Five inputs, no email, no signup. It returns the market range for a company like yours, the benchmark we check our own number against, and the assumptions are printed underneath so you can argue with them.
Select any that apply. Each one is a real adjustment a buyer makes, and each one is fixable before you go to market.
This is a company we'd want to talk to. Send us the real numbers and we'll come back with a range and the reasoning behind it within two business days, or a straight no.
Want a real number?A calculator with hidden assumptions is a marketing device. Here are ours, in full, so you can decide how much to trust the number it produced.
Cash in the bank, debt, and any non-recurring revenue sit outside this. A real offer nets those out separately, and the difference can be significant either way.
A strategic acquirer buying capability or market share can pay well above this range. If you have a credible strategic buyer, this number is your floor rather than your expectation.
Not from public comparables. Public software multiples move faster and further than private ones at this size, so a headline about the index tells you less than you'd think.
Everything here is cash at close. An offer with an earnout, a seller note or rolled equity should be discounted for risk and time before you compare it to this number.
Assignability, change-of-control clauses and IP ownership don't change the multiple. They change whether there's a deal at all, and they're the most common late surprise in diligence.
It's a range, and the honest version of that is plus or minus about 20% for a company inside our band. It's the market benchmark we check our own discounted-earnings number against, but it can't see your contracts, your churn curve or your team, and those three things move real offers more than any slider here.
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