Fire Protection & Life Safety Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
3x to 5x SDE, project shops (advisor roundups)
Source: Fire alarm and life safety valuation multiples (Breakwater M&A)
Implied Range
$1,500,000 to $2,500,000
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 Fire Protection & Life Safety guide. The picker holds every trade whose cited band is a multiple of one earnings figure; the 15 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
The multiple tracks recurring revenue: project-heavy owner-operated shops run 3x to 5x SDE, regional companies with a recurring inspection and monitoring base 5x to 8x EBITDA, platforms 8x to 12x-plus; crossing ~40% recurring inspection/monitoring is the pivot, and the qualifier license must transfer.
Band cited from Fire alarm and life safety valuation multiples (Breakwater M&A).
Embed This Band
The card below is free to embed with the link intact; it always shows this page's current cited band.
