Free valuation calculator · Industry-specific ranges
A 60-second estimate. No email needed.
60-second estimate — no email needed
EBITDA is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Owner's cash flow (also called seller's discretionary earnings) starts there and adds back your own salary and personal expenses run through the business — it's usually the bigger, more relevant number for an owner-operated business. Enter whichever one you have as a percent of revenue; most owner-run businesses land between 15% and 30%.
A longer track record of stable numbers supports the top of the range; a business under two years old typically prices at a discount to it, or below.
This is a quick, rule-of-thumb estimate for illustration — not an appraisal, an offer, or a guarantee of price, timeline, or buyer interest. A real number requires a look at your actual financials, which is what the free read below is for.
Have Tamir Wolfson — Managing Partner — review your number personally. 15 minutes, confidential.
How the estimate works
Buyers in the lower middle market price a business as a multiple of its adjusted EBITDA — earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, with owner-specific costs added back: your above-market salary, family members on payroll, personal expenses run through the business, one-time costs. For an owner-operated business the same idea is often called owner’s cash flow or seller’s discretionary earnings, and it is usually the bigger, more relevant number. Which add-backs hold up in diligence — and which get rejected — is covered in our owner’s guide to adjusted EBITDA and add-backs.
The calculator multiplies that earnings figure by the rule-of-thumb multiple range for your industry and size — the same industry-standard ranges we publish in our EBITDA multiples by industry guide. These are starting points drawn from how each sector typically trades, not an appraisal of your business: within every sector the spread between the bottom and top of the range is decided by risk — recurring revenue, management depth, customer concentration, clean financials, staff retention — and by how many qualified buyers are actually competing.
That is why the honest next step after any online estimate is a confidential read of your actual numbers. A principal — not a call center — reviews your note personally and replies within one business day with a realistic range and the two or three things that would move it. It costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and nothing is shared with anyone. If you want the fuller picture first, start with What is my business worth? — the honest, unsimplified answer.
Every inquiry is reviewed personally by Tamir Wolfson, Managing Partner — never a call center, never a junior team.
Questions owners actually ask
Most strong businesses trade on a multiple of adjusted earnings — and the range is wide. The same business can price very differently depending on buyer type, revenue quality, real estate, and how the process is run. We give you a confidential read based on what buyers are actually paying right now.
Nothing. The valuation conversation is free and confidential. If we work together, our economics are success-based — we’re paid when your deal closes.
The calculator applies industry-standard rule-of-thumb EBITDA multiple ranges to the numbers you enter — a starting point, not an appraisal. It can tell you the range businesses like yours have traded in; where YOUR business lands inside that range depends on details no calculator sees, which is what the free confidential read is for.
No. The calculator asks for no name and no email, and nothing you enter creates an inquiry. If you later want a real read from a principal, that conversation is confidential by policy — nothing is shared with any buyer without a signed NDA and your written go-ahead.