RE: Subject: URGENT DEMAND: Investigation of Market Disclosure, Share Price Integrity, and Material Adverse Change18 Nov 2025 20:44
Based on Mergermarket data, the EV and the EV/Sales and EV/EBITDA multiples paid by TIG in its historical acquisitions were the following:
• Instra (2015): EV/EBITDA 14.7×, EV/Sales 2.29×
• KeyDrive (2018): EV/EBITDA 7.5×, EV/Sales 0.8×
• TPP Wholesale (2019): EV/EBITDA 6.2×, EV/Sales 1.4×
• HEXONET (2019): EV/EBITDA 12.5×, EV/Sales 0.6×
These numbers are correct — but using them as a benchmark to value DIS is not conceptually sound. In those cases TIG was the consolidator, acquiring smaller, fragmented operators with lower scale and lower margins. Naturally, acquisition targets tend to trade at lower multiples.
DIS today represents the post-integration platform, with scale, higher recurring revenues and much stronger economics. A consolidator is valued at higher multiples than the companies it consolidates, not at the average of its acquisition targets — this is true across the domains/hosting/identity industry.
Also, for DIS there is no need to estimate debt levels, because the transaction will almost certainly be executed on a debt-free/cash-free basis. So the EV is essentially aligned with the equity value of the sale.
For these reasons, the Instra / KeyDrive / TPP / HEXONET multiples should be seen as a historical floor — not a ceiling. A competitive process can logically result in higher valuation multiples for DIS.