Business owners, prospective buyers, and industry investors rely on a diverse set of financial benchmarks to assess the value of a business. We have compiled data from current BizBuySell listings and sold businesses to provide insight into the business for sale market and important benchmarks for pricing and evaluating clothing, fabric, and other textile manufacturing businesses relative to industry standards.
See also: Retail Clothing Business Valuation Benchmarks
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Textile manufacturing businesses listed and sold on BizBuySell engage in the production and sale of clothing and garments, drapery and upholstery materials, quilts, sheets, blankets, and bedding materials, fabric decor, and related products. These companies vary widely in size and scale, from small boutique clothing manufacturers to larger textile mills.
| Median Sale Price | Median Asking Price |
| $375,000 | $475,000 |
| Average Sale/Ask Ratio | Median Days on Market |
| 0.89 | 221 |
| Median Revenue | Median Owner Earnings |
| $826,932 | $187,000 |
| Average Revenue Multiple | Average Earnings Multiple |
| 0.56 | 2.72 |
Sale prices of textile manufacturing businesses have generally been volatile over the past five years. After a dip in 2022, likely driven by rising interest rates, prices rebounded strongly through 2023 and 2024 as demand for domestic manufacturing grew in response to global supply chain disruptions and tariffs. However, 2025 saw a sharp decline to median sale price of just $150,000, suggesting smaller businesses dominated the market amid continued tariff uncertainty and broader manufacturing headwinds.
Valuation, or pricing, multiples are financial tools that allow for comparisons between businesses that have different levels of sales and income. They represent the sales price of a business relative to its financial performance, and given enough individual business sales data, they represent what the market is willing to pay for a business given its revenue and earnings.
Business values and associated multiples fluctuate over time, influenced by a variety of macroeconomic factors such as interest rates, inflation, consumer spending, and overall economic growth. Textile manufacturing valuation multiples have largely moved with the rest of the manufacturing sector, surging in 2021 as demand for domestic manufacturing businesses grew, then falling with rising interest rates and associated increases in business acquisition loan costs. After a partial recovery in 2023 and 2024, multiples pulled back again in 2025, with the five-year average earnings multiple settling at 2.72 and the revenue multiple at 0.56.
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To determine how a business compares in terms of revenue and earnings performance relative to industry peers, it’s necessary to have some insight into industry standards. "Benchmarking" describes the practice of comparing a business’s financial performance to typical industry standards to determine where a business falls relative to other businesses in the same industry. These benchmarks can help guide owners and investors towards appropriate valuation multiples from the range above.
To that end, we have aggregated textile manufacturing business financial ranges useful for comparing an individual business to its peers that have sold and are for sale.
Over the past five years, median revenue of clothing and textile manufacturing businesses sold on BizBuySell have fluctuated, ranging from $600K to over $2 million in annual revenue. Revenue and earnings both peaked in 2024 before dropping sharply in 2025, consistent with the smaller businesses that dominated the market that year. Profit margins have varied but remained relatively healthy, with a five-year median of 22.6%. Notably, 2025's margin of 24.2% was actually the highest in the five-year period, suggesting that will the businesses selling were smaller, clothing and fabric manufacturing remains one of the more profitable areas of small business.
For a more complete understanding of the market and valuation standards, consider comparisons within the broader manufacturing sector. The chart and table below include key metrics from sales of manufacturing businesses on BizBuySell between 2021 and 2025.
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