What’s your pest control business worth? Value it in 90 seconds.
Pest Control 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 pest control specifically, the base multiple ranges are 3.5x–5x SDE and 6x–9x EBITDA. Where inside that range your business trades is decided by a handful of specific, buyer-visible factors.
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Pest control businesses regularly trade at the top of home-services multiples — 6.0–9.0x EBITDA for anything above $1M EBITDA with recurring revenue over 70%. Rollins/Orkin, Rentokil, and Anticimex remain the most active national acquirers, and a growing set of regional PE-backed platforms compete for the same deals.
What’s your pest control business worth?
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What moves the multiple
The metrics buyers actually diligence in pest control.
Category baseline is 3.5x–5x SDE (below ~$1M SDE) transitioning to 6x–9x EBITDA above. Where inside that range a specific pest control business trades is decided by these operating metrics — the same ones a professional QoE surfaces on day one of diligence.
Recurring service percentage
Percent of revenue from recurring quarterly/bi-monthly service. Anything above 70% is a strong multiple driver.
Route density
Stops per truck per day and geographic clustering of accounts. Density is what national buyers pay a premium to acquire.
Customer retention rate
Annual customer retention is the leading indicator of forward revenue. Best-in-class residential is 85%+.
Average revenue per customer per year
Blended residential + commercial. Rising RPCPY is a signal of pricing power and service-mix improvement.
Deal structure norms
How pest control deals actually close.
Pest control has among the cleanest deal structures in home services — often 100% cash purchases with a short earnout or hold-back. Sub-$1M SDE deals are typically SBA-financed asset purchases; anything above roughly $1M EBITDA sees multi-bidder processes and clean equity purchases.
Recurring-revenue anchor for pest control: 70% of revenue is the threshold that meaningfully lifts multiples. Businesses below that trade nearer the baseline low; above it, buyers underwrite at the top of the range.
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Why do pest control businesses sell for higher multiples than other home services?
Recurring revenue. A well-run pest control business often has 70–85% of revenue on a quarterly or bi-monthly service contract, which reads to buyers as subscription-like. That predictability supports EBITDA multiples of 6–9x, materially higher than the 4–6x common in HVAC or plumbing.How is customer retention measured in a pest control sale?
Buyers typically look at trailing-12-month retention of active customer accounts, filtered for one-time versus recurring accounts. Residential retention above 85% and commercial retention above 92% are standard best-in-class benchmarks.What ruins a pest control deal in diligence?
Three things: (1) undocumented add-backs (personal expenses, owner comp) that shrink the trailing EBITDA, (2) customer concentration where one commercial account is 15%+ of revenue, and (3) route inefficiency — buyers back into a fully-loaded cost per stop and will reprice if the numbers don't work.How accurate is this pest control valuation estimate?
It's an initial diagnostic, not a formal appraisal. The engine uses baseline 3.5x–5x SDE / 6x–9x 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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