SOURCE-LINKED RELEASE LOG
What changed in the business-valuation market—and in our data.
Follow public releases without digging through marketing posts. Every update keeps the reported period, metric, buyer universe, underlying source, and reusable report attached.
LATEST RELEASES
The evidence, in chronological order.
42 public business valuation benchmarks are now downloadable as CSV.
The reusable file keeps 16 broad sectors and 26 specific business types, reported SDE and revenue multiples, median sale prices, reporting period, and source URL together. It contains category aggregates only—not an individual transaction, contributed profile, or protected cohort value.
26 specific business types now have a source-linked valuation page.
The library joins 16 broad sectors to specific business types while keeping reported SDE and revenue multiples separate. Selected categories also show closed-sale quartiles, owner earnings, and days on market.
2,117 reported businesses sold for $1.8B in aggregate value.
The median reported sale price was $349,250; the average cash-flow multiple was 2.7×. The source reports 10% fewer transactions than a year earlier.
One browser-only worksheet now reconciles SDE and adjusted EBITDA side by side.
The tool makes replacement-management compensation the visible difference between one working owner’s SDE and management-run adjusted EBITDA, then shows the Market Pulse metric used in each reported business-value band.
Asking price and closed sale price now sit side by side by business type.
The report preserves reported sale-to-ask ratios, median sale prices, observation counts, and time on market instead of treating a listing price as a transaction outcome.
PE-backed middle-market deals averaged 7.2× adjusted EBITDA.
GF Data reported 297 transactions, down 23% from 2024. The detailed industry and company-size tables remain separate from this full-year total.
4,359 sanitized transaction records now map the market by deal size.
392 recent records contain usable valuation multiples. Public pages expose only aggregate coverage; protected percentiles and comparable clusters require a private contribution.
4,822 US firms provide a public-market contrast—not a private-company shortcut.
The total market excluding financials reported 16.95× EV / EBITDA for positive-EBITDA firms across 91 industries. The table is published separately from private-company sale evidence.
4,359 sanitized transaction records now map private-market evidence by industry and deal size.
The public map crosses broad industry sectors with six reported deal-value bands. Displayed cells contain at least 10 sanitized records, with complementary suppression to prevent subtraction attacks; individual rows and valuation multiples remain protected.
PUBLIC RELEASE POLICY
Useful aggregates stay open. Individual private evidence does not.
Public updates can include sourced market tables, aggregate transaction coverage, and derived comparisons whose methods are visible. They never publish an individual private transaction, contributed company profile, exact protected percentile, or identifying record.