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What Auto Repair Shops Actually Sold For
225 completed sales of auto repair shops, 2017 to 2025, broken down by revenue size. Free, unlocked right on this page.
The multiple that actually gets paid
Price to SDE compares the sale price to the owner's real earnings (seller's discretionary earnings).
Our report lays out the middle range of that multiple across 225 completed sales, next to the revenue multiple from the same sales.
Why size moves the price
A shop doing under $500,000 a year prices very differently from one doing $1 million to $2 million.
Our report breaks the data into revenue bands, so you can see where shops your size actually landed.
Sale price, not asking price
Asking price and sale price are two different figures.
Our report shows how far the final sale price landed from the asking price across these sales.
What is inside the free report
- The middle range (25th percentile, median, 75th percentile) of sale prices and multiples across all 225 sales
- A size-by-size breakdown by annual revenue
- How sales from 2023 onward compare to the long-run figures
- Sale price as a percent of asking price
This is educational information built from completed sales. It is not a formal appraisal.
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What Auto Repair Shops Actually Sold For
Based on 225 completed sales of auto repair shops, 2017 to 2025, from our comparable sales database.
The middle range
| Metric | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price to SDE (earnings multiple) | 1.43x | 1.94x | 2.57x |
| Price to revenue | 0.27x | 0.41x | 0.54x |
| Sale price | $158,000 | $258,000 | $515,000 |
| Annual revenue | $455,750 | $694,000 | $1,136,750 |
| SDE (seller's discretionary earnings) | $96,000 | $141,000 | $219,000 |
| Sale price as a percent of asking price | 77% | 92% | 100% |
The median auto repair shop in our data sold for $258,000, at 1.94x its SDE.
Half of these sales closed between 77% and 100% of the asking price.
What size does to the multiple
| Annual revenue | Sales in our data | Median price to SDE | Median sale price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $500,000 | 68 | 1.77x | $125,000 |
| $500,000 to $1M | 80 | 1.93x | $258,000 |
| $1M to $2M | 67 | 2.18x | $539,000 |
| $2M to $5M | Not enough sales to report | ||
| $5M and up | Not enough sales to report | ||
What has happened more recently
Among sales from 2023 onward (68 sales with SDE reported), the price to SDE multiple ran 1.50x at the 25th percentile, 2.02x at the median and 2.68x at the 75th percentile.
The long-run median for this trade is 1.94x.
What this means for your business
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Source: Based on 11,017 small-business sales from 2017 to 2026, drawn from real small-business sale data plus published industry benchmarks.
These are median figures across a wide range of businesses, not a prediction for any single business.
This is educational information, not a formal appraisal, a guaranteed sale price, or legal, tax or investment advice.