Pipe and Fitting Supply Houses Business 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
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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?
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The drivers that move the number in this trade specifically are in the full Pipe and Fitting Supply Houses 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
Fill rate and the cost of holding it set this band. Contractors choose on whether the part is there, so service level is the competitive variable and every point of it is inventory that is not turning. The trade's characteristic problem is dead stock, project residue and superseded fittings sitting at cost until somebody writes them off, which means the earnings rest on a judgement nobody has audited. Receivables are the other half: trade credit to builders, usually unsecured, where liens and bond claims are the statutory remedies and both take time.
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 Pipe and Fitting Supply Houses buy guide.
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