Business valuation by industry.
A multiple is only useful when it fits the business model. Start with the operating details a buyer will test in your industry.
HVAC company
An HVAC company is usually worth more when service and maintenance revenue is repeatable, technicians stay after a transition, and the owner is not the only person who can sell, estimate, or hold required licenses.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesPlumbing company
A plumbing company’s value depends on who answers the call, who holds the license, how work is dispatched, and whether demand comes from recurring service or volatile project work.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesElectrical contractor
Electrical contractors trade on the durability of service demand, licensed labor, backlog quality, and the company’s ability to estimate work without the owner.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesRoofing company
Roofing value can change sharply with storm exposure, lead sources, insurance-claim practices, subcontractor reliance, and warranty history.
Read the valuation guide →Route and property servicesLandscaping company
Landscaping businesses are easier to underwrite when recurring maintenance contracts, route density, crew leadership, and equipment condition are documented.
Read the valuation guide →Route and property servicesPest control company
Pest control buyers focus closely on recurring monthly or quarterly service, customer retention, route density, technician licensing, and service-call economics.
Read the valuation guide →ConstructionGeneral contracting company
A general contractor is valued less on headline backlog than on the margin, collectability, and execution risk inside that backlog.
Read the valuation guide →Route and property servicesCommercial cleaning company
Commercial cleaning value rests on contract durability, customer concentration, supervisor coverage, labor stability, and documented site-level margins.
Read the valuation guide →Consumer servicesResidential cleaning company
A residential cleaning company is more transferable when recurring households, team leads, scheduling systems, and customer acquisition are documented.
Read the valuation guide →Route and property servicesPool service company
Pool service companies are route businesses: density, recurring billing, technician continuity, chemical economics, and repair capability drive value.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesRestoration company
Restoration companies can produce strong earnings, but buyers scrutinize referral sources, insurance receivables, emergency response, estimator credentials, equipment readiness, and claim volatility.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesPainting company
Painting businesses are valued on lead flow, estimator transferability, crew reliability, project margins, and reputation.
Read the valuation guide →ConstructionConcrete company
Concrete company value depends on backlog quality, crew skill, equipment condition, supplier relationships, job costing, and exposure to weather and construction cycles.
Read the valuation guide →ConstructionExcavation company
Excavation businesses combine contracting risk with heavy equipment economics.
Read the valuation guide →Route and property servicesSeptic service company
Septic businesses blend route density, regulated disposal, specialized trucks, emergency demand, inspections, and installation work.
Read the valuation guide →Home servicesGarage door company
Garage door companies earn value from service-call demand, installer depth, supplier relationships, repeat commercial accounts, and a balanced repair-and-installation mix.
Read the valuation guide →Technology-enabled servicesSecurity and alarm company
Security and alarm businesses are driven by recurring monthly revenue, contract ownership, attrition, monitoring arrangements, licensing, and installation quality.
Read the valuation guide →AutomotiveAuto repair shop
An auto repair shop’s value depends on technician depth, service-advisor performance, bay utilization, customer retention, parts margin, reputation, and the real estate or lease.
Read the valuation guide →AutomotiveAuto body shop
Auto body shops are evaluated on insurer relationships, technician and estimator capacity, cycle time, supplement control, equipment, certifications, environmental compliance, and facility suitability.
Read the valuation guide →AutomotiveCar wash
Car wash valuation turns on wash type, membership retention, traffic, equipment condition, water and utility economics, lease or real estate, labor model, and required capital expenditures.
Read the valuation guide →Consumer servicesLaundromat
Laundromat value depends heavily on lease term, rent burden, machine age, verifiable turns, utility efficiency, payment systems, competition, and ancillary wash-dry-fold revenue.
Read the valuation guide →Consumer servicesDry cleaner
Dry-cleaning value depends on route and counter volume, plant versus drop-store economics, lease, equipment condition, labor, environmental history, and customer retention.
Read the valuation guide →TransportationTrucking company
Trucking company value depends on contracted versus spot revenue, customer concentration, driver retention, safety history, insurance, authority, fleet age, maintenance, and whether normalized earnings include enough capital to replace trucks.
Read the valuation guide →TransportationLogistics company
Logistics companies are valued on customer retention, gross profit rather than gross freight billings, carrier relationships, technology, concentration, claims, and whether sales relationships transfer.
Read the valuation guide →TransportationDelivery route business
Delivery routes are valued on contract terms, territory protection, route profitability, driver stability, vehicle condition, customer concentration, and the rights the operator actually owns.
Read the valuation guide →Industrial servicesEquipment rental company
Equipment rental value combines operating cash flow with fleet age, utilization, rental rates, maintenance, customer mix, and residual value.
Read the valuation guide →ManufacturingManufacturing company
Manufacturing value depends on customer and product concentration, margins, backlog, capacity, quality systems, supplier risk, workforce, equipment, working capital, and normalized capital expenditures.
Read the valuation guide →ManufacturingMachine shop
Machine shop value turns on customer and program concentration, spindle utilization, quoting discipline, machinist depth, certifications, equipment condition, and repeat versus prototype work.
Read the valuation guide →Wholesale and distributionDistribution company
Distribution value is shaped by supplier rights, customer concentration, gross margin, inventory quality, working capital, salesforce transferability, and logistics.
