Device companies brought in a total of $3.4 billion in financing during the second quarter, a significant decrease – less than half – compared with Q1’s aggregate $7.6 billion. Still, over $5 billion of the first quarter figure was outlier Siemens Healthineers AG’s IPO [See Deal], and excluding that deal means that Q2 activity actually performed better. Debt financing once again had a strong showing, in Q2, and follow-on public offerings also represented a substantial amount (see Exhibit 1).
Device/Diagnostics Quarterly Dealmaking Statistics, Q2 2018
A look at the financing, M&A and alliance activity in April-June 2018
Second quarter device financing totaled $3.4 billion, less than half of the Q1 aggregate. Conversely, the $10.6 billion in device M&As was a 58% upsurge over the previous quarter. Like the device trends, total Q2 diagnostics financings (at $959 million) showed a 36% decline from Q1, while the $4.8 billion in M&A volume exhibited a significant increase over the previous quarter.
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