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What do the published numbers say about a business like yours?
Enter your industry and what the business earns for you in a year. We'll apply the multiple ranges published for that industry and show you the result, along with exactly who published each figure and when.
Your figures
We're not ready for your industry yet
We only publish figures where we can corroborate them across two independent public sources. For your industry we can't yet, so we'd rather show you nothing than show you something we can't stand behind. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's covered — which industries people ask for is how we decide what to add next.
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What this is, and what it isn't
This is arithmetic on published rules of thumb: a multiple range that other people have printed for your industry, applied to the figure you typed. That makes it a useful starting point for a conversation and nothing more.
It is not an appraisal, not a valuation, and not a prediction of what any buyer will pay. Two businesses with identical earnings routinely sell for very different sums depending on how transferable they are, how clean the books look, what the lease says, and who happens to be looking that month.
Where the sources we found disagree with each other — and in several industries they do, quite widely — we show you the band where they agree and name the outlier. Where we couldn't corroborate a figure at all, that industry isn't in the list above. We took three categories out for exactly that reason.
Why we don't ask for your email first
The big marketplaces give away a free estimate, so gating ours behind a form would only cost us your patience. If you want the detailed version — your add-backs worked through properly, an exit-readiness review, and the sourcing in full — that's the Exit Snapshot. This page is free and stays free.
Then this estimator has nothing to work on, and no honest multiple exists for a business with no trading history. Sales at that stage are negotiated on what is being handed over and what it would cost a buyer to build the same thing. We prepare an asset-sale package for exactly that case — see what's included.
A caution about the number you're about to see
Owners consistently overestimate add-backs, and buyers consistently discount them. If the figure below looks high to you, trust that instinct — it usually means the earnings need tidying before a stranger will accept them.
