Food Distribution Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
2.00x to 3.44x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell wholesale and distribution benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles)
Implied Range
$1,000,000 to $1,720,000
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 Food Distribution 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
Route economics set this band. The cost of a stop barely moves with what comes off the truck, so drop size rather than revenue decides whether a route earns, and growth by small accounts can leave a house busier and poorer. Perishable inventory is discounted hard by lenders, because food out of temperature is worth nothing rather than less, and the federal transport rule turns the cold chain into written duties and records. Customer credit is the third driver, since independent restaurants fail quickly and quietly.
Band cited from BizBuySell wholesale and distribution benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Food Distribution buy guide.
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