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What Electrical Contractors Actually Sold For
152 completed sales of electrical contracting businesses, 2017 to 2025, broken down by revenue size. Free, unlocked right on this page.
Recent sales have moved
Of the three trades we cover first, electrical contractors show the biggest shift in recent sales.
Our report puts sales from 2023 onward side by side with the long-run figures for this trade.
Revenue and profit, side by side
Our report shows both the price to revenue and the price to SDE multiples across 152 completed sales.
You can see how each one moved with the size of the business.
Size changes the math
Our report breaks sale prices and multiples into five revenue bands, from under $500,000 to $5 million and up.
You can see where businesses your size actually landed.
What is inside the free report
- The middle range (25th percentile, median, 75th percentile) of sale prices and multiples across all 152 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 Electrical Contractors Actually Sold For
Based on 152 completed sales of electrical contracting businesses, 2017 to 2025, from our comparable sales database.
The middle range
| Metric | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price to SDE (earnings multiple) | 1.75x | 2.39x | 3.45x |
| Price to revenue | 0.33x | 0.50x | 0.71x |
| Sale price | $300,000 | $671,000 | $1,613,750 |
| Annual revenue | $786,000 | $1,417,000 | $2,318,000 |
| SDE (seller's discretionary earnings) | $166,750 | $279,000 | $540,250 |
| Sale price as a percent of asking price | 84% | 97% | 100% |
The median electrical contracting business in our data sold for $671,000, at 2.39x its SDE.
Half of these sales closed between 84% 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 | 22 | 1.81x | $141,500 |
| $500,000 to $1M | 30 | 1.70x | $365,500 |
| $1M to $2M | 52 | 2.48x | $727,500 |
| $2M to $5M | 29 | 3.47x | $2,000,000 |
| $5M and up | 18 | 3.01x | $4,075,000 |
What has happened more recently
Among sales from 2023 onward (104 sales with SDE reported), the price to SDE multiple ran 1.83x at the 25th percentile, 2.77x at the median and 3.64x at the 75th percentile.
The long-run median for this trade is 2.39x.
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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.