Q2 2009 Business Valuation Data
Business Valuations for Oakland, CA
BizBuySell.com has published its latest business valuation data, including Oakland, California business valuation statistics for Second Quarter 2009.
Q2 2009 Business Valuations in Oakland, CA
Based on statistics prepared by BizBuySell.com, Oakland listings for businesses for sale in Q2 2009 had a median asking price of $245,000.
The median ask price for selling businesses was $279,000 in Q2 2008.
Oakland, CA Q2 2009 Revenue Multiples
In the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, businesses will on average sell for 0.70 times the selling company's revenues. That was the mean revenue multiple for Q2 2009 in this metro area.
According to the latest BizBuySell.com data, the median revenue for its listed businesses was $442,805 in Q2 2009.
As a reference point, the Q2 2008 revenue multiple was 0.77 and the median revenue for selling businesses was $480,212.
Q2 2009 Cash Flow Multiples In Oakland, CA
Cash flow multiples are a useful metric that is used to value a business.
For Q2 2009, the average cash flow multiple for businesses listed in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area was 3.05.
BizBuySell.com reports that the median cash flow for Oakland area businesses was $97,434 in Q2 2009. In Q2 2008, cash flow multiples clocked in at 3.35 and the median cash flow was $102,000.
Number of Oakland Businesses for Sale in the Dataset
The study data comprised 289 listings in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area. As such, some of the businesses used to derive the median valuation might be outside of Oakland, but they are in the area and so are probably representative of Oakland business valuations.
Considerations When Valuing a Business in Oakland, CA
In order to properly assess the value of a business, you have to have access to data regarding recent business sales and merger activity. If you have access to such a database of company valuations, it's a relatively fast, cheap exercise to calculate a company's value by using sales prices for comparable businesses. This tip for valuing a business was provided by Domenic Rinaldi, managing partner of Sun Acquisitions, a leading business brokerage firm.
Business Valuations for Oakland, CA Businesses
If you are contemplating buying a business or selling a business and would like to look at comparables in the area, we suggest you try the BizBuySell.com Business Valuation Tool. You can modify the dataset that creates business valuation estimates to meet your specific criteria. As a bonus, access to the tool is very affordable -- less than $100.
More Information on BizBuySell.com's Quarterly Reports
The BizBuySell Insight Report is a nationally-recognized economic report that tracks trends in the business-for-sale marketplace. If you find these trends interesting, take a moment to visit BizBuySell.com Insights Report for more information.
Historical Data for Oakland, CA Business Valuations
With respect to local trends in business-for-sale asking prices, here are the median asking prices for businesses for sale in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area for the last 10 quarters.
The chart below shows how median revenue multiples are trending in the Oakland area, based on BizBuySell.com's quarterly reports.
The table below provides data on how cash flow multiples are trending in the Oakland area, based on BizBuySell.com's quarterly reports.
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