Hardware Stores Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
2.02x to 3.86x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell building material and hardware benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles)
Implied Range
$1,010,000 to $1,930,000
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 Hardware Stores 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
Margin here is earned twice, once at the register and once from the buying group months later, and the rebate half does not always survive a change of ownership. Shrink and staff turnover both bite harder than their size suggests against a net under five percent. Ask which basis every margin figure uses before comparing two stores.
Band cited from BizBuySell building material and hardware benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Hardware Stores buy guide.
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