Commercial Cleaning Valuation

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by a searcher from Concordia University
in Montreal, QC, Canada

3yrs ago

Commercial Cleaning Valuation

Hello Team,

I am new to searchfunder and I would like to know what is the average EBITDA multiple for which a commercial cleaning business sales for.

I would appreciate if someone with experience in this industry could shed some light on this matter.

Regards,

Ahnaf

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reply by an investor 3yrs ago
from University of California, Berkeley in Bend, OR, USA

I acquired a commercial cleaning company a little over a year ago. We paid around 3.3x or so in SDE. Values will be all over the map depending on the quality of the company. I would gladly pay more now for a company with a very solid middle management layer in place. If it is a smaller, owner dependent operation I wouldn't pay much more than 1-2x... Ours was a good size, with a huge market share, and an excellent brand....but, it was fairly owner dependent.

reply by a searcher 2yrs ago
from Columbia College in Salt Lake City, UT, USA

I feel the hard learned lessons of Charlie Munger's advise to pay a fair price for a great business is better than a great price for a fair business. I don't have additional insight on the multiple but see this playing out as ^redacted‌ mentioned above - if the business is higher quality and can stand on its own, it could easily merit a "higher than average" multiple...