Fire Protection & Life Safety Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
1.95x to 3.29x SDE (security class sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell, security sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025)
Implied Range
$975,000 to $1,645,000
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 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
The multiple tracks recurring revenue: advisers quote project-heavy owner-operated shops at 3x to 5x SDE, regional companies with a recurring inspection and monitoring base at 5x to 8x EBITDA, platforms at 8x to 12x-plus; crossing ~40% recurring inspection/monitoring is the pivot, and the qualifier is a person the buyer must replace, since the license does not transfer.
Band cited from BizBuySell, security sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Fire Protection & Life Safety buy guide.
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