Why the index exists
The observation
The same gap kept appearing in engagement after engagement: owners and the buy side reading the same business differently, consistently, and in the same categories. Financial performance was measured to the decimal. The qualities that decide whether a business can actually change hands were left to judgment.
Nobody was measuring that side, so we started. Across the current release the two positions sit +10.2 percentage points apart — 72.4% from the sell side against 62.2% from the buy side.
Who publishes it
The SVQ Index is published by Singleton Valuations.
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How it is kept honest
The scoring algorithm is fixed and version-stamped before a release is cut. Each release is built into a dated file and never edited after publication; a correction is a new release with the cause disclosed. The method, the sample size and the composition are published alongside every figure, and the machine-readable release file is linked from the index page.
The current release is 2026-baseline, cut 2026-08-31, carrying 35 assessments from the engagement channel.