Private Markets Dampen with Further Declines in April

Private Company Stock Prices Fall Further in April 

ApeVue data show that private companies valuations dive further year-to-date (April 30th, 2022)

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New York, NY, May 5, 2022 — ApeVue, the first independent pricing data service for private stocks, continues to show weakness inferred from the private equity secondaries market this year.  From January 1 to the end of April, the average stock price in the ApeVue Active 50 (a basket representing the most active companies observed in the institutional secondary market) declined 9.64%.    

Cross-sector overview:

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Benchmark overview: Headline Private v Public

Over the past full year however, late stage private company stocks continue to outperform their publicly-traded peers. 

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Private stocks (including ByteDance, Epic Games, Klarna, and OpenSea) led the charge lower through April, while still maintaining stronger relative performance to key public benchmarks; shown below as the comparison between year-to-date losses across the Nasdaq, S&P500, and ApeVue50. 

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ApeVue provides objective, daily pricing for non-public company stocks. Our independent data help  institutional investors understand market conditions, measure risk and assign valuations with confidence. Price data from ApeVue are constructed from aggregated, anonymized market activity information sourced from licensed brokers at the nexus of institutional trading. Unlike traditional company valuation assessments done quarterly, ApeVue data show equity price fluctuations between funding rounds and regular financial reporting periods. With the largest, most timely, independent dataset covering non-listed companies, ApeVue is the best source for up-to-date  insights about the dynamic pre-IPO company market. 

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