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North American Healthcare Equipment Financing and Leasing - Investment Analysis and Growth Opportunities
Frost & Sullivan, Sep 2006
Frost & Sullivan's healthcare equipment financing and leasing Financial Benchmarking and Analysis (FBA) service presents a financial outlook of the North American healthcare equipment financing and leasing market, highlighting major market and financial trends in select growth segments. The FBA focuses on the three segments of the North American healthcare equipment financing and lseasing market, namely: small ticket, middle market and large ticket.
Frost & Sullivan's Medical Devices Financial Benchmarking and Analysis (FBA) service presents a broad financial outline of the medical devices industry, highlighting major market and financial trends in key growth segments. It provides a comprehensive financial analysis of leading medical devices firms to support the investment and financial analysis needs of decision makers in the marketplace. The current study within the service focuses on the following key growth sectors of the North American Healthcare Equipment Financing and Leasing market: small ticket, middle market, and large ticket.
High Levels of Debt in Hospitals’ Capital Structure
Hospitals, the key end-users for healthcare equipment, have substantial levels of debt employed in their capital structure. An analysis of their financials revealed that they recorded a long-term debt to equity ratio of 1.3x for the year 2005, compared to an average long-term debt to equity ratio of 0.4x for the healthcare sector as a whole. Such high levels of leverage highlight the need for off-balance sheet financing and the potential leasing opportunities present within the healthcare space.
Healthcare Vertical One of the Fastest Growing in the Leasing Industry
Leasing as an alternative financing option is increasingly gaining popularity. This is evidenced by the fact that, at present, approximately one-third of all capital spending in the U.S. is financed through leasing. The healthcare vertical is one of the fastest growing sectors in the leasing industry, with diagnostic imaging equipment representing a majority of the healthcare leasing market. Various factors, such as the increasing demand for healthcare information technology, an ageing population, highly geared hospitals, and rapid technological advancements are driving growth in the healthcare leasing market.
Benefits of the Service
- Comprehensive industry mapping of public and private companies
- Growth opportunities for public and private companies
- Comprehensive financial benchmarking
- Fundamental industry data and tracking
- Proprietary industry research on select markets
- Valuation and financial metrics
- Global coverage
- Confidential analyst briefings on research findings
- Unlimited analyst access
- Quarterly and ad-hoc research services
- Workshops, seminars and briefings to supplement the value of the written work
- Ability to provide input on the topics addressed and researched as part of the service
Market Sectors
Frost & Sullivan’s expert analysts thoroughly examine the following sectors in this research:
- Small Ticket
- Middle Market
- Large Ticket
What's Included
- Market dynamics
- Industry economics
- Competitive profiles of leading participants
- Investment themes
- Sector scorecard
- Growth monitor for about 20 companies
- End-user financial analysis by groups (hospitals, home healthcare, medical practitioners and long-term care facilities)
- Historical mergers & acquisitions for 5 years
- IPO analysis for the period 1994-2006
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