What a buyer sees
LYNTON LASERS LIMITED
Manufacture of other special-purpose machinery n.e.c. · Holmes Chapel · 02956199
74staff · FY2023
32years trading
—oldest owner on file
£528kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£13Mfor 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
Staff74
202157 → 742023
Cash at bank£528k
2021£1.0M → £528k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£176,239in the middle half
£96,048£146,590£289,145
Debtor daysdays16below almost all
245391
Creditor daysdays15
152661
Stock daysdays40in the bottom quarter
2974163
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 2
- 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.
- 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 4
- 32 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 16 against 53 for the middle of 48 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 40 against 74 for the middle of 46 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 66since 1994
- 68since 1994
- 58since 1994
- 53since 2003
- 52since 2014
- 43since 2014
- 50since 2014
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £13M | 74 | £528k |
| 2022-12-31 | £13M | 69 | £732k |
| 2021-12-31 | not filed | 57 | £1.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£5.2M£12M
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.