Car Washes Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
3.2x to 6.7x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell car wash benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings)
Implied Range
$1,600,000 to $3,350,000
A band, not a price. Answer the drivers below to place this business inside it.
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 Car Washes 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.
What Moves the Multiple
Revenue size and the dirt sort this band. The publisher says a wash over $1 million of sales may sell for 6x or higher and one under $300k around 3 to 3.5 times, and washes that own their real estate trade higher than those that lease. Verified membership revenue is what consolidators pay up for.
Band cited from BizBuySell car wash benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Car Washes buy guide.
How Often These Loans Go Bad
Car Washes
0.86%
1 of 116 seasoned loans
Every Industry Measured
4.20%
Pooled charge-off rate
The share of seasoned SBA acquisition loans in this industry that have been written off so far, computed from the loan-level file the SBA publishes. A price inside the band is not the same as a business worth buying: the rate by industry and franchise brand is the other half of the question.
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