What a buyer sees
DORMANS GARAGE LIMITED
Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles · Wallington · 05635600
1staff · FY2023
21years trading
59oldest owner on file
£36kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.3Mfor 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
Staff1
20211 → 12023
Cash at bank£36k
2021£39k → £36k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£1,295,900above almost all
£15,916£61,763£114,818
Debtor daysdays62in the middle half
1034104
Creditor daysdays1
92395
Stock daysdays265above almost all
622120
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.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 265 against 22 for the middle of 67 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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 2
- 21 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1,295,900 against 61,762 for the middle of 188 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 59since 2016
Directors
No current directors loaded.
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £1.3M | 1 | £36k |
| 2021-12-31 | £1.3M | 1 | £39k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£520k£1.2M
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.