Q2 2009 Business Valuation Data
Business Valuations for Fall River, MA
Here's the latest BizBuySell.com Fall River, Massachusetts business valuation statistics for Second Quarter 2009.
Q2 2009 Business Valuations in Fall River, MA
Based on statistics prepared by BizBuySell.com, Fall River listings for businesses for sale in Q2 2009 had a median asking price of $160,000.
The median ask price for selling businesses was $185,000 in Q2 2008.
Q2 2009 Revenue Multiples In Fall River, MA
In the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA metro area, businesses will on average sell for 0.70 times the selling company's revenues. This was the mean revenue multiple for Q2 2009 in this area of the country.
According to the latest BizBuySell.com data, the median revenue for its listed businesses was $343,518 in Q2 2009.
As a reference point, the Q2 2008 revenue multiple was 0.76 and the median revenue for selling businesses was $350,000.
Q2 2009 Cash Flow Multiples In Fall River, MA
Cash flow multiples are a common way to value a business.
For Q2 2009, the average cash flow multiple for listed businesses in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA metro area was 3.14.
BizBuySell.com reports that the median cash flow for Fall River area businesses was $77,269 in Q2 2009. In Q2 2008, cash flow multiples clocked in at 3.15 and the median cash flow was $79,974.
Number of Fall River Businesses for Sale in the Dataset
The study data comprised 206 listings in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA metro area. As such, some of the businesses used to derive the median valuation might be outside of Fall River, but they are in the area and so are probably representative of Fall River business valuations.
Considerations When Valuing a Business in Fall River, MA
Using the price-to-equity ratios (P/E) of public companies usually is not a good way to value a small company. That's because owning stock in public companies is much less risky than owning a small business. As such, a buyer of a small business will pay much less when buying a small company than the valuation calculation that is based on a public company P/E ratio. This helpful advice on how to value a business comes from Domenic Rinaldi, managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, a leading business brokerage firm.
Business Valuations for Fall River, MA Businesses
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More Information on BizBuySell.com's Quarterly Reports
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Historical Data for Fall River, MA Business Valuations
With respect to local trends in business-for-sale asking prices, here are the median asking prices for businesses in the Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA metro area for the last 10 quarters.
The chart below shows how median revenue multiples are trending in the Fall River area, based on BizBuySell.com's economic data.
Here is how cash flow multiples are trending in the Fall River area, based on BizBuySell.com's quarterly reports.
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