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When valuing a business selection of the correct multiplier is critical to achieving an accurate well founded and justifiable valuation. Some of the more commonly used acronyms for valuation multipliers include; Sellers Discretionary Earnings (SDE); Net Sales; Gross Profit Margins; EBIT; and EBITDA; All multipliers are useful in different situations although it is beyond the scope of this article to detail there best uses. Often when selecting a multiple it is useful to evalu