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What a buyer sees

HOWARD RUSSELL CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

Construction of commercial buildings · Gosforth · 03390492

31staff · FY2022
29years trading
71oldest owner on file
£4.5Mcash at bank

Your turnover is on public record

filed
£44Mfor the year to 2022

Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employee£1,404,797above almost all
£1,404,797
£123,661£605,313£1,372,757
Debtor daysdays78above almost all
78
173971
Creditor daysdays37
37
153371
Stock daysdays1below almost all
1
519135

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 4

  • The newest accounts on file are 53 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • The register shows an owner past retirement age and little elseWithout directors on file, a buyer cannot tell who actually runs the business day to day.
  • Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 78 against 39 for the middle of 102 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 3

  • 29 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 1,404,797 against 605,313 for the middle of 132 comparable companies.
  • Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 19 for the middle of 40 comparable companies.

What the register says

Owners

  • 71since 2016
  • 41since 2019
  • 41since 2022
  • 57since 2017
  • 43since 2017

Directors

No current directors loaded.

Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2022-03-31£44M31£4.5M

A rough bracket, and why it is only that

0.2–0.45× sales
£8.7M
£20M

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.

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Tell us the rest

Your turnover is on file, but the things that set a price are not: margin, customer concentration, who would run it next. Tell us where you are and we will read it properly.

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