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Pricing Power as the First-Order Lever: The Margin Question Most Models Miss customer power ebitda margin pricing power pricing strategy underwriting value creation Aug 17, 2026

Of all the value creation levers private equity firms can pull on a portfolio company, pricing power is the most consistently underweighted in underwriting models and the most consistently underestima...

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