Value looks different in every industry. A software company’s worth lives in its code and its customers, a mining company’s sits in the ground, and a family manufacturer’s is built into decades of equipment, relationships, and know-how.
A Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) understands what drives value in your sector. These are some of the industries where their judgment is most in demand.
From development firms to construction companies, value in this sector rests on assets, project pipelines, and cyclical demand. Beyond the property itself, a valuation has to account for financing structures, work in progress, and exposure to economic cycles.
A CBV brings the business-level judgment that values the enterprise, not just the real estate on its books.
Brand strength, customer loyalty, distribution, and inventory drive value in consumer and retail businesses, even as channels shift online. A valuation has to separate a durable brand from a passing trend, and account for margins under pressure from changing buying habits.
A CBV assesses what will still be generating cash years from now, not just what sold last quarter.
Oil and gas, mining, and renewables share a defining challenge. Their asset-heavy value depends on long-term forecasts of reserves and commodity prices for extractive sectors, and contracted revenue and financing costs for renewables. Those forecasts are all exposed to swings well outside the company’s control. Valuations often draw on reserve reports, extraction economics, and transition-related risk as the energy mix shifts.
A CBV integrates technical inputs and market context into an analysis that holds up under scrutiny when capital is on the line.
Banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintech firms operate under regulatory capital rules, complex risk models, and portfolios that must be marked to fair value. Valuation here demands fluency in both the numbers and the rules that govern them.
A CBV brings the technical rigour these engagements require, whether the question is a transaction, a regulatory filing, or the fair value of a hard-to-price instrument.
Manufacturers hold value in plant and equipment, supply chains, order books, and the operational know-how built over years. Valuing them means understanding capacity, margins, capital intensity, and how automation and reshoring are reshaping the sector.
A CBV looks past the asset register to the earning power those assets generate, and the risks that could disrupt it.
Law firms, accounting practices, agencies, and consultancies derive value from people, client relationships, and reputation. These are assets that can walk out the door, so valuation hinges on how much value depends on individuals versus the firm itself.
A CBV measures that dependency and the transferability of the client base, so the number reflects what a buyer would actually retain.
Technology companies often carry more value in intangibles than in anything else on the balance sheet. These include intellectual property, recurring revenue, user data, and product roadmaps, for example. Valuing them means looking past current earnings to assess retention, scalability, and the durability of a competitive edge in a fast-moving market.
A CBV weighs the growth story against the risk behind it, so the value reflects both promise and proof.
CBVs also serve agriculture, media and entertainment, transportation, not-for-profits, and many other sectors. Whatever the industry, the need is the same: an objective, defensible determination of value from an expert who understands every aspect of a business.