Veterinary Practice Acquisition Financial Model

A professional Excel and Google Sheets financial model built for veterinarians and buyers of a veterinary practice. Underwrite the deal, size the SBA 7(a) loan and present bank-ready numbers to your lender or investor. Includes a provider-productivity engine, wellness recurring revenue, SBA and DSCR, a 5-year pro forma, three scenarios and a one-page dashboard.

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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.

The engine most templates skip. 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, so Gross Profit and SDE fall out of the mix, not a guessed number.

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) 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.

What is inside: a Veterinary Revenue Engine (provider productivity + wellness recurring book + pharmacy, with a support-staff capacity check); SDE & Valuation with the owner-vet add-back; a 3-part SBA 7(a) capital stack with a full-standby vs amortizing seller-note toggle; a DSCR & Debt gate with debt yield, the wellness-book coverage (~123%) and a doctor-shortage down-case DSCR (0.73x); a 5-year P&L, Returns & Exit, a Dashboard, and a Benchmarks & Sources tab. Three practice profiles.

Honest by design. SDE margin held at a realistic ~21%; independents priced at ~3x SDE (~4-6x EBITDA) — the corporate consolidator’s 11-15x is NOT sold as your return; no IRR is headlined. 10 sheets, machine-verified across three engines, Excel and Google Sheets, no macros. Educational planning tool, not financial, legal or investment advice.

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