Practice area
Electrical contractors
The platforms consolidating home services want all three trades under one roof, and electrical is the segment most of them still require. Texas licenses electrical contracting at the business level and publishes the complete file daily; we have measured it.
What a buyer is paying for
Not revenue. In this trade specifically, price is driven by the share of work that recurs without being sold again.
Service and maintenance revenue
Repeat service work, testing and maintenance contracts are priced as the recurring revenue they are. Project-only books trade at working-capital-intensive, cycle-exposed multiples; the mix determines which business is being sold.
The master license question
If the only master electrician is the owner, the license leaves at closing. A master on staff who remains is the difference between selling a business and selling a job.
Multi-trade appeal
The most active buyers are assembling HVAC, plumbing and electrical under one brand. An electrical contractor in a metro where a platform already owns the other two trades is worth more to that buyer than to any other.
The market, measured
Electrical contracting licenses attach to the business rather than to an individual, which makes this a trade of genuine operating companies rather than single-person licenses. That is part of why buyers treat it as an acquirable market.
Measured August 2026
Figures drift as the market changes. We re-measure quarterly rather than quoting a figure once and repeating it.
Who this practice serves
- An independent contractor, residential service or commercial, with steady repeat and service work.
- Owners receiving their first approaches from multi-trade platforms who want a valuation before responding.
- Contractors with licensed masters on staff beyond the owner: the transferable kind of business.
If you have already received an approach, bring the offer to us before signing anything. A letter of intent usually carries an exclusivity clause, and once it is executed the seller’s leverage is largely gone.