What a buyer sees
WHIM HOSPITALITY LIMITED
Hotels and similar accommodation · Swindon · 12948768
85staff · FY2023
6years trading
—oldest owner on file
£95kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.4Mfor the year to 2023
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff85
202166 → 852023
Cash at bank£95k
2021£52k → £95k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£28,382below almost all
£34,449£52,234£92,550
Debtor daysdays10in the middle half
71234
Creditor daysdays32
92050
Stock daysdays4in the bottom quarter
4632
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 109 to 85A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 1
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 6 for the middle of 123 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 52since 2020
- 74since 2020
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £2.4M | 85 | £95k |
| 2022-12-31 | not filed | 109 | £34k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 66 | £52k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£970k£2.2M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.