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Cited Band

2.22x to 3.63x SDE (nearest published class)

Source: BizBuySell home health care benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings, nearest class)

Implied Range

$1,110,000 to $1,815,000

A band, not a price. Answer the drivers below to place this business inside it.

The address encodes the industry and the earnings, so the link restores this reading.

Testing a real deal at a price in this range? Underwrite it end to end with the midpoint and the earnings carried over.

Where This One Sits

How much revenue recurs?

How concentrated are the customers?

What happens when the owner leaves for a month?

How clean are the books?

Do the licenses, leases and contracts transfer?

Nothing answered yet, so there is no reading. This does not default to the middle: a midpoint shown for a blank form would say your business is average when you have not told it anything.

The drivers that move the number in this trade specifically are in the full Adult Day Care guide. The picker holds the trades this site prices on one earnings figure. The other 13 are priced another way or on too thin a class, and each still appears with its cited band and source in Every Band, Cited.

Rebuild the Earnings Before You Multiply Them

The band above is only as good as the earnings under it, and a listing quotes the seller's number. Rebuild the Earnings takes the schedule apart line by line, and the defensible figure it produces is the one to price here. And the price is one line of what a purchase costs: How Much Does It Cost to Buy a Small Business? puts the working capital, the fees and the cash needed at closing beside it.

On the schedule both tools open with, $40,000 of the $500,000 is claimed rather than proven, and at 3 times earnings that is $120,000 of price.

Which Method Sets the Price

A price at this size is set by a multiple of earnings and checked against the others, and the lender's valuation decides how much of it can be borrowed.

A multiple of earnings
What the earnings support, as SDE or EBITDA times the multiple the trade sells at. It sets most prices at this size, and it is only as good as the earnings under it. Every Band, Cited
Comparable sales
What similar businesses actually sold for, which is where the multiples come from. Closed deals beat asking prices, and a small sample in one trade is a range rather than an answer. Deal Comps by Industry
Discounted cash flow
What the future cash is worth today at the return you require. It is the right question and a weak tool at this size, because the projections are usually the seller's; use it to test a price, not to set one. Acquisition Projections Builder
Asset value
What the equipment, inventory and property would fetch without the earnings. It is the floor under a price and the collateral a lender counts, and a business priced near it is being sold for its parts. Orderly liquidation appraisal
Rules of thumb
A percentage of revenue or a multiple a trade repeats. A first screen that hides what the business pays its owner, so check it against earnings before it shapes an offer. Gross revenue multiple
The lender's valuation
The one that caps the loan. An SBA lender may value the business itself only at $350,000 or less, real estate aside, and above that an outside appraisal is part of the file; total debt may not exceed it. Business appraisal

Valuation by Industry

Adult Day Care

Appliance Repair

ATM Routes

Auto Body & Collision

Auto Glass

Auto Repair

Bakeries

Barbershops

Breweries

Car Washes

Carpet Cleaning

Childcare Centers

Coffee Shops & Cafes

Commercial Cleaning

Concrete

Convenience Stores & Gas Stations

Courier & Local Delivery

Dog Grooming

Driving Schools

Dry Cleaners

Drywall and Insulation

Dump Truck & Aggregate Hauling

E-Commerce Brands

Electrical Contracting

Electrical Supply Houses

Excavation

Fence Contractors

Finish Carpentry

Fire Protection & Life Safety

Flooring

Flower Shops

Food Distribution

Franchise Resales (Main Street)

Funeral Homes

Garage Door Services

Glass and Glazing

Gyms & Fitness Studios

Hair Salons

Handyman Services

Hardware Stores

Home Care (Non-Medical)

Hotels (limited and select service)

HVAC

Industrial Supply Distributors

Janitorial Supply Distributors

Junk Removal & Hauling

Kitchen Equipment Dealers

Landscaping

Laundromats

Limousine & Black Car

Liquor Stores

Locksmith Services

Machine Shops

Managed Service Providers

Marinas

Martial Arts Studios

Med Spas

Moving Companies

Music Schools

Non-Emergency Medical Transport

Optometry Practices

Painting Contractors

Paving & Asphalt

Pest Control

Pet Boarding & Daycare

Pharmacies

Physical Therapy Practices

Pipe and Fitting Supply Houses

Plumbing

Pressure Washing

Restaurants

Restoration

Roofing

SaaS (Founder-Run)

School Bus & Shuttle Contracting

Security Guard Services

Septic Pumping & Service

Sign Companies

Staffing Agencies

Swim Schools

Tire & Service

Towing & Recovery

Tree Service & Arboriculture

Trucking & Freight Carriers

Tutoring Centers

Urgent Care Centers

Vending Machine Routes

Veterinary Practices

Window Cleaning

Every Band, Cited