About SME Multiples

SME Multiples is a free, global reference platform for exploring EBITDA valuation multiples across small and medium-sized businesses. It brings together indicative benchmarks across hundreds of industries — from SaaS and manufacturing to healthcare, professional services and renewable energy — in one simple, searchable index.

Built for anyone researching business valuations, SME Multiples provides a transparent starting point for understanding how businesses across different industries may be valued. Users can compare typical, minimum and maximum EBITDA multiples, explore the factors that influence valuations, review real-world transaction case studies and use our valuation calculator.

Each industry page goes beyond the headline multiple, highlighting the characteristics, value drivers and risks that can push valuations higher or lower. The aim is simple: to make SME valuation data easier to explore, compare and understand.

Free and Open

SME Multiples is built and maintained by a small team with a simple goal: to make business valuation benchmarks more accessible.

The platform is free to explore, with no account required. We welcome feedback, corrections and suggestions for industries or insights you’d like to see added.

AI-Assisted Benchmarks

Valuation multiples on SME Multiples are AI-assisted, indicative benchmarks informed by industry characteristics and available transaction evidence. They are compiled using AI-assisted research to help structure and analyse public transaction data, sector research and wider market information across a broad range of industries.

Actual valuations can vary materially depending on EBITDA size, profitability, growth, recurring revenue, customer concentration, owner dependence, geography and other company-specific factors, as well as market conditions and transaction structure.

The benchmarks are not formal business valuations or professional investment advice. SME Multiples is intended as a general reference and research tool and should not be relied upon for financial decision-making without independent professional advice.

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