What is your business worth today?
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How accurate is this business valuation calculator?
This calculator provides an indicative value range using SDE and EBITDA multiples — the two most widely used methods in lower-mid-market M&A. Multiples are derived from real transaction data. For a precise valuation, book a call with our advisory team.
What's the difference between SDE and EBITDA?
SDE (Seller's Discretionary Earnings) adds back the owner's salary to pre-tax profit and is typically used for owner-operated businesses under £5M. EBITDA is the standard for larger or institutional-track businesses. We show both ranges so you can see the full picture.
Why is my valuation range so wide?
A spread between the low and high is completely normal at this stage. Your final number depends on factors we can only assess on a call: the proportion of recurring vs. one-off revenue, how concentrated your customer base is, how reliant the business is on you personally, your growth trajectory, and — critically — how much competitive tension we can generate among buyers. That last factor alone can move your valuation significantly. Book a 20-minute call to understand exactly where your business sits within this range.
Why do you ask for my website?
We use it to silently identify your sector so we can apply the right transaction multiples and show you relevant deal comps. Nothing is published, scraped beyond the homepage, or shared.
Is my data kept confidential?
Absolutely. Your website, financials and contact details are only used to generate your report and follow up if helpful. Only the founder and Head of M&A can access submissions. We never share your information with buyers or third parties, and we only approach acquirers once you have appointed us with a formal mandate. All data is stored on a secure, encrypted cloud server.
What should I do after getting my valuation estimate?
Your written valuation is prepared by hand and emailed to you within 24 to 48 hours. Nothing is generated automatically, because more than thirty factors move a final valuation. Book a discovery call and the draft will be ready by the time we speak, so we can take you through it and put your own answers into the document.
What period is the valuation based on?
Your 2026 full-year revenue and pre-tax profit are the anchor. The report then shows three timings: completion around December 2026 or January 2027 on today's numbers, completion at the end of 2027 with nothing changed, and completion at the end of 2027 after the preparation work, which on the businesses we work with typically supports a valuation 10 to 50 per cent higher than the do-nothing case.
How much difference does a specialist M&A adviser make to the final price?
A properly run sell-side process typically moves final consideration 10 to 100 per cent above an unadvised bilateral deal, because price is set by competitive tension between mapped strategic and financial buyers rather than by a single approach. Deal structure, the split between cash at completion, deferred consideration and earn-out, often matters as much as the headline figure.
Will the calculation stand up to due diligence?
It is written to. The report sets out the earnings build line by line, the add-backs accepted and rejected, the transaction multiple applied, and the weighted factors that moved it. A chartered accountant, financial due diligence lead or serial acquirer can follow and challenge every step.
We need the headline figures before we can price the business
Advanced Business Valuation Calculator · UK & US
A written valuation and value drivers report, prepared by hand. Built by M&A advisers, exited founders and serial acquirers who combined real transaction experience with input from chartered accountants and business buyers, so the report reflects how a buyer would actually price your company.
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Written report in 24 to 48 hours
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Private to the founder and Head of M&A. Never shared with buyers or third parties.
A pre-signed mutual NDA is available before you answer anything, and a copy naming your company is sent with your report.
Add a business email and we can save your progress, send the return link, and keep the report attached to the right company.
Strictly confidential. This is not a marketing list, and your details are not shown to buyers.
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These sharpen the earnings bridge in your report. Your valuation is calculated from net revenue and pre-tax profit either way.
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Most owners finish the whole valuation in about sixteen minutes. Rough figures are fine, you can revise anything later.
Net revenue and pre-tax profit, year by year
Net revenue is sales excluding VAT. Pre-tax profit is profit before corporation tax.
Calendar years, 1 January to 31 December. Rounded figures are fine: 1,800,000 and 1.8m both work. For a loss year, tap Loss next to the profit box. Only your 2025 net revenue is needed to continue.
What these two figures mean
total sales excluding VAT. If you only have a gross figure, remove VAT before entering it.
profit before corporation tax. Take revenue, subtract all costs including your own salary, and stop before tax. Do not use profit after tax or net off dividends.
