Valuation & Pricing

Selling a trades or field-service business, in plain terms.

Short, specific notes on what a buyer actually looks at — normalized earnings, recurring versus project work, the license question, work in process, and everything that moves the number after you have shaken hands on it.

Valuation & Pricing

What your trucks and equipment are worth in a sale

Equipment rarely adds to the price the way owners expect. What it actually does to a deal, and when the fleet becomes a real problem.
Ray Myers · June 29, 2026 · 2 min
Valuation & Pricing

What service agreements are worth to a buyer

Recurring work is the most valuable revenue in a service business, and most owners understate it. What counts as recurring, and what gets discounted.
Ray Myers · June 3, 2026 · 2 min
Valuation & Pricing

When one customer is too much of the revenue

Concentration is the first thing a buyer looks for and the hardest thing to fix quickly. What it costs, and what to do if you already have it.
Ray Myers · May 26, 2026 · 2 min
Valuation & Pricing

What happens to the business when you are not in it

Owner dependence is priced into every offer, usually quietly. How a buyer tests for it, and what reduces it in the year before a sale.
Ray Myers · May 14, 2026 · 2 min
Valuation & Pricing

SDE or EBITDA: which number a buyer will use

Two ways of stating what a company earns, and they are not interchangeable. Which one applies to your business, and why the choice is about the buyer.
Ray Myers · April 22, 2026 · 2 min
Valuation & Pricing

What your business is worth, and why the number moves

Normalized earnings, customer mix, recurring revenue and owner dependence — and how each one changes the figure a buyer can support.
Ray Myers · April 15, 2026 · 3 min

Know your number before a buyer tells you his.

A first conversation costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and stays between us. Twenty minutes, no sales pitch, nothing signed. Bring your CPA if you want.

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