PRIVATE-BUSINESS SALE RESEARCH · UPDATED AUGUST 2026
The valuation market, in 15 useful views.
Compare public-company EBITDA multiples, private-company evidence from Main Street through the middle market, what businesses sold for, how far prices moved from asking, and how long deals stayed on market.
OPEN DATA EXPLORERS
Start with the question you need answered.
Every public benchmark is aggregated. Open a report to search, sort, inspect the source, and follow a business type into its valuation page.
Revenue milestones translated into EBITDA markets
Change the normalized EBITDA margin, add a supported industry, and keep only references that fit their own reported deal-size bands.
Start with $5M revenueHow much is a business worth by annual profit?
Choose a profit level, see all 26 public business-type indications immediately, and learn when accounting profit must first become normalized SDE.
See the $250K answerWhat $1 million of revenue can—and cannot—tell you
Choose the business type and SDE margin to compare two separately labeled public-average methods.
Test the $1M scenarioUS public-company EBITDA multiples
Search, sort, cite, and download the January 2026 industry table—then see why public and private markets cannot be blended.
Search the public tableWhat PE-backed buyers paid—by industry and size
Start with GF Data's full-year 2025 market pulse, then compare the detailed industry, enterprise-value, and EBITDA tables through Q3 with observation counts attached.
Explore lower-middle-market dataHow multiples change by company size
Compare nine public benchmarks across two source families, with the metric, buyer universe, and period attached to every row.
Compare size tiersSmall business valuation statistics
Copy source-linked statistics spanning price, multiples, negotiation outcomes, timelines, and independent index coverage.
Open the evidence deskWhich businesses sell faster—and at higher multiples?
Explore every supported category by sale speed and average SDE multiple, with both source periods kept separate.
Open the market mapHow long does it take to sell a business?
See the fastest and slowest supported category medians, plus the full searchable ranking.
Compare sale timelinesBusiness types averaging below asking
Compare average sale-to-ask ratios with each category's separate median asking and sold prices.
Explore asking vs. soldTurn any SDE into 26 market indications
Enter annual owner earnings or start with the $250K example. Only the reported average multiple changes across 26 business types.
Open the SDE matrixWhere revenue and SDE methods agree
Move an SDE margin and see which reported average-multiple method runs higher across 26 business types.
Compare crossover marginsWhich industries have evidence at each deal size?
Map the independent index across broad sectors and six deal-value bands. Every displayed cell clears a ten-record privacy threshold.
Explore the evidence mapsanitized transaction records across six deal-size bands
392 recent records include usable valuation-multiple evidence. Download coverage from under $1 million to $1 billion+ without exposing an individual deal.
Explore the full indexWhere micro-business evidence is deepest
Inspect only the defensible public sector cohorts inside the under-$1 million band, while every individual transaction and percentile remains protected.
Inspect micro-market coverageREAD THE EVIDENCE CORRECTLY
Useful comparisons. Honest limits.
Closed sales anchor the public reports.
Reported asking prices are never silently treated as completed-sale outcomes.
Category aggregates are not a company valuation.
Size, earnings quality, growth, concentration, transferability, assets, and terms still matter.
Protected data stays protected.
Public pages show only non-identifying aggregates. Richer cohorts remain account- and contribution-gated.
Public closed-sale tables: BizBuySell Full year 2025 outcomes and rolling valuation multiples. The independent index uses approved, sanitized records with minimum cohort thresholds.
YOUR BUSINESS · PRIVATE
Turn market evidence into your valuation.
Enter your industry, revenue, and normalized SDE or EBITDA to get a private market reference. Share operating context only when you want to unlock richer anonymized benchmarks.