Chart of the Week: PE-backed companies growing 4x faster than rest of market

Portfolio companies of private equity firms have considerably outperformed the rest of the market, going back to the turn of this century. The latest data from Bain & Co shows that the revenue growth of portfolio companies is more than quadruple that of the underlying market.

Chart of the Week, PE-backed companies growing 4x faster than rest of market
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