What a buyer sees
SMH (AMERICAS) LIMITED
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Telford · 04377150
8staff · FY2024
24years trading
85oldest owner on file
£40kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£23Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff8
20229 → 82024
Cash at bank£40k
2022£30k → £40k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£2,865,850above almost all
£15,472£84,100£1,221,366
Debtor daysdays50in the middle half
1352189
Creditor daysdays24
930126
Stock daysdays22in the middle half
635238
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 29 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 2
- 24 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 2,865,850 against 84,100 for the middle of 485 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 60since 2016
- 85since 2016
Directors
- 85since 2002
- 60since 2003
- 27since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £23M | 8 | £40k |
| 2023-03-31 | £31M | 8 | £502k |
| 2022-03-31 | £24M | 9 | £30k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£9.2M£21M
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.