Managed Service Providers Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
2.20x to 3.87x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell, IT and software services sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025)
Implied Range
$1,100,000 to $1,935,000
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 Managed Service Providers 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
Recurring-revenue mix is the largest lever at a given size, since a shop billing mostly hourly project work prices as an IT contractor. Advisory roundups quote 4x to 5x EBITDA for small MSPs; read that as the sell side's figure, on a different earnings base from the 2.93x SDE sold median.
Band cited from BizBuySell, IT and software services sold-listing benchmarks (2021-2025). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Managed Service Providers buy guide.
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