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What a buyer sees

3 STONES LIMITED

Other retail sale in non-specialised stores · Ebbw Vale · 08520982

5staff · FY2025
13years trading
59oldest owner on file
£3kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over, including us

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We size companies from the rest of the balance sheet. For this one, what you have filed does not narrow it to anything worth quoting, and we would rather say so than put a number here. That is the position every buyer looking at you is in, and they price uncertainty rather than ask about it.

What your filings show moving

Staff5
20218 → 52025
Cash at bank£3k
2021£9k → £3k2025

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£12,743£42,800£180,348
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
82777
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
922138
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
1264245

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

  • Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The last accounts went in 14 months after year endThe allowance is nine. A buyer reads a late filing as a question about the finance function rather than about the trading.
  • Headcount fell from 9 to 5A 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

  • A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.

What the register says

Owners

  • 59since 2016
  • 54since 2016

Directors

  • since 2013
  • 54since 2013
Accounts on public record
Year toFiledTurnoverStaffCash
2025-05-312026-08-13not filed5£3k
2023-05-31—not filed9£6k
2022-05-31—not filed7£3k
2021-05-31—not filed8£9k

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.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.