[Wactclc-alma] Clarivate to buy ProQuest

Mon May 17 16:29:49 PDT 2021

Ironically, I got 371 results when I searched ABI/Inform (a ProQuest database 🙂) and found this interesting bit from their 2020 "Plans for the Future":

Our vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects and advances innovation. Sustainability is at the heart of what we do – we help companies innovating for a better future while operating with the highest social, environmental and ethics standards. We've set ambitious goals to become one of the top companies to work for, to be carbon neutral by 2024 and to be listed on both the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4 GOOD Index based on our 2023 performance."
Apparently, they have been focusing on international publications and are a significant contributor:

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today released a report which explores the seismic shift of the research landscape in 19 countries across the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) region over recent decades. It presents an international success story, with the region's global share of research output quadrupling from 2% to 8% over the last 40 years, and papers from 22 million individual researchers identified within the region between 2008 and 2017.

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i wasn't able to find a single article about Clarivate in the Wall Street Journal.

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Yes, that number struck me as pretty large.

But that primarily reflects the ProQuest IP assets, I’m guessing. (“Content is king,” as they say.) And less for the ExLibris brand.

The following are really just back of the napkin guestimates for entertainment purposes… If ExLibris has a 2,000 customer installed base, at say $50K / year revenue per customer, that’s $100 Million revenue per year. I couldn’t guess what earnings might be. For calculation purposes, call it  50% of revenue (that’s probably way high). One traditional rule of thumb for company valuation is 10 times earnings, which would make ExL worth about $500 million.

The interesting piece to me is that Clarivate (the buyer) is a publicly traded company. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that a library catalog company has been under a public ticker. (It’s possibly already happened, but I’m not aware of it. They’ve mostly been held by private equity firms.)

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Just saw this come through a ProQuest email. WOW! 5.3 Billion???

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It just keeps growing!  Clarivate publishes Web Of Science.

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