp. share by analysis, from Piper Sandler · DCF discount rate 8%–12%.

Sources
  • 8-K (EX-99.1) · Aug 11, 2022

Adj. EBITDA is operating income + D&A + impairment, restructuring, deal costs and stock compensation, less any large gain on a sale, last twelve months, from the target's filings. Calculated by Castle, so it can differ from a bank's adjusted figure.

Prepared with Castle from public SEC EDGAR filings. Figures are extracted automatically; verify against the source documents. Not investment advice.