Originally published in the Business Examiner April 2022 Issue. The market for Small to Medium-size privately held Enterprises (SMEs) has seen its share of volatility over the past decade, and the pandemic was no exception. While the Value Index as reported by DealStats the leading private market database remains at an average of 4.4 times since inception of the index, we have seen a low of 3.4 and a high of 5.0 times just in the last two years, since the start of the pandemi