What Business Services Companies Are Worth in Today’s M&A Market
What IT services, staffing, facilities, and professional services companies are worth to strategic and PE buyers in todays M&A market.
What IT services, staffing, facilities, and professional services companies are worth to strategic and PE buyers in todays M&A market.
What HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and specialty contractors are worth to PE and strategic buyers and what drives the multiple.
What healthcare services buyers want, how practices are valued, and what owners should fix before going to market.
On Main Street, mix is the multiple. Maintenance contracts at 60-70% of revenue sit at the top of 2-4x SDE. Project-heavy shops with the owner on every truck compress toward 2-2.5x.
Where AI speeds up business valuation work and where human judgment still wins for owners preparing to sell.
The factors that compress multiples in lower middle-market transactions, and the specific actions that protect value when you need it most.
What you gather before the process starts determines how clean the output is. The complete document checklist for a lower middle-market business valuation.
Where your sector trades and what moves you above or below the midpoint. Data from lower middle-market transactions covering 10 industry sectors.
Five valuation approaches, each serving a different purpose. Understanding which one a buyer will use changes everything about how you position your business.
The real answer requires a professional process, not a formula. Here’s what actually drives value in a lower middle-market business transaction.
There’s a difference between book value, appraisal ranges, and what a buyer will pay. How LMM companies are actually valued in 2026.
You’ve built something real. But when you ask “what is my business worth,” the answer might surprise you — and not always in the way you’re hoping. Here’s how valuation actually works for lower middle market businesses.