Gross margin is not enough. Card fees, freight, rebates, price wars, and discount programs decide how much fuel profit is real.
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What is your gas station worth?
Move the sliders to estimate your store's value using the same EBITDA multiples and cap rates professional buyers use. Instant, free, and confidential.
Your store
100,000
30¢
$120,000
32%
$4,000
$45,000
Estimated value
$0
Range: $0 to $0
Annual fuel gross profit$0
Annual inside gross profit$0
Annual other income$0
Less annual operating expense$0
Estimated EBITDA$0
Multiple applied7x to 9x
Preliminary estimate only. Real value depends on lease, brand, environmental status, and location.
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We will email a branded PDF with your numbers, the method, and recent comparable sales for your market. A broker can also give you an exact opinion of value.
How this gas station valuation calculator works
This tool estimates value the same two ways professional buyers do. First it builds your EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) from your fuel gross profit, inside C-store gross profit, and other income, minus operating expenses. Then it applies the multiple the market actually pays.
The multiples we use
When you own the real estate, fee-simple gas stations typically trade around 7x to 9x EBITDA in good markets, because you are buying both a business and an appreciating piece of dirt. When you only own the business and lease the site, buyers pay a business-only multiple of about 2.5x to 4.0x. Combined branded stores with strong volume often land in the 4x to 7x range. These ranges come from current sector data.
Why your real number may differ
A calculator cannot see everything. Fuel brand and contract, lease terms, deferred maintenance, traffic counts, and above all environmental and underground storage tank status can move value materially. That is why the smart next step is a broker opinion of value with real comparable sales. Learn the full method in our guide on how to value a gas station.
FAQ
Questions about this tool
It is a solid preliminary estimate built on real market multiples, but it is not an appraisal. The exact figure depends on your lease, brand, environmental status, and location. Request a free broker opinion of value for an exact number.
Larger stores are usually valued on EBITDA, while smaller owner-operated businesses are often valued on SDE (sellers discretionary earnings) at a 2x to 3.5x multiple. This tool uses an EBITDA-style approach. See how to value a gas station.
Yes, significantly. Owning the dirt typically moves you from a business-only multiple (about 2.5x to 4x) to a combined real-estate multiple of roughly 7x to 9x EBITDA.
Declining fuel volume, a short or unfavorable fuel supply contract, deferred maintenance, and unresolved environmental or UST issues. We help sellers address these before going to market.
Fuel and forecourt lens
What is your gas station worth? through the fuel retail underwriting lens.
This page is evaluated through the fuel site first: gallons, grade mix, margin after card fees, MPD count, canopy visibility, tank history, environmental risk, supplier economics, and the physical forecourt. Calculator output should be checked against fuel-site reality: gallons, capex, tanks, supplier terms, card fees, and environmental diligence.
Phase I findings, UST history, insurance, open incidents, and remediation obligations should be cleared before a lender or serious buyer relies on price.
Diesel mix, fleet accounts, commercial routes, and truck access can materially change value, especially for highway and industrial-market assets.
Traffic count only matters if drivers can see, enter, fuel, and exit easily. Median cuts, signalized corners, truck access, and competing corners must be mapped.
For gas station deals, the highest-value diligence usually lives in wet-stock reports, tank records, fuel invoices, supplier contracts, dispenser condition, canopy and lighting, traffic ingress, environmental reports, and fuel margin history. This tool page is intentionally written for buyers, operators, lenders, and investors underwriting fuel volume and fuel real estate, so it should be evaluated on the specific commercial questions it answers, not only on broad national search terms.
Decision checklist
What makes What is your gas station worth? a real diligence page.
This tool page is strongest when it helps a visitor decide what to do with a real fuel asset. The checklist below keeps the page tied to gas-station economics: gallons, tanks, supplier terms, forecourt condition, environmental records, card fees, and traffic conversion.
