FT Partners Has No Money?

Where do these guys get the money to pay an1 salaries at $140k?? Their IB revenue is a fraction of bulge brackets esp if they’re doing mostly cap raises and only a few m&a deals.

Paying their analysts a couple extra thousand dollars isn’t going to hurt their pockets that much, but I’m assuming they had to bump VP+ salaries roughly proportionally.

Has an investment bank ever gone under for paying their employees too much? I just don’t get where they’re getting the funds for these salary bumps.

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Really doubt they're paying almost 300k for an1 if they don't have the revenue for it

If what the WSJ article says is true for revenue, they have a high revenue per head, which is probably why they're so sweaty. 600+ mil in revenue in 2021 on ~200 avg employees implies 3 mil per employee. Some quick benchmarks - PWP had 800 mil in 2021 on ~575 avg employees implying 1.4 mil per employee; Moelis had 1541 mil in 2021 on ~1100 avg. employees implying 1.4 mil per employee

 

They charge higher fees on cap raise deals as they can dig deep and tell a story that investors buy. High growth companies go to FT as they usually have crappy finance / accounting teams and they need big valuation. That is why I think FT is unlikely to be considered as an EB ever from the deal size/type end because they lose their edge when dealing with mature companies / valuation.

 

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