These are wildly different industries, with SaaS being particularly unique, and often not considered a good fit for most searchers. My personal advice is to avoid SaaS unless you have deep software engineering/product experience. These businesses tend to trade at very high multiples, are usually run by a small team of A-players (hard to hire the right talent that has the fit for the exact tech stack + ICP knowledge), and operate in a market where they cannot win by being "just a copy of this other product". As such, success requires you to actually have a top product nationally in a very specific industry/work process, unlike other markets where you can simply be "top 10 in X city". In SaaS companies trading below $5M EV (and above really), the CEO is going to need to be a deep product expert, and in most cases they have oversight of the engineering. The skills required are just so much more narrow than in other industries, and I have trouble believing many searchers would be able to successfully run/exit a SaaS business without having those niche skills. A hiccup in a SaaS company is unlikely to be right sided by a non-technical searcher. Overall, I'd recommend focusing on the auto parts distribution industry, which is a much better fit for most searchers.

Thank you, David for your insight. I do have a technical product management background and my husband has 15 years plus experience in automotive hence we are both trying to understand these two divergent industries given our backgrounds