02 — Inputs
03 — Valuation
$1.87m
Suggested asking price for your engineering business in Canterbury
2.5x owner earnings · range $1.62m – $2.30m · typical error ±18%
Priced on owner earnings of $750k: your EBITDA plus the owner’s wage · Compared with engineering businesses (63% of matches) and other manufacturing businesses · includes stock and plant and equipment
Likely sale price~$1.67m
Where your closest matches are priced
Bigger dot = bigger earningsDarker = closer match
How your midpoint was reached
from the whole industry to your closest matches
Two views of your price
middle half of each
Asking price vs earnings
shaded = your market band · lines = your three positions
Similar-sized businesses now
New Zealand
92%
of similar businesses ask less than your midpoint
inside your rangeoutside
How solid is this range
Same type (Engineering)
the rest are the same industry
63%
Typical error
how far a range like this typically lands
±18%
The engineering market
Asking prices over owner earnings unless stated · New Zealand · too few engineering businesses for some charts, so they show all manufacturing businesses
Asking multiples by year
All manufacturingmiddle 50%like-for-like
Multiple by earnings size
Engineering only
Multiple of revenue by revenue size
middle 50%All manufacturing
Asking multiples by who the customers are
bigger dot = bigger earningsmiddleEngineering only · % of businesses
By region
Engineering only
Region
Median
Share now
2.2x
26%
thin
13%
2.3x
42%
An indication only, from the asking prices of comparable businesses; the likely sale price applies what buyers paid of asking in recent sales. Not a formal valuation or financial advice. See the Disclaimer.