Sports teams have gone from trophies to trilliondollar investment targets
News Source : Fortune
News Summary
- In 2014, global private equity deal count for professional sports teams and leagues amounted to 13 deals and $1.9 billion in deal value.
- By the end of 2025, the global deal count in the sector was 71 deals with $18.45 billion in value.
- Structural shifts have happened (in both the u.s. and abroad) to make this flood of institutional capital possible.
- Since 2014, overall total returns for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB have outperformed the S&P 500.
Sports teams, throughout the 20th century, were pretty much trophy assets. Shiny, nice to have, but expected to gleam on the shelf rather than build value. Not so anymore.
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