What is your business worth? An honest estimate in 30 seconds
Buyers of owner-operated businesses price on SDE times a multiple, not on revenue or sweat. Enter three numbers from your books and see the commonly quoted range for your industry, and what moves you inside it.
What moves you toward the top of the range
Questions owners ask
It computes SDE (Seller's Discretionary Earnings): your annual pre-tax profit, plus your own pay, plus provable add-backs. It then multiplies SDE by a commonly quoted rule-of-thumb multiple range for your industry, roughly 1.5x to 4x depending on the vertical, to produce a value range.
It is an honest estimate, not an appraisal. Real prices are set by real buyers after due diligence, and a specific business can land outside the quoted range in either direction. Use the result as a starting picture and a way to see what moves the number, not as a listing price.
A short list of risk factors: whether the business runs without you, whether the books are provable, the share of recurring revenue, whether the lease, licences, and brand transfer, and how concentrated the revenue is in a few customers. Improving those factors is how owners move from the bottom of the range toward the top.
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