What’s your garage doors business worth? Value it in 90 seconds.
Garage Doors businesses are typically priced on one of two earnings figures depending on size: Seller's Discretionary Earnings (SDE) below roughly $1M, and EBITDA above. Applied to garage doors specifically, the base multiple ranges are 2.75x–4x SDE and 5x–7x EBITDA. Where inside that range your business trades is decided by a handful of specific, buyer-visible factors.
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Garage-door installation and repair businesses have seen a wave of PE-platform buyer interest starting around 2020, driven by fragmentation and the category's mix of emergency-service and repeat-customer revenue. Sun Belt and Southeast markets have the most active buyer competition.
What’s your garage doors business worth?
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What moves the multiple
The metrics buyers actually diligence in garage doors.
Category baseline is 2.75x–4x SDE (below ~$1M SDE) transitioning to 5x–7x EBITDA above. Where inside that range a specific garage doors business trades is decided by these operating metrics — the same ones a professional QoE surfaces on day one of diligence.
Emergency-service revenue mix
Emergency and same-day service work carries the highest margins in the category.
Installation vs repair mix
Repair-heavy books have higher gross margins; installation-heavy books have higher revenue per job.
Deal structure norms
How garage doors deals actually close.
Deal structures follow the broader home-services pattern — SBA-financed asset purchases below $1M SDE, multi-bidder equity processes above. As an emerging rollup category, buyer competition is increasing quarterly.
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Garage-door operators trade at SDE multiples of 2.75–4.0x for owner-operator books below $1M SDE. Above $1M EBITDA, expect 5.0–7.0x — the top end for emergency-service-heavy operators in strong Sun Belt markets.Why has garage door become a rollup category recently?
Fragmentation (thousands of small operators, few large ones), recurring-adjacent revenue patterns (many customers use the same provider for repeat repair and installation), and comparably clean unit economics have all attracted PE-platform interest starting around 2020.How accurate is this garage doors valuation estimate?
It's an initial diagnostic, not a formal appraisal. The engine uses baseline 2.75x–4x SDE / 5x–7x EBITDA multiples from published Main Street M&A data, then layers per-KPI adjustments using P25–P90 industry benchmarks. What it can't see is qualitative signal — customer-relationship durability, management-team quality, regulatory risk in your niche. Use it to see where your business lands against peers, then let a specialist broker validate against your actual books before you go to market.
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