P.E.T.A. (Platform for Economic and Financial Transaction Analysis) is Houghton Street Partners' Houghton Street Partners' proprietary platform for assessing transactions based on macroeconomic, industry sector, company, valuation cycle and exit analysis.  P.E.T.A. builds on the growing proprietary Target Database and first cut S.P.O.T. filters to conduct in-depth assessments of proposed transactions from the lenses of the macroeconomic environment, industry dynamics, company positioning, valuation cycles and exit environment to stress-test the viability of each contemplated transaction. P.E.T.A. is an open architecture platform and allows cooperative agents and applications to evolve and provide robust decisions for making private equity investments.