What a buyer sees
GEM TOOL HIRE AND SALES LIMITED
Other service activities n.e.c. · Banbury Oxon · 01800399
7staff · FY2024
42years trading
62oldest owner on file
£81kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.3Mfor 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
Staff7
202222 → 72024
Cash at bank£81k
2022£15k → £81k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£191,314in the top quarter
£10,500£42,667£293,310
Debtor daysdays25in the middle half
1141156
Creditor daysdays27
1033152
Stock daysdays189above almost all
823163
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 19 to 7A 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 189 against 22 for the middle of 138 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
- 42 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 191,314 against 42,667 for the middle of 325 comparable companies.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 62since 2016
Directors
- since 2000
- 44since 2015
- 67since 2015
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £1.3M | 7 | £81k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 19 | £61k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 22 | £15k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£540k£1.2M
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.