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The numbers behind business value.

Search the evidence by market—not one misleading universal multiple. Every download keeps its period, buyer universe, source, fields, and limitations attached.

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Protected by designIndividual private transactions, contributed profiles, and proprietary cohort benchmarks stay behind the value exchange.

Universes stay separateMain Street sales, PE-backed deals, and public-company trading data are never blended into one synthetic benchmark.

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Main Street42 public category rows

Business Valuation Multiples by Industry

Download reported SDE multiples, revenue multiples, and median sale prices across broad sectors and specific US business types.

Period
Q3 2021–Q2 2026
Coverage
16 broad sectors and 26 specific sold-business categories
Fields
Category level · Industry · SDE multiple · Revenue multiple · Median sale price · Source period

Reported category aggregates are market references, not a valuation of one company; individual transaction rows and protected cohort values are not included.

Coverage index15 published sector rows

Private Business Transactions by Industry and Deal Size

Map privacy-safe transaction coverage across broad industry sectors and six deal-value bands; cells below ten records remain suppressed.

Period
Live snapshot
Coverage
Independent transaction coverage by broad sector and deal-value band
Fields
Industry sector · Deal-value band · Indexed transaction count · Suppression threshold

Counts describe index coverage, not total US transaction volume; cells below ten records, complementary cells needed to prevent inference, and all valuation multiples remain protected.

Coverage index6 aggregate size bands

Private Business Transaction Index by Deal Size

See where our independent sanitized transaction coverage sits across six deal-value bands, from under $1 million through $1 billion+.

Period
Live snapshot
Coverage
Independent transaction coverage by deal-value band
Fields
Indexed transaction count · Benchmark-eligible count · Share of index · Qualification rate

Counts describe coverage, not valuation multiples; no individual transaction is included.

Lower middle market18 aggregate market rows

Lower Middle Market EBITDA Multiples

Compare PE-backed North American transaction multiples by industry, enterprise-value band, EBITDA band, and the full-year 2025 market pulse.

Period
Full year 2025 pulse; detail through q3 2025
Coverage
$10M–$500M total enterprise value; industry detail covers $10M–$250M
Fields
EBITDA multiple · Industry · Enterprise-value band · EBITDA band · Observation count

The reported universe is PE-backed transactions; strategic and individual buyers can price differently.

Public companies91 industry rows

US Public Company EBITDA Multiples by Industry

Search public-company enterprise-value multiples across a broad US sector taxonomy, including both positive-EBITDA and all-firms calculations.

Period
January 2026
Coverage
US listed companies grouped into industry aggregates
Fields
Industry · Number of firms · EV / EBITDA for positive EBITDA firms · EV / EBITDA for all firms

Public-company trading multiples are a market reference, not a private-company valuation shortcut.

Main Street26 business-type rows

$1 Million Revenue Business Value by Industry

Compare separate revenue-multiple and SDE-multiple indications for a $1 million revenue scenario across specific business types.

Period
Q3 2021–Q2 2026
Coverage
US sold-business category averages with a 20% normalized SDE-margin scenario
Fields
Revenue multiple · SDE multiple · Revenue indication · SDE indication · Method gap

The scenario holds revenue and margin constant to compare methods; it is not a company-specific appraisal.

Main Street25 supported business types

Business Sale Speed vs. Valuation Multiple

Compare category-level sale timelines and SDE multiples side by side, with sample size, price, and market-map position attached.

Period
Full year 2025; multiples Q3 2021–Q2 2026
Coverage
US business types with at least 10 reported closed sales and a matching multiple
Fields
Median days on market · Average SDE multiple · Reported sales · Median sale price · Sale-to-ask ratio

The sale-speed and multiple measures use separately labeled periods and are not assumed to describe the same transactions.

Main Street26 business-type rows

SDE Margin Crossover by Industry

Find the normalized SDE margin where each business type’s reported revenue and SDE valuation methods produce the same indication.

Period
Q3 2021–Q2 2026
Coverage
US sold-business category averages
Fields
Revenue multiple · SDE multiple · Crossover SDE margin

The crossover is a transparent calculation from category averages, not a recommended operating margin.

Main Street10 core facts, plus the live index fact when available

Small Business Valuation Statistics

Use citation-ready facts about transaction volume, sale prices, multiples, sale-to-ask outcomes, timelines, and independent index coverage.

Period
2025–2026 source periods; live index snapshot
Coverage
Sourced US small-business sale statistics and clearly labeled derived comparisons
Fields
Statistic · Value · Statement · Period · Underlying source · Citation URL

Each fact retains its own source period and universe; figures from different sources are not blended.

THE ACCESS LINE

Public context is open. Private comparables are earned.

The catalog helps anyone understand the market and audit our public claims. A personalized valuation requires an account. Access to richer anonymized private-company benchmarks requires a complete contribution, so the dataset improves as members use it.

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