How much is a plastics company worth by size band?
Tooling ownership and medical or food-contact work support the higher end of the plastics cells. Tolling with customer-owned molds sits lower.
Seller-owned tools plus medical or food-contact access support the higher plastics cells. Tolling with customer-owned molds and a 40% customer sits in the SDE discount even if the presses are new. Split the trailing twelve months by tool ownership before you pick a cell.
| plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) band | Basis used | Cell | What breaks it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $1M SDE | SDE | 2.2x–3.8x | seller-owned tools plus medical access at the top cell |
| $1–3M EBITDA | Adjusted EBITDA | 4.5x–6.5x | customer-owned molds at the SDE discount |
| $3–10M EBITDA | Adjusted EBITDA | 5.5x–7.5x | illustrative $4.1M EBITDA on 13485 molding |
| $10M+ EBITDA | Adjusted EBITDA | 6.5x–9.0x | illustrative $520k SDE tolling with a 41 percent account |
When is plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) valuation an asset-floor conversation?
Illustrative only, IM, ebitda-3-10m: $4.1 million adjusted EBITDA, ISO 13485, top customer 19%, seller-owned tools on the core book. Range 6.5x–9.0x medical cell if the audits are clean; otherwise use the plastics cell 5.5x–7.5x. Illustrative EV $22.6–$36.9 million. Not a quote.
Illustrative only, toll molder, sde-under-1m: $520,000 SDE, customer-owned tools, 41% top customer. Use 2.2x–3.2x SDE and an earn-out discussion. Do not borrow the medical cell.
How should a broker opinion on a plastics company be used — and not used?
Seller-owned tools plus medical access at the top cell belongs in the plastics company opinion before anyone quotes a headline. Mixing bases to absorb that fact is how a teaching case becomes marketing. Steel custody is not a cell. Jason Taken will not sign an appraisal to paper over it. Put “seller-owned tools plus medical access at the top cell” on this plastics company valuation list.
Keep customer-owned molds at the SDE discount on the size band. A Main Street plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) shop does not get a larger-EV print because the teaser sounded institutional. Window control can sit in the CIM climate paragraph. It does not move the cell by itself. Put “customer-owned molds at the SDE discount” on this plastics company valuation list.
Skip illustrative $4.1M EBITDA on 13485 molding and the plastics company number is a brochure. The floor test still has to run. If orderly liquidation plus clean NWC beats earnings, say so. Resin truth does not get a vote. Put “illustrative $4.1M EBITDA on 13485 molding” on this plastics company valuation list.
A court that wants a certified appraisal needs an appraiser. This plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) page still insists on illustrative $520k SDE tolling with a 41 percent account plus a named band. Search-fund medians are a different animal (Source: Stanford GSB). Keep that print off the wrong plastics company. Put “illustrative $520k SDE tolling with a 41 percent account” on this plastics company valuation list.
Change T12 split by tool ownership before the cell is picked and the plastics company teaching case moves. That is the point of naming the process. Illustrative cases on this page are not offers. Steel custody describes the operating year, not the method. Put “T12 split by tool ownership before the cell is picked” on this plastics company valuation list.
Pick SDE or adjusted EBITDA by size, then apply worn-screw capex chipped out of the multiple. Slogans do not get a vote on plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform). Jason Taken will not sign an appraisal. The broker opinion still has to be honest about this item. Put “worn-screw capex chipped out of the multiple” on this plastics company valuation list.
Do not import a larger-EV print onto a Main Street plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) shop because crate-robot automation refused as a premium sounded institutional. Name the band. Name the process. Then talk. Put “crate-robot automation refused as a premium” on this plastics company valuation list.
If resin-whiplash P&Ls kept off Stanford medians points at an asset floor, the plastics company opinion should say so in the first table, not in a footnote. Cavity proof does not hide a liquidation story. Put “resin-whiplash P&Ls kept off Stanford medians” on this plastics company valuation list.
Broker opinion that will not appraise a 2014 press is a method input on plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform), not a marketing adjective. If you cannot source it, drop the cell and talk iron plus net working capital. Put “broker opinion that will not appraise a 2014 press” on this plastics company valuation list.
