Specialty Trade Contractors Businesses for Sale in Texas.
Whether you're looking at HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or any other trade, the businesses worth getting excited about have a foreman or operations manager who runs the crews when the owner isn't there.
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Water Well Company
Multi-location water well drilling and pump services operation with over 65 years of history, $11.5M in 2025 revenue, and a multi-million-dollar project pipeline spanning industrial, municipal, and lithium drilling.
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Revenue$11.5M
EBITDA$860K
IT Services & Consulting Business
Nationwide low-voltage cabling, data center, and smart building contractor with 35-45% project margins, an affiliated staffing agency, and active projects spanning multiple countries.
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Revenue$1M
SDE$610.2K
Roofing Lead Generation Business
Marketing technology platform providing lead generation, appointment setting, CRM, and automation solutions to 380 recurring roofing and home-service contractors nationwide with near-zero churn.
Price$2.5M
Revenue$980.9K
SDE$158.2K
Rotating Equipment Distributor
Established electrical equipment distributor with owner-operated model ready for transition and existing commercial and industrial customer base.
Price$7M
Revenue$11M
SDE$1.9M
Industrial Energy Equipment Supplier
Specialty equipment manufacturer serving data center hyperscalers with 35-40% net margins, a growing pipeline, and deep customer relationships that have attracted inbound acquisition interest.
Price$50M
Revenue$5.5M
EBITDA$2.5M
Oil and Gas Drilling Contractor
Family-owned drilling contractor operating in a consolidated market with limited competition in its size class, generating months with over $800k in profit.
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Revenue$21.5M
SDE$391.2K
Commercial and Residential Fencing Business
Gate automation specialist with Fortune 500 clients and niche expertise few competitors can replicate, generating $1.5M in annual revenue with 90% contribution from higher-margin automation work.
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Revenue$1.3M
SDE$206.5K
Motorized Exterior Screen Installers
Motorized screen and shade installation business with consistent annual revenue growth and 30% operating margins, scaling from $1M in 2023 to $1.5M in 2025.
Price$2.5M
Revenue$1.5M
SDE$93.9K
Texas Garage Door Specialists
Overhead door contractor with over twenty-five years of operations in Central Texas, a county preventative maintenance contract, and a balanced revenue mix across residential, commercial, and builder channels that naturally offsets cyclical slowdowns.
Price$3.5M
Revenue$2.6M
SDE$674.6K
Mobile Environmental Source Testing
Patented environmental testing process with 40% cost advantage over competitors, scaling from $700k revenue in 2024 to $1.4M in 2025, projecting $3.5M in 2026 at 63% EBITDA margins.
Price$30M
Revenue$3.5M
SDE$2.2M
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Due diligence
What to Look For
Practical guidance from hundreds of real acquisition conversations.
A real second-in-command
- Ask who runs field operations when the owner is not on site and what their day actually looks like.
- A foreman or ops manager with five or more years of tenure who estimates, schedules, and handles quality issues is the clearest sign you're buying a business, not a job.
- A second-in-command who's been there for years is the single thing that most separates a transferable trade business from one that walks out the door with the seller.
- Find out whether that person plans to stay after a sale, and what it would take to keep them.
Backlog and signed contracts
- Ask how many months of work are currently scheduled and how much of it is under signed contract.
- A solid backlog with verified job-level margins tells you the first few months of your ownership are not starting from zero.
- Recurring service agreements with commercial buildings or school districts are especially valuable because they provide baseline revenue that doesn't depend on winning new bids.
- Ask about the mix between backlog from existing relationships and one-time project wins.
Job costing records
- Clean job costing documentation lets you verify that the profits the seller is reporting are actually coming from the work.
- Ask for job cost reports going back two to three years and look for whether estimated margins match actual margins across different project types.
- Consistent margins across project types signal that the estimating process is disciplined, not just lucky.
- If margins vary widely job to job, it's worth understanding why before you close.
Workforce stability
- Ask about average crew tenure and how many workers left in the last year.
- A crew that's been together for several years with low replacement costs is a genuine asset that took time to build.
- High turnover in skilled trades is expensive and often signals a management or culture problem worth understanding.
- Ask how the company handles recruiting when it needs to add capacity, because that process tells you a lot about how organized the operation really is.
Licenses, bonds, and insurance
- Ask what licenses the company holds and whether they're tied to the entity or held personally by the owner.
- Find out what the bonding capacity is and whether any jobs were turned down because of bonding limits.
- Confirming that licenses and insurance transfer cleanly early in diligence prevents the most common surprises close to closing.
- Insurance claim history over the past three years is also worth reviewing to understand any recurring safety or quality issues.
Valuation
What Should You Expect to Pay?
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SDE
Owner-operated with project-based revenue and moderate backlog
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EBITDA
With management team, recurring service contracts, and strong backlog
Businesses where the owner isn't needed in the field and the backlog is verified and documented consistently get higher offers than those where the earnings depend on the owner's personal presence.
What drives a premium
Signed backlog of 3+ months of work with verified job-level margins
Foreman or operations manager with 5+ years of tenure running crews independently
Recurring service agreements representing 30%+ of annual revenue
Multiple lead sources with no single customer representing more than 20% of revenue
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