PE only interested in trades businesses worth $3M+

The advisor notes private equity buyers will not engage with trades businesses below roughly $3-3.5M in value, with interest scaling up for $5M, $10M, $15M deals; sub-$3M sellers are left to strategic buyers or owner-operators.

“it seems like a lot of private equities buying up and you gave us the number of what they'd be looking for above, so three, three and a half million.”

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