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Monthly Market Reports · The Benchmark

The Small Business
Acquisition Index

What small businesses are actually asking to sell for — median multiples by industry, trended month over month, across thousands of active listings. The benchmark is being built.

acquisition-index — median multiple, all industriesIndexing
Median asking multipleIllustrative
0.0x
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Asking price ÷ stated cash flow (SDE), across active small-business listings. The live figure publishes the day the Index goes live.

12-month trend · sample shapenot real values
By industrysample shape
Home servicesHVAC · plumbing · electrical
3.4x
Restaurantsfull-service · QSR
2.1x
Healthcaredental · vet · clinics
4.2x
Manufacturinglight · contract
3.8x
Retailspecialty · franchise
2.6x
Logisticsroute · last-mile
3.0x
Every figure here is the data on this page — drawn from public asking prices, never sale prices. We index what's asked, not what's sold.

Numbers shown are an illustrative teaser of the format — pre-launch placeholders, not measured market data.

Home services3.4x▲ 0.2Restaurants2.1x▼ 0.1Healthcare4.2x▲ 0.3Manufacturing3.8x▲ 0.1Retail2.6x▼ 0.2Logistics3.0x▲ 0.2Auto repair2.9x▲ 0.1Childcare3.5x▲ 0.2Landscaping2.4x▼ 0.1Self-storage5.1x▲ 0.4Home services3.4x▲ 0.2Restaurants2.1x▼ 0.1Healthcare4.2x▲ 0.3Manufacturing3.8x▲ 0.1Retail2.6x▼ 0.2Logistics3.0x▲ 0.2Auto repair2.9x▲ 0.1Childcare3.5x▲ 0.2Landscaping2.4x▼ 0.1Self-storage5.1x▲ 0.4
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Asking prices, not sale pricesThe data on this page is always publicA cited benchmark, not a black box