BUYER POOL ANALYSIS
Selling a Aerospace to Individual / Owner-Operator buyers
Owner-operators, SBA-financed independent buyers, and smaller management buyouts. Pricing reflects what an individual can finance (typically 10-25% down + SBA 7(a)) and operate hands-on. Below typical PE engagement size.
Quick answers
- What multiple does this buyer pool pay?
- Median EV/EBITDA 13.91x across 8 disclosed deals (P25: 13.19x, P75: 21.33x). Median EV/Revenue 3.27x across 17 deals. Median deal value: $506M.
- How many disclosed transactions?
- 17 deals total (17 from 2018+), filtered to Individual / Owner-Operator acquirers of aerospace businesses.
- Most active buyers
- Firefly Aerospace Inc. (1) · Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. (1) · Firan Technology Group Corporation (1) · Diploma PLC (1) · Advent International, L.P. (1) · V2X, Inc. (1)
Recent disclosed deals
Individual / Owner-Operator acquisitions of aerospace businesses with named target, named acquirer, and disclosed financials.
| Year | Target | Acquirer | EV | EV/EBITDA | EV/Rev |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SciTec, Inc. | Firefly Aerospace Inc. | $571.7M | — | 3.68x |
| 2025 | VACCO Industries, Inc. | Roller Bearing Company of America, Inc. | $275.0M | — | 2.33x |
| 2024 | FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. | Firan Technology Group Corporation | $16.6M | — | 1.32x |
| 2024 | Peerless Aerospace Fastener Corp. | Diploma PLC | $299.6M | — | 5.46x |
| 2022 | Maxar Technologies Inc. | Advent International, L.P. | $6554.0M | 14.2x | 3.74x |
| 2022 | Vertex Aerospace Services Holding Corp. | V2X, Inc. | $1738.5M | 28.7x | 2.42x |
What this buyer pool prices for
Individual buyers — owner-operators, SBA-financed independents, smaller management buyouts — price for what they can finance (typically 10-25% down with SBA 7(a) loans up to $5M deal value) and operate hands-on. Multiples are below PE / strategic because the buyer is taking the owner-operator role, not stepping in as institutional capital. Owner-dependency and seasonality matter more here than to a PE buyer.
Methodology note
Multiples shown are computed from disclosed M&A transactions in the ExitValue.ai database, filtered to aerospace businesses acquired by individual / owner-operator buyers. EV/EBITDA outliers outside the [0.5x, 60x] band and EV/Revenue outliers outside [0.05x, 25x] are excluded from medians. Where available, post-2018 transactions are weighted; otherwise the all-time sample is used. Deal counts shown reflect deals with disclosed financials only — total transaction count for this buyer pool is typically 2-3x larger. Full methodology
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