What is your business
actually worth?

It is an indicative range, not a valuation. The arithmetic is correct and the methods are the ones a professional would use, but the answer is only ever as good as the five numbers you typed. A real valuation starts by normalising the accounts — adding back the promoter's personal expenses, charging a market salary where none is taken, stripping out one-off income, and checking whether the receivables are actually collectable. None of that can be done by a web page.

Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Take the profit before tax in your profit and loss account, add back the interest you paid on loans, then add back depreciation. That is EBITDA. It is used instead of net profit because it strips out how the business is financed and how aggressively it depreciates its assets, which makes two businesses comparable.

Because they ask different questions. The cash flow method asks what the business will actually put in your pocket over time, so it punishes a company that must keep buying machinery and funding stock to grow. The multiple method asks what buyers have recently paid for similar businesses, which bakes in sentiment and scarcity. When they diverge sharply the usual culprit is capital expenditure or working capital: a business that eats cash to grow is worth less than its EBITDA suggests, however good the multiple looks.

Because a listed share can be sold on Monday morning at a published price and yours cannot. A buyer of an unlisted company also faces thinner disclosure, a business that often depends on one promoter, and no easy exit. Discounts for lack of marketability are standard practice and commonly sit between 20% and 30%, and a small company usually carries a further size discount on top, which is why the default here is 35%. The slider matters because the right number depends on your business: a company with a professional management team and audited accounts deserves a smaller haircut than one run entirely out of the founder's head.

The discount rate is the return a buyer wants for taking the risk. Indian government bonds alone yield around 6.5 to 7 percent, and an equity investor expects a good deal more than that. Add the extra return demanded for a company that is small, illiquid and dependent on one or two people and most unlisted Indian businesses land somewhere in the low-to-mid teens. It is the single most powerful input on this page, which is why there is a sensitivity grid under the result.

No. Statutory valuations have to be signed by someone holding a specific registration. A preferential allotment under section 62(1)(c) of the Companies Act needs a report from a Registered Valuer enrolled with the IBBI. Issuing or transferring shares to a non-resident has to meet FEMA pricing guidelines, with a valuation certificate from one of the professionals the rules authorise for it. Sections 56(2)(x) and 50CA of the Income Tax Act bring their own fair-value rules under Rule 11UA. Use this tool to get your bearings before any of those conversations, not instead of them.

Neither method here will work, because both start from operating profit. Loss-making businesses get valued on revenue multiples, on the value of their assets, or on what it would cost somebody to build the same thing from scratch. If you are pre-profit but growing fast, the revenue multiple route is usually the honest one, and the number will depend far more on your growth rate and retention than on anything in this calculator.

No. There is no sign-up, no email box and nothing is transmitted or stored. Every calculation happens in your own browser, and your assumptions live in the page address, which is why the share link reopens the exact model you built. If you want us to look at it, you have to send it to us deliberately.