Valuation Rules of Thumb

This two minute video explains why owners should know what their businesses are worth, and how SPARDATA’s free ‘rule of thumb’ reports help.

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SPARDATA offers free valuation rule of thumb reports¹ for over 600 industries. Rules of thumb are a convenient way to get a ballpark idea of the values of businesses in an industry. Use them to guesstimate values – but don’t expect them to be accurate. (Rules of thumb rarely come within 25% of a business’ actual value. Usually the error is 50% or more.)

All rules of thumb suffer from the same fatal flaw, namely they assume a business is identical to every other business in that industry. That is absurd – each business is unique as a fingerprint. That is why a business owner’s plans should rest on solid facts (that is, a proper valuation), not on something as flimsy as rules of thumb. Nevertheless, these reports are a handy way to start thinking about the value of a business in practical terms.

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