

This ranking represents a point in time in history, March 2, 2020.If we made an assumption not disclosed by the parent company, we linked to the source of the reported assumption.

All underlying assumptions are based on public financial disclosures unless stated otherwise.We recognize this analysis is flawed (cashflow/profit multiples are better, at least for mature companies), but given the opacity of most companies’ business unit reporting, this was the only way to apply a consistent and straightforward approach to each deal. If you have any examples you think we missed ping us on Slack or email at: We used revenue multiples to estimate the current value of the acquired company, multiplying its current estimated revenue by the market cap-to-revenue multiple of the parent company’s stock. We considered all historical acquisitions - not just technology companies - but may have overlooked some in areas that we know less well.

Naspers’ investment in Tencent and Softbank/Yahoo’s investment in Alibaba are disqualified for this reason.

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