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Pleasanton business brokers and M&A advisors
Our job at MDR & Associates is helping you sell a company in Pleasanton, 35 miles south of downtown San Antonio, by getting it ready for buyers, finding those buyers quietly and bargaining on the owner's behalf. Our advisors drive down to Atascosa County to meet you, and that first meeting costs nothing.
Cattle-drive roots inside the San Antonio metro
Settlers founded Pleasanton in 1858, after conflicts with Native Americans led them to move the Atascosa County seat away from Amphion. The town was named for John Pleasants and incorporated in 1917, though the county seat moved on to Jourdanton in 1910. Every October the Cowboy Homecoming Festival remembers the men who drove cattle from South Texas to railheads up north and came home again, and the Longhorn Museum keeps that ranching story in town.
Pleasanton counted 10,648 residents in 2020 and belongs to the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan area. It lies at the mouth of Bonita Creek, roughly 110 miles from both Austin and Corpus Christi, and Coastal Bend College runs a branch campus here. A company based here is shown to the same pool of buyers that follows the San Antonio metro, which is wider than most owners expect.
Pleasanton at a glance
- CountyAtascosa County
- Metro areaSan Antonio–New Braunfels
- Companies we sell$3M–$100M
- Typical transaction3–9 months
- Fee if we do not closeNone
Pricing an Atascosa County company for metro buyers
Buyers from San Antonio and farther away judge a Pleasanton company on adjusted earnings, not on its zip code. The work that moves the price sits in the numbers: adding back the owner's personal expenses, separating one-time costs and showing a clean three-year trend. A formal business valuation lays out that recast for owners who want a number they can defend, whether for a sale, a partner buyout or estate planning. Trades such as HVAC, plumbing and landscaping, where a local name brings repeat customers, are the core of our home services work.
Owners here often ask whether to sell now or spend another year getting ready. The honest answer depends on the company: a clean set of books and a manager who can run the day without you tend to add more value than one extra year of revenue.
How the sale runs from the first meeting
We work out of Frisco, at 1518 Legacy Dr., and meet Pleasanton owners at their company or somewhere discreet in San Antonio; our San Antonio page describes how we cover that market. The firm takes on only a limited number of engagements, a principal joins every negotiation, and letters of intent are requested from several buyers in the same window so that they compete. A typical sale here, as elsewhere in Texas, takes three to nine months between signing with us and the wire of funds.
What we sell in and around Pleasanton
Industry decides the buyer, the multiple and the diligence. These are the four sectors we work in most.
Manufacturing
Equipment, real estate, backlog and customer concentration decide what a manufacturer is worth.
How buyers value itHome Services
Plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping and other home service companies — where repeat customers, crews and technicians decide the price.
How buyers value itDistribution & Wholesale
Inventory, working capital and supplier agreements decide what a distributor is worth.
How buyers value itBusiness Services
Recurring revenue and owner dependence separate a two-times business from a six-times business.
How buyers value itStraight answers
Questions Pleasanton owners ask before they sell
Answered in full by the advisors who run the sales. Every San Antonio answer.
The process
How a Pleasanton sale runs
Ten steps in four stages, typically three to nine months. Click any step to see it in full.
- Prepare
- Go to market
- Negotiate
- Close
We also work with owners near Pleasanton
Questions owners in Pleasanton ask
Does being outside San Antonio lower what a buyer will pay for my Pleasanton company?
Not by itself. Buyers pay for dependable earnings, a team that stays and customers who keep coming back. Distance matters mostly when the owner is the only link to key accounts. We look at those risks during the first review and tell you plainly what would raise the price before the company goes to market.
How do you keep word of a sale from spreading around Pleasanton?
Buyers first see a profile that leaves out the company's name. Before we reveal anything, a buyer has to register, put a signature on a confidentiality agreement and fill in a financial profile. You decide when employees, customers and neighbors hear about it, and many owners wait until after closing.
Talk to an advisor about your Pleasanton company
Four fields, a reply the same business day, and nothing shared with anyone. If you would rather talk, call (855) 637-2776.