Control generation, certificate status, and asset-floor math on iron-heavy tollers should sit in the same paragraph of a plastics company opinion. Splitting them is how a 5x story gets invented. Put “asset-floor math on iron-heavy tollers” on this plastics company valuation list.
Broker opinions on this site refuse to invent a plastics company print. Size band still sitting under every plastics headline is one of the reasons. If you need a court-ready number, hire an appraiser. Put “size band still sitting under every plastics headline” on this plastics company valuation list.
Where this plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) cell sends you next depends on formula-free, process-window value. If the item holds, read the hub and the buy page. If it fails, stay on the floor test. Put “formula-free, process-window value” on this plastics company valuation list.
The plastics company cell moves when illustrative $520k SDE tolling with a 41 percent account moves. Say that in the first paragraph of the opinion. Window control can sit in a footnote. It should not sit in the multiple. Put “illustrative $520k SDE tolling with a 41 percent account” on this plastics company valuation list.
An illustrative plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) case that ignores T12 split by tool ownership before the cell is picked is decoration. The tables on this page assume the item is named. Resin truth is not an input to the cell. Put “T12 split by tool ownership before the cell is picked” on this plastics company valuation list.
Haircut language belongs next to worn-screw capex chipped out of the multiple, not in a general “risks” paragraph. On plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform), a buried haircut is a lie. Cavity proof is not the haircut. Put “worn-screw capex chipped out of the multiple” on this plastics company valuation list.
If crate-robot automation refused as a premium is the reason a plastics company should sit at the discount end of the band, say “discount end.” Do not average it with a certified lot. Steel custody is not an average. Put “crate-robot automation refused as a premium” on this plastics company valuation list.
SDE versus EBITDA is a size-band choice. Resin-whiplash P&Ls kept off Stanford medians is a process test. Do not use one to dodge the other on plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform). Window control is neither. Put “resin-whiplash P&Ls kept off Stanford medians” on this plastics company valuation list.
GF Data-style larger-EV prints stay off a Main Street plastics company unless the earnings base matches. Broker opinion that will not appraise a 2014 press will not drag a small file into that series. Resin truth will not either. Put “broker opinion that will not appraise a 2014 press” on this plastics company valuation list.
Teaching cases on this plastics company page change when asset-floor math on iron-heavy tollers changes. That is intentional. It is not an offer. Cavity proof is not a case. Put “asset-floor math on iron-heavy tollers” on this plastics company valuation list.
Use this plastics company opinion to negotiate and to write a teaser. Do not staple it to a lender form and call size band still sitting under every plastics headline appraised. Steel custody is not an appraisal standard. Put “size band still sitting under every plastics headline” on this plastics company valuation list.
A lapsed certificate and formula-free, process-window value can both knock a plastics company out of a premium cell. Name which one you are talking about. Window control is not a certificate. Put “formula-free, process-window value” on this plastics company valuation list.
Split the trailing twelve months when seller-owned tools plus medical access at the top cell lives in only part of the plastics company book. A blended multiple is a slogan. Resin truth is not a split. Put “seller-owned tools plus medical access at the top cell” on this plastics company valuation list.
Asset-floor math on a plastics company is addition, not a vibe. Iron plus clean NWC versus earnings. Customer-owned molds at the SDE discount often decides which story wins. Cavity proof does not add. Put “customer-owned molds at the SDE discount” on this plastics company valuation list.
When this plastics company cell is honest, illustrative $4.1M EBITDA on 13485 molding is already in the sentence. If you have to hide it to keep a headline, the headline is wrong. Steel custody is not a headline. Put “illustrative $4.1M EBITDA on 13485 molding” on this plastics company valuation list.
Where does this plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) cell send you next?
Use the plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) hub to keep the process named. Sell and buy carry the transaction versions. Parent method: manufacturing business valuation. Buyer comparison: how each buyer type prices a manufacturer.
This plastics (IM / extrusion / thermoform) valuation page will not sign an appraisal or import a neighbor cell. Counsel, a CPA, and credentialed environmental or M&E professionals own the licensed questions.