EBITDA Multiples by Industry in 2025: A UK SME Acquisition Valuation Guide
A comprehensive 2025 guide to EBITDA multiples for UK SME acquisitions, covering BDO PCPI benchmarks, sector-by-sector ranges from SaaS to manufacturing to care homes, what drives multiples within the same sector (size, customer concentration, recurring revenue, management depth, quality of earnings), and how to avoid the most common UK owner-manager mistakes when benchmarking offers.
# EBITDA Multiples by Industry in 2025: A UK SME Acquisition Valuation Guide When a UK business changes hands, the question is always the same: what is it worth? For SMEs (the engine room of the UK economy, north of 5.5 million firms employing around 16 million people), the answer almost always arrives as an EBITDA multiple. Understanding how those multiples work, where they sit by sector in 2025, and what shifts them up or down is the difference between getting a fair price and leaving money on the table. This guide unpacks the current state of multiples for British lower mid-market deals bet…