The price alone cannot answer that question. The assessment must connect the investment to the cost and needs of the actual enterprise, while also examining treaty nationality, the applicant's role and the other E-2 conditions.
Start with what is included in the sale
Ask for a breakdown of assets, inventory, goodwill and any liabilities being assumed. Identify additional spending needed to operate after closing, using supported figures rather than an unexplained total. A business can be affordable yet unsuitable for the proposed immigration plan; a higher price is not an automatic solution. Take the transaction description to the eligibility review before choosing a budget based on someone else's application.
What a reviewer looks for is loss exposure: a purchase agreement binding without further conditions, funds released from the buyer's control, equipment ordered and paid for, a premises lease creating enforceable obligations, and payments that would not come back if the business failed. What matters is the commercial activity the company itself conducts — sales, distribution, customer service, product management — together with substantial committed at-risk capital, non-marginality, treaty nationality and at least fifty percent treaty ownership.