What a buyer sees
DEVON CARE HOMES HOLDINGS LIMITED
Activities of other holding companies n.e.c. · Poole · 09634396
176staff · FY2025
11years trading
83oldest owner on file
£542kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£7.2Mfor the year to 2025
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
Staff176
2021261 → 1762025
Cash at bank£542k
2021£1k → £542k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£40,851below almost all
£58,281£126,361£389,887
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1142221
Creditor daysdays5
835271
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
637132
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 last accounts went in 12 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 206 to 176A 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 42 for the middle of 72 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 77since 2016
- 83since 2016
Directors
- 38since 2024
- 37since 2024
- since 2026
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-30 | 2026-06-30 | £7.2M | 176 | £542k |
| 2023-06-30 | — | not filed | 206 | £1k |
| 2022-06-30 | — | not filed | 245 | £1k |
| 2021-06-30 | — | not filed | 261 | £1k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1.5–4× sales£11M£29M
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.