Business Valuation Multiples Calculator

Revenue-based valuation: Revenue × Revenue Multiple. EBITDA-based valuation: EBITDA × EBITDA Multiple. The range between these two methods provides a likely valuation band. Revenue multiples are used for high-growth companies (where profitability is deferred); EBITDA multiples are used for profitable businesses. Enterprise value must be adjusted for net debt/cash to get equity value.

This calculator uses 4 inputs — enough to capture the meaningful drivers of the answer without overwhelming the user. Expect the result to be defensible for most planning and screening contexts; for material decisions, run sensitivity on the discount rate or growth rate to bracket the realistic range of outcomes.

Investment-decision tools translate a project, deal, or capital allocation into a comparable percentage or dollar value. They sit at the heart of corporate finance: every public company must justify capital expenditure with some version of this math, and every private investor uses a close cousin to underwrite deals. The Federal Reserve’s research notes on capital expenditure decisions and the SEC’s public-company filings (visible at EDGAR) show how firms actually disclose these calculations in practice.

For live macroeconomic context that flows into many of these calculations — current Treasury yields and the federal funds rate when discounting cash flows, prevailing inflation when projecting revenue, current wage benchmarks when modeling labor cost — pair the result with the live readings on the indicators dashboard. Authoritative free sources for those inputs include the Federal Reserve’s FRED database for rates and macro series, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for wage and inflation data, and SEC EDGAR for public-company financial disclosures.

Use this calculator when planning fundraising, evaluating acquisition offers, benchmarking against publicly traded comparables, or sizing potential exits. Multiples vary significantly by industry, growth rate, and market conditions, always calibrate against recent comparable transactions.

For deeper conceptual background on the inputs and outputs, see the learn library; for the editorial standards behind this page, including how the formula was selected and how the calculator is maintained, see the methodology page; for the full list of available calculators, see the calculators index.