Sell your electrical business.
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Selling an electrical business comes down to cash flow a buyer can underwrite, the people who already do the work, and a file they can diligence. For the overview of selling a business, use the seller page. Start with a valuation and the notes on how the sale is financed. The complete electrical business guide covers buyers, diligence, and the handoff.
What buyers typically underwrite
Licensing and Bonding
Electrical contractors require specific licenses and bonds. We guide transitions to ensure buyer maintains compliance.
Project Mix Variability
Income can fluctuate between large projects and maintenance work. We help normalize earnings for valuation.
Technician Expertise
Your licensed electricians are your most valuable asset. Retention is critical to business continuity.
Changing Regulations
Electrical codes evolve constantly. We identify buyers positioned for compliance and growth.
Service electrical and bid work do not share a multiple
A residential or light-commercial service shop is an SDE sale. After a real wage for the person who still sells panel upgrades, owner-operated companies often trade around 2x–3.5x SDE. A journeyman bench and written maintenance agreements often move the file toward 2.5x–4.5x SDE. New-construction and municipal bid work are backlog, not a route, and they do not borrow the service multiple. A managed contractor priced near $10 million is more often read on adjusted EBITDA, commonly about 3x–6x. Directional only. Not a quote. Not legal, tax, or lending advice.
The buyer is usually a licensee, not a fund
Licensed electricians buying a first book, and mechanical or HVAC groups adding electrical, are the buyers who actually close Main Street files. A two-person service van is that sale. A bonded commercial shop with a general manager and a price near $10 million is where a strategic buyer sometimes appears. Do not shop the van as if it were that company.
SBA 7(a) fits service and maintenance shops more readily than bid-only books. The SBA 7(a) cap is $5 million. The qualifying electrician has to be replaceable on a calendar the state accepts. This is not lending advice.
Florida electrical work as one market, not the listing
Florida's example is wind, flood, and a solar or standby-power ticket that has to be separated from the weekly service board. A hurricane month is not twelve months of panel changes. The state license does not qualify the company in another state. Bridge Point runs the file nationally: service agreements versus backlog, a journeyman who can pull the next permit, and tax returns that match the job system.
How electrical-company purchases get financed
SBA 7(a) is common on service and maintenance shops with written commercial agreements or a residential service board a licensed journeyman can run. New-construction and bid-only books underwrite as backlog, not as a route. The master or qualifying electrician has to be replaceable on a calendar the state will accept. Truck, lift, and meter-stock notes belong in the use of proceeds.
Unused deposits on unfinished rough-ins are liabilities. Owner-as-closer risk shows up if you still sell every panel upgrade. Seller notes and standby notes fill SBA equity and any warranty or punch reserve. We will not blend a service route with a municipal bid shop and call it one credit.
Who typically buys an electrical company
Licensed electricians buying a first book, mechanical and HVAC groups adding electrical, and commercial service contractors rolling a related route. A buyer who needs you to keep pulling the permit on every job is buying a ticket, not a company.
Complete industry guide
Service vs construction mix, licenses, and electrical contractor valuation.
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