Business Value
What is my business worth?
Get an indicative value range from published sale multiples, then see the part most owners never see: what weak or missing records put at risk when a buyer looks closely. Verelume shows owners what a buyer will see before the buyer sees it.
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This is a directional, educational estimate built from published market multiples. It is not a certified valuation, an appraisal, a fairness opinion, an investment recommendation, a tax opinion, or a guarantee of sale price. Business value depends on more than applying a multiple to one year of earnings.
What the estimator does
Select your industry and enter your annual owner earnings. The estimator returns an indicative value range built from published sale multiples, each one carrying its source and its date. It then shows the portion of that range that weak or missing records typically put in question. It runs in about a minute, and it asks for nothing else: no name, no email, no company details.
How earnings-based valuation ranges work
A common way to size a private business is to apply a multiple to a measure of its earnings. Published multiples come from records of completed sales in a given industry, and they are expressed as a range rather than a single number. Applying that range to your owner earnings produces an indicative range, not a price. The multiple is a starting point that a real transaction then adjusts up or down.
Why similar earnings can lead to different offers
Earnings are where a buyer starts, not where they finish. Two companies with the same earnings can receive very different offers, because buyers price the risk and durability behind those earnings. A business whose earnings are well documented, and whose value does not rest on a single person, tends to hold up when a buyer looks closely.
What buyers examine beyond the range
The estimated range is a starting point. A buyer also examines:
- Earnings quality, and how well those earnings are documented
- Customer concentration
- Growth, and how durable it is
- Owner dependence and transferability
- The state of contracts and agreements
- Operational risk
- Market conditions
How documentation and diligence readiness affect value
Much of what erodes an offer is avoidable. When a buyer finds unsupported claims, missing evidence, or contradictions in the record, they price in the uncertainty, and that uncertainty comes out of the price. Diligence readiness protects value by finding those gaps first: identifying unsupported claims, missing evidence, and avoidable uncertainty before a buyer does, so they can be fixed or explained rather than discounted.
What the estimate does not represent
The estimate is directional and educational. It is not a certified valuation, an appraisal, a fairness opinion, an investment recommendation, a tax opinion, or a guarantee of sale price. Treat the range as a starting point for a conversation, not a number to rely on.
How Verelume helps you get ready for scrutiny
Verelume is a diligence-readiness platform. It ingests your contracts, financials, and operating records and reports what the record supports, where documents conflict, and where claims lack documentation, so you see what a buyer will see before the buyer sees it. That is the work behind the estimate’s second number, and it is how an owner becomes ready for scrutiny.
Learn more about diligence readiness, or see the ways to engage.
Questions
Common questions.
- Is this a business valuation or an appraisal?
- No. It is a directional, educational estimate built from published sale multiples. It is not a certified valuation, an appraisal, a fairness opinion, an investment recommendation, a tax opinion, or a guarantee of sale price.
- What information does the estimator ask for?
- Only your industry and your annual owner earnings. It does not ask for your name, email, company name, phone number, contact information, or a description of your business.
- Why do two businesses with similar earnings sell for different amounts?
- Buyers price the risk and durability behind the earnings, not the earnings alone. Customer concentration, owner dependence, transferability, the strength of contracts, and how well the record is documented all move the number.
- How does documentation affect the price?
- When a buyer finds unsupported claims, missing evidence, or contradictions, they price in the uncertainty, and that uncertainty comes out of the price. Diligence readiness protects value by finding those gaps first, so they can be fixed or explained before a buyer sees them.
Ready for scrutiny.
An indicative range is a starting point. A founder-led Diligence Readiness Assessment shows you exactly what a buyer will find, and what to fix before they do.