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Not what a competitor sold for, not what an online calculator guessed. A written opinion of value built from your returns, your P&Ls, and what buyers in your industry are paying right now.
The method
Below roughly five million dollars in value, nearly every deal in this market comes down to one equation and the honesty of the inputs.
Step one
Start with net income. Add back your compensation, personal expenses running through the business, one-time costs, interest, depreciation and amortization. What’s left is seller’s discretionary earnings — the number buyers actually price.
Step two
Multiples vary by industry, size, growth trend, recurring revenue, customer concentration and how dependent the business is on you. A two-person service company and a fifteen-truck operation do not trade at the same number.
Step three
Then we account for the lease, the equipment, the working capital that has to convey, transferable licenses, and whatever a lender will underwrite. Price means nothing if no buyer can finance it.
Reasons owners ask
Knowing the number three years out tells you whether you can retire on it — and what to fix if you can’t.
An independent opinion of value keeps a buyout conversation from becoming a dispute between two people who both think they’re right.
Attorneys and accountants need a defensible figure for gifting, trusts, buy-sell agreements and insurance sizing.
Where a business is a marital or disputed asset, both sides need a valuation grounded in method rather than assertion.
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