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Comments (14)
Rich Moore
As a distributor of Uniview products, for right now this doesn't change anything for us. The irony is that we found out about the sale through one of our clients that read your article. Cudos to IPVM for being on top of this.
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Sean Nelson
05/10/17 06:29pm
This was a big selling point for Uniview. "Partly american owned". Nonetheless, still a good product.
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John Honovich
One other interesting point is the effective valuation of this deal - assume Uniview was in the ~$300 million range, as they historically have said, a $535 million purchase price is fairly, certainly for Chinese standard, where 5x revenue valuations is ordinary and China TransInfo has a ~7x sales multiple.
Anyone with any theories on why the purchase price was relatively low, please share.
That noted, probably still a prudent move by Bain to cash out.
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Corbin Hambrick
We chose Uniview (over HIK) for our budget cameras when the customer doesn't care about quality but wants a cheap camera.
I chose them over Dahua and HIK only because at that time the latter two seemed to not care that they were going willy nilly all over the Internet with pricing etc, and Univew at least tried to protect it some and of course had US ownership.
The US part made me feel better about my purchases and I was unaware of the Chinese Govt. ownership of HIK at the time.
...may prompt me to look into other cheapo camera options..may not.
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