What's My Business Worth?
Get a directional estimate of what your business is worth — in under 5 minutes.
Enter three numbers below to see a realistic value range based on how buyers actually price Upper Main Street and Lower Middle Market businesses. Confidential. No email required to see the result.
Trailing twelve months, gross.
After owner-comp normalization and one-time adjustments.
Industry sets the typical multiple range buyers apply.
Directional value range
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This is a directional estimate based on industry-typical EBITDA multiples — not a formal valuation. Your actual sale price depends on owner-dependence, customer concentration, growth, and how the process is run.
What this estimate doesn't capture
The number above is a starting point, not a sale price. Three things move it the most in either direction:
- Owner-dependence. Businesses that run without the owner sell for higher multiples. If you hold the key customer relationships or daily decisions, buyers discount the price.
- Customer and supplier concentration. If any one customer is more than 15–20% of revenue, that risk shows up as a lower multiple.
- Growth trajectory. Three years of clean, growing EBITDA earns the top of the range. Flat or declining earnings earn the bottom.
How buyers actually price your business
For most Upper Main Street and Lower Middle Market businesses, the price is expressed as a multiple of adjusted EBITDA. The multiple reflects how risky and how transferable buyers believe your cash flow is. Bigger, cleaner, less owner-dependent businesses earn higher multiples; smaller, owner-dependent, or volatile businesses earn lower ones.
A professional valuation goes further than this calculator can. It recasts your financials, benchmarks you against comparable transactions, and accounts for the dozens of qualitative factors that move price up or down. That's what makes the number defensible when a real buyer or lender shows up.
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If this estimate is close to what you expected — or far from it — that's a reason to talk. We'll walk you through what your business would actually command in today's market, confidentially.
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