What a buyer sees
PAYNES GARAGES LIMITED
Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles · Hinckley · 00442329
106staff · FY2025
79years trading
—oldest owner on file
£715kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£44Mfor 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.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£415,506in the bottom quarter
£285,975£529,574£997,448
Debtor daysdays4below almost all
71122
Creditor daysdays35
133263
Stock daysdays63in the top quarter
274874
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
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 63 against 48 for the middle of 120 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 2
- 79 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 4 against 11 for the middle of 63 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 61since 1999
- 74since 2000
- 46since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-15 | £44M | 106 | £715k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£18M£40M
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.