Industry multiples, as of October 2026
What is a company in your industry worth?
Buyers usually pay a multiple of annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, or EBITDA for short. Choose your industry and enter your EBITDA. You will then see what this means for your company.
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Mechanical Engineering / Plant Engineering
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In this industry, buyers typically pay 3.5 to 7.0 times annual EBITDA.
Example: for EBITDA of €400,000, enter 0.4. Your input stays in your browser.
€3.5 to €7.0 million
Value of your company at €1.0 million EBITDA
Bank debt and similar obligations are deducted from this, and cash balances are added. The result is roughly the price you receive.
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- Peer group: 15 listed companies in this industry (list below).
- Stock market median before discount: 7.1 times EBITDA, 0.76 times revenue.
- Discount for private mid-sized companies: 26.1%.
- For comparison, revenue multiple after discount: 0.32 to 1.31.
| Company | EV/EBITDA | EV/Revenue |
|---|---|---|
| KION GROUP AG | 4.4 | 0.76 |
| DUERR AG | 2.2 | 0.25 |
| GEA Group AG | 13.2 | 2.02 |
| JUNGHEINRICH AG | 2.6 | 0.39 |
| DMG MORI AG | 17.8 | 1.78 |
| Wacker Neuson SE | 6.7 | 0.75 |
| Aumann AG | 1.6 | 0.23 |
| Koenig & Bauer AG | 5.4 | 0.32 |
| HEIDELBERGER DRUCKMASCHINEN AG | 7.5 | 0.47 |
| KRONES AG | 5.4 | 0.54 |
| INTERROLL | 9.7 | 1.76 |
| GEORG FISCHER | 10.1 | 2.09 |
| WashTec AG | 7.9 | 1.02 |
| Konecranes Plc | 11.7 | 1.84 |
| Valmet Corporation | 8.7 | 1.14 |
Our own calculation based on listed comparable companies, after a discount for private mid-sized companies. As of 12 October 2026.
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For specialists: methodology, discount and documents
For each industry we include 6 to 15 listed comparable companies (peers) that represent the industry segment in a European and international context.
For each company we relate the enterprise value (market capitalisation plus net financial debt) to EBITDA and revenue over the last twelve months (LTM). The range is the middle half of the peer group, that is, the 25th to 75th percentile (interquartile range).
Listed companies are usually valued higher than private mid-sized companies (liquidity, size, diversification). We therefore apply a discount of 26.1% to the stock market values, based on Dodel (2008).
Source: our own calculation based on public financial data of listed comparable companies (Yahoo Finance). As of 12 October 2026.
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