Business Valuation Calculator

What multiple should you enter? Sourced 2025 medians

The multiple is the one input most owners don't know. These are real closed-transaction figures, not theory. Anchor on them, then adjust for growth, recurring revenue, and customer concentration.

Above ~$2M EBITDA the market prices on EBITDA multiples (3–6x), not SDE. Full sourced detail with named citations is on the business valuation statistics page, and the how to value a small business guide works the method end to end.

What this business valuation calculator does

Owners reach for a company valuation calculator when they're weighing a sale, a partner buy-in, or raising money, and they want a number before paying for a formal appraisal. This free online tool gives you that number. Enter a financial figure and a market multiple for one or more methods, and it returns a per-method value plus a blended low, mid, and high range — the spread an actual buyer would negotiate inside.

Which valuation method fits your business

The calculator runs three multiple-based methods. It does not run a discounted-cash-flow (DCF) model — that needs cash-flow projections and a discount rate, which is out of scope for a fast estimate. Pick the method your likely buyer pool actually uses.

• Revenue multiple — annual revenue × a revenue multiple. Useful for high-growth or pre-profit businesses where earnings are noisy. SaaS and online businesses are most often valued this way.
• SDE multiple — Seller's Discretionary Earnings × an SDE multiple. The standard for owner-operated small businesses under roughly $5M revenue. SDE adds the owner's salary and discretionary expenses back to net profit.
• EBITDA multiple — EBITDA × an EBITDA multiple. The mid-market standard for larger businesses where a buyer will hire a manager rather than run it themselves.

Leave any method at zero to exclude it. The blended estimate averages only the methods you fill in, so a single-method run is valid.

How to read your result

The headline number is the blended mid — a reasonable midpoint across the methods you entered. The low and high estimates bracket the negotiating range; each method also shows its own low / mid / high band so you can see where the methods disagree. A wide spread usually means one input is doing the work, so check whether your revenue multiple and SDE multiple are telling the same story. If SDE exceeds revenue, or EBITDA exceeds SDE, the tool flags it — those inversions are unusual and point to a data-entry slip.

Common questions about valuing your business