Strategy and growth Every business Metro Detroit
You have built something real, but if someone asked what it is worth tomorrow, you would be guessing.
A clear valuation for businesses: what the business is worth today, how we got there and what would raise it.
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Businesses in metro detroit
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Renaissance Center, Detroit
Metro Detroit
A voicemail comes in at your Metro Detroit office from someone who wants to talk about buying your business. You play it back twice, then sit down to work out what it is worth, and all you can find are online calculators that give you wildly different answers.
A business valuation gives you a real number and the reasons behind it. We recast your financials, adjust for owner pay and one-time costs, compare you to businesses like yours that sold and show the factors that push your value up or down.
You call the buyer back knowing where you stand. Even if you do not sell, you know what drives your value, and that changes how you run the business from here on.
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80,719 businesses operate in Metro Detroit. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.
We collect several years of financials and tax returns and learn how the business runs.
We adjust for owner pay, perks and one-time costs to show true earning power.
We apply market and income approaches and compare with similar businesses that sold.
We walk you through the range, what drives it and what you can do to raise it.
What we report every month: Adjusted earnings over time, Recurring revenue as part of the total, Owner dependence factors addressed, and Value range updated each year.
Most small businesses are valued as a multiple of earnings, either seller's discretionary earnings or EBITDA. The multiple depends on size, growth, risk, industry and how much the business depends on the owner. Assets and recurring revenue can push it up, while customer concentration and messy books pull it down.
Seller's discretionary earnings adds the owner's pay and perks back into profit, showing what one owner-operator could take home. EBITDA treats the owner as a paid manager and is used more for larger businesses. Smaller owner-run businesses are usually valued on SDE.
A valuation estimate helps you plan, negotiate and decide. A certified appraisal by a credentialed appraiser is required for SBA lending, estate and gift taxes, divorce and some legal disputes. We provide planning valuations and work with credentialed appraisers when a formal report is needed.
Cost depends on the size and complexity of the business, how many entities are involved, how clean the books are and whether you need a planning estimate or a formal appraisal. A single entity with tidy books takes far less work. We set a fixed project fee before we start, so the price does not grow as we dig.
Steady, growing profit, clean financials, recurring revenue, a team that runs without the owner, a wide base of customers and documented processes all raise value. Every one of these also makes the business easier to run today.
Quick and cheap, but they ignore the details that move the price up or down.
Required for some legal and lending purposes, and more formal and costly than planning needs.
A planning valuation with clear reasons and a list of what raises value, plus a credentialed partner when you need a formal appraisal.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Metro Detroit businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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