Vending Machine Routes Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
1.8x to 2.62x SDE (sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell vending machine business benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings)
Implied Range
$900,000 to $1,310,000
A band, not a price. Answer the drivers below to place this business inside it.
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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?
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 Vending Machine Routes 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
The publisher puts routes selling over $130k a year above 2.5x earnings and those under $50k closer to 1.8x; locked multi-year location contracts at fair commission, cashless-conversion share, route density, and expansion headroom set the position, while heavy owner driving and stalled growth lower it.
Band cited from BizBuySell vending machine business benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Vending Machine Routes buy guide.
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