Business Valuation Calculator
What your business is worth today, and the five factors moving your multiple up or down.
Example scenario—not a forecast or verified benchmark. Enable JavaScript to edit inputs, view charts, save locally and export your analysis.
Example inputs
- Industry
- home_services
- Which earnings figure are you entering?
- sde
- Annual revenue
- 2,000,000
- Annual SDE or EBITDA
- 400,000
- Revenue growth, last 12 months
- 10
- Share of revenue that is recurring/contracted
- 20
- Share of revenue from your largest customer
- 10
- How dependent is the business on you?
- medium
- Years in business
- 8
- Processes are documented and the books are clean (accrual, reviewed)
- false
Example results
Estimated value: $935K–$1.3M (2.8x SDE), with about $740K of value still on the table.
- Estimated value (midpoint)
- $1,100,000
- Multiple of SDE
- 2.75x
- Low end
- $935,000
- High end
- $1,265,000
- Value gap vs. best-in-class
- $740,000
- Implied revenue multiple
- 0.55x
- Earnings margin
- 20%
What stands out
Owner dependency is costing you about 0.25x
At your earnings, that is roughly $100,000 of value.
Systems & clean books is costing you about 0.15x
At your earnings, that is roughly $60,000 of value.
Strengths: growth
These support a premium multiple. Document them for buyers.
Next actions
- Hire or promote a general manager and move key client relationships off your plate.
- Move to accrual accounting and document your top 10 processes.
Model assumptions & limitations
- Industry base multiple of 2.9x SDE is a rule of thumb for small-business transactions, not a quote.
- EBITDA multiples scale with company size (about 3.5x at $250K EBITDA to about 7x at $5M+).
- Adjustments for growth, recurring revenue, concentration, owner dependency, history, and systems are directional.
- A formal valuation or broker opinion of value can differ meaningfully.