Read the valuation guide →Digital businessesE-commerce business
E-commerce valuation depends on normalized profit, channel concentration, customer acquisition economics, repeat purchase, inventory, supplier rights, intellectual property, platform risk, and founder dependence.
Read the valuation guide →Professional servicesDigital marketing agency
Agency value depends on recurring retainers, client concentration, founder relationships, delivery margin, staff retention, contract transferability, and whether intellectual property and process live inside the company.
Read the valuation guide →Technology-enabled servicesIT services company
IT services value reflects recurring support, project mix, customer concentration, technical talent, vendor status, security controls, documentation, and owner dependence.
Read the valuation guide →Technology-enabled servicesManaged service provider
MSP valuation is driven by contracted monthly recurring revenue, gross margin, churn, customer concentration, ticket efficiency, stack standardization, cybersecurity, staff depth, and contract transfer.
Read the valuation guide →Professional servicesStaffing agency
Staffing agency value depends on gross profit rather than billings, client and recruiter concentration, assignment duration, workers’ compensation, payroll funding, compliance, and owner relationships.
Read the valuation guide →Financial servicesInsurance agency
Insurance agency value is driven by recurring commissions, retention, carrier concentration, producer dependence, book mix, contingency income, account ownership, and licensing.
Read the valuation guide →Professional servicesAccounting firm
Accounting firm value depends on recurring revenue, client retention, partner dependence, staff capacity, realization, service mix, deadlines, professional risk, and succession.
Read the valuation guide →HealthcareDental practice
Dental practice value depends on provider production, patient retention, hygiene, payer mix, staff, facility, equipment, chart quality, and the selling dentist’s transition.
Read the valuation guide →HealthcareVeterinary practice
Veterinary practice value depends on doctor production, appointment demand, support staff, retention, service mix, facility, equipment, inventory, and whether the selling veterinarian’s clinical capacity can be replaced..
Read the valuation guide →HealthcareHome healthcare agency
Home healthcare agencies are valued on census, payer mix, reimbursement, referral concentration, caregiver retention, scheduling, compliance, survey history, and owner dependence.
Read the valuation guide →Food and hospitalityRestaurant
Restaurant value depends on normalized owner earnings, concept durability, lease, labor, food cost, management, liquor rights, equipment, reviews, and local demand.
Read the valuation guide →Healthcaremedical practice
A medical practice is valued on transferable provider economics, patient continuity, payer mix, collections, referral patterns, staff, compliance, facilities, and the legal limits on professional ownership.
Read the valuation guide →Healthcarephysical therapy practice
A physical therapy practice is valued on visits, reimbursement, therapist productivity, referral diversity, patient retention, documentation quality, staffing, capacity, and whether the owner is the dominant treating provider.
Read the valuation guide →Healthcareindependent pharmacy
An independent pharmacy is valued on prescription volume, gross profit after reimbursement and fees, payer and pharmacy-benefit-manager exposure, inventory quality, pharmacist staffing, location, front-end sales, compliance, and the transferability of licenses and contracts.
Read the valuation guide →Education and carechildcare center
A childcare center is valued on licensed capacity, enrollment by classroom and age, tuition realization, waitlists, staff ratios, director independence, facility terms, subsidy participation, compliance history, and family retention.
Read the valuation guide →Real estate servicesproperty management company
A property management company is valued on units under management, fee realization, client retention, concentration by owner and property, service scope, trust-account controls, manager workload, staff, technology, and the assignability of management agreements.
Read the valuation guide →Real estate servicesself-storage facility
A self-storage facility is valued on physical and economic occupancy, achieved rent, concessions, delinquency, unit mix, local supply, management efficiency, security, deferred capital expenditures, expansion potential, and the underlying real estate.
Read the valuation guide →Consumer servicesgym or fitness center
A gym or fitness center is valued on active paying memberships, cohort retention, average dues, ancillary spend, utilization, instructor and manager depth, lease terms, equipment condition, consumer compliance, and local competition.
Read the valuation guide →Consumer servicessalon or spa
A salon or spa is valued on service-provider retention, client rebooking, chair or room productivity, commission or booth-rental structure, retail margin, prepaid obligations, lease, equipment, licensing, and the owner's personal book.
Read the valuation guide →Retailconvenience store
A convenience store is valued on inside sales, gross margin by category, fuel economics where applicable, lottery and other commissions, inventory shrink, labor, lease or real estate, equipment, licensing, and local traffic.
Read the valuation guide →Retailliquor store
A liquor store is valued on gross profit by beverage category, inventory turns and scarcity, location, license transferability, customer mix, labor, shrink, supplier relationships, ecommerce or delivery rights, lease, and local competition.
Read the valuation guide →Food and hospitalityretail bakery
A retail bakery is valued on product and channel margin, production capacity, recipe and process transferability, customer mix, wholesale concentration, skilled labor, lease, food safety, equipment, and the owner's creative or production role.
Read the valuation guide →Food and hospitalityhotel or motel
A hotel or motel is valued on room revenue, occupancy, average daily rate, revenue per available room, channel cost, franchise or brand terms, labor, condition, deferred capital expenditures, local demand, accessibility, and the underlying real estate.
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