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Key takeaways Feline-only is not an automatic premium or penalty. Buyers still begin with earnings quality, a dependable doctor team, client retention, and operations that can transfer without the owner. The niche changes buyer fit more than valuation math. Some buyers will pass, while others may value a clear identity, a focused clinical model, and…
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Are you considering selling your veterinary practice? Selling your veterinary practice is a multi-year financial event that requires meticulous preparation to maximize your valuation. The most successful outcomes are driven by normalizing your EBITDA, ensuring operational independence and running a structured competitive process to attract multiple buyers. To capture your practice’s full value, owners must…
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Key takeaways Retirement money starts below the sale price, so work from cash available after debt, transaction deductions, estimated taxes, and anything delayed, contingent, or illiquid. A retirement number is personal, because spending, other income, investment risk, inflation, longevity, and healthcare change the answer. Transferability supports value, because associates, leadership, systems, and client relationships that…
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Key takeaways Make the real job easy to inspect: show the schedule, introduce the support team, explain decision paths, and let another doctor describe how the practice actually runs. Compensation must be competitive and affordable: dated salary figures provide context, not a national floor or a prescribed offer for one companion-animal practice. Schedule integrity beats…
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I want to answer this one honestly, including the part where the answer is “not us.” For a lot of dental practices, a broker is the right call. For a smaller number, a structured competitive process is worth many times what it costs. The difference is not about quality of service. It is about what…
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