What’s your pool service & repair business worth? Value it in 90 seconds.
Pool Service & Repair 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 pool service & repair specifically, the base multiple ranges are 2.75x–4x SDE and 4.5x–6.5x EBITDA. Where inside that range your business trades is decided by a handful of specific, buyer-visible factors.
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Route-based pool service businesses in the Sun Belt (particularly Florida, Arizona, Texas, and California) see aggressive PE-platform buyer competition. Route density and recurring-service revenue percentage are the two primary value drivers.
What’s your pool service & repair business worth?
Enter the numbers that actually drive pool service & repair valuations. We benchmark each against real Main Street peers and show you where you land.
What moves the multiple
The metrics buyers actually diligence in pool service & repair.
Category baseline is 2.75x–4x SDE (below ~$1M SDE) transitioning to 4.5x–6.5x EBITDA above. Where inside that range a specific pool service & repair business trades is decided by these operating metrics — the same ones a professional QoE surfaces on day one of diligence.
Recurring service revenue percentage
Percent of revenue from weekly/bi-weekly pool maintenance. Best-in-class is 60%+.
Route density
Pools per tech per route. Density is what PE platforms pay premium multiples to acquire.
Retail vs service mix
Retail pool sales are lumpier and lower-margin than recurring service.
Deal structure norms
How pool service & repair deals actually close.
Pool service deals typically close as clean equity purchases or SBA-financed asset sales depending on size. Seasonal working-capital patterns require careful net-working-capital target setting. Route-density metrics are increasingly formalized in diligence.
Recurring-revenue anchor for pool service & repair: 50% 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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How is my pool service business valued?
Pool service businesses trade at SDE multiples of 2.75–4.0x for owner-operator books below $1M SDE. Above $1M EBITDA, expect 4.5–6.5x — the top end reserved for route-dense operators with 60%+ recurring-service revenue in Sun Belt markets.How does seasonality affect a pool service business sale?
Less than you'd think in Sun Belt markets where year-round service is standard. In seasonal Northern markets, sellers should plan the go-to-market timing so trailing-12-month financials capture a full season cycle.How accurate is this pool service & repair valuation estimate?
It's an initial diagnostic, not a formal appraisal. The engine uses baseline 2.75x–4x SDE / 4.5x–6.5x 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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