Free tool · Indicative estimate
Seven short steps, about a minute. You get an automated range built from size-banded industry multiples and, where enough deals match, real closed small-business sales. A starting point for a conversation, not a valuation.
What you getEstimate only
Not an appraisal. Not an opinion of what your business would sell for.
01How it works
Name, email and business name, so we can save your result and give you a private link to it.
One or more states. A single state tunes the range to local price levels; skip for nationwide.
Describe the business in plain words or type a NAICS code. We match it to an industry code.
Total sales over the last 12 months. Asset-heavy industries also get one question about owned property.
Seller's discretionary earnings: net profit plus your pay, perks and one-off costs.
Declining, flat, growing or growing fast over the last three years.
Two optional questions about timing, then you confirm you understand it is an indicative estimate only.
You must tick the acknowledgment on the last step before any range is shown.
The dataAs of October 3, 2026
02Data sources
No invented numbers. These are the inputs the tool actually uses, where each one comes from, and what it is used for.
Closed transactions
A database of 4,554 closed business sales aggregated from third-party deal databases and online marketplaces. 2,893 of them report a price-to-SDE multiple, across 192 industry codes, with sale dates from 1994 to 2026.
Industry multiple curves
Built-in 25th- and 50th-percentile SDE multiples for each sector and earnings size band, calibrated to published small-business M&A market reports. Bigger businesses never get a lower multiple than smaller ones in the same sector.
Industry classification
Your plain-English description, or a code you type, is matched to a North American Industry Classification System code and one of 8 sectors. Each code also carries a typical asset intensity: how much equipment and property the business usually needs.
Asset floor
Revenue × your industry's typical asset intensity × 70%, a haircut for used equipment. If you don't own your premises or major equipment in an asset-heavy industry, that share is taken out.
State price levels
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes a price level for every state and D.C. relative to the national average. If you pick a single state, the range moves part of the way toward that level (50% to 80% of the way, depending on the method).
Your answers
Your 12-month revenue and seller's discretionary earnings, as you report them. Your three-year trend moves the multiple from −12% (declining) to +25% (growing fast).
Active listings
Listings with asking prices from 7 online business-for-sale marketplaces, across 50 states. Asking prices aren't sale prices, so they never enter the math.
Market momentum
The engine can nudge a range by up to 15% either way using sector momentum from public-company and industry benchmark data, but only when enough independent data supports it. Otherwise no adjustment is made. Your result says when one was applied.
Counts are read from the tool's own database, as of October 3, 2026.
03What the number means
The methodSDE × multiple
Low confidence or a loss-making business widens the conservative end. The result names the method that set your range.
04Limitations
That is why the result is an indicative estimate for information and marketing only. For any real decision, engage a qualified business appraiser, accountant or M&A advisor.
05Why it's free
Axia connects business owners with the right buyer or advisor for their goals: one introduction, never an auction. Buyers pay us, not owners.
The tool is our way of helping you get oriented before that conversation. Using it costs nothing and commits you to nothing. We are not appraisers and we don't give opinions of value.
06FAQ
No. It is an automated, indicative estimate and a marketing tool. It is not an appraisal, not a certified or qualified business valuation, not a broker opinion of value and not a fairness opinion. If you need a valuation you can rely on, for a sale, a loan, a buyout, an estate or a dispute, hire a qualified, credentialed business appraiser. See the Valuation Tool Terms.
No. What a business actually sells for depends on diligence, deal structure, the buyer, financing, timing and negotiation. The range shows where businesses with similar reported numbers have tended to trade. Treat it as a starting point for a conversation, not a price.
Buyers pay Axia, not owners. The tool helps owners get oriented, and some of them later want to talk about a sale. There is no cost and no obligation.
Possibly. By using the tool you agree that Axia may contact you about your results and about selling your business. You can tell us to stop at any time by replying or emailing hello@axiagrowth.com. See the Privacy Policy.
Axia stores your contact details, the figures you enter, your result and your acknowledgment, and may add them to our internal CRM so our team can follow up. We don't sell your submission to unaffiliated third parties, and you can ask us to delete it at any time. The Privacy Policy has the details. See the Privacy Policy.
Anyone you give your private result link to. The link is long and unguessable, but not password-protected, so share it only with people you trust. See the Valuation Tool Terms, section 11.
When your earnings-based value and your asset-based value point in different directions, or the business is losing money, the tool widens the conservative end and marks confidence low. A professional appraisal is the way to narrow it.
Seller's discretionary earnings: net profit, plus the owner's salary, plus personal expenses run through the business, plus one-time costs that won't recur. Buyers of small businesses price off it.
Ready when you are
Free, about a minute, and entirely up to you what happens next.
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