Free Business Valuation Calculator
Enter your shop’s revenue, costs, and assets to get an instant estimate of what your business is worth. Free, in under two minutes.
This interactive calculator is made available to you as a self-help tool for your independent use and is not intended to provide financial advice.
Estimated Shop Value
Your valuation range
$0 – $0
Annual earnings (EBITDA)
$0
Multiple applied
2.0x – 3.0x
Asset floor
$0
Value per bay (midpoint)
$0
Enter your shop’s revenue, costs, and assets to get an instant estimate of what your business is worth. Free, in under two minutes.
No black box here. This mechanic shop valuation calculator prices your shop the way a business broker would: earnings, not equipment.
Revenue - Cost of sales - Overhead = Annual earnings → × 2–3× multiple = Value range
That's how to value an auto repair shop: annual earnings times the shop valuation multiple buyers pay, typically 2-3x, with your assets as the floor.
Selling In 1-3 Years
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Answer with your own number
Tracking Growth
Value, not just car count
Baseline, Not Appraisal
Real valuations move with your books, lease, team, and market.
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If the number feels low, the multiple is why. It's also the part you can change.
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Good to know
Most independent shops sell for two to three times their annual earnings: profit after cost of sales and overhead, before interest, taxes, and depreciation. A shop earning $150,000 lands in a rough range of $300,000–$450,000. Location, lease terms, equipment condition, and how dependent the shop is on its owner move the number inside or beyond that range.
Owner-operated shops typically trade at 2–3× seller’s discretionary earnings. Larger shops with a manager in place are often priced on an auto repair shop EBITDA multiple instead, commonly 3–4×. Clean books and a transferable customer base push a shop toward the top of its range.
Take net profit and add back interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. For most owner-operated shops, brokers use SDE instead: EBITDA plus the owner’s salary and any personal expenses run through the business. Either way, twelve months of clean books is what makes the number credible to a buyer.
Predictable, documented revenue. Customers who return without being chased. Technicians who’ll stay after the sale, modern equipment, and a lease that transfers. Above all, buyers pay more for a shop that runs without its owner. The less the business depends on you, the higher the multiple.
Profit. Two shops with identical revenue can have very different earnings, and a buyer is purchasing your earnings, not your top line. Revenue multiples exist as a sanity check, often around 0.3–0.6× annual sales for repair shops, but the earnings multiple carries the deal.
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