{
  "title": "Buying or Selling an Electrical Contracting Business: Prices, Buyers",
  "url": "https://acquisitions.com/blog/buying-or-selling-an-electrical-business/",
  "author": "Moran Pober",
  "publisher": "Acquisitions.com",
  "published": "2026-10-26",
  "updated": "2026-10-26",
  "section": "Sector guide",
  "keyword": "buying or selling an electrical contracting business",
  "short_answer": "Buyers pay most for steady profit that does not depend on the owner, such as service work, a licensed team that stays, and clean job costing. Individual SBA buyers, private equity platforms and public contractors are all buying. To sell well, clean up three years of books, plan the licence handover and give yourself about a year.",
  "facts": {
    "Revenue": [
      "Service and maintenance contracts",
      "One-off new construction bids"
    ],
    "Owner role": [
      "A manager and licensed leads run jobs",
      "Owner bids, schedules and holds the licence"
    ],
    "Customers": [
      "None over 15 to 20% of revenue",
      "One builder is a third of sales"
    ],
    "Books": [
      "Job costing and work-in-progress reports",
      "Cash-basis books, no job margins"
    ],
    "Backlog": [
      "Signed, profitable work for 6 to 12 months",
      "Thin backlog or jobs bid at a loss"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-market-pulse-survey-q2-2026-reports-the-latest-trends-in-business-sales-up-to-50m-302858664.html",
    "https://www.ir.dycomind.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dycom-industries-acquire-power-solutions-premier-data-center",
    "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/platform-ventures-acquires-staco-electric-173300175.html",
    "https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/7a-loans"
  ],
  "license": "Facts may be quoted with attribution to Acquisitions.com and a link to the url above."
}