Learn how to optimize your veterinary practice sale

We reference a simplified (and dated) framework for veterinary practice valuation to show why corporates are able to pay more for most veterinary practices

The case for why a 3rd party financial advisor is a critical member of your veterinary practice sale transaction team

Veterinary practice owners have many business concerns. Their foremost worry is typically making sure their clinics are delivering compassionate, medically excellent care to their patients and convenience and value to their owners.

In order to protect, grow and eventually realize this value, animal hospital owners must know how potential acquirers will determine what their hospital is worth.

Practice owners who have made the decision to sell need to understand the do’s and don’ts of the sale process.

How Do I Sell a Single Veterinarian Practice? The solo vet and veterinary industry consolidation

Do I sell or do I stay independent? Your decision should be based on sound cost benefit analysis plus your best expectations for the future. We show you how to think about how you can maximize your career earnings in veterinary medicine.

A summary of VetValue.pet's review of veterinary practice consolidators. Learn what we found!

A framework for how sophisticated buyers of veterinary practices select a valuation multiple. You will be surprised how much of a role experience must play.

How sophisticated buyers of veterinary practices calculate EBITDA. Learn why it's not simple algebra.

Useful context for evaluating veterinary practice multiples, and valuation multiples. Learn how the market uses valuation multiples and how it can help you!

Basic valuation techniques for valuing a veterinary practice. Learn why a valuation may be a poor predictor of your sale price.

How a practice seller can best align a broker's incentives with her own in a veterinary practice sale. Read our best practices

How should an independent veterinary practice find a broker to manage a practice sale? Find out how private equity firms do it.

A broker can add significant value to the practice sale process for a selling veterinarian. Learn why you need to hire a broker who has an advisor mindset.

The roll-up of veterinary practics is a higher return / lower risk acquisition strategy for private equity. Learn what is driving record private equity interest in veterinary.

Your objective in a practice sale and your preparedness should guide the timing of a sale. Are you ready to sell your practice?

VetValue’s very own Carson Taylor appeared on the popular “Veterinarian Success” podcast with Isaiah Douglass. Carson shared his experience in investment banking and interest in the veterinary space. 

Public equity markets in the United States have staged a remarkable comeback from their swoon at the time of our last update in March, 2020. Indeed, all the major averages shrugged off the to-date impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and powered to new all-time highs in August. 

There are many providers of veterinary practice appraisals. Learn who the right party is for you and what to expect.

The practice transition process explained for veterinarians. Understand how to guide the efforts of your advisors to optimize your practice sale outcome.

What a veterinary practice is worth, and what it will be sold for is not the same answer. Read why an appraisal may under-estimate your practice's value .