Selling a Business · Free Estimate Tool

What is my business worth?

Before you sit down with a valuator, get a rough sense of the range your business might sell in, and of what moves that number. The estimator below runs entirely in your browser.

Most small businesses sell for a multiple of their owner earnings. Take your annual profit, add back your own salary and any personal expenses the business pays for. Multiply that by a range typical for your industry — then adjust for the things buyers actually pay more or less for. The tool below does all of it, free, with nothing to sign up for.

Estimate your range

Three quick steps — nothing is stored or sent anywhere.

Profit + your own salary + personal expenses the business pays (vehicle, insurance, and so on). Your accountant may call this SDE. If a management team runs the day-to-day and your earnings figure is EBITDA, tick the first box below — buyers pay more for a business that runs without its owner.
3. What's true of your business?
This is an educational estimate, not a valuation and not legal or financial advice. Real prices also depend on your financials, your contracts, market conditions, and — more than owners expect — how well the business holds up when the buyer's accountant and lawyer go through the books and files before closing. For a number you can rely on, speak with a qualified business valuator; we're glad to refer you to one.

What moves the number — up or down.

Two businesses with identical earnings can sell for very different prices. Buyers pay more for clean, transferable businesses: financial statements that hold up, contracts that can be assigned, a team that runs the business without the owner, and no surprises waiting in due diligence. They pay less — or walk away — when the business depends on the owner personally, when records are messy, or when a key customer or lease can't come along in the sale.

Most of what drags the number down is fixable, and fixing it is legal work more often than owners expect. Our flat-fee Sale-Readiness Review is built for exactly that: finding the problems while there is still time to deal with them.

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