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Calculating a company's PE value

Personal Finance & Money Asked by user106282 on February 7, 2021

My friend has a startup comapny. The company licenses a software for public participation (example: a municipality wants to conduct a survey/discussion between it’s citizens regarding changes they want to make, so they create a survey in the software and the public votes).

His company currently works with a big municipality and 2 other smaller organization totalling to about 70K$ a year (45K$ NET).

He says that he chose a PE of 15 (instead of the usual 30 according to him) and he says he will probably add more organizations this year to get to 140K$.

So he wants me to invest in his company right now for an evaluation of 2.1M$ (140 * 15). So I’ll be putting in 10K$ to get 0.02 percent.

I wasn’t sure about it so I figured I’ll ask. I know it’s a broad question but I’d like to know if the evaluation could be OK or if it’s an extremely good/bad evaluation.

More information: the company was opened 2 months ago but they worked on the software for 6 months, they paid 50K$ for the software, my friend is around my age (27) but he has a partner in the company which is older and has connections in the goverment sector (including municupalities).

2 Answers

It's an utterly wild guess.

Valuations are total bullshit.

Regarding the specific "offer" you "friend" is making,

I pay 10K$ to get 0.02 [possibly 0.5%] percent

Laugh and walk away.

Answered by Fattie on February 7, 2021

The company is so tiny, it's hard to say it is worth anything yet. What if either of the partners quits the company, e.g. if it stops growing and they lose interest?

That said, you could look at valuations on BizBuySell.com and on this Inc.com chart. This chart is very detailed; even if it is ten years old, you should learn something.

Answered by Orange Coast on February 7, 2021

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