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Business calculators. Run the numbers before you make the call.
Free calculators for buying and selling a business: what you can afford, what a business is worth, whether a deal can carry its loan and what you would take home. Each one shows its formula, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Calculators
Pick the question you are trying to answer.
Buyers usually start with affordability and debt service coverage. Sellers usually start with SDE and valuation.
Affordability Calculator
Start from your cash and salary: the most you can pay, and the cash flow it takes.
Open the calculatorFor Sellers and BuyersBusiness Valuation Calculator
A value range from your SDE, your industry's sale multiple and five value drivers.
Open the calculatorFor BuyersBusiness Benchmark Calculator
See whether a listing's price and multiples are in line with what its industry sells for.
Open the calculatorFor SellersSDE Calculator
Recast your profit into the cash flow buyers price a business on.
Open the calculatorFor Sellers and BuyersSDE and EBITDA Calculator
Both cash flow figures, from the same inputs, so you can speak either buyer's language.
Open the calculatorFor BuyersDebt Service Coverage Calculator
Will the cash flow carry the loan? The ratio lenders decide on.
Open the calculatorFor BuyersTake Home Cash Calculator
What is left for you after the loan payments, by year or by month.
Open the calculatorFor BuyersROI Calculator
The yearly return on the full purchase price, and the multiple behind it.
Open the calculatorFor BuyersCash-on-Cash Calculator
The yearly return on the cash you put in, and how fast it comes back.
Open the calculatorFor Sellers and BuyersWorking Capital Calculator
Will the business have enough short-term cash to keep running after closing?
Open the calculatorNext Step
Put these numbers to work on a real deal.
Buyer's EDGE is free: save target businesses, model each deal in the Acquisition Center and learn the process in Acquisition Academy. Selling? The Seller Portal starts a confidential sale. Either way, an EDGE advisor can help from the first conversation through closing, financing included.