What a buyer sees
VEHICLE TRADE CENTRE LTD
Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles · Glasgow · SC462230
17staff · FY2024
13years trading
52oldest owner on file
£392kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£5.8Mfor 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
Staff17
202218 → 172024
Cash at bank£392k
2022£352k → £392k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£342,647in the middle half
£91,534£651,449£2,137,086
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
72180
Creditor daysdays0
92152
Stock daysdays108in the top quarter
2460148
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 5
- 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.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- Headcount fell from 20 to 17A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 108 against 60 for the middle of 49 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 1
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 21 for the middle of 55 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 52since 2016
Directors
- 52since 2013
- 51since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £5.8M | 17 | £392k |
| 2023-03-31 | £5.9M | 20 | £1.4M |
| 2022-03-31 | £6.6M | 18 | £352k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£2.3M£5.2M
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.