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Laundromat Industry Atlas — all published issues.

Each issue is a dated, citable artifact. Quarterly cadence. Cite as “per Acquidex Industry Atlas Q[N] [Year]”.

  1. Q1 2026

    AQX-IR-LDM-2026Q1

    Equipment Age, Lease Runway, and the WDF Labor Lie

    US small-business laundromat acquisitions traded in a 2.0×–4.0× SDE band over the trailing twelve months. Equipment age, lease term against the SBA 10-year cliff, and fully-loaded WDF/PUD labor analysis are the structural conditions determining band placement in Q1 2026.

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Methodology · Acquidex v1.0, §3.4 (Earnings Quality), §3.3 (Transferability), §5.1 (Add-Back Stripping per SBA SOP 50 10 8). Methodology paper forthcoming Q3 2026.

Sources · BizBuySell closed-deal data, IBBA Market Pulse Q3–4 2025 and Q1 2026, Pratt's Stats SMB transaction database, Acquidex direct deal observations.

Author · Avery Hastings, CPA. Tokyo-based; SMB and lower-middle-market acquisitions in the US and Japan.

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