Finance Execs See a Healthcare Market Bubble Emerging: KPMG/Leavitt Partners Survey of Finance Professionals

With several sectors in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry seen as overvalued, finance executives are concerned that a market bubble is developing. However, despite bubble concerns, they expect a great deal of investment and M&A activity in health IT and outpatient services, according to a survey by KPMG LLP and Leavitt Partners.

In surveying 265 finance executives at healthcare corporations, investment banks, and private equity firms, KPMG/Leavitt found that 36 percent see the current state of the healthcare & life sciences market as a “moderate bubble” and an additional 22 percent see the market as a “bubble likely to burst.”

When asked about overvalued sectors,...