ORIGINAL RESEARCH · REFRESHED 2026-08-14
The micro business valuation index.
See where our transaction evidence is deepest for US businesses with reported deal values below $1 million. Counts are public. Individual transactions and proprietary percentile ranges are not.
Find my private valuation rangeReported deal value below $1M
Records with usable multiple evidence
Both multiple samples meet the minimum threshold
Current published aggregate snapshot
WHERE THE EVIDENCE IS DEEPEST
Under-$1M coverage by broad sector
Only sectors with at least 10 usable observations in both the revenue and EBITDA multiple samples appear. The percentage is each sector’s share of all under-$1M records in our index.
Sector counts do not sum to the full index because thin cohorts and records outside the sectors above remain included in the overall total but are not broken out publicly.
HOW TO USE THE INDEX
Start with evidence. Then account for the business itself.
Use it to judge evidence depth
A larger qualified cohort gives you more context than a single anecdote or asking-price comparison.
Match size and sector first
Business scale and broad industry are the first filters before comparing a valuation range.
Then examine transferability
Owner dependence, recurring revenue, growth, customer concentration, and operating hours can change how buyers interpret the same earnings.
Check the four driversMETHOD AND PRIVACY
Built to reveal the signal without revealing a deal.
The index accepts approved public and internal research records, removes names, websites, source URLs, exact financials, exact transaction values, exact close dates, and source-system identifiers, then groups remaining evidence into broad cohorts.
Read the privacy standardCompleted-transaction evidencePublic asking prices are not silently treated as closed outcomes.
Minimum cohort thresholdA sector is withheld unless both multiple samples have at least 10 observations.
Protected value distributionContributors can unlock quartiles and medians; the public report never exposes individual rows.
YOUR BUSINESS, NOT AN AVERAGE
See where your numbers land.
Create a private account, get a valuation reference, and contribute an operating profile to unlock the closest protected cohort.