What's Your Business Actually Worth? Valuation Calculator · FinanceSeat

WHAT'S YOUR BUSINESS ACTUALLY WORTH?

Pick your industry, set your revenue and margin. The multiples come from real private-company sales, sized to a business like yours.

Drag to your trailing twelve months.
EBITDA

Bigger EBITDA, bigger multiple

What moves you from Low toward High

Buyers pay for earnings they can trust will keep coming. Two businesses with the same EBITDA can sell turns apart. These are the things buyers check first.

Books a buyer can trustA clean monthly close, accrual numbers and a forecast you have been hitting.
It runs without youA leadership team that owns the seats. Less owner dependence means less risk.
Revenue that repeatsContracts, memberships or loyal customers. No single customer much above 10–15% of sales.
A steady margin storyThree years of stable or rising margins, with the reasons written down.
These ranges are a starting point. A real valuation looks at your quality of earnings, customers, team and buyer appetite. If you'd like to talk through what this means for your company, let's have a conversation.
See the data behind these multiples

How the three columns are set

  • Expected is the median multiple investment bankers reported for deals they closed in 2025, for your industry and your EBITDA size band (Pepperdine, Table 31).
  • Low is the median multiple for all private sales in your sector in 2024 from DealStats, most of them smaller deals without a banker. If that lands within one turn of Expected, Low is set one turn below Expected.
  • High is the Pepperdine median for the next size band up: the price of a business that runs like it is bigger than it is. It is always at least one turn above Expected. In the top band it is Expected plus 1.5.
  • The margin marker is the 2024 median operating profit margin for private sales in your sector (DealStats). Operating margin runs a little below EBITDA margin because it is after depreciation.

Medians used (EBITDA multiples)

Sources

Italic cells are Amplify estimates where a source has no data: restaurants use the consumer goods curve scaled by the DealStats restaurant to retail gap (2.5 ÷ 3.8); manufacturing and distribution averages the manufacturing and wholesale rows; health care $25M+ carries the $10–25M value; "Something else" is the median of all industry rows. Software businesses are often priced on revenue instead of EBITDA, so treat that row as a floor.

For planning and conversation only. Not a formal valuation, appraisal or offer. Data updated September 2026.

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