Machine Shops Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
2.32x to 4.23x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell machining and tooling benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles)
Implied Range
$1,160,000 to $2,115,000
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 Machine Shops 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
Two thirds of revenue is committed before the job runs, so the quote book and the material cost behind it decide the margin. Customer concentration is the second swing: a shop with one aerospace customer at half of revenue prices as a contract rather than as a business. Spindle hours by machine separate a capacity problem capital can fix from a demand problem it cannot.
Band cited from BizBuySell machining and tooling benchmarks (sold listings, 2021 to 2025 quartiles). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Machine Shops buy guide.
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