Veterinary Practice Acquisition & SBA Underwriting Financial Model (Excel + Google Sheets)
Originally published: 04/07/2026 21:34
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Veterinary Practice Acquisition & SBA Underwriting Financial Model (Excel + Google Sheets)

Underwrite a vet-practice acquisition to the bank's number: provider productivity, wellness recurring book, owner-vet add-back, true-vs-naive DSCR, SBA 7(a).

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Buy a veterinary practice and underwrite it the way an SBA lender actually will — not the way the broker's add-back sheet wants you to. This is a lender-ready acquisition model for a single companion-animal practice, built around the two things that decide a vet deal: how much the doctors produce, and what it costs to replace the seller's own chair once you own it.


Revenue is built bottom-up from the doctors — FTE veterinarians times revenue per DVM — plus the recurring wellness-plan book (enrolled pets times annual fee) and pharmacy/retail, each carried at its own gross margin. Gross Profit and SDE fall out of the mix, not a guessed number.


The honesty-killer is the owner-veterinarian production replacement. The owner is usually a producing doctor; if the buyer does not hold a DVM licence, they must re-hire that chair with an associate at a production (ProSal ~22%) wage, on top of a practice-manager salary. The model deducts both to reach Adjusted EBITDA and shows the TRUE DSCR (1.34x on the base case) next to the NAIVE broker-style DSCR (1.80x) — the gap is the seller's own production, and it is exactly what separates a financeable vet deal from one that looks great on paper and gets declined. It includes a 3-part SBA 7(a) capital stack with a full-standby vs amortizing seller-note toggle, a DSCR gate, the wellness-book coverage (~123% of debt service), a doctor-shortage down-case (DSCR 0.73x), three practice profiles, a 5-year P&L, returns and a dashboard. 10 sheets, machine-verified across three engines, Excel and Google Sheets, with a 23-page PDF guide. Educational planning tool, not financial advice.

This Best Practice includes
Excel workbook (10 tabs) + Google Sheets-compatible + 23-page PDF guide: Veterinary Revenue Engine (provider productivity + wellness + pharmacy), SDE & Valuation (owner-vet add-back), SBA 7(a) Sources & Uses, DSCR & Debt (true vs naive + down-case), 5-year P&L, Returns & Exit, Dashboard, Benchmarks & Sources.

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Price and underwrite a veterinary-practice acquisition to the cash flow a lender accepts, size the SBA 7(a) capital stack, and clear the DSCR gate after replacing the owner-vet's own production.

You are buying, selling or valuing a companion-animal veterinary practice, raising SBA 7(a) financing, or checking whether a broker's add-back sheet is actually financeable.

You need a single-year operating budget, a de-novo startup forecast, or a corporate roll-up model — this is a single-practice acquisition underwrite.


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