Buyers pay for trajectory. Leave 2027 blank if you do not have a view yet.
Before we calculate, please confirm these figures
We want to be certain we have the right magnitude. Getting this wrong would give you a valuation that is out by a factor of a thousand, so we ask rather than assume.
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Everything is saved as you go. You can close this and come back to the same place.
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Roughly what is it worth today?
What counts, and what does not
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We start building your valuation within the next two to three working hours. Book the call now and the draft will be in front of us when we speak.
Want to change an answer?
Nearly there. Your report is written by hand and delivered within 24 to 48 hours.
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Your questionnaire is complete. A partner reviews your figures and your written report follows within 24 to 48 hours.
What we do with your details
No cost, no credit card, no obligation, and no cap on what the report covers.
Where the full report is sent.
Used only if a figure needs clarifying, usually on a short free discovery call. No cold calling, no list.
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Your figures stay with our internal team. They are never shared with buyers, never sold, and never added to a marketing list.
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Getting to know your business
We read your homepage so we can compare you with the right kind of businesses. Nothing is contacted and nothing is published.
This is what we read from your website. Correct it now and every question that follows is written for your industry rather than somebody else's.
Confirm the registered company so nothing in your report belongs to a similarly named business.
Why we ask, and what to put
Trading names and registered names often differ. ABC Building Services may trade under that name while the registered entity is ABC Building Services Holdings Limited. We need the registered one. If you are not certain of the exact wording, put your best version and we will check it against the public register for you.
Where is the company registered
Checking the public register for you.
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This says nothing about your company. Carry on with the name as you have typed it, add your company number below if you have it to hand, and we will check the register by hand.
No match found. Carry on with the name as you have typed it and we will check it by hand.
Optional, but it removes any doubt where several companies share a similar name.
In one line, what does the business do
One question before the figures
Realistically, when would the business be ready to sell?
This changes what the report is for. It does not commit you to anything, and it is not shared with any buyer.
Within the next 12 months
You would go to market this year if the number was right.
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Everything you have given us is held in confidence, seen by our internal team only, and never shown to a buyer or any third party without your written instruction. If it helps, we will send you a pre signed mutual non disclosure agreement before we speak. Just ask and it comes back the same day.
Joe and Duncan have already been notified that your file has landed. Work starts within the next three working hours and the draft is usually ready by tomorrow. The two of them write and review it personally. No one else sees your figures.
We charged £3,000 for this exact report. It takes a few hours of partner time to build, and it is yours free. We send it after we have spoken, not before, because there are always a handful of follow up questions on your figures. Without them the range is wrong, and a wrong range is worse than none.
Request the pre signed NDA
You do not have to be selling.
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All of this is saved against your file. You do not need to do any of it again.
A month by month profit and loss. Open your accounting tool, go to the reporting page, set the period from last completed month back three years, and set the columns to monthly. Two years is fine if three is awkward. We want the detailed lines, revenue, cost of sales and operating costs, not just the totals. Export to Excel and send it exactly as it comes out. No tidying.
Why it matters: monthly figures show whether earnings are steady or lumpy, and steady earnings carry a higher multiple. It is the single file that moves your range most.
If you have one to hand, an anonymised client list also helps. Client 001, client 002, client 003 with the revenue against each for the last two or three years. It lets us measure retention year on year, which buyers pay for. It is optional, and if it looks like a chore then leave it. We can pull the same picture out of the monthly profit and loss on the call.
Twenty minutes, confidential, no obligation. Today, tomorrow or the day after.
Everything you have shared stays confidential. Nothing is listed, published or shown to any acquirer without a signed NDA and your written instruction.
Your figures, four years side by side
What you already told us is filled in. Rough figures are fine, you can change any of them later, and you do not need to leave this page to find them. On the profit lines you can switch to a percentage of revenue if the margin is easier to recall than the number.
If a year made a loss, put a minus sign in front of the figure. If you only keep one profit line, put it against profit before tax and leave the others blank. Profit before tax is the figure before corporation tax, not what is left after it.
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