Brookdale and HCR ManorCare May Deal
Brookdale Senior Living is rumored to be in exclusive talks with a Chinese investor, and Carlyle Group may finally get out of its HCR ManorCare position. A new rumor was out yesterday that China-based Zhonghong Zhuoye Group was in exclusive negotiations with Brookdale Senior Living after making an offer to buy the company for $3.0 billion, apparently higher than other offers. The problem is that the current market cap is just $2.8 billion, so not much of a premium being offered. Apparently, Brookdale wants to be convinced that the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. would approve the deal as non-threatening to national security. Really? State secrets on maintaining census and... Read More »
Deals Down So Far in 2017
Long-term care has experienced a dip in M&A, but after nearly three straight years of 80+ transactions per quarter (starting in Q3:2014 with 83), with a couple exceptions, it is about time the M&A juggernaut slows down a bit. The first quarter’s volume fell to 76 deals, down from 93 in the previous quarter and from 84 in the year-ago quarter. And as of May 23, 2017, deal volume has so far not kept pace compared with the same period in 2016 with just 118 long-term care transactions recorded compared with 145 in 2016, a 19% difference. However, spending has nearly doubled (to $7.52 billion so far in 2017 from $4.37 billion in 2016), thanks to a few large deals that were announced in... Read More »
Is Brookdale Prepping For The Sale?
As you may know, we were never a fan of Brookdale Senior Living’s acquisition of Emeritus, and we are still not a fan of any company in the space operating 500 or more communities, let alone 1,000. It is just not that easy, and while we do not fault management for having a hard time of it, we do fault management for getting to the size it is. At least, the management responsible for the growth, and not the people trying to work things out. Brookdale announced its first quarter earnings, and investors seemed to like what they saw and heard. They ignoredthe same-community decline on occupancy of 100 basis points to 85.7% year over year, as well as the 80 basis point sequential decline. The... Read More »Seniors Housing Occupancy Continues Its Decline
As many people expected, seniors housing occupancy levels declined in the first quarter this year, with assisted living posting larger declines than independent living. According to the recently released NIC MAP data, primarily assisted living communities in the 31 primary markets posted a sequential drop in occupancy of 50 basis points to 87.2%, and a year-over-year drop of 100 basis points. Even though these numbers were sort of expected, there was some hope that the sector was starting to turn things around in the quarter. Not yet. It was a little surprising that half the year-over-year drop came in one quarter, however. On the independent living side, occupancy in the top 31 markets... Read More »Schedule a demo
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