Ask for evidence. Tank tightness, release history, monitoring, cathodic protection, spill buckets, and ATG reports belong in the first diligence package. For What is your gas station worth?, do not treat this as generic background; make it part of the buyer, seller, lender, or investor checklist.
Ask for evidence. Ask for monthly gallons by grade and diesel, not one annual total. Seasonality, price competition, and grade mix can change the real margin story. For What is your gas station worth?, do not treat this as generic background; make it part of the buyer, seller, lender, or investor checklist.
Ask for evidence. The fuel supply agreement controls pricing, rebates, volume commitments, assignment rights, branding, and whether a buyer can actually step into the deal. For What is your gas station worth?, do not treat this as generic background; make it part of the buyer, seller, lender, or investor checklist.
Ask for evidence. Dispenser age, EMV status, hose condition, canopy lighting, signage, paving, and pump-island layout can create near-term capital needs after closing. For What is your gas station worth?, do not treat this as generic background; make it part of the buyer, seller, lender, or investor checklist.
Ask for evidence. Gross margin is not enough. Card fees, freight, rebates, price wars, and discount programs decide how much fuel profit is real. For What is your gas station worth?, do not treat this as generic background; make it part of the buyer, seller, lender, or investor checklist.
For Gas Station Trader, the indexed value of the page should come from how well it answers the fuel-site question: what would a serious owner, buyer, lender, or broker verify before trusting the gallons and the real estate?
Gas Station Trader calculator workflow
Use What is your gas station worth? as a diligence filter, not a final answer.
What is your gas station worth? should start a fuel-site underwriting conversation. The output is only useful when the inputs are tied to gallons, grade mix, supplier economics, card fees, tank records, environmental exposure, MPD condition, and forecourt capital needs.
The fuel supply agreement controls pricing, rebates, volume commitments, assignment rights, branding, and whether a buyer can actually step into the deal. If the input cannot be supported, the calculator result should be treated as directional only.
Dispenser age, EMV status, hose condition, canopy lighting, signage, paving, and pump-island layout can create near-term capital needs after closing. If the input cannot be supported, the calculator result should be treated as directional only.
Tank tightness, release history, monitoring, cathodic protection, spill buckets, and ATG reports belong in the first diligence package. If the input cannot be supported, the calculator result should be treated as directional only.
Ask for monthly gallons by grade and diesel, not one annual total. Seasonality, price competition, and grade mix can change the real margin story. If the input cannot be supported, the calculator result should be treated as directional only.
Diesel mix, fleet accounts, commercial routes, and truck access can materially change value, especially for highway and industrial-market assets. If the input cannot be supported, the calculator result should be treated as directional only.
Lead qualification
What a serious What is your gas station worth? inquiry should include.
Gas Station Trader should turn What is your gas station worth? traffic into fuel-property leads with enough detail to underwrite the site, not just a name and phone number. A useful inquiry explains the fuel asset, the tank and supplier proof, and the decision timeline.
Share whether this is a single station, portfolio, brand page, market search, guide question, or tool output. Include gallons, brand or supplier, MPD count, diesel mix, real estate versus leasehold, and tank ownership or responsibility.
The strongest gas-station lead can provide monthly gallons, wet-stock records, supplier agreement, fuel invoices, card fees, tank and ATG records, Phase I material, environmental history, and forecourt capex notes.
Clarify whether the goal is to buy, sell, value, refinance, or prepare for a 1031 or sale-leaseback. Include price range, financing capacity, timing, geography, and any supplier or environmental constraints.
For this tool page, a high-quality lead is one where the fuel economics, tank/supplier risk, and next action are clear enough for a broker or principal to respond intelligently.
Institutional guidance
Before you act on Gas Station Valuation Calculator, talk with a sector broker.
Gas Station Trader is built to turn calculator interest into a real next step: valuation, buyer match, lending path, diligence package, or confidential sale strategy. Eagle Nest Property Group works across owners, operators, 1031 buyers, and private capital in fuel retail.
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