Valuation benchmarks for private companies
Valuation multiples from
11,326 recorded M&A deals
Built on 11,326 recorded transactions. Industry multiple ranges, live sell-side mandates and the methodology behind both, so you can sanity-check a number before you speak to an advisor.
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42
Industries benchmarked
reviewed 2026-08-06
39
Live sell-side mandates
via FIH.com
11,326
Recorded transactions
2014 to 2026, deal value on every one
Price your business against recorded deals
Your business valued across several methodologies, against 11,326 recorded transactions and the multiple ranges for 42 industries.
Step one
What does the business do, and how big is it?
From the archive
Median EV/EBITDA by deal year
Recorded transactions with a disclosed EBITDA multiple; n under each year.
832 priced deals plotted. Years with fewer than 20 priced deals are withheld. Deals between $1M and $1bn of disclosed value only, so this tracks reported mid-market deals, not the whole market. See every deal
The archive
Every transaction we hold, open to read
Not a sample and not a teaser. The whole archive is on the site, searchable by sector, deal size, period and acquirer, with no account and no paywall. Spanning 2014 to 2026.
11,326
Recorded transactions
every one with a disclosed deal value
2,145
With a disclosed multiple
revenue or EBITDA, from the parties themselves
61
Sectors covered
from software to metals and mining
6,524
Named acquirers
strategics, PE firms and family offices
What it is not: a census of the market. These are deals that were reported. A business sold quietly between two owners never enters a dataset like this one, and disclosure skews towards larger transactions. Roughly four in five closes without a published multiple, which is why the count of disclosing deals is shown next to every median on the site rather than buried in a methodology note.
After the number
Three ways to go further, from free to a working session
Free
Who buys businesses like yours
The named acquirers behind the archive, sector by sector, across 61 sectors. The buyer list is worth more than the multiple.
See who buys what$199
The written valuation report
Run the calculator, then buy the document: your range, the sector band with its date, priced comparables and a sensitivity table. Delivered on screen and by email.
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An hour with a senior adviser
Whether now is the moment, which buyers are live, and what they will object to. Credited in full against the fee if you engage FIH.com.
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The book
What Your Business Is Worth
What 10,212 Company Sales Reveal About the Price of Yours. By Neil P. Bostick.
- A multiple is a range, not a number. The middle half of 826 disclosed EBITDA multiples runs from 6.3x to 12.9x; eight deals in ten fall between 4.4x and 21.9x. Chapter 1
- Size pays, once the censoring trap is removed. The median EBITDA multiple rises from 7.0x for businesses with $1 million to $3 million of EBITDA to 10.25x for those with $10 million to $30 million. Chapter 5
- Valuations miss. Priced from the median of its sector, a deal's estimate was off by a factor of two or more in about a quarter of cases. The author's own blended model, tested on deals it had not seen, missed by 3x or more 6.6% of the time. Chapter 7
The author operates this site and earns royalties on sales of the book.
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7x to 7.8x EBITDA
1.8x to 2.1x revenue
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4x to 4.8x EBITDA
0.8x to 1.1x revenue
Indicative, n=3 internal estimates, as of 2026-08-06
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Why Choose FairlyValued?
Industry-specific ranges
Each of the 42 industries carries its own multiple range, sample size and review date, so you can see what a figure rests on.
Live mandates and real comparables
39 businesses currently for sale through FIH.com, alongside 10,000+ recorded transactions from 2014 to 2025.
Open method
The methodology page sets out how every range and median is computed, including what the archive cannot see.
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