Best practices for diligence on an equipment-intensive business?

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December 07, 2021

by a searcher from Boston College - Wallace E. Carroll School of Management in New York, NY, USA

Looking for searchers with experience evaluating the asset quality of an industrial services business. Are there any resources or consultants that you found helpful? How did you get comfortable that the assets were high quality and well-maintained?

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from Pennsylvania State University in Atlanta, GA, USA
This is something I wish I had focused on more during diligence. In hindsight, I would have hired a mechanic to go to the company and inspect the vehicles and machines - this would have likely indicated that assets had been heavily used and were likely to require some unplanned maintenance. Instead (due to time constraints), I just looked at historical repair/maintenance spend, which was pretty consistent; this implied at the very least the owner hadn't stopped spending money and delayed repairs due to the sale (always a big concern).
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from Bentley College in Miami, FL, USA
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