What is your business worth?
A quick, honest estimate using the same method buyers use: your seller's discretionary earnings times a market multiple for your type of business. Free, no signup, and the ranges come from real sold-business data — sources below.
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Estimated value range
Enter your SDE (or build it up from net profit) and the range appears here.
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How the estimate works
Small businesses rarely sell on revenue. They sell on seller's discretionary earnings (SDE) — net profit plus the owner's salary, personal expenses run through the business, and one-time costs. A buyer pays a multiple of that number, and the multiple depends heavily on the type of business: recurring-revenue software earns a premium, owner-dependent restaurants sit at the low end. Our plain-English valuation guide walks through the whole logic, and the selling guide covers what happens after you have a number in mind.
Where the multiples come from
- Overall small-business average of roughly 2.6× SDE, and the service-business average of ~2.5×, from BizBuySell's Insight reports on thousands of completed sales (bizbuysell.com/insight-report).
- Restaurant range (~1.3–2.5× SDE, averaging ~2.15×) from BizBuySell's restaurant valuation benchmarks (restaurant benchmarks).
- E-commerce (~1.5–3.5× SDE for smaller businesses) and owner-operated SaaS (~4–6× SDE) from published broker market guides for online businesses (e-commerce, SaaS).
These are North American transaction datasets, updated periodically — treat the output as orientation. What moves a real offer inside (or outside) the range: the lease, owner dependence, quality of the books, customer concentration, and trend line. This tool is general information, not financial, tax or legal advice, and not an appraisal.