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The market is tightening for Main Street businesses, while the number of buyers and valuations for Mid-markets are at or near an all-time high. There is no “typical small business value,” but how companies are valued is pretty consistent. Owners and their professionals talk about earnings, add-backs and recasting financials as if they were universally accepted terms. They are not, and their usage differs dramatically between the two types of companies.