What a buyer sees
HARTSMIL LIMITED
Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate · Waltham Abbey · 01119865
100staff · FY2021
53years trading
—oldest owner on file
£450kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£16Mfor the year to 2021
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£160,928in the middle half
£37,743£106,911£375,855
Debtor daysdays58in the middle half
1137180
Creditor daysdays16
1032195
Stock daysdays1below almost all
558628
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 56 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
- 53 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 1 against 58 for the middle of 95 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 49since 2013
- 51since 2017
- 72since 2017
- 48since 2017
- 81
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | £16M | 100 | £450k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
3–8× sales£48M£129M
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.