Publicly Traded Company Benchmarks

What the stock market pays, and what you will

Name: Stock Market Benchmarks: publicly traded building services, compliance and healthcare valuation multiples
Creator: DealFlowAgent
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120 of the largest companies in building services, facilities management, fire and life safety, testing and inspection, water and waste, and healthcare are publicly traded: their shares are bought and sold on stock exchanges such as the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and they must publish their revenue, profit and debt in full. Those published numbers are the clearest evidence available on what buyers pay for recurring, statutory, contracted work. We track them and translate them into the range a private owner should actually expect.

What these companies are, in plain English

Every company on this page is publicly traded: its shares are bought and sold on a stock exchange such as the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ. Anyone can buy a share, and the law requires these companies to publish their revenue, profit and debt in full. That is why we can show what buyers pay for them.

Your business is almost certainly private: the shares are held by you and perhaps a few others, and nothing has to be published beyond your filed accounts. Private companies sell for less than publicly traded ones of the same type, because a buyer cannot sell the shares on again at the click of a button and carries more risk in checking the numbers. Treat the figures here as the ceiling the market sets, not the price your business would fetch.

120

Publicly traded companies

Stock exchanges

Countries

14 Aug 2026

Market values as at

Publicly traded companies covered include

Allegion plc

APi Group Corporation

Johnson Controls International plc

Bureau Veritas SA

Eurofins Scientific SE

SGS SA

UL Solutions Inc.

Acuity Brands, Inc.

ADT Inc.

Amrize Ltd

CBRE Group, Inc.

Comfort Systems USA, Inc.

Benchmarks by sector

Fire & Life Safety

Publicly traded fire and life safety companies, their EV/EBITDA multiples and margins, and what the stock market tells private owners about value.

15.1x

Median

8 publicly traded companies, as at 2026-08-14

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Testing, Inspection & Certification

Publicly traded testing, inspection and certification groups, their EV/EBITDA multiples, and what they mean for private compliance businesses.

15.8x

Median

7 publicly traded companies, as at 2026-08-14

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Building Services & FM

Publicly traded building services and facilities management groups, their EV/EBITDA multiples and margins, and what they mean for private contractors.

13.1x

Median

61 publicly traded companies, as at 2026-08-14

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Water, Waste & Environmental

Publicly traded water hygiene, waste and environmental services companies, their EV/EBITDA multiples, and what they mean for private operators.

15.3x

Median

18 publicly traded companies, as at 2026-08-14

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Healthcare Services

Publicly traded healthcare, care and clinical operators, their EV/EBITDA multiples, and what they mean for private practice and care home owners.

13.4x

Median

26 publicly traded companies, as at 2026-08-14

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How we build these numbers

Companies are selected by activity, not by index membership: a company appears in a sector only where the relevant discipline is a material part of what it does. Every figure is taken from a published annual report, interim statement, regulatory filing or market data record, cited against the individual company and stated as at the date it was captured. Where a company does not report a figure, the cell is left empty rather than estimated.

Sector medians use the companies with a reported EV/EBITDA figure for that period. The private ranges shown on each sector page are reconciled against our own completed transaction evidence, published in full in the valuation guides. Where the two ever disagree, the guides are the authority on private pricing.

We do not offer a view on any publicly traded company or its shares. Where interpretation of the stock market appears, it is quoted from a named third party with a link to the source.

Who publishes this, and why

DealFlowAgent is a sell-side mergers and acquisitions advisory firm for privately owned businesses in building services, facilities management, compliance and healthcare, typically between one million and fifty million pounds of enterprise value. We represent owners selling their company. We do not advise on shares, we do not manage money, and we hold no position in any company named here.

This library exists because the published accounts of large quoted operators are the clearest public evidence of what buyers pay for recurring, contracted, statutory work. For a private owner it is context, not a price. The price comes from the sector valuation guides and a free valuation of the business itself.

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