Excavation Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
1.82x to 3.27x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell, heavy construction sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025)
Implied Range
$910,000 to $1,635,000
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 Excavation guide. The picker holds every trade whose cited band is a multiple of one earnings figure; the 13 priced on cap rates, collections, revenue or two bases at once are named with their reasons rather than left out silently. Every cited band, with its drivers and source, is listed below on this page.
What Moves the Multiple
Iron and public work set this band. Gross depreciable assets run about a third of receipts and capital expenditure, machinery rental and fuel are each the highest on its shelf, so there is real collateral behind the price and real cost behind the margin. A fifth of receipts is government work, which makes bonding part of the credit and not a detail, and a surety underwrites the new owners as new indemnitors. Above that sits a license question with two different answers in two states and a monetary limit in one of them that is rewritten off the buyer's own balance sheet.
Band cited from BizBuySell, heavy construction sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Excavation buy guide.
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