The view from Main Street isn’t as bearish as the current perspective on Wall Street, private equity pros at small company private equity firm Riverside Co. said Thursday.
“It’s very hard to predict 2022, but we’re going to stay on our toes and we’re going to stay nimble,” Riverside Co. co-CEO Stewart Kohl said at a breakfast meeting with reporters. “If we look just at how our portfolio companies are doing, we would not be talking about a recession.” Kohl said the higher cost of credit, and wider gaps on price between buyers and sellers could contribute to fewer portfolio company sales — or exits — by the firm in 2023.While its pace of company sales may slow next year, Riverside Co. plans to keep its capital deployment in 2023 on par with 2022 partly by focusing on smaller, add-on deals for its portfolio companies. More larger companies may be looking to shed smaller, underperforming units to reduce costs and raise capital.
Riverside’s focus on more recession-proof businesses such as residential plumbing, software-as-a-service companies that help clients improve efficiency, and health care-related businesses also helps the firm perform during economic downturns, Kohl said. Pam Hendrickson, vice chairman of Riverside, said she continues to work on industry issues with regulators and members of Congress in her role as chairwoman of the American Investment Council, the lobbying arm for private equity firms.
That’s because we’re already in a recession change the meaning so that it helps you or not This IS a recession… you haven’t seen the effects of the rate hikes as of yet but you will, oh you will and when you do you’ll know because it’s going to like something you’ve never seen