What could your business sell for?

The calculator takes your adjusted EBITDA (profit before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, with the adjustments a buyer is likely to accept) and multiplies it by a multiple. Your seven lever scores place you within the low to high range you set: an average of 1 sits at the low multiple, 5 at the high. The levers buyers worry about most count for more: owner independence counts double, and revenue quality, customer spread and financial credibility count one and a half times. If your customer figures show one customer above 10% of revenue, they cap your customer spread score, because a buyer reads the figures, not the score.

They are a starting point only. The Dealsuite M&A Monitor for August 2025, a survey of 433 advisory firms on UK and Irish deals for companies with £1 million to £200 million of revenue, reported an average of 5.3x EBITDA, and around 3.1x for businesses with £200,000 of normalised EBITDA. It describes advisers' experience, not your business. Set your own range with your adviser.

Buyers only accept adjustments they can verify. To reflect that, the calculator counts unverified items as zero, items a buyer may accept at half, and items they are unlikely to accept as zero. These weightings, like the way the seven levers place you in the range, are simple illustrative assumptions, not a buyer's formula.

Enterprise value is the price for the business on a cash-free, debt-free basis. Gross equity value adds cash, deducts debt and adjusts for working capital above or below a normal level. It is before tax, fees and deal terms such as deferred payments, so it is not the same as the cash you receive.

Figures you type are calculated in your browser and are not sent to us. If you upload accounts, the file is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, to read the figures, and is not kept unless you ask us to review it. If you ask for your result by email, we store a summary of your figures with your name and email.