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What’s your business worth?

Answer seven questions. You get a value range straight away, based on what businesses like yours actually sold for, with the math shown.

Let's estimate what your business is worth. Seven quick questions, no email needed.

What kind of business do you own?

How the estimate works

1. Owner earnings (SDE). Main-street businesses sell on seller's discretionary earnings: net profit plus the owner's salary and perks, depreciation, interest and one-time costs. It's what one full-time owner takes out.

2. A published multiple for your trade. We start from BizBuySell's average sale-price-to-SDE multiple for businesses in your trade that actually sold over the last five years. If BizBuySell doesn't publish your trade, we use its sector average and say so.

3. Adjustments. Owner involvement, recurring revenue, years in business and size move the multiple up or down by fixed steps. BizBuySell notes that low owner involvement and consistent performance push businesses toward the upper quartile. The step sizes are our methodology, and every one is listed on your result.

4. A range, not a point. The low and high ends use published quartiles where they exist, or the typical quartile spread otherwise. Half of sold businesses land inside that kind of band.

This is an estimate for information only. It isn't an appraisal, a broker opinion of value, or an offer.

Sale multiples by trade

Averages from closed sales. Click a trade for a full guide and worked example.

Trade	Avg SDE multiple	Avg revenue multiple	Median sale price	Basis
Plumbing	2.61×	0.69×	$699,000	Trade row
HVAC	2.83×quartiles 1.99–3.33×	0.60×	$750,000	Trade row
Electrical	2.77×	0.63×	$1,009,000	Trade row
Landscaping	2.49×	0.72×	$449,950	Trade row
Pool service / routes	2.61×	0.83×	—	Sector average (no trade row)
Pest control	2.46×quartiles 1.69–3×	1.01×	$250,000	Trade row
Cleaning	2.25×	0.72×	$281,500	Trade row
Roofing	2.65×	0.59×	$750,500	Sector average (no trade row)
Auto repair	2.85×	0.65×	$430,000	Trade row
Salon / barbershop	2.10×	0.52×	$117,375	Trade row
Other main-street business	2.61×	0.83×	$350,000	General main-street range

Source: BizBuySell, Business Valuation Multiples by Industry, businesses sold Q3 2021–Q2 2026; quartiles from BizBuySell's HVAC and pest-control benchmark pages (sold 2021–2025). Pool and roofing use sector averages; “Other” uses the Service Businesses sector. Retrieved Oct 30, 2